No, Shell are merely hoping that the government will succeed in “pacifying” the Ogoni and then they will move in proudly and calmly to continue to steal. They are in for a fight they will never forget.
A movement isn’t called that for nothing. It has to move people. It needs lovers, and friends, and allies. It has to generate a cascade of feeling - moral feeling.
(Real) social democracy is not just unknown to several generations of voters, but it is contradictory to their individualist or ethnicized worldview. So far the analyses and prospects do not look promising.
The oil-and-gas industry is impervious to extreme weather events, from the Philippines to Sardinia. But both precedent and experience could turn its world upside down - and soon.
In our series on the Polish left, an interview on the future of politics in Europe and beyond with the sociologist, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement in Poland, and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report calculated a ‘budget’ for greenhouse gas emissions if global average temperature rise is to be contained within 1.5-2C. Amid fractious debates between rich and poor at the UN climate talks in Warsaw, Phil England spoke to Christian Aid’s
Those few cold months camped outside St Pauls were a fragile attempt to create a political subject beyond the terrain of politics as usual.
Wanted: more insight into effective community organisation, particularly in the field of education and political economy education.
Project COBRA is an EU project which advocates the position that local communities have the capacity to identify their own "best practices" and share them with others.
In Romania traditional livelihoods and rare animal species are about to give way to a bizarre, private project to introduce American buffalo. It's part of a rural exodus, and EU law will make future land grabs even easier.
Freedom of Information requests to disclose TPP texts have failed on the grounds that they are a matter of “national security”.
