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...
Copenhagen failure shows only overthrowing capitalism can avert climate catastrophe
Dave Stockton Tue, 22/12/2009 - 09:57Dave Stockton looks at the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change Read more...
COP15: Massive protests meet massive repression
Gunnar Westin Sun, 20/12/2009 - 08:53Gunnar Westin reports on the huge protests at the Copenhagen climate summit Read more...
Climate Change: No to the Copenhagen farce!
Leaflet to the Copenhagen demonstration Fri, 11/12/2009 - 13:25Statement from the League for the Fifth International about the Copenhageen summit. Distributed by League members and supporters on the demonstrations taking place in December Read more...
Copenhagen: no road map to a low carbon destination
Joy Macready Wed, 02/12/2009 - 11:08Decembers United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen – or COP15 – were supposed to be the ‘great leap forward’ for taking action on climate change. When talks broke down in Bali two years ago, with the US backing away from any binding emission reduction targets, the Copenhagen summit was hailed as the place where a deal would be done to replace the Kyoto Protocols, which expire in 2012. Read more...
Will Obama deliver on a green agenda?
Wed, 03/12/2008 - 17:00George W Bush is spending his last days in office forcing through a scorched earth policy on environmental legislation, while also handing his big business backers profitable contracts. Read more...
Biofuels: solution to climate change or cause of global hunger?
Wed, 04/06/2008 - 16:36Many politicians say that biofuels are the answer to our dependency on oil, ensure national "energy security", and claim that they are environmentally friendly. The European Union has set a target that 5.75 per cent of transport fuels should come from biological sources by 2010. George Bush has called on Americans to cut their petrol use by 20 per cent over a decade, mostly through a near five-fold increase in use of home grown fuels, such as ethanol. Read more...
Bali conference: roadmap to climate catastrophe
Fri, 21/12/2007 - 23:00After two weeks of fractious negotiations in Bali, the United Nations sponsored climate conference decided to… keep talking. Such a “roadmap”, argues Joy Macready, is a recipe for climate catastrophe. Read more...
The curent programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2003 