A leaflet distributed at the University of Toronto by Students Against Climate Change GLOBAL WARMING SUCKS! We are living on this planet as though we have another one to go to Peer-reviewed science confirms the effects of man-made climate change:...
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Why New Labour Supports Expansion of Nuclear Power
by Phil Ward From Socialist Resistance, October 2007 October 10 sees the end of a public “consultation” to “help the government take a decision on the future of nuclear power in the UK”. The exercise is completely cynical. In February the government...
A Formal Summons to World States by Indigenous First Nations and Peoples
Declaration of the World Encounter “For the Historic Victory of the Indigenous Peoples of the World” Translated from America Latina en Movimiento for Bolivia Rising by Richard Fidler. Footnotes added by the translator. A Formal Summons to World...
December 8: International Day of Climate Change Protests
This call was published by the Global Climate Campaign. Their website includes links to information on protests planned in many countries. Global Climate Campaign Building a global movement to confront the ultimate global crisis International...
Climate Change will Devastate River Basins Where One Billion Live
Abstract of an article in the Online Journal of the Ecological Society of America. Subscription required to read entire article. Major rivers worldwide have experienced dramatic changes in flow, reducing their natural ability to adjust to and absorb...
Interview with an Ecosocialist
Ian Angus was interviewed this month by the Greek socialist newspaper Kokkino (Red). Let’s begin with a large question — what is ecosocialism? ANGUS: Ecosocialism has grown out of two parallel political trends — the spread of Marxist ideas in the...
Ecosocialist International Network (News Release)
This is the official announcement issued following the international meeting of ecosocialists in Paris, October 7-8 FIRST INTERNATIONAL ECOSOCIALIST MEETING On October 7th and 8th 2007, a group of ecological activists from thirteen countries met in...
Ecosocialists Launch International Network
I’m still exhausted after two days of meetings in Paris, but here is a hastily-written basic outline of the results of the first international meeting of ecosocialists. The Ecosocialist International Network. launched in Paris, France on...
The Red and the Green: Part Two – What kind of development?
Continued from The Red and the Green Part One By William Bowles The word development implies ‘progress’ but by whose definition and anyway, what is progress, and where exactly, are we progressing to? Are the rainforest peoples’ of the Amazon for...
World Bank Razed Congo Forests
by John Vidal, Environment Editor The Guardian Thursday October 4 2007 The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world’s second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a...