Subject: This Month: Is ‘Just’ Mining Possible? Plus, Explore the Public Power Files and Our New History Podcast

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As we close 2024, a year marking our 50th anniversary, we reflect on the people and moments that have shaped the international left over the past five decades. As part of commemorating this historic journey, we’ve interviewed key figures who played pivotal roles throughout this transformative period.

Introducing History in Action: A Counter-History by the Transnational Institute—a five-part podcast series exploring major events and trends that have defined the international left through the eyes of those involved with TNI.

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Reports

Reclaiming Energy

Public pathways to break the fossil fuel cycle

What if energy were reclaimed as a global public good—free from profit-driven systems and rooted in justice? Reclaiming Energy offers systemic solutions to the climate crisis, advocating decolonial, democratic governance and transformative public–community partnerships for a just and sustainable future.

This report concludes TNI’s Public Power trilogy, following Energy Transition Mythbusters and 'Green' Multinationals Exposed. Explore more of TNI’s work on energy democracy in the Public Power files.

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Digging Deeper

Conversations on Mining and Just Transitions

How can we ensure a truly just transition without driving further exploitation? Can alternatives eliminate the need for new extraction? What would this mean for frontline, rural, and Indigenous communities? Is “just” mining even possible—and what campaigns or demands could support it?

This new conversation series delves into these challenging questions and highlights solutions proposed by transnational social movements.

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Race 2 Paris

Shifting gears for climate action: Transforming Europe's transportation

While Europe faces intensifying climate crises, its transport sector stalls on greenhouse gas cuts, impeded by fossil fuel interests. The Race2Paris report spotlights local successes and systemic barriers, urging bold action to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goals.

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Bookshop

The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left

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In Which Direction is the Lahu National Cause Heading?

A Myanmar Commentary by Kyar Ui

The Lahu people barely appear on Myanmar’s current political map. But, as Kyar Ui traces in this commentary, the cause to protect Lahu identity, lands and autonomy has continued through every era of post-colonial government. In a conflict-divided landscape, the challenges facing the Lahu people have further multiplied since the SAC coup. During a time of deep crisis, it is now falling to a younger generation to lead the Lahu movement for nationality recognition and self-determination as the pressures for ethno-political reform continue to build.

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People, Food and Land

Lessons from the Lahu highlands

A Myanmar Commentary by TNI

Land is integral to Lahu society and sustainable economy. Through food provisioning, many Lahu communities maintain deep connections with the land and social bonds with each other. They may not call themselves environmentalists, yet their ways of life offer key lessons for global struggles towards climate justice.

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People and the Planet: Entebbe Declaration

The Entebbe Declaration calls for transformative change in global investment frameworks to prioritize people and the planet. Civil society demands sustainable, just, and inclusive policies that protect human rights, advance climate justice, and empower communities, challenging exploitative systems and corporate dominance.

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CATL, capitalist strategies and emerging state-capital alliances

The case of CATL in Hungary

Chinese battery giant CATL’s decision to build a second European plant in Hungary underscores its commitment to the EU market, despite rising protectionism. Partnering with German carmakers relocating to Hungary, CATL benefits from lower labour costs and favourable energy arrangements, while Hungary’s government subsidises these ventures—driving rapid reindustrialization but shifting environmental and social costs onto taxpayers and workers.

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Exposing FATF

The secretive body responsible for undermining civil society and democracy across the globe

With TNI's support, civil society groups from the United States, India, South Africa, the Philippines, and Nigeria have launched a website and watchdog body to monitor and challenge the Financial Action Task Force [FATF]. Here we interview some of the initiative's coordinators on why we should all be concerned about its role and impact.

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Obituary: Dave Bewley-Taylor

24 September 1968 - 20 November 2024

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dave Bewley-Taylor, a longstanding fellow of the Transnational Institute and companion of the TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme, passed away on 20 November 2024 after a valiant and long battle with cancer. Dave passed away at home, surrounded by family, pain-free and in peace.

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Reporting back from Geneva

U.N. Binding Treaty

With Sol Trumbo Vila

What we're reading

Podcast: Public Ownership in the Transition to a Sustainable Economy (Daniel Chavez)

The BRICS Plan for a New Financial Architecture (Anuradha Chenoy)

Video: Leaving The West Behind: The BRICS Plan for a New Financial Architecture (Anuradha Chenoy)

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Subject: This Month: Is ‘Just’ Mining Possible? Plus, Explore the Public Power Files and Our New History Podcast

The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left

A Myanmar Commentary by TNI

The BRICS Plan for a New Financial Architecture (Anuradha Chenoy)