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.
Noam Chomsky: Can civilization survive capitalism?
Under 'really existing capitalism,' science and rationality must be suppressed to protect the rulers' interests, no matter who is hurt
Pentagon Pollution, 1: War and the true tragedy of the commons
The U.S. military is the world's biggest and most destructive polluter. Stopping the war machine is an essential part of saving the earth.
Pentagon Pollution, 2: Military waste sickens land and people
The U.S. military generates more toxic waste than the five largest US chemical companies combined.
Pentagon Pollution, 3: Chemical warfare and Agent Orange
Four decades after the U.S. military fled Vietnam, millions of children and adults still suffer the devastating effects of its deliberately ecocidal assault
Pentagon Pollution, 4: A biological bargain with the devil
The "war on terror" includes massive federal funding for secret research on the most lethal bacteria and viruses with no known cure
Pentagon Pollution, 5: The deadly impact of depleted uranium
The use of depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans and Iraq has left a long-term legacy of cancers and birth defects among civilians
Pentagon Pollution, 6: Weapons of mass destruction in slow motion
During and after the Pentagon's wars, landmines and cluster bombs kill and maim, while blocking resettlement and agriculture in the poorest regions
Pentagon Pollution, 7: The military assault on global climate
The U.S. military is the single greatest institutional contributor to the growing natural disasters intensified by global climate change.
The extraordinary communities that arise in disaster
Challenging common myths, Rebecca Solnit shows that ordinary people often respond to disaster with self-sacrifice, humanity, kindness and basic solidarity
Foster & Clark
The liberal attack on Naomi Klein and ‘This Changes Everything’
Naomi Klein's inspiring book frightens capitalism's liberal defenders, making them desperate to blunt and undermine its message.
Syriza: A left-green government in Greece?
Syriza's colors are red and purple and green, identifying it as socialist, feminist and environmentalist. Its platform includes all the key demands of the Green Party.
SCNCC: Convention, Jan. 31-Feb. 1
System Change Not Climate Change! There's still time to register, particularly if you would like to participate by phone/Internet.
400 parts per million and class struggle
While no one has a positive interest in destroying the environment, the capitalist class has an interest in blocking the measures that could protect it. Recognizing this class dimension to the environmental struggle is vital.