Economy

Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Reviews

Abundance gets it wrong

Klein and Thompson’s Abundance sounds progressive but delivers repackaged trickle-down economics, blaming NIMBYs while ignoring corporate power and capitalist inequality. Their technocratic utopia misreads deregulation as justice, with wealth for the rich disguised as abundance for all. [...]

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, 5 days ago


Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Social Justice

How degrowth are you?

The recent 2025 International Degrowth Conference held in Oslo may have exposed some of the deepest contradictions in the movement. The Degrowth and Delinking Collective’s intervention highlights how environmentalism in the north finds it difficult to address global south exploitation. [...]

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by and , 6 days ago


Culture, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Social Justice, Theory

Playing by the rules

Terry Leahy’s essay shows how the environmental movement’s emphasis on cultural transformation without structural reform reproduces the very “social games” of capitalism we oppose. Changing hearts or changing systems is a false choice — we need both to rewrite society’s rules. From tree-sits to policy shifts, diversity is our strength when burnout tempts some of us to retreat to our... Read More

, 1 month ago


Call for Proposals, Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Peace, Social Justice, Theory

Write for us!

We work with social justice, antiracist, and ecological commitments, and in favour of Indigenous sovereignty. We welcome contributions from all who share an interest in exploring ideas that are consistent with and explore left, progressive, and environmental thought and its contemporary relevance.  [...]

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by , 4 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Economy, Green Agenda 2025:3, Social Justice, Theory

Is this the best we can hope for? 

Despite Labor’s “landslide”, Simon Copland warns that the ALP’s historically low primary vote reveals a growing anti-political sentiment. Progressives must reject Labor’s do-nothing electoralism, pushing for real system change — not for electoral aims, but because only a bold left alternative can prevent the far-right from capitalising on capitalism’s inevitable crises. [...]

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, 4 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:1, Theory

Europe’s far right, mapping its class politics

While the far right shares a racist discourse, from country to country its parties represent different factions of capital, from domestic manufacturers in Hungary to hedge funds in Britain. Beneath the rhetoric of Europe’s far right we find a web of competing economic interests. For the past decade or so, the steady rise of far-right populism has been a defining... Read More

by , 7 months ago


Democracy, Economy, Environment, Green Agenda 2024:3

Growing gardens on the grave of the old world – celebrating community energy

In the light of the rapid dismantling of US democratic institutions, and global certainties that rely on it, it is timely to publish this lightly edited version of a speech Green Institute Executive Director Tim Hollo presented to Totally Renewable Yackandandah [...]

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, 7 months ago


Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3

Policy fails, but gardens grow

If it has occurred to the members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture that there is nothing to eat on a dead planet, they have chosen not to present that framing to government. Instead, community-based regenerative food advocates have to continue to subvert agribusiness as a form of grass-roots sustainable materialism [...]

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by , 7 months ago


Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice, Theory

Not a commodity, climate justice

A dominant view of climate justice advocates for richer nations to pay developing ones to do the work of “solving” climate change. But this renders climate justice a mere commodity, and perpetuates the longstanding global division of labour, class disparity, and the north-south flow of value. [...]

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, 8 months ago


Democracy, Economy, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:3, Social Justice, Theory

Negotiating left politics in Sri Lanka: The NPP in government

Sri Lanka’s left-wing National People’s Power (NPP) coalition secured historic electoral victories in 2024, winning both the presidency and a two-thirds parliamentary majority. A victory marking the first time a formerly insurgent political force has gained state power through democratic means in the country. But as the National People’s Power coalition settles into government, their anti-corruption platform and middle-class appeal... Read More

by and , 8 months ago