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- Population and poverty: Against the Gates agendaUnder the guise of women’s rights, billionaires are promoting population control in sub-Saharan Africa---READ-->>
- Breaking tar sands rules? Regulator says that's okayNo tar sands company has complied with regulations to clean up tailings ponds. No problem, says the regulator. The rules are “overly optimistic”---READ-->>
- How capitalism's assault on nature built ChicagoReview: William Cronon’s history of Chicago is a brilliant ecological history that puts the development of capitalism at the heart of the story---READ-->>
- On the road to change we need music like thisMagnificent music from the struggle in Istanbul---READ-->>
- The left needs an ecosocialist visionNicholas Davenport: Socialists must go beyond talking about the ecological crisis, and fully integrate it into our analysis of capitalism and the potential for revolution.---READ-->>
- The Carbon Capture fallacy, illustratedWhy capturing and burying CO2 won’t solve anything---READ-->>
- Six new flyers on ecosocialism (Print and post!)Essential resources for green left organizing---READ-->>
- Marx and Engels, radical environmentalistsPhil Gasper: It’s a myth that Marx and Engels ignored environmental concerns. Their work was rooted in an ecological vision that can educate and inspire today’s activists---READ-->>
- Ration consumption or ration production?Don Fitz: To ensure fairness and sustainability, an ecosocialist society will have to ration scarce resources. The real question is, what should be rationed, and how?---READ-->>
- London trade union conference to confront climate changeJune 8 2013: conference will bring together scientists, unionists and environmentalists to discuss fighting to stop global warming and create jobs.---READ-->>
- Greedy plutocrat quote of the decadeThe CEO of ExxonMobil CEO get $35 million a year for saying things like this---READ-->>
- Bolivia puts people and environment before profitFederico Fuentes: The government of Latin America’s poorest country is taking natural resources out of the hands of multinationals, and using that wealth to fight poverty---READ-->>
- Who are the real parasites?A philosophy professor gets it right …---READ-->>
- Terracide: Destroying the planet for profitIt’s the biggest crime in history. Big Oil is deliberately making Earth uninhabitable, and getting rich doing it.---READ-->>
- Climate colonialism, illustrated99% of disease caused by climate change occurs in developing countries, and 88% of that affects children under age 5---READ-->>
- Climate disasters displaced 32 million people in 2012Over 32 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 by climate- and weather-related events---READ-->>
- Canada’s seven-year war on scienceIf anyone doubts the intellectual bankruptcy and anti-science bias of Canada’s government, show them this---READ-->>
- The Wealth of Commons: A World Beyond Market and StateBook review: Far from being a ‘tragedy’ the commons offers genuine solutions to climate change and other environmental problems---READ-->>
- Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollutionDriven from their farms by climate change, brickworkers near luxurious Kathmandu are dying slowly in an air pollution disaster zone---READ-->>
- Video: Oil Sands Reality CheckAn important new resource for tar sands campaigners---READ-->>