environment

Susan Price (Socialist Alliance, Australia): Capitalism is incompatible with preventing catastrophic climate change

Susan Price — To say “Capitalism kills” is not hyperbole. Capitalism is simply incompatible with life on Earth.

Jess Spear (RISE, Ireland): Capitalism kills — The case for ecosocialism

Jess Spear — We need to place an understanding of the ecological crisis at the centre of what we are doing. We are not just ecosocialists when we are campaigning about the environment and socialists the rest of the time.
Kenyatta Ngusilo (C), a member of the Ogiek community, watches as his storehouse burns in Sasimwani Mau Forest, 2023. Hundreds of Ogiek people were left homeless after the Kenyan government evicted alleged encroachers.

Laundering carbon — The Gulf’s ‘new scramble for Africa’

Adam Hanieh — As the world’s largest exporters of crude oil and liquified natural gas, the Gulf states are reconfiguring their relationships with Africa via carbon offset projects, a shift that will have significant consequences for the trajectories of our warming planet.
Construction workers in Marbella, Spain. Photo by Chris Gold. Used under CC license 2.0.

Green class struggle: Workers and the Just Transition

Gareth Dale — A resilient history of workers’ initiatives overcoming redundancies, alongside recent activist, trade-union and workforce collaborations, provide concrete examples for empowered just transitions.
War on the commons

Ian Angus’s ‘The War Against the Commons’: A vital new history of the bloody rise of capitalism

Steve Leigh — Ian Angus's excellent new book covers the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism, demonstrating its relevance to the modern world.
Hulu Jelai rare earth mine

Socialist Party of Malaysia: Hulu Jelai rare earth mine project needs scrutiny

Socialist Party of Malaysia Bureau of Environment and Climate Crisis — The lives and livelihood of the Semai Orang Asli Community in Pos Lanai, Kuala Lipis, Pahang are in danger, once again.
Panama protest

Panamanian socialist: ‘Mineral extraction must be suspended immediately’

José Cambra recounts how popular mobilization defeated an anti-environmental policy in Panama.
Filipino worker

Imperialist expropriation, global care chains and shifting core-periphery boundaries: An interview with Nancy Fraser

Nancy Fraser looks at how transfers of natural wealth and care fit within modern imperialism, the role expropriation continues to play in capital accumulation, and the increasingly blurred nature of core-periphery boundaries under financialised capitalism.

oil

The Gulf Arab states and the new ‘East-East’ axis of world oil

Adam Hanieh — A major shift has taken place in the control of world oil over recent decades: the seemingly unstoppable rise of national oil companies run by governments in the Middle East, China, Russia and others in the Global South.

wildfires

The climate crisis: corporations are gambling with our lives

Marty Hart-Landsberg — The US government continues to green light the use of fossil fuels, even while voicing support for an international agreement to phase out fossil fuels. What gives? And what can we do about it?

al-Jaber COP28

Oil jabber heard in Dubai: Top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28

Patrick Bond & Desmond D’Sa — The crucial point for the host-country president and his supporters in Western, BRICS+ and OPEC countries was to not concede the need to “phase out“ gas, oil and coal.
wind farm

Sustainable work and just transition

Dario Azzellini — The radical transformation of production and consumption patterns alone will not lead to the required social and ecological transition. Employment and the labor markets are changing and we have to make sure that work itself becomes sustainable in all its aspects.

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