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- Ian Angus: Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity’s futureVideo and text of talk to Toronto pipeline protest meeting, April 7, 2013---READ-->>
- Toronto pipeline fight links local and global issuesLine 9 protest organizers build community support for grassroots fight against local pollution, tar sands, and global warming---READ-->>
- Thatcher's funeral: A modest neoliberal proposalKen Loach suggests an appropriate send-off---READ-->>
- Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity's future“By resisting the Line 9 pipeline through Toronto, you are directly engaged in the fight t save our planet.”---READ-->>
- James Hansen: Keystone XL is a pipeline to disasterThe pipeline apologists contradict the laws of physics and economics. There are no more mixed messages, just catastrophe after catastrophe.---READ-->>
- The looming threat of water scarcityIf present trends continue, by 2025 1.8 billion people will face absolute water scarcity, and almost almost half of the world’s people will face water stress.---READ-->>
- 'How to make an ecosocialist revolution' now in TamilTamil translation of talk by Ian Angus---READ-->>
- Farmers' Union: Why we support Idle No More“The common ground that Idle No More and the NFU share is literal; our common ground is the land.”---READ-->>
- What next for the U.S. climate movement?For years, we’ve argued for a mass movement that goes beyond white middle class environmentalists and embraces working people, people of color and First Nations people. Now that such a movement is beginning to emerge, where it is to go?---READ-->>
- Why small-scale alternatives won't change the worldLocalism is incapable of displacing capitalism or even effectively challenging it because it fails to understand how capitalism works---READ-->>
- Chinese leader calls for ecological civilizationA former leader of the National People’s Congress says industrial civilization has come to a dead end and an ecological civilization is needed---READ-->>
- Call for a global campaign to demand climate justiceWorld Social Forum participants urge broad unity in a global campaign to stave off catastrophic climate change---READ-->>
- ‘Catastrophism’ book on environmental movement: a prescription for abstention and defeatIan Angus responds to a new book that says campaigns against environmental crises promote apathy and strengthen the right.---READ-->>
- Pablo Solón: How can we overcome the climate crisis?We are in a fight for the survival of all humanity. To change the system we need to recover our ability to dream.---READ-->>
- Inside the B.C. pipeline warsBook review: Essential reading on the battle to protect west coast land and water from predatory corporations and neoconservative politicians---READ-->>
- Should socialists support degrowth?Don Fitz: “Rather than being dismissive toward ongoing struggles against growth, socialists should enthusiastically participate and point to their anti-capitalist essence.”---READ-->>
- Marxism as if the planet mattersIf Marxism is to live up to its own maxim as a theory to not merely interpret the world but to change it, then it must include strong ecological theory and practice.---READ-->>
- The hockey stick is real, and it's worse than we thoughtGlobal temperatures are rising faster than at any time in 11,000 years---READ-->>
- B.C. oil spill response ship runs agroundIf they can’t get it to a news conference, how will it protect the coast from oil?---READ-->>
- Idle No More and Defenders of the Land call protests for Indigenous rightsWe know it will take a lot more to defeat Harper and the corporate agenda. But against the power of their money and weapons, we have the power of our bodies and spirits.---READ-->>