Environment
Save the planet from capitalist destruction
Thu, 21/05/2009 - 12:52The ecological crisis is a central question of our age. As we head into a world recession, socialists must connect the fight to defend jobs and workers’ conditions with the urgent need for a global transition to an environmentally and socially sustainable system.
The following theses of the League for the Fifth International identify the capitalist system as the cause of the ecological crisis and outline how the working class can solve it. Read more...
COP 24: a bad joke from Katowice
Jürgen Roth, GAM Infomail 1037, 11 January 2019 Thu, 31/01/2019 - 19:29Before we consider the results of last December's climate summit, we need to look briefly at the history of UN climate conferences.
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UK: A new front in the fight against climate change
Chris Close, redflagonline Mon, 03/12/2018 - 14:30“WE WILL not be led quietly to annihilation by the elites and government… it is not only our right, but our moral duty to bypass the government’s inaction and flagrant dereliction of duty, and to rebe Read more...
The water crisis in São Paulo
Rico Rodriguez, Sao Paolo Thu, 09/04/2015 - 19:12For years we have been reading that water is becoming so scarce on a worldwide scale that in the course of the 21st-century wars could be fought over it. Read more...
Failure at Durban as business interests sinks climate talks
Gunnar Westin Sat, 24/12/2011 - 13:40
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
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The problems with nuclear power
Simon Hardy Wed, 16/03/2011 - 21:20Most 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...
Global floods crisis confirms climate catastrophe
Dave Stockton Tue, 18/01/2011 - 08:09Record levels of rainfall have caused devastation in a series of heavily urbanised areas in countries in the southern hemisphere. Read more...
No change at Cancun talks
Tue, 14/12/2010 - 09:40MOST WORLD leaders have decided not to attend the Cop 16 climate summit that is currently taking place in Mexico. Read more...
