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- Protect food security, end biofuel subsidies and supportArtificial demand for biofuels is undermining the right to food, causing significant increases in food insecurity, malnutrition, and land-grabbing. European and North American governments must end policies that undermine food by promoting biofuels---READ-->>
- Building the environmental movement today: A debateShould radical environmentalists focus on national campaigns, or on local community actions, or both? Sasha Ross of EarthFirst! replies to Chris Williams’ article on Strategy and Tactics in Environmental Movement, and Chris Williams responds. Join the discussion …---READ-->>
- Video: Fred Magdoff on the global climate emergencyThe co-author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism makes the case for radical social and economic change as the only to stop the drive towards planetary destruction---READ-->>
- EnergyEast tar sands pipeline faces growing oppositionTransCanada’s massive pipeline scheme is being challenged from First Nations, provincial and municipal governments, environmental and grassroots groups, and even from other pipeline companies. Together, these forces can stop the latest plan to spread dirty tar sands oil across Canada and around the world.---READ-->>
- Stephen Harper pours bitumen on the fireCanada’s prime minister won’t stop until the tar sands are completely mined and burned---READ-->>
- Wall Street to Earth: ‘We don’t mind and you don’t matter’The stock market’s non-response to the IPCC report on climate change exposes the inability of capitalists to address or even worry about the climate crisis---READ-->>
- IPCC report: Human-caused warming is ‘unequivocal’C&C will have much more to say about this important report. For now, here’s a quick summary of the key messages.---READ-->>
- Hundreds attend Los Angeles ecosocialist conferenceWell-attended meeting marks a step forward for the growing coalition for System Change Not Climate Change---READ-->>
- TransCanada pipeline plan threatens drinking waterIan Angus: “Piping tar sands crude over an aquifer rated ‘Highly Vulnerable’ is a reckless plan that threatens the water we all need.”---READ-->>
- A declaration on climate justice“We demand a world where our children and future generations are assured of fair and just opportunities for social stability, employment, a healthy planet and prosperity.”---READ-->>
- Strategy and tactics in the environmental movementA recent interview with Naomi Klein has sparked a furious debate amongst activists on the right and left of the North American environmental movement. Chris Williams examines the critical issues involved, and their implications for the future of the movement as a whole, and of its growing ecosocialist wing in particular.---READ-->>
- Who really benefits from sweatshops?Exposing the myth that ‘consumer demand for low prices’ causes dangerous working conditions in third world factories---READ-->>
- TransCanada buys another favorable pipeline reportWhy no one should believe Deloitte’s report on the latest tar sands pipeline plan---READ-->>
- Video: Robert Redford condemns tar sands developmentVideo: Robert Redford explains why the tar sands are good for oil companies but deadly for the Earth.---READ-->>
- Interview with Fred MagdoffAudio: The co-author of “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism” explains the root causes of today’s global climate crisis---READ-->>
- Another pipeline disaster: Molasses killsThink about this the next time someone tells you pipelines are safe …---READ-->>
- Tar Sands or Oil Sands? Behind the petro-spinThe term oil sands was invented by public relations flacks, to divert attention from just how dirty the Alberta bitumen deposits are. Andrew Nikiforuk explains why tar sands is the right name.---READ-->>
- The climate denial machine vs. climate scienceDealing in Doubt: how fossil fuel interests use the tobacco industry’s playbook to manufacture disinformation designed to confuse the public and stifle action to address climate change.---READ-->>
- A framework for uniting ecosocialists in actionAn appropriate and principled framework for bringing all varieties of ecosocialists together in action against capitalist ecocide and for a just world.---READ-->>
- Australia: populationists use racism to split green votePopulationist groups are trying to split Australian environmentalism with a coordinated anti-immigrant campaign---READ-->>