Dans plusieurs départements, la journée du dimanche 12 juillet a marqué le pic de la troisième vague de chaleur de l'année. Partout, les annulations d'événements se multiplient, tout comme les alertes pour sécheresse et le risque d'incendies. Le gouvernement, lui, apparaît toujours plus impuissant. L'annonce est tombée en fin de journée, samedi 11 juillet. L'étape corrézienne du Tour de France du dimanche 12 a été rabotée d'une trentaine de kilomètres. « Cette décision vise à permettre le (…)

Three per cent of average annual income has already been eroded by climate change, with 5.6 million Europeans pushed into poverty: a devastating toll It's hot. For some, it's just a matter of temperature. For the working class, however, it's already a matter of health and finances: less income, higher prices, greater vulnerability. “The severe heat wave sweeping across Europe threatens people's health, their livelihoods, and their ability to work,” Jessie Ruth Schleypen, a climate (…)

Democratic Party candidates are perceived by many voters as part of the system, part of the establishment, which indeed most are. The most common profession of Democratic congressional representatives and senators is law. Most don't seem to share the common experiences of working class and lower middle-class people, because in fact they don't. Lawyers' average incomes range between $150,000 and $250,000, while the median income for American workers is $45,000 to $64,000. So progressive (…)

Marco Noris insists that World-System Theory (WST) — the tradition built by Braudel, Wallerstein, Arrighi, and Gunder Frank — was constructed precisely to render campism impossible. The argument is structural: the capitalist world-system is a single totality with no external position from which capitalist states like Russia or China could constitute genuinely antisystemic alternatives. Every power, however loudly it proclaims opposition to Western hegemony, operates within the system's rules (…)

In Serbia, the connivance between politicians and multinational capital has fed a sustained protest movement. Current protests in Albania, resisting a luxury development project backed by Jared Kushner, target a similar cronyish capitalism. A drone view shows thousands of demonstrators gathered in central Tirana during the thirty-fifth consecutive day of protests against a proposed luxury tourism development project linked to international investors, including Jared Kushner, in Tirana, (…)

Recension de Omer Bartov | Israël. Une course vers l'abîme. Trad. de l'anglais par Lise Vermont. Seuil, 288 p., 21,90 € Spécialiste de l'histoire des génocides et professeur à l'université de Brown, l'Israélo-Américain Omer Bartov, qui signe Israël. Une course vers l'abîme, a longtemps été un sioniste convaincu. D'une certaine manière, il l'est toujours, voulant croire à la possibilité d'un sionisme démocratique et laïc. À la suite d'un long débat avec lui-même, il est parvenu à la (…)