Leftist critics of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything need to answer a question she posed: History is knocking at your door: will you answer?
The Sixth Extinction: Are humans the enemy?
Book Review: Elizabeth Kolbert's best-selling account of mass extinctions blames human nature, ignoring the crucial role of capitalism’s relentless search for growth and accumulation.
On ’60 Minutes’, black Africans are invisible and voiceless
Biased 'news' coverage of wildlife and the Ebola crisis illustrates the worst prejudices of modern American journalism on the subject of Africa.
Climate prescriptions that won’t cure the disease
Book Review: In 'Tropic of Chaos,' Christian Parenti presents a convincing and disturbing portrait of unfolding planetary crisis, but the solutions he offers don't match the challenge.
Should U.S. Marxists support the Greens?
Our job is not to stand across the street yelling at people until they pass resolutions calling for the abolition of surplus value. We must be with the masses, where and when they are willing to struggle.
Mining, energy, climate, capitalism: Why don’t NGOs connect the dots?
Despite making powerful criticisms of multinational mining corporations, an NGO-organized conference in Cape Town ignored essential links with related struggles
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology
Real solutions will not come from the industrial model. Agroecology is a key form of resistance to an economic system that puts profit before life.
Bugger the Bankers
A powerful and effective (and true and funny) protest song for our time
Revitalized climate movement draws 20,000 to London protest
The movement that stalled after the failed climate talks in Copenhagen 2009 is back on the streets – bigger, stronger and more confident than ever
The secret history of pollution and the EPA
In 'Poison Spring', an insider documents the culture of fraud and corruption that infests the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and endangers the lives of millions
Declaration of South African Food Sovereignty Campaign
Break the power of food corporations. Establish a constitutional right to food. Build food sovereignty from below, based on small scale farming and agroecology, not industrial agriculture
Capitalism versus rational agriculture
Highly recommended reading: Two articles on the contradictions between growing food to meet essential human needs and growing food to produce profit
Climate inaction: The appalling complicity of liberal media
As Earth steadily moves deeper into the danger zone, corporate media responds by giving less and less coverage to climate and the environment
30 year record proves the climate has changed
Climate is defined as the 30-year weather average. The past 3 decades show that the new normal is systematically rising temperatures, not the stability of the past
Marxist trade union leader runs for UK Greens
RMT President: 'Environmental devastation is a socialist issue. It always has been, though for most of the time most socialists tended to relegate it.'
Derek Wall names ‘Five essential books on climate change’
Green Party International Coordinator recommends books for candidates
The RCMP versus the ‘anti-petroleum movement’
Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
Algeria: Protests challenge shale gas plans
Ongoing anti-shale gas protests in southern Algeria pit a well-organised, conscious population against a government that ignores or trivializes their concerns.
Climate activists must stand with striking U.S. oilworkwers
Supporting the strike is a key part of the fight against fossil fuels. Our enemies are the oil corporations, not the oilworkers they exploit and endanger
Climate shock: East Antarctica is melting, too
New research shows that the largest glacier in East Antarctica, long thought to be stable, is in fact melting from below.