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...
Millions make global climate strike a success
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1069, Sept 22, 2019 Thu, 17/10/2019 - 16:17Globally, the international action week #WeekForFuture was a great success. Read more...
Brazil’s Days of Fire
Markus Lehner, GAM Infomail 1066, September 3, 2019 Thu, 05/09/2019 - 14:59With the onset of the dry season in the Amazon region, an inferno of forest fires has hit the Brazilian states of Rondônia, Pará, Mato Grosso and Amazonas. Read more...
UK: Extinction Rebellion paralyses London
Jeremy Dewar, Red Flag 27, May 2019 Tue, 14/05/2019 - 09:49Extinction Rebellion (XR) captured the headlines of the mainstream media and the imagination of millions this Easter, as its activists occupied key tourist locations and major traffic arteries in Lond Read more...
Fridays for Future: System change - not climate change!
Jan Hektik, Neue Internationale 236, Berlin, April 2019 Sat, 06/04/2019 - 14:09Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of students are striking and demonstrating, Friday after Friday, against the threatening, catastrophic consequences of climate change. Read more...
USA: The Green New Deal - a challenge to both parties
Marcus Otono, Workers Power USA Sun, 03/03/2019 - 12:11The Green New Deal, GND, resolution introduced by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, a New York member of the House of Representatives, and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, has been met by widespread enthu 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...
