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As Guy Routh explained forty years ago in his magisterial book, The Origin of Economic Ideas, economics has preposterous origins. Since the time of Adam Smith, the new academic discipline was linked through the emerging class of merchants and manufacturers to the rich and powerful in general, and fulfilled the ideological role of presenting the emerging capitalist system as the best of all possible worlds.

Investigation shows oil-and-gas wells' toxic waste could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.

Note from Lefteast editors: This articles is published in cooperation with the Croatian portal Bilten, published originally on 10.01.2020. Pernik, a declining industrial city in Western Bulgaria th…

Australia is no stranger to bushfire. In 1994, in Sydney, I lost a house to one, and in 2002, just north of Sydney, I fought off another. But I’ve never experienced anything like the current fire season before. These bushfires have been burning since September, taking lives and property across the nation, but the worst came in late December, just as families were settling into their holidays. Our country is the world’s fifteenth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases and at the back of the pack for climate action, as its emissions from the burning of fossil fuels continue to grow. Australians ...

The extinction crisis is acutely felt in Australia, where more than 1,800 species are federally listed as threatened.

The Green New Deal must unite unions looking out for their members and climate organizers trying to stop fossil fuels.

The left’s increasingly ambitious environmental agenda is rethinking the mechanics of the international economy.

Nearly twenty thousand homes built since 2010 are at a significant risk of chronic flooding by the mid-twenty-first century, and buyouts have different outcomes for rich and poor.

Doug Henwood's interview with journalist Jeff Sparrow

Detroit’s most vulnerable residents face inequalities like toxic air, lead poisoning, and water shutoffs. Now they’re fighting back

We can't let Trump's belligerence undermine the climate fight of our lives.

Coal fell 18 percent last year, the largest drop ever recorded. But carbon emissions across the rest of the economy barely budged.

Beware of private green initiatives: They exclude workers and put profits before the planet.

An American family’s escape: “At the gas station, we found a long line of vehicles stretching most of the length of the very small town. The sight of this, plus thickening orange haze, reminded me of a disaster movie.”

For the first time, scientists have detected the fingerprint of human-induced climate change from a single day of global weather conditions.

A look at 15 years of attempts to clean up Mexico’s most polluted waterway revealed that the country has neither the means nor the laws to preserve its environment.

Permanent protections for free-flowing rivers need to be a centerpiece of every country’s national climate action plan. Chile can lead the way.

Many ports — all along the coast of California, in parts of Europe, even in China — have found a solution to idling luxury liners. In New York, they’re still a problem.

The world situation is much worse than generally acknowledged. This December, the coinciding meetings of NATO and of the climate change Conference of the

Like the singularity, but socialist.

Opinion | Foreign mining and energy companies that invest in the region have a responsibility to help protect local activists.

It’s time for mandatory cutbacks on the kinds of consumption that threaten all of us

Cap and Adapt's adaptive features provide fairness that helps defend against challenges to its cap. This is the best that climate policy can do.

The broad nostalgia encapsulated in his “Make America Great Again” slogan has become increasingly specific as the president zeroes in on energy issues affecting consumers.

Law kept mining projects out of Argentina province – now water for wine-growers will be threatened in drought-stricken area

To build the power to take on climate change, we can’t simply validate individual movements or assume single-issue struggles will add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. We need class politics to connect the dots of our many struggles — and to save the planet.

At the COP 25 summit in Madrid, the powerful countries stalled and squabbled while activists marched and pleaded for serious climate action.