For as long as the fight against climate change will be portrayed as an environmental problem, we will continue setting ourselves up for failure. Climate change is not like the ozone layer or the acid rains, it is not just about pollutants. It is about our development model and its profound flaws.

Sandro Mezzadra discusses the transnational experience of contemporary migrations, pointing to the necessity of a new interpretative paradigm in order to photograph the contemporary economic, political, and cultural inderdependences.

Twenty years ago the Berlin Wall fell. Over the last few decades, the world has not become a fairer place: disparities between the rich and the poor either remained or increased, not only between the north and the developing south but also within developed countries themselves. Today’s global economic crisis reveals that not only bureaucratic socialism but also ultra-liberal capitalism are in need of profound democratic reform.

A coherent European left must move beyond three false dilemmas and propose a positive alternative. By Michal Sutowski, Krytyka Polityczna.

Michel Rocard explains how within the three last decades, capitalism transformed itself and underwent an internal revolution, which became apparent in banking by an overweening greed explaining the spread of derivative products …

European history indeed sadly proves that economic depression can lead to tragic social exclusion, hatred, violence and persecution.

For an alternative artistic approach between an ephemeral global village and a reactionary appeal to tradition. By Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay.

Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp presents why a political project can no longer define itself starting from a vision that is sovereigntist, national and territorial.

A crisis liberates the imagination. The uncertainty of the future allows for the emergence or real political alternatives. By Immanuel Wallerstein

With the financial collapse of September 2008 begins the development of a major systemic crisis. Samir Amin analyses the implications for the North/South global divide