After the terrible failure of the UN climate meeting in Copenhagen in 2009 there was little belief that this year’s summit in Durban, South Africa, was going to get much further. The pesimists were proven right, once again writes Gunnar Westin
  Read more...

Most people do not consider Nuclear power a problem until something goes wrong – then the threat of radiation or an explosion suddenly becomes very real. As one Japanese worker reported to the BBC “It is surreal going to work 150 miles away from three nuclear reactors in near meltdown.” Read more...

Record levels of rainfall have caused devastation in a series of heavily urbanised areas in countries in the southern hemisphere. Read more...

MOST WORLD leaders have decided not to attend the Cop 16 climate summit that is currently taking place in Mexico. Read more...

The explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling station that killed 11 workers was only the beginning of a nightmare for the people living in the Gulf of Mexico. Simon Hardy reports Read more...

• No más Copenhagues – construyamos un movimiento de masas para obligar a las grandes potencies a recortar las emisiones

• Trabajadores, pueblos campesinos e indígenas – unamos la lucha contra la crisis a la pelea para salvar nuestro medio ambiente

• El capitalismo es el culpable – necesitamos una planificación socialista no la anarquía del mercado que arroja contaminación y desigualdad Read more...

Statement of the League for the Fifth International on the day that the Cochabamba conference on climate change has opened

• No more Copenhagens – build a mass movement to force the great powers to cut their emissions

• Workers, peasants and indigenous peoples – let’s link the fight against the crisis to the battle to save our environment

• Capitalism is to blame – we need socialist planning not market anarchy with its spiralling pollution and inequality Read more...