An oil discovery in Australia could make runaway climate change a certainty
Why ecosocialism?
“Green capitalism” is an oxymoron, because ecological destruction is built into the nature and logic of our present system of production and distribution.
Democracy is the solution to the climate crisis
Maude Barlow: "A healthy planet can only thrive in a healthy democracy. Any solution to one crisis must be a solution for both."
How can the divided left move forward?
A good starting point would be to learn to 'fail better.' There are no predetermined solutions and we have to be open to the possibility of being wrong.
Idle No More and media hypocrisy about wealth
The business press slams the lifestyles of Indigenous leaders ... and lavishes sycophantic praise on the obscenely super-rich.
A plague of David Attenborough
The British broadcaster blames poverty and hunger on the overbreeding poor
Is a united and effective climate movement possible?
Science says that climate change ‘tipping points’ are coming fast. With pessimism of the intellect growing ever more intense, how can we avoid despair and unite in an effective movement based on optimism of the will?
Environmental determinism: Does climate control our destiny?
The view that climate change caused the collapse of past civilizations is ideology, not science. Applied to the present, it can undermine movements against the real enemies of nature and humanity.
Action on climate change – an urgent priority for socialists
Fighting for the measures necessary to avert catastrophic climate change needs to be at the centre of socialist thinking and action.
No, global warming hasn't stopped
The "no warming in 16 years" myth has been exploded again, this time by NASA
How the tar sands produce dirty coal
It's called "petcoke," and it is nasty, climate destroying stuff
End rural slavery in South Africa!
La Via Campesina: South African commercial farming is the most powerful on the continent; it flourishes at the expense of the oppression and exploitation of agricultural workers.
Ultra heatwave: Australia's new normal
The world burns, while corporations and governments fiddle
Evo Morales: Ten commandments against capitalism, for life and humanity
"Our vision of the Communitarian Socialism of Living Well is based on rights and not on the market. It is based on the full realization of human happiness of peoples and populations, through the full complementarity of the rights of peoples...
Call for papers on climate change and social change
The editors of the annual journal Alternate Routes are seeking papers on the environment and prospects for social change, for the 2014 issue.
Geopolitics of the Amazon
Free download from C&C: Alvaro Garcia Linero's powerful book-length response to leftist critics of the Morales government's economic policies, including the controversial TIPNIS highway and so-called 'extractivism.'
Promised Land: Hollywood takes on the frackers
Ted Glick says Matt Damon's new movie doesn't tell the whole story about fracking, but it is nonetheless a strong film about corportate power
What if First Nations stopped subsidizing Canada?
The claim that First Nations live off government subsidies is a racist myth. In reality, Indigenous people have been massively subsidizing Canada for a very long time.
Tar Sands: Is Canada a 'resource colony'?
Some Canadian environmentalists are blaming this ecological nightmare on foreign investors. Their analysis is both mistaken and dangerous: the tar sands are firmly in Canadian hands, and those hands are very dirty.
An Indigenous action program for real change in Canada
The Defenders of the Land program, adopted in 2008, is now proposed as a powerful unifying force for the new Idle No More Movement