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By weakening the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, EU policies reinforce extractive relationships and sacrifice zones.

Justice • 25.02.2026

The war on Rojava: Imperial strategy and the fight for women, life, freedom

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By: Marina Colerato

The US, Türkiye, Israel and the EU formalised their alliance against DAANES in January 2026. What they are trying to destroy is not only a revolution - it's the proof that another world is possible

Justice • 01.12.2025

Khili Buransh: A collective’s narrative of crafting a democratic workspace, autonomy, agency, and identity for themselves!

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By: Shruthi

In this article, Shruthi documents the work of an empowering self-help group, Khili Buransh, in a remote Himalayan village in Uttarakhand, India. Shruthi explains how Khili Buransh leads a silent revolution against the prevailing capitalist-intensive, extractive, patriarchal, and casteist system.

Justice • 03.11.2025

On degrowth and veganism

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By: Tom Webb

Degrowth and veganism have plenty in common. In this piece, Tom Webb explores what each movement can learn from the other.

Justice • 01.09.2025

On Palestine

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By: Members of Research & Degrowth International

We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed peoples. Because there can be no Degrowth future without freedom for Palestine. Because Degrowth is fundamentally a liberation struggle; liberation from the Growth paradigm which relies on a colonial system of extraction, exploitation and vast inequalities in order to function.

Justice • 15.08.2025

Colombia’s flower industry: a story of extractivism and resistance

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By: Valentina Donato

The industrial production behind flower shops tells a dark story of human exploitation, environmental destructions and health threats. Valentina Donato writes about women organizations in Columbia fighting for their rights.

Justice • 23.05.2025

Defending Ancestral Forests from Corporate Plunder: Boki Women Lead the Way

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By: Francis Annagu

Environmental activist, Francis Annagu, writes about the Boki women's fight against relentless timber extraction and wildlife trafficking in the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria.

Justice • 14.03.2025

Walking for Peace as Wars Rage On

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By: Áine Donnellan

Walk Peace EU's marches for justice gather people together to walk across country borders and connect. This invitation to 'walk the talk' prompts us to question whether we live what we preach, then act on the insights gained during the walk.

Justice • 14.02.2025

Harm in the degrowth movement: a call to action

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By: The degrowth.info editorial team

While degrowth aims to be a convivial movement with care, justice and solidarity at its centre, it is not immune to conflicts and abuses. This article reflects on the different ways the degrowth movement can respond to harm.

Justice • 04.02.2025

Rojava revolution: a degrowth perspective on the current situation in Syria

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By: Marina Colerato

Democratic Confederalism in North-East Syria is threatened. Resisting centralisation efforts by the new Syrian government and keeping women on the revolution front is the way forward for any prosperous and ecological alternative system.

Justice • 04.09.2024

Call for an emergency campaign for the Maje Embera Drua territory in Panama

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By: Lázaro Mecha

Lázaro Mecha; as Chief of the Maje Embera Drua indigenous congress of Panama (on Maje Embera Drua), in the Bayano Region, which is currently organized by the indigenous congress (Maje Embera Drua indigenous congress):   The history of indigenous communities dates back to when the Bayano Region was occupied, in past centuries, by the Embera, Unión Embera and Maje Cordillera peoples. The constr...

Justice • 30.01.2024

Against Fortress Degrowth: The Need for a Border Perspective in the Degrowth Discourse

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By: Jenny Ufer

In degrowth, we often speak about how the relationship between the Global South and the Global North could look differently. But what happens at the edges, and how can we understand these edges or points of encounter in the degrowth discourse?

Justice • 03.02.2022

Capitalism, Degrowth and the Global South

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By: Tejendra Pratap Gautam

In the last decades, scholarship on degrowth, as an antithesis to capitalism, has grown in volume. But critique of capitalism cannot alone solve problems of modern society across the Global North and the Global South. Degrowth needs to be developed at multiple levels through an inclusive policy framework, where citizens' participation is crucial in order to push towards the construction of a degrowth society.

Justice • 23.11.2021

An Ecofeminist Take on the Paris Agreement - Part II

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By: Bethany Wilson, Carol Bardi, Rosalie Le Grelle

Part I discussed ecofeminisms and an overview of the Paris Agreement. This part II links those together by analysing the Paris agreement through an ecofeminist lens, demonstrating its importance for the degrowth movement.

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