GKN Florence: this is what worker led just transition looks like
After more than 3 years in occupation, the Florence GKN workers’ fight to save jobs and develop alternative production continues
Take back the lake – a report on the Ireland climate camp
A report from the climate camp at Lough Neagh.
Grangemouth – the fight for jobs and climate justice
INEOS’s plans to close Scotland’s only petrol refinery at Grangemouth represent a critical test for both unions and climate campaigners.
How Chinese and African organisers came together to protest an oil pipeline
Report on Chinese diaspora communities resisting EACOP.
Green class struggle: workers and the just transition
Climate politics is not the playground of distant elites, but a field where collective action is decisive.
Green imperialism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Imperial powers control and profit from the DRC’s minerals. Ben Radley explains the history and calls for protest.
Ecological politics and revolutionary strategy
Harry H reflects on ecological politics and revolutionary strategy in a Nakba day talk at the Warwick encampment
Climate failure sparks SNP crisis
Pete Cannell looks at how the gulf between the SNP’s rhetoric and climate policies that relied on partnership with the oil and gas industry sparked a crisis.
Interview with Energy Embargo for Palestine
rs21 interviews the activist group Energy Embargo for Palestine
Climate denial and far right populism
Pete Cannell explores the way in which far right populist parties are using climate denial as a key part of their agenda.
Extraction of raw materials could rise 60% by 2060 – and making mining ‘greener’ won’t stop the damage
Gareth Dale debunks the notion that mass extraction of minerals is necessary for an ecologically sustainable society.
Why the world’s first flight powered entirely by sustainable aviation fuel is a green mirage
November saw the first transatlantic flight using what’s claimed to be a sustainable aviation fuel. Gareth Dale and Josh Moos interrogate the latest claims for green flight.
Oily Money Out – a leap forward for British environmentalism
The international climate movement bamboozled London’s fossil fuel conference. rs21 members report.
Will a green transition benefit Africa?
What if climate adaptation continues to mirror logics of fossil capital?
Report from the Global Climate Jobs conference
Critical discussions on the role workers’ organising must play in the transition to a zero carbon economy.
Earthquake in Morocco: neoliberal failure and popular solidarity
A solidarity statement written by Moroccan socialists after the earthquake of early September 2023
Sunak wants to kill our planet
Gus Woody argues that the Tories’ latest environmental U-turns are part of a cynical power grab that all socialists should resist. Yesterday, Rishi Sunak announced that he was watering down many of the already meagre measures the Government was taking to the breakdown of the environment. These included delaying the phase out of the sale […]
The politics of degrowth – technology, ideology, and the fight for eco-socialism
What does Marxism bring to degrowth, or what does degrowth bring to Marxism?
Alchemy and imperial delusion: the ideological spell of nuclear power. Part 2
The uncounted costs of nuclear power
Ende Gelände ‘System Change Camp’ report
The recent environmental justice movement camp held in Germany demonstrates the importance of building international networks in the climate movement.
Capitalism cannot save us from the climate crisis
The pursuit of profit and economic growth is pushing us beyond safe limits of global heating, biodiversity loss and ocean acidification.
Sunak fiddles while Rhodes burns
Pete Cannell and Brian Parkin take a critical look at Sunak’s recent oil and gas announcement. This piece was originally published on the SCOT.E3 blog. On Monday Rishi Sunak flew to Aberdeenshire by private jet to announce that at least one hundred new North Sea drilling licences will be granted in the autumn. A policy described […]
Alchemy and imperial delusion: the ideological spell of nuclear power. Part 1
Brian Parkin explores why nuclear power remains so important for Britain’s rulers, in the first part of a two-part article.
Leftist direct action thrillers: a new genre?
I’m a Virgo, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Black 47 and Codename Jenny
El Niño is accelerating climate chaos: it’s time for action
The extreme heat of the upcoming El Niño years should compel us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals.
Review | Marx in the Anthropocene
The joys and pitfalls of degrowth communism – Gus Woody reviews an important new book on ecosocialism.
Extinction Rebellion at a crossroads
XR changed tactics for the Big One. Gus Woody comments on the protest and next moves.
Chernobyl 1986 – when nuclear power came of age
A lethal combination of technical arrogance, corporate and state deceit and human fallibility that will forever lie at the heart of nuclear power.
Review | Future on Fire: mass movements in the climate crisis
What movement do we need? Taisie Tsikas reviews David Camfield’s new book on climate tactics.