Raj Patel

Here’s an appreciation of Carlo Petrini and his politics from my newsletter.

UPDATE: Please sign this petition to support Sergio Oceransky Beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula there is a waterworld.

This widget shows the chokepoints and seasonal vulnerability of different countries to import shocks.

I’ll dig into this a bit more next week in the newsletter, but here’s a report to which I contributed, just out from IPES-Food, on what counts as agricultural innovation, and what the future of it could look like.

Many years ago, back when blogging was new and I was a graduate student, I ran an effort called Class Worrier.

This short essay, first published by the Transition Security Project, offers a short introduction to the idea of ‘Polycrisis’, which I’m using to think through some ideas around systems change.

[A version of this was published by Progressive International here] “If food sovereignty means having local control over food systems, how can we do that if we’re all in debt?”

Speaking at Curries Fountain this weekend, twenty years after Abahlali baseMjondolo emerged from the shack settlements of Durban, I was reminded of what genuine popular democracy looks like when it refuses co-option.

Original at the Boston Review More than a century before Zohran Mamdani declared he wanted a New York City network of grocery stores “focused on keeping prices low,” socialists in Spain were furious about a network of grocery stores that kept prices low.

Decades ago, Richard Pithouse and I were reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event, and discussing his ideas with our comrades in Abahlali baseMjondolo.