Video | Fantasies of the new far right
Richard Seymour on the global far right, disaster nationalism, and fascist fantasies.
Earthquake in Morocco: neoliberal failure and popular solidarity
A solidarity statement written by Moroccan socialists after the earthquake of early September 2023
The earthquake in Türkiye and Syria
Earlier this month southern Türkiye and northwest Syria were struck by two devastating earthquakes, a tragedy which is fundamentally political, affected by the fault lines of counterrevolution, authoritarianism, racism, and capitalism.
Lessons from the IPCC report for socialists
Gus Woody looks at the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and discusses just how thoroughly it vindicates the basic principles revolutionary socialists have been arguing for years.
Flooding in Germany is a man-made disaster
Trade unionist and climate organiser Mark Bergfeld discusses the economics and politics of the floods in Germany since mid-July which have killed over 180 people.
‘Climate change is a woodchipper into which metaphors are fed’
‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts forward a radical pessimism toward climate breakdown that calls for action while shying away from any critique of neoliberalism.
Toxic neoliberalism and charity – Australians demand sufficient response to the wildfires
Tens of thousands of Australians demonstrate to demand adequate response to the fires raging across the country.
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
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Eyewitness: Carlisle floods mean learning what it is like to be on the front line of climate change
Joe Sabatini reports from Carlisle, where floods devastated the town. He discusses what it means to be on the front line of climate change. Climate change has just slapped into Cumbria. For the third time in 10 years the county has suffered from a major flood, leaving thousands devastated – many hit for the second time. […]
Why do earthquakes kill?
We can’t predict earthquakes. We’re not going to when and where exactly a fault will break, but we can prepare for them, and try to mitigate the effects when they do occur.
Nine years since Hurricane Katrina: has anything changed?
Nine years on from the devastating Hurricane Katrina, Lois JC, who visited New Orleans last year to see how the city had changed, writes on the lasting impact of the disaster.