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How Three Green Parties Went Wrong
The experience of Greens in Ireland, Czech Republic and Germany shows that you can’t be a progressive force while selling your soul for a seat at the big man’s table. (more…)
Video Interview: Ian Angus in Lisbon
The editor of Climate and Capitalism was interviewed by Esquerda.net during the conference O Clima Farto de Nos? (Is the climate sick of us?), held in Lisbon, March 26-27. (more…)
Tell the EU: Palm Plantations Aren't Forests!
A leaked document reveals that the European Union wants to require member states to use biofuel from destructive palm plantations — and to do that it wants to define plantations as “forests” (more…)
The Rise and Fall of the Irish Greens
Another case of the inevitable fate that follows when Green parties adopt the creed of “neither Left nor Right, but Green” (more…)
Green Left to Honour Peterloo Martyrs
This month the English Green Left will meet in Manchester. The meeting is timed to coincide with the 190th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, one of the most significant events in British radical history. (more…)
Climate and Capitalism Seminar Set for London
If you’re in England on September 12, don’t miss the Climate and Capitalism seminar in London, sponsored by Green Left and Socialist Resistance (more…)
UK climate change policies 'dangerously optimistic'
The UK government’s policies are significantly stronger than those of the Canada and the United States – but scientists say they still have only a 50-50 chance of keeping global warming below 2 degrees (more…)
UK Green Left Holds Annual General Meeting
Joseph Healy has been elected by Lambeth Green Party to stand as the Parliamentary Candidate for the Vauxhall Constituency at the next general election. This report is from his blog. (more…)
UK gov't advisors call for a new society
“The market was not undone by rogue individuals or the turning of a blind eye by incompetent regulators. It was undone by growth itself.” (more…)
Hansen: Coal-fired power plants are factories of death
Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet. Coal is the dirtiest fuel. The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. (more…)
Is Nuclear Power a Safe Solution to Climate Change?
It’s been claimed that the French experience proves that nuclear power can be produced safely. but recenly existing plants have developed leaks, and construction of a ‘Third Generation’ reactor had to be halted. (more…)
Carbon Trading: the God that Failed
By Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, March 7, 2009 The free market has got us into this mess, and the free market will get us out of it. This nonsensical idea is at the heart of all carbon trading measures, the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) included. Nicholas Stern, the economist asked by […]
Trade Unionists Discuss Climate Change
“This is the fundamental struggle to defend the future of our class as well as the future of our planet.” (more…)
Trade Union Conference on Climate Change
Saturday, March 7, London (more…)
Carbon Trading: The Next Sub-Prime
Climate and Capitalism has long argued that carbon trading is a scam to boost profits without reducing emissions. Here’s confirmation from an unexpected source: the CEO of a major European energy company. (more…)
Swedish Autoworkers Campaign: Save Jobs! Save the Planet!
Is there a future for the auto industry – with or without cars? (more…)
Climate Change — The Case For Public Ownership
Only when we have control of the gears, pedals and steering wheels of the economy will we have any real chance to steer away from the brink of a climate catastrophe (more…)
Greens and the UK Left
Greens can make a unique contribution renewing the Left in Britain (more…)
Jury says: Direct Action Justified To Stop The Climate Crisis!
UK Greenpeace activists acquitted: jury agrees that anti-coal actions were justified (more…)