Category: Environment
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Climate-Driven Wildfires Sweep Across Canada
As extreme wildfires become a deadly seasonal threat, governments are accelerating the causes of the crisis, showing that the system of profit is an existential threat, argues John Clarke. Keep reading »
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Spanish High-Speed Rail: Speed, Concrete, and the Limits of the Green Fix
How do infrastructure programmes work under financialised capitalism? Natalia Buier’s Frontiers of Appropriation analyses Spain’s AVE (Alta Velocidad Española) – Europe’s longest High-Speed Rail (HSR) network, second in the world … Keep reading »
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Heatwaves: Anger and Sadness. And hope, despite everything
In less than two months, Europe has been hit by three heatwaves that are exceptional in terms of their early onset, intensity, duration and geographical extent. The health impacts are … Keep reading »
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Climate Crisis Deepens
John Clarke is a longtime organizer in Toronto, as well as an active instructor with the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education. He will be leading classes on the poor, … Keep reading »
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People’s Summit for a Fossil Free Future
The People’s Summit for a Fossil Free Future is the civil society counterpart to the historic First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, taking place in Santa Marta … Keep reading »
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Solving the Climate Crisis Requires Peace, and Peace a Stable Climate
Sustainability and peace are inseparable. To solve the climate crisis, we must address the massive environmental costs of warfare and choose diplomacy for peace. Keep reading »
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Two Statements from South Africa on the Challenges for Socialists
Another World Is Not Only Possible — It Is Necessary and Urgent We enter a new year in a time of deep crisis and danger. In South Africa, the state … Keep reading »
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COP 30: Entrenching the Crisis of Climate Politics
As the dust settles after COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the scale of the failure becomes impossible to ignore. The world is on a path toward catastrophic warming, ecological systems are … Keep reading »
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Working-Class Priorities as the Principle for Climate Action
The global climate emergency is no longer a distant warning – it is an unfolding catastrophe. Longer heatwaves, recurring cyclones, changing rainfall patterns, and rising sea levels are already reshaping … Keep reading »
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Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda
Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of … Keep reading »
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Labour’s Climate Fight Requires Public Ownership
Green politics won’t succeed if they can’t simultaneously speak to questions of affordability. And green affordability will require expanded public ownership. Keep reading »
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Three Dimensions of Militarism in the Climate Crisis
War, famously, is the pursuit of politics by other means. Cliche though it may be, the impacts of war and militarism are often overlooked by social movements focusing on formal … Keep reading »