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The Green Economy: the Wolf in Sheep’s clothing

The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP's report "Towards a Green Economy" is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.

The path for Venezuela can not be neoliberalism or Stalinism

The Venezuelan process is caught between a fundamental contradiction: popular demands for democratic participation against tendencies towards hierarchical decison-making and concentration of power.

Reflections on the Cochabamba climate summit

After last week’s climate summit in Bolivia, it is now possible for the governments to express the agenda of the social movements and the world’s most threatened peoples within the next official climate conference in Mexico.

How the myth of unlimited growth is destroying the planet

Economic growth and continued expansion are a vital requirement for the current pattern of civilisation. We need to change this if we are to solve the climate crisis.

Contours of Climate Justice

This publication aims to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the emerging climate justice movement and to create resonances between different perspectives and spheres of engagement. The activities around the COP 15 in Copenhagen are a starting point in the creation of such a broad movement

Video debate: Struggle over Venezuela referendum
Contribution to the debate on the proposed Constitutional Reform in Venezuela
The economic policy of the Latin American left in government:

Venezuela has undergone profound political and social changes since Hugo Chávez assumed the presidency in February 1999, which have been reflected in the fundamental pillars of the government’s economic policy.

Dominant tendencies of our days. Is our time running out?
Those who do not learn from history
The Economic Policies of the Latin American Left in Government: the Venezuelan Case
Racism and the Colonial Legacy in Venezuela
Venezuelan Social Conflict in a Global Context
Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the “Natural” Order of Global Capital