RMT President: 'Environmental devastation is a socialist issue. It always has been, though for most of the time most socialists tended to relegate it.'
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Derek Wall names ‘Five essential books on climate change’
Green Party International Coordinator recommends books for candidates
The RCMP versus the ‘anti-petroleum movement’
Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
Algeria: Protests challenge shale gas plans
Ongoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria pit a well-organised, conscious population against a government that ignores or trivializes their concerns.
Climate activists must stand with striking U.S. oilworkwers
Supporting the strike is a key part of the fight against fossil fuels. Our enemies are the oil corporations, not the oilworkers they exploit and endanger
Climate shock: East Antarctica is melting, too
New research shows that the largest glacier in East Antarctica, long thought to be stable, is in fact melting from below.
Noam Chomsky: Can civilization survive capitalism?
Under 'really existing capitalism,' science and rationality must be suppressed to protect the rulers' interests, no matter who is hurt
Pentagon Pollution, 1: War and the true tragedy of the commons
The U.S. military is the world's biggest and most destructive polluter. Stopping the war machine is an essential part of saving the earth.
Pentagon Pollution, 2: Military waste sickens land and people
The U.S. military generates more toxic waste than the five largest US chemical companies combined.
Pentagon Pollution, 3: Chemical warfare and Agent Orange
Four decades after the U.S. military fled Vietnam, millions of children and adults still suffer the devastating effects of its deliberately ecocidal assault