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As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we cover the uneven impact of climate change on land and communities in the Global South, and how movements for degrowth and sustainable living can push governments and corporations to act beyond greenwash and denialism.

As today’s climate emergency makes this ever more vital, we cover the uneven impact of climate change on land and communities in the Global South, and how movements for degrowth and sustainable living can push governments and corporations to act beyond greenwash and denialism.

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    Mutual aid – review

    Revisiting a modern classic ahead of its anticipated expanded edition, Darcy White explores the contours and applications of mutual aid, which for Dean Spade must be grounded in shared understandings of systemic injustice

  • A photo at a distance of a tailings dam, showing large deposits of mining byproducts with a digger in the centre of the photo

    Anglo American and the greenwashed mineral rush

    The British mining giant paints itself as a ‘climate leader’ but boasts a history of violent extraction. Activists from London Mining Network and We Smell Gas identify a critical target for anti-imperialist solidarity

  • Key words: The Pluriverse

    Pluriversal politics offer an eclectic, egalitarian and emancipatory alternative to capitalist modernity, writes Levi Gahman

  • A large group of people stand behind a large Green Party banner with their fists raised above smiling faces

    Party revitalisation? An interview with Greens Organise

    Red Pepper speaks to Zoë Garbett, Robert Magowan and Ani Chowdhury, who are organising to put diverse working class voices at the forefront of the Green Party programme

  • A Nigerian man in a yellow shirt holds up his hand, covered in crude oil, while looking seriously into the camera

    Crude injustice in the Niger Delta

    Transnational oil companies’ ‘divestment’ from Nigeria leaves behind a trail of destruction. Obiora Ikoku reports on the communities demanding reparation

  • Three people standing next to a table decked in a cover reading Cooperation Hull and standing next to a sign reading 'what could we change'

    Experimenting with economic democracy

    Climate activists new to Hull are working to build a co-operative economy in some of the most disenfranchised neighbourhoods in the country. Gully Bujak of Cooperation Hull explains the challenge

  • Against a background of green fields and mountains, a group of people wearing primarily traditional Maasi clothes stand in a circle talking

    Battles for land and gender justice in Kenya’s Loita Hills

    Stephanie Leah Simmons Wood speaks to the Loita Maasais fighting ‘demarcation’ and navigating threats to tradition, corporate interests and opportunities for women’s empowerment

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