Climate Change
28 December 2021 · · Climate Change, Scotland
Beyond Glasgow – what happened at COP26 and where we go next
On Saturday, 4 December, activists in Glasgow held a first gathering to take stock and plan future steps, writes Iain Bruce. So this is intended as a contribution to that process of weighing…
18 October 2021 · Climate Change, Latin America
Latin America: Heading to the UN Climate Change Conference - Climate Change and Extractivism
Document approved at the first conference held by the Ecology Commission of Latin America of the Fourth International in June 2021. Capitalism, through its exploitation of waged work on a wo…
13 November 2020 · · Climate Change, Covid-19 · 1 comment
Covid-19: a frightening future looms
Covid-19 provides a frightening glimpse of an uncertain future, writes Alan Thornett. It is not just out of control, but on a global rampage. There have now been 52 million cases and 1,300,0…
9 October 2020 · · Climate Change · 4 comments
King of a dead planet
David Attenborough has formed an alliance with the heir to the British throne, the Duke of Cambridge, to campaign for zero carbon by 2030, writes Alan Davies . Failure to reach zero carbon w…
8 October 2020 · · Climate Change, Scotland
Climate action in Scotland stepped up
Extinction Rebellion Scotland (XRS) have launched three weeks of action to highlight opposition to the climate and ecological crisis across the country. Other campaigns are stepping up activ…
14 August 2020 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Reviews
Cometh the [midnight] hour, cometh the book!
Allan Todd reviews Derek Wall’s 2020 Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis published by Merlin Press. This book had me from its very first page, with this well-chosen …
22 April 2020 · · Biodiversity, Climate Change, Covid-19, Ecosocialism · 1 comment
International Earth Day and Covid-19
Today, April 22, is International Earth Day , writes Alan Thornett . It was established 50 years ago following a massive oil spill off the coast of California as an opportunity to reflect on…
28 February 2020 · · Britain, Climate Change · 2 comments
‘The bell is tolling’ on Heathrow expansion
In the biggest victory ever won by environmental campaigners in Britain the court of appeal yesterday declared that the long disputed third runway at Heathrow is illegal, writes Alan Thornet…
12 February 2020 · Climate Change, Uncategorized
Thirteen theses on the imminent ecological catastrophe and the (revolutionary) means of averting it
I. The ecological crisis is already the most important social and political question of the 21st century, and will become even more so in the coming months and years. The future of the plane…
3 January 2020 · Climate Change, International
The climate war is here
The horror of the devastating and apocalyptic fires in NSW and Victoria has not only dampened the New Year party mood, it has fanned anger over the government's obvious failure to respond to…
1 December 2019 · Britain, Climate Change, Labour Party
Labour’s Green New Deal
Labour’s manifesto represents the most radical environmental offer ever proposed by a major party challenging for government. It’s a remarkable response to the rapid advance of the ecologica…
16 November 2019 · · Climate Change, Reviews
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez inspires Labour’s GND
Alan Thornett reviews A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Dea l by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen and Thea Riofrancos, (London, Verso, 2019). 208 pp. £10.99 This …
12 October 2019 · Britain, Climate Change
Extinction Rebellion seizes the moment
You’d probably have to go back to the Suffragettes to find a protest movement that is as creative, hard-hitting and effective as Extinction Rebellion (XR). It is hard to think of another rad…
20 February 2019 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Uncategorized, Youth
The climate is changing – why aren’t we?
I’m in my mid-sixties and have been politically active since my late teens, writes Terry Conway . This week I have had one of the most positive political experiences of my life, supporting y…
16 February 2019 · · Climate Change, Trade Unions
Are energy trade unions ‘playing fast and loose’ with climate change?
On 15 th January the Scottish Parliament debated a motion from Roseanna Cunningham SNP MSP, on securing a just transition to a carbon-neutral economy, writes Sam Mason . Remarkable in this i…
14 February 2019 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Youth
Climate, class and revolting children
Radical action on climate change should be the many versus the few, not the young versus the old, writes Chris Saltmarsh . The global wave of student strikes for climate action has come to t…
28 December 2018 · · Climate Change
Another deal on Climate change; another Conference of Procrastination
As the coal dust settled on COP 24 ( Conference of Parties for its full title) in Katowice Poland, the ‘deal’ was released to the world with a ‘high’ spirited Michal Kurtvka , Chairman of th…
12 November 2018 · Climate Change, USA · 1 comment
What's the real cause of the California wildfires?
Phil Hearse writes on the combination of real estate capitalism and climate change which has unleashed murderous fires in California. Things are getting serious. At least 31 dead and maybe 2…
15 October 2018 · Climate Change
IPCC Climate report: a global wake-up call
Alan Thornett offers an initial assessment of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special ‘1.5°C’ report published on October 8 on the deepening crisis around climate cha…
15 September 2018 · Climate Change
The Politics of Hurricanes - climate catastrophe victimises the poor
Hurricanes hit the USA and the Philippines, just days after Donald Trump disputes the official findings that nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of last year's storms. Phil H…
12 July 2018 · · Britain, Climate Change, USA
March against Trump – and for the Planet
There are many reasons for supporting the anti-Trump protests this week, writes Alan Thornett . It has become increasingly clear that Trump can do immeasurable damage not only to politics ac…
20 February 2018 · · Britain, Climate Change, Ecosocialism
Planning for a future which doesn't cost the earth
The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group is organising an important conference on climate change and the trade unions on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Hamilton House London WC1H 9…
12 January 2018 · Carribean, Climate Change
Irma: a neoliberal hurricane
The smaller of the two main islands forming the nation of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbuda, is a small sun-drenched island in the eastern Caribbean; it has an area of 70 square miles and a popul…
24 October 2017 · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Labour Party
Young Labour supports fossil fuel disinvestment
Young Labour are calling for action on the climate crisis after a motion was passed at the National Youth Policy Conference 2017 over the weekend of October 14-15 reports Joe Walsh . It will…
14 April 2017 · · Britain, Climate Change, USA
Protesting Trumps threat to the planet
Alan Thornett looks at the destruction Trump is wreaking and the resistance that is growing: There are many reactionary aspects to the Trump administration: racism, misogyny, homophobia, isl…
12 December 2016 · Climate Change
Time to act on climate refugees
Alan Thornett and Terry Conway In the last six years over 140 million people have been forced to move because of climate change disasters: droughts, harvest failures and devastating storms. …