Artificial demand for biofuels is undermining the right to food, causing significant increases in food insecurity, malnutrition, and land-grabbing. European and North American governments must end policies that undermine food by promoting biofuels
Building the environmental movement today: A debate
Should radical environmentalists focus on national campaigns, or on local community actions, or both? Sasha Ross of EarthFirst! replies to Chris Williams' article on Strategy and Tactics in Environmental Movement, and Chris Williams responds. Join...
Video: Fred Magdoff on the global climate emergency
The co-author of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism makes the case for radical social and economic change as the only to stop the drive towards planetary destruction
EnergyEast tar sands pipeline faces growing opposition
TransCanada's massive pipeline scheme is being challenged from First Nations, provincial and municipal governments, environmental and grassroots groups, and even from other pipeline companies. Together, these forces can stop the latest plan to...
Stephen Harper pours bitumen on the fire
Canada's prime minister won't stop until the tar sands are completely mined and burned
Wall Street to Earth: ‘We don’t mind and you don’t matter’
The stock market’s non-response to the IPCC report on climate change exposes the inability of capitalists to address or even worry about the climate crisis
IPCC report: Human-caused warming is ‘unequivocal’
C&C will have much more to say about this important report. For now, here's a quick summary of the key messages.
Hundreds attend Los Angeles ecosocialist conference
Well-attended meeting marks a step forward for the growing coalition for System Change Not Climate Change
TransCanada pipeline plan threatens drinking water
Ian Angus: "Piping tar sands crude over an aquifer rated 'Highly Vulnerable' is a reckless plan that threatens the water we all need."
A declaration on climate justice
"We demand a world where our children and future generations are assured of fair and just opportunities for social stability, employment, a healthy planet and prosperity."
Strategy and tactics in the environmental movement
A recent interview with Naomi Klein has sparked a furious debate amongst activists on the right and left of the North American environmental movement. Chris Williams examines the critical issues involved, and their implications for the future of the...
Who really benefits from sweatshops?
Exposing the myth that 'consumer demand for low prices' causes dangerous working conditions in third world factories
TransCanada buys another favorable pipeline report
Why no one should believe Deloitte's report on the latest tar sands pipeline plan
Video: Robert Redford condemns tar sands development
Video: Robert Redford explains why the tar sands are good for oil companies but deadly for the Earth.
Interview with Fred Magdoff
Audio: The co-author of "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism" explains the root causes of today's global climate crisis
Another pipeline disaster: Molasses kills
Think about this the next time someone tells you pipelines are safe ...
Tar Sands or Oil Sands? Behind the petro-spin
The term oil sands was invented by public relations flacks, to divert attention from just how dirty the Alberta bitumen deposits are. Andrew Nikiforuk explains why tar sands is the right name.
The climate denial machine vs. climate science
Dealing in Doubt: how fossil fuel interests use the tobacco industry’s playbook to manufacture disinformation designed to confuse the public and stifle action to address climate change.
A framework for uniting ecosocialists in action
An appropriate and principled framework for bringing all varieties of ecosocialists together in action against capitalist ecocide and for a just world.
Australia: populationists use racism to split green vote
Populationist groups are trying to split Australian environmentalism with a coordinated anti-immigrant campaign