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Opinion: How Westminster Hid Scotland’s Wealth From Its People
by Laura Webster
49 years ago, Westminster buried a report on Scotland’s abundant natural resources to suppress growing support for Scottish independence. Laura Webster discusses the consequences.
Analysis: Angolans Are Done With a One-Party State
by Joana Ramiro
Report: Workers Stage Wildcat Strike at Major Oil Refinery
by Simon Childs
Opinion: Labour is Out of Ideas on the Energy Crisis
by Matteo Tiratelli
Opinion: The Government Is Using the War in Ukraine to Abandon Its Climate Targets
by Sam Knights
Analysis: The Tories Expect Massive Public Demands on the Cost of Living Crisis. Why Aren’t We Making Them?
by James Meadway
Opinion: Putin’s War is Bad News for the Climate
by Paul Rogers
Russia’s attack on Ukraine will likely provoke major upheavals in the global economy - and pro-carbon lobbies have spied an opportunity. Paul Rogers explains.
Opinion: ‘Decolonisation’ Was Never All Culture War
by Kojo Koram
It’s often claimed that the ‘decolonisation’ debate is just about starting a pointless culture war, and has little to do with real world concerns. This isn’t true, argues Kojo Koram - just look at the roots of the energy crisis.
Opinion: It’s No Use Blaming Russia: Britain Fomented the Crisis in Kazakhstan
by Volodya Vagner
Downstream: How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.
Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm
From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]
Report: The British Government Exploited the Angolan Civil War to Lobby for BP
by Stephen Delahunty
Novara FM: Afterburn
Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That
by James Meadway
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the Arab Uprisings Were Drowned in Oil
by David Wearing
Analysis: Rojava is Trying to Build a Green Society, But Turkey is Starving It of Water and Power
by Matt Broomfield
Despite the immense gains made by Rojava's revolutionary project over the last eight years, it is lagging behind on ecological measures. To understand why, Matt Broomfield traces the delicate balance of geopolitical power in the region.