The political strategy of the Green Party assumes that politics just means fighting elections. This is a doomed approach. We will only win elections by building a movement, and we will never build much of a movement by simply fighting elections.
B.C.'s carbon tax is a failure … and Australia is following suit
As predicted when it was introduced, B.C.'s carbon tax has hurt the poor, while doing nothing to cut emissions. Here's an update ... and a video of Simon Butler speaking on Australia's equally bad plan
Bookchin on Bookchin: An appeal for support
An appeal for support to "Bookchin on Bookchin," a documentary on the life and ideas of a legendary political thinker, philosopher, anarchist and environmental activist.
Overpopulation theory, illustrated
There are definitely too many other people.
Why today's radicals must read Marx's Das Kapital
Marx’s great work, a huge expose of this monstrous system’s essential tendencies towards crises, is the book that every generation must rediscover.
Forty years of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney's classic study led to a veritable revolution in the teaching of African history. It remains one of the most compelling and persuasive books to emerge from the bowels of critical resistance to the exploitation of small countries.
Thirst for power: How coal, nuclear and gas waste our water
Over half of all of the fresh, surface water withdrawn from the environment in the U.S. today is used by power companies. They take the profits, and society pays the price.
The video Enbridge doesn't want you to see
When Enbridge threatened to cancel a $5 million advertising campaign, the Vancouver Province immediately removed this satire from its website.
Capitalist accumulation, illustrated
In 1896, this artist got it exactly right
Biofuels and hunger, two sides of the same coin
Europe's pro-biofuel policies are taking food from the mouths of millions of people in central America, causing severe malnutrition and increasing child mortality
Monbiot: Rio+20 produces 283 paragraphs of fluff
190 governments express "deep concern" about the world's environmental crises, but don't plan to do anything about them.
A tale of two conferences: The social and ecological crises of capitalism
In Mexico and Brazil, the capitalist elite discusses how to continue exploiting humans and the natural world in the service of profit, while cloaking their intentions in the benign language of growth, development and sustainability.
Canada, US, and Vatican unite against human rights at Rio+20
Amnesty International describes "a shameful alliance against making a commitment to human rights"
Video: Canadian youth activist opens People's Plenary in Rio
Cameron Fenton: "Without a full turn around by world leaders and their representatives Rio is set to go down in history as one of the most colossal failures on on climate change and environmental protection."
Raul Castro at Rio+20: "The only alternative is to build more just societies""
Cuban President Raul Castro told the UN conference in Rio de Janeiro, that the rich countries cannot continue living well at the expense of the poor.
Thousands march through Rio to demand climate action from UN
Tens of thousands of protesters joined an enormous demonstration through the centre of the Rio de Janeiro, to demand economic justice and action over climate change.
Bolivian activists: This is not "The future we want"
All governments must reject this agreement and halt the negotiations process until concrete commitments are made to replace the neo-liberal model with one based on fair development in harmony with nature and the philosophy of Living Well (Vivir Bien)
Rio+20: The earth summit heads for 'epic failure'
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here" should have been written over the entrance to the Rio+20 summit.
Rio +20 has nothing to say on REDD (and not much on anything else)
If the draft text is accepted in its current form, Rio +20 will go down in history to be followed inevitably by the word failure.
Lethal ingredients in the Rio+20 mocktail
The advocates of Green Economy never acknowledge that today’s crises have been caused by dangerously polluting industries, the extractive mining sector, chemical industries or industrial agriculture, and carefully ignore the new approaches proposed...