Workers are at the heart of the capitalist system. And that's why they are at the center of socialist politics.

Rødts Mimir Kristjansson mener Skatteetaten bør trappe opp kontrollvirksomheten av norske utflyttere.

Two dozen of the world's richest nations, including the United States and Japan, are pulling back from their global development push, a study published on Thursday shows, with many slashing aid budgets and cash funnelled through multilateral lenders.

Half a century has passed since Franco's dictatorship ended with his death, but some in Spain still valorise his rule.

On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.

Corporate, tech oligarchs are providing the infrastructure for and profiting off genocide in Gaza. But accountability is closer than you think.

Lobbyists representing industry responsible for a quarter to a third of global emissions participated in key talks at the UN climate summit More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon, where the industry is the leading cause of deforestation, a new investigation has found. The number of lobbyists representing the interests of industrial cattle farming, commodity grains and pesticides is up 14% on last year’s summit in Baku – and larger than the delegation of the world’s 10th largest economy, Canada, which brought 220 delegates to Cop30 in Belém, according to the joint investigation by DeSmog and the Guardian. Continue reading...

Abandon ideas of World War I — drones have turned the front lines into a different kind of hellscape.

World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

Former prime minister sentenced to death by special tribunal for her role in bloody 2024 crackdown on protesters.

As the summit goes into its second week, complex issues with anxiety growing over conference outcomes President Lula da Silva of Brazil has called Cop30 the “Cop of truth”. For negotiators, it may become known as the Cop of roadmaps. Many countries are hoping to begin the process here of a roadmap to “transition away from fossil fuels”, the key promise made at Cop28 in 2023 but not followed up since then. Marina Silva, Brazil’s environment minister, in an interview with the Guardian, urged all countries to have the courage to address the issue, saying: “The map is an answer to our scientific knowledge [of the climate crisis]. It is an ethical answer.” Continue reading...

On the podcast: Why disrupted schooling is the norm as climate change worsens, and the argument for prioritising education in an era of aid cuts.

Protest comes as Brazil's leader Lula says COP30 participants should be 'inspired' by Indigenous peoples.

The UN’s top expert on Palestine accuses UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of ‘enabling genocide’ in Gaza and calls out Germany and Italy for blocking EU action on Israel

Global fossil co₂ emissions are projected to rise 1.1% in 2025, and are now 10% higher than in 2015, ten years since the Paris Agreement was adopted.