The materialist conception of nature

19/05/2023 CEN_net 0

In the following article reprinted from the Monthly Review, Professor John Bellamy Foster, a leading proponent of ecological Marxism and editor of Monthly Review, is interviewed by Greek left-wing economist Haris Golemis. “I challenge the Western left to recognize that […]

Origins of Ecological Critique in Marxism

19/05/2023 CEN_net 0

Published2021/06/08 John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a non-mechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late 19th […]

Xi Jinping and 21st century Marxism

15/05/2023 CEN_net 0

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday 28 July 2022 that Marxism has been showing new vitality in the 21st century, calling on all Marxist political parties to make the theory more relevant to the national conditions and the times. […]

Rich nations must pay climate damages

15/05/2023 CEN_net 0

At the UN climate summit in 2021 – COP26 in Glasgow – a group of largely developing nations representing six out of every seven people in the world called for developed countries to commit to pledging funds for loss and damage. However, this […]

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage

12/05/2023 CEN_net 0

Originally posted 21 July 2022 AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE FOR RURAL PROSPERITY The World Conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems opened 18 July 2022 in Qingtian County, Zhejiang, China, with the theme of “Agricultural Heritage for Rural Prosperity.” The conference under […]

Brazil top place for China investment

10/05/2023 CEN_net 0

Originally Published2022/09/04  Investment by Chinese companies in Brazil more than tripled in 2021, returning to pre-Covid pandemic levels and making the country the main destination for Chinese capital last year. After a lukewarm performance in 2020, operations such as Tencent’s […]

China finds gene to boost grain yield

10/05/2023 CEN_net 0

 Originally posted 24 July 2022 Chinese scientists have found a gene in crops such as rice and wheat which can improve the efficiency of photosynthesis and nitrogen utilization and significantly boost grain yield. The researchers enhanced the expression of the […]

China’s plan to clean up ‘new pollutants’

05/05/2023 CEN_net 0

“This is a significant step forward for China’s chemical regime.” Liu Jianguo, Associate Professor, Peking University Hopes are high that a Chinese action plan will help control chemicals with ongoing harmful effects. In 2014, China declared a “war on pollution”. […]