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Climate and environment

‘We are not going to let our world be ruined’

Laura Di Chiara and her school-friends joined the climate strike today and it was much bigger than they expected.

Collapsed Brazilian dam in Mariana province

Brumadinho collapse: a crime, not an accident

Hundreds are dead or missing after a catastrophic dam collapse in Brazil. The culprits are a mining conglomerate with a record of murderous negligence

Yellow vests: Macron’s fuel tax was no solution to climate chaos

Why Macron’s ‘eco-tax’ on fuel was never a fair or effective way to tackle climate change

Climate change and the agrarian crisis in India

On the eve of the COP24, farmers and agricultural workers are demanding action on India’s “giant agrarian crisis”.

Just Transitions in Scotland: Scot.E3 Employment, Energy & Environment

Report on a conference planning a rapid and just transition to a sustainable energy economy in Scotland.

The Social Reproduction of Neoliberalism

Listen to Neil Davidson and Mona Dohle discuss the social reproduction of neoliberalism, climate change, and the lingering effects of the Great Recession.

Paradise Lost in California: A community struggling to survive

Climate change is turning working class Californians into sitting ducks. Sadie Fulton writes about how people are struggling to build networks of solidarity in the face of climate disaster, ruling class neglect and the far right.

Planning a Just Transition in Scotland: 17 November

On Saturday 17 November, there will a one-day conference in Edinburgh to discuss the transition to a sustainable low carbon economy.

Fracking resumes but the movement builds

A movement is building that could bring about the end of the fossil fuel industry and replace it, from the bottom up, with something new.

Greece and the politics of natural disasters

The government has persistently allowed private interests in construction, industry and tourism to be prioritised over serious ecological and safety concerns.

ANTARSYA: statement on the wildfires in Attica, Greece

ANTARSYA call for resources to be directed towards defence against fires and flooding, and away from debt repayments and military spending.

France student protests

“They can never stop the spring”: France in 2018

Fifty years after the 1968 uprisings, social struggles are flaring up in France once again following attacks on workers and universities

Reflections on BiFab

BiFab’s transition from oil-based fabrication to wind illustrates how those skills can be employed in developing a low carbon economy.

Report: work-in by engineers looks to save jobs at BiFab

Pete Cannell and Willie Black report on the battle in defence of workers’ jobs at Scottish engineering firm BiFab.

Battle for BiFab: Scottish renewables factory in occupation

Through the combination of the defiance of an occupying workforce and a vision of a green industrial strategy, the prospect of democratic resistance is possible.

socialist argument nuclear weapons

Diversify or Die: a new pamphlet from rs21

UK manufacturing workers must reject a continued dependency on defence contracts in favour of a re-dedication of industry to environmentally and socially beneficial production.

People vs Cuadrilla: fighting against fracking

In the UK the fight against fracking is the front line of resistance to climate change, writes Ewa Barker.

Houston – a very capitalist disaster

The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey isn’t a “natural disaster”. The misery of millions of people is down to capitalism in general and Trump in particular.

Ende Gelände – direct action against climate change

“We cannot seriously tackle climate change or provide global social justice without overcoming capitalism, its obsession with growth and its mechanisms of exploitation.”

“Buried alive by the National Coal Board”: the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan Disaster Tribunal

At 9:15am on Friday 21 October 1966, a colliery spoil tip collapsed, and slid down the mountainside onto the mining village of Aberfan in South Wales.

Petrocide: Hydrocarbons, Conflict and Climate Chaos

What lies at the deadly intersection of further imperialist carbon wars and the inexorable threat of catastrophic climate change?

Placard reads "There is no planet B"

revolutionary reflections | Climate Change and Migration in the age of Imperialism’s four horsemen

How can we trace the interconnections between war, famine, pestilence and conquest that are being unleashed in a new form as the climate crisis unfolds?

Grangemouth: chronicle of a defeat foretold

The union machine has once more been reduced to crying foul and continues to pursue a fatally discredited partnership model of industrial peace and ‘responsible’ trade unionism.

Robber baron Ineos takes over Forties fields

Brian Parkin comments on the extension of chemical giant Ineos’ control over the Scottish energy economy and calls for radical, democratic and green working class resistance.

‘End investment in fossil fuels’ occupation at King’s College London

Students at Kings College are occupying part of the Strand Campus in order to pressure management to divest from fossil fuels

‘Solidarity Saturdays’ see hundreds continue to fight against fracking

Ewa Barker reports on the continuing fight against fracking in Lancashire.

DJT, by Michael Vadon

What does Trump’s presidency mean for global climate change?

Bettina Trabant argues that Trump’s disregard of climate change is yet another reason to oppose his presidency.

The easiest rig to stop is the first one

The protectors in Kirby Misperton know they are on the frontline. They are determined to stop the frackers, using direct action if necessary.

Apocalypse postponed: the oil price crash two years on

The world of hydrocarbons is still driven by the same speculative greed and climate crisis disregard as ever.

#NoDAPL: How the water protectors won at Standing Rock

We republish eyewitness accounts from activists from New York who were at Standing Rock this weekend.