Author: phil-hearse

Phil Hearse is editor of Marxsite and a member of Socialist Resistance, the British section of the Fourth International.

  • The Politics of Hurricanes

    How Climate Catastrophe Victimizes the Poor Climate change catastrophe is, as this article is written, facing hundreds of thousands on the eastern seaboard of the United States and on the Philippines island of Luzon, as Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut make landfall simultaneously. Mangkhut also threatens Hong Kong, South China and maybe Vietnam. In the United … Keep reading »

    Environment  •  September 18, 2018  •  Phil Hearse

  • Fighting for Climate Justice

    Lies, damn lies and statistics, right? Well not always – sometimes statistics dramatise social reality in a graphic way. A year before the devastating floods in India, Bangladesh and Texas, a little-noticed UN report revealed extraordinary figures about the effects of climate change worldwide. Climate-related catastrophe is now not just an additional hazard for the … Keep reading »

    Environment  •  September 11, 2017  •  Phil Hearse

  • Turkey’s Move into Syria: Challenging the Kurds, Overthrowing Rojava

    Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria on 24 August was flagged up as a move to drive the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) out of the border town of Jarabulus. But that is just a cover: Turkey’s not very secret major objective is to crush the 50,000-strong Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Unit) militia, and overrun the three … Keep reading »

    International Relations  •  August 30, 2016  •  Phil Hearse

  • Neoliberalism’s World of Corruption

    The Panama Papers’ revelations about the rich and powerful hiding untold billions in ‘offshore’ tax havens may be shocking, but it’s hardly a surprise to anyone who knows the first thing about the way that big business works. We are living through a blitzstorm of allegations and controversy about corruption. In the few years alone … Keep reading »

    Economy, Technology  •  April 12, 2016  •  Phil Hearse