December 2 is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. With this day in mind, it is important to consider the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 19th century, as well as existing forms of slavery – including that of non-human animals, writes Nick Pendergrast.

Economic crises are inevitable under capitalism. The fundamental and fatal flaw of capitalism is the mechanism for profits to rise at the expense of wages and consumption. Global capitalism is now in a bottomless mire, and the final nail in the coffin will be the failure of politicians and mainstream economists to understand the modus operandi of the capitalist economic system, writes Bill Waters.

Water scarcity is a reality in many parts of the world, and there is a rapidly growing gap between the demand for water and its supply. Fifty percent of all the water used on earth is utilized for animal agriculture, and timely correction of this vastly archaic system should be at the heart of any global water management strategy, writes Dr Richard Oppenlander.

Australia’s biggest horse racing event is blatant in its depiction of intersecting oppressions – animal slavery, sexism and classism, and it’s time for left-wing progressives to take a stand against it, writes Rebecca Cleaver.

Serbia, a nation which once wished for a European future, is now filled with locals turning their backs on the European Union. Milly Stilinovic, on the streets of Belgrade, was faced with an evident hostility towards the reigning democratic government and abhorrence to the demands of the European Union.

Indonesia’s vanishing natural forests and wildlife species are testament to deforestation out of control. Government inaction, corruption, illegal logging and the complicity of high profile companies have made for a toxic mix that not even a moratorium on logging can effectively address, writes Susannah Waters.

Australia is the only colonised nation that has never signed a treaty with its Indigenous Peoples, and the only Western nation without a Bill of Rights. An expert panel set up by the Australian Government to gage public support for the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, will spend the next few months finalising its recommendations, writes Jerico Mandybur.

A recent video of a group of chimpanzees being introduced to the outdoors after years of medical research touched the hearts of many. But while these chimpanzees are now awakening to the outside world, countless others are still suffering unspeakable torture out of public view, writes Susannah Waters.

Hog farms in North Carolina are wreaking havoc on the state – affecting the local environment, wildlife and human health. The voluminous pollution generated by hog farms is a growing problem in the US and is intensified by the modern system of factory farming, writes John McCabe.

Class is often considered to be a dirty word – except when prefaced by ‘middle’, and ‘class warfare’ has been hijacked by the ‘wrong’ class: the ruling class. It’s time to reconsider these ideas, writes Michael Parenti.

The recent outbreak of E. coli in Germany caused massive confusion, hundreds of millions of dollars lost in the economy of numerous EU countries, at least 30 deaths and over 3,000 individuals to become ill. Every media source reported the story in the same fashion – that bean sprouts produced by an organic farm in Lower Saxony were responsible. The real culprit, writes Dr Richard Oppenlander, has not been accurately revealed to the public.

Due to a lucrative market for their meat, and the involvement of organised crime networks, the majestic Bluefin tuna, one of the giants of fish world, is said to be facing near extinction within the year – but not if Sea Shepherd has its way, writes Lilia Letsch.