National Sections of the L5I:

Environment

Save the planet from capitalist destruction

The 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...

BP barons fuel oil slick disaster

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...

¡Aprovechemos la oportunidad! La Conferencia de Cochabamba es una oportunidad histórica para nuestro movimiento

• 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...

Seize the day! Cochabamba conference is an historic opportunity for our movement

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...

Copenhagen failure shows only overthrowing capitalism can avert climate catastrophe

Dave Stockton looks at the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change Read more...

COP15: Massive protests meet massive repression

Gunnar Westin reports on the huge protests at the Copenhagen climate summit Read more...

Climate Change: No to the Copenhagen farce!

Statement 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

Decembers 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...

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