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- Like unicorns, the 'free market' doesn't existLet’s bury the myth: there never has been, is not, and never will be a capitalist free market economy---READ-->>
- Quebec activists unite against tar sands pipelineAlternatives urges united movement, action in the streets---READ-->>
- How not to change the worldAnother strategy that doesn’t work---READ-->>
- Climate change boosts food billsLast year’s U.S. drought means Canadians will pay more to eat---READ-->>
- Voices of the tar sands blockadeExclusive video footage shot by the Texas blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance.---READ-->>
- Capitalism versus Planet Earth – an irreconcilable conflictBook excerpt: “A stark choice faces humanity: save the planet and ditch capitalism or save capitalism and ditch the planet”---READ-->>
- We cannot shop our way to food justiceThe food system is a tool for corporate profits, but it can also be an entry point for recognition of food access as a human right---READ-->>
- Nature and the economy: Marxism in an American labyrinthThe supposed conflict between environmentalism and Marxism is actually a clash between both of those and a workerist or productivist distortion of what Marx really wrote---READ-->>
- Washington: 50,000 protest Keystone XL pipelineVideo coverage from Democracy Now, Plus: Most Canadian media try to downplay the largest U.S. climate march ever---READ-->>
- Carbon trading is an obstacle to effective climate actionA reply to critics of “Time to scrap the ETS.” Getting rid of Europe’s emissions trading scheme will let us move towards climate policy that works---READ-->>
- Australian socialists on the climate change crisisA defining feature of politics today is the refusal of the capitalist class and its political representatives to confront the global climate crisis.---READ-->>
- Naomi Klein on the ‘ethical oil’ hoaxTar sands oil is like regular oil, but a lot dirtier---READ-->>
- Nature's mass protests against climate changeWe’re building important protests against climate change, but so far Nature’s protests are bigger, more militant, and more uncompromising.---READ-->>
- Plutocrats: An informative and frustrating bookReporter exposes privilege and inequality … while defending the system that causes it---READ-->>
- Keystone pipeline: A letter to Canada's Minister of Natural ResourcesCanada’s environmental record speaks for itself---READ-->>
- Join the ecosocialist contingent in Washington, February 17System change, not climate change! Help build a united, grassroots climate movement to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and end capitalist ecocide---READ-->>
- Is Obama really on our side?To succeed, the climate movement must be clear about who its allies and enemies are---READ-->>
- Carbon trading has failed: scrap the ETS nowEurope’s experience shows emissions trading is a disaster: it doesn’t reduce greenhouse gases, subsidizes the worst polluters, and locks in the fossil fuel economy.---READ-->>
- Hunger in Ethiopia: overpopulation or dispossession?Ethiopia has forcibly displaced hundreds of thousands of indigenous people from their lands to make way for giant plantations---READ-->>
- First Nations pull out of tar sands pipeline hearingThe people most affected by the plan cannot compete with Enbridge’s $250 million legal war chest.---READ-->>