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Environmental issues spark large-scale protests in Serbia

Ognjen Kojanić
Citizens Movements
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Over the past couple of months, crowds in Serbia have gathered in the streets and sometimes blocked major roads and bridges. The main reason for the protests is opposition to the proposed lithium extraction project in the...

EU mining troubles: what unites striking coal miners and protesting anti-mining activists in the B..

Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Just weeks after the world’s media was reporting that national tensions had brought the region to the brink of war, an extraordinary week of social struggle showed that a different Balkans is possible. At first glance, two...

Thousands of citizens successfully block traffic at several dozen locations in Serbia on Saturday

The Barricade
Ecology
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Citizens blocked roads in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and dozens of smaller cities in Serbia for two hours. Protest was organised by of the Ecological Uprising, the Open Civic Platform “Action”, Don’t let Belgrade D(r)own...

After COP26: The world needs climate cooperation, not a new Cold War

No Cold War
China
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The COP26 regrettably failed to make the breakthrough towards establishing a new pathway for humanity that avoids a climate catastrophe. The UN scientific community considers it necessary to limit global warming below 1.5°C — however,...

“Capitalism’s deadly threat” — transform!Europe’s 2021 Yearbook is out

Boyan Stanislavski
Ecology
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The 2021 "Yearbook" of transform!Europe examines capitalism's impact on the global ecosystem and the accompanying economic crisis, as well as the effects on logistics and borders, the structure of work, healthcare systems, European integration, geopolitical...

Presenting the 2021 transform! yearbook – An Interview with John Bellamy Foster

The Barricade
Ecology
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transform! yearbook 2021 is the seventh of an annual series reporting on and analysing European and world political and social developments. The current issue looks at capitalism’s impact on the world ecosystem through global warming and...

Climate injustice in the United States

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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A few days ago, President Biden was urging climate action when saying, we don’t have much more than 10 years. Fighting global warming is inextricably linked to what Bill McKibben and others call climate justice....

Global warming’s walking dead

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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Once again, the recently issued Sixth Report of the IPCC on global warming paints a rather grim picture of our common global future. The report, written by 200 scientists and approved by 195 countries, came at a time when sections...

The six myths of Angela Merkel

Thomas Klikauer - Meg Young
Analysis
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As the term of German Chancellor Angela Merkel comes to an end with her announcement that she will resign after Germany’s next federal election to be held on 26th September 2021 – Covid-19 permitting, one...

Protests held in Serbia against large scale mining bid by Rio Tinto

Peoples Dispatch
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Residents of the Serbian town of Loznica intensified protests against the proposed opening of a Lithium mine by the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto in the Jadar and Drina rivers in Serbia. On July 29,...