The victories that followed the American civil war and the 1960s civil rights era are once again under attack, echoing earlier efforts to roll back equality and redefine democracy, says JOE SIMS
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Are we facing limits to economic growth?
Capitalism depends on continued expansion — so does that mean that after a certain point, we will run out of resources and markets and face calamity? Only if we blindly follow the 'logic' of the market, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
In 2010, faced with the closure of their local library, a Buckinghamshire town’s locals turned to an unconventional tactic – borrowing every single book – to defend a cherished community space. MAT COWARD tells the story
The indictment of Nicolas Maduro after a deadly US assault is just the latest phase in a long campaign against the Bolivarian government, warns FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
Journalist STEVE SWEENEY talks to Roger McKenzie about narrowly surviving an Israeli air strike last week while documenting the mass displacement of civilians – and explains why the real story goes far beyond the attack on him
After 27 years in Holyrood, the former first minister urged unity and respect — but, says NEIL FINDLAY, her time in power told a very different story
The Employment Rights Act 2025’s focus on individual rights forces workers into slow and costly litigation to assert rights, rather than empowering unions. A Campaign for Trade Union Freedom-Strike Map rally at the weekend called for a more radical sequel, reports BEN CHACKO
TO answer the question, it depends what you mean by “growth” — what kind of growth, who controls and benefits from it and what its longer term consequences might be for our Earth. Capitalism is clearly in crisis; stagnating and destroying the environment as it does so — but what about the broader prospects for the wellbeing of our planet and its peoples?
Fifty years ago the “Club of Rome,” an “invisible college” of “notable scientists, economists, business executives, high level civil servants and former heads of state from around the (mainly capitalist) world, declared that “growth” (of all types) was unsustainable — and funded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to produce a computer model to “prove” it.
The Limits to Growth published in 1972 concluded that “if the present trends in world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next hundred years ... the most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.”
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