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COP 30: entrenching the crisis of climate politics

Brian Ashley — 2025-12-06T18:11:50Z

As the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are collapsing, and millions across the Global South face annihilation, not in the distant future, but today. The world's political and economic elites arrived in the Amazon to negotiate when the 1.5°C target had already slipped out of reach, and they left with little more than symbolic gestures. No binding emissions cuts. No serious plan to phase out fossil fuels. No meaningful climate finance for adaptation. No accountability for the destruction already unleashed.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / Ecology and the Environment, Climate

Another Left Is Possible

Brian Ashley, Gilbert Achcar — 2024-03-26T12:23:27Z

“At the same time, the growing worldwide indignation towards the genocidal massacre of Palestinians, including growing protest within the United States itself, is a further indication of the persistence of a significant potential, especially among the youth, in support of progressive causes, such as opposition to imperialist and colonial wars, to racism in all its forms, to gender oppression, to the continuous neoliberal dismantlement of all social gains achieved in the previous century, to capitalism itself.”

- IV590 - March 2024 / New parties of the left, South Africa

Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist

Brian Ashley — 2019-11-11T15:32:19Z

According to Leo Rosten, the author of The Joys of Yiddish, a “mensch” is "someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. Other definitions define mensch as a person of honour and integrity.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Palestine, Obituary, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Public services , Features

On the death of Carl T Brecker, AIDC Chairperson 1996 – 2006

Brian Ashley, MP Giyose — 2018-02-02T17:08:59Z

It is with a profound sense of sadness that we at AIDC have heard the news of the passing of Carl Brecker, the first Chairperson of the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). We send our condolences to his family, especially his devoted daughters Tania and Dee, their children as well as his sister Valerie and her husband Ivan.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, South Africa

The Great Rip Off

Brian Ashley, Dick Forslund — 2016-07-29T07:25:13Z

“This suggests that export underinvoicing is not due to underreporting of the true value of gold exports, but rather to pure smuggling of gold out of the country. In other words, virtually all gold exported by South Africa leaves the country unreported.”

- IV498 - July 2016 / Economy, South Africa

Claude Gabriel, Claude Jacquin (1947-2016): Comrade, friend and mentor – an immense human being

Brian Ashley, Mercia Andrews — 2016-05-02T10:58:15Z

This tribute was made at the the funeral of Claude Jacquin (see Claude Jacquin (Gabriel) â€” an internationalist commitment to the end) at Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris on 27th April 2016 by Brian Ashley and Mercia Andrews.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Fourth International, South Africa

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Brian Ashley — 2013-12-06T08:54:22Z

Amandla does not believe in miracles. Mandela is not immortal. He has lived the fullest of lives. Amandla! stands with his family, the ANC (the organisation he lived and died for), his closest comrades, especially the surviving Treason Trialists and Robben Island prisoners, the South African people as well as millions of people around the world to mark the passing of a great man.

- IV467 - December 2013 / Obituary, South Africa

The Left and South Africa's Crisis

Brian Ashley, David Finkel , Dianne Feeley — 2012-09-04T22:56:46Z

Brian Ashley is the editor of the South African journal AMANDLA! He was interviewed for Against the Current by David Finkel and Dianne Feeley.

- IV452 - September 2012 / South Africa