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Marx as a solution to the climate crisis

6 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
“Are you taking any action against global warming? Have you bought ecological bags to reduce the use of plastic ones? Do you always carry a canteen to avoid buying drinks in PET containers? Have you changed your old car for a hybrid one?
I will tell you clearly: only with that kind of well-intentioned measures you will not get anywhere; what's more, they could even be counterproductive”.

With these provocative words begins the book by the Japanese Kohei Saito "Capital in the era of the Anthropocene" (Editions B, 2022), an era in which the footprint of human activity completely covers the face of the Earth.

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Spain and China: reality and myth

8 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Next March 9 will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Spain and China. From that already distant 1973 to today, a very important evolution of exchanges is verifiable, favored, among other things, by the mutual perception of being protagonists of parallel transitions that began almost in unison in both countries: in the second half of the XNUMXs, After the death of Franco, Spain began its "transition", and the same thing happened in China after the death of Mao, beginning the deployment of denguismo. In both cases it was something similar: a change of regime without a change of system. In addition, this common contemporary trajectory reached the common imagination of tragic episodes such as the respective civil wars, with unequal outcomes.

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The Ukrainian tragedy

8 min read RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
One of the problems with the war in Ukraine is that we are not facing one war, but several. There is a reactionary war of Russia against Ukraine, open since the invasion of February 2022. There are elements of civil war between Ukrainians since the spring of 2014, caused by the non-recognition of the valuable internal diversity of Ukrainians in their different regions, without which the Russian invasion would have been very difficult, if not impossible. There is a war of hegemonism between NATO and Russia, without which the two previous ones surely would not have come to fruition, sponsored by the United States with its expansionist pressure towards the East since the false closing of the cold war thirty years ago. And there is a warming up of a great global war with China to neutralize its rise as leader of a non-Western pole in the world and of which the war in Ukraine is the prolegomenon.

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The Global South rejects pressure to side with the West against Russia

6 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
New Delhi
On the first day of the Munich conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was “shocked by how much credibility we are losing in the Global South.” The “we” in Macron’s statement was the Western states, led by the United States.

Whether fed up with pressure from the West or seeing economic opportunities in their relationship with Russia, more and more countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America have avoided pressure from Washington to cut ties with Moscow.

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Inflating the threat balloon

4 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Will it be a spy balloon or not? Maybe with time it will be known. China says it entered US airspace accidentally and due to force majeure, which is for civil and scientific purposes. The Pentagon acknowledged that it did not pose a significant risk in terms of intelligence, but denied the major one.

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On the new "escalation of violence" in Israel and Palestine

6 min read ANA GARRALDA 0 comments

ANA GARRALDA
Those who have lived long periods of time in Jerusalem, a city as holy as it is devilish, tend to choke on the hackneyed concept of a "new spiral of violence" every time the murders of Palestinians or Israelis appear again in the summaries of the news on radio and television or in the pages of the international press.

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The Taiwanese Crossword

4 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
One of the key issues on the agenda of the postponed China-US summit should be Taiwan, the “red line number one,” as Chinese authorities describe it. The lack of commitment in handling this dispute could have a direct impact on bilateral relations, which reached one of their lowest levels in recent times after the visit of the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to the island last August.

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Palestine: stand or die

8 min read DANIEL SEIXO 0 comments

DANIEL SEIXO
Palestine was never an uninhabited desert, a land without a people, or an empty space on the world map waiting for its next conqueror. The history of Palestine does not begin with the Jewish colonization, nor is there a dispute over the territory beyond the Arab resistance to the Zionist occupation.

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Israel's liberal democracy plummets out of control

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Every day it becomes more evident that liberal democracy is going through a deep crisis. We don't know if he will recover, but the signals we are receiving are not positive. In different places there are signs of fatigue and even weariness, one of the most sublime manifestations being that observed in Israel, although examples abound everywhere, from the United States to Eastern Europe.

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Israel: democracy in name, not in essence

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
After the elections on November 1, in which the bloc led by Benjamin Netanyahu registered a clear victory, a harsh debate has been opened about the nature that the Jewish state can acquire with the next government. The victory of the ultra-nationalist right and the ultra-orthodox religious parties is alarming citizens of secular and moderate ideology, who are in a clear minority and from whose ranks an end is predicted for the peculiar democratic system that has existed since the establishment of Israel in 1948 .

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The role of the US in the origin of the drama of Afghan women

3 min read DAVID BOLLERO

DAVID BOLLERO
The official story presents the US as the power that tried to liberate the Afghan people; however, the balance of these 20 years shows a clear failure. The question that arises is whether at some point the Afghan people were really better off thanks to the US and, more specifically, women, who is the group on which they wanted to focus.

The answer to this question is offered to us by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad in The Withdrawal, a book that compiles many of the conversations that the American philosopher and the Indian historian and journalist have had for more than three decades.

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If the Islamic Republic of Iran fell

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Events taking place in Iran week after week show that the Islamic Republic is probably suffering its worst crisis since it was established in 1979, and it is legitimate to wonder what will happen in the country, in the Middle East and in the West if the regime falls under pressure of a sector of the population, which may not be the majority, but which is not very small in large cities either.