John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace – reshaping US politics and inspiring movements worldwide
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Clinging to the Anthropocene
Are the latest fashionable ideas about environmentalism going to help us correctly identify profit as the engine of ecological destruction – or are we simply going to revisit discredited Malthusian tropes, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
In the fifth and final part of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG explains how the Communist Party of China’s approach demonstrates how Marxism, rooted in concrete conditions and mass participation, can shape history
In times of genocide, art is not a refuge from politics but a weapon against injustice, says ROGER McKENZIE, highlighting three of his own favourite political truth-tellers
As members elect their first leadership, a deeper battle is unfolding over what democracy should mean in practice, says CASSI BELLINGHAM
The language of humiliation is a step towards a second civil war, argues RAMZY BAROUD
ANDREW MURRAY says switching the prime minister on and off again is no substitute for new political approach we need
“ANTHROPOCENE” is a 21st-century word — not that it never appeared before the current century. But its wide acceptance, its broad usage is a feature of the last two decades or so.
Like its late 20th-century counterpart, “globalisation,” its currency, its popularity in social policy circles, has far outstripped any common, agreed upon understanding of its meaning.
In a very broad sense, the word “Anthropocene” could refer to the era when the appearance of Homo sapiens made an impact upon the Earth.
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