climate change

Second Ecosocialist Encounter

Ecosocialism or extinction: Defending life, building free territories and ecosocialism from and for the peoples

Statement from the Second Ecosocialist Meeting, held in Belém, Brazil, November 2025.
The Aramco oil refinery in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. COP30 offered no fossil-fuel phase-out; oil-producing nations blocked binding language, and the final deal focused on voluntary road maps instead.

COP 30: Entrenching the crisis of climate politics

Brian Ashley — The gap between official international climate policy and the lived reality of a warming world has never been wider. In Belém, that gap became a chasm.
People's Summit

Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30

Statement from the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from November 12-16.
sustainable growth is degrowth

Revolutionary degrowth in the Anthropocene

Peter Boyle — Any significant revolutionary change that takes place this century will have to do so amid catastrophic global climate change.
Middle east militarism

The Middle East and fossil capitalism: Oil, militarism and the global order

Adam Hanieh — The struggle against fossil capitalism is inseparable from struggles for justice in the Middle East.
Trump NATO

The wheels are falling off the system

Dave Holmes — Instead of an all-out emergency mobilisation to deal with global warming, NATO countries are boosting military spending.
book cover Fiery Red

For an ecommunist alternative to degrowth and ‘luxury’ communism

Esteban Mercatante explains how capitalism is at the root of a “multidimensional” ecological crisis, and the need for an ecommunist strategy that takes us beyond the degrowth/ecomodernism divide.
smoke bushfire

Neofascism and climate change

Gilbert Achcar — What is driving neofascist movements to question, to varying degrees, the reality of climate change?
solar panels

Closing the extractive frontier: An interview with Colombia’s former Minister of Mines and Energy Andrés Camacho

Andrés Camacho Morales reflects on Colombia’s decarbonization plans, the progress made thus far, and the core obstacles these efforts have faced.
red and green ecosocialist fist

Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution — Break with capitalist growth

The Fourth International has publishing this Manifesto because it is convinced that the process of ecosocialist revolution, at different territorial levels but with a planetary dimension, is more necessary than ever.
A forest of oil derricks at the Signal Hill oilfield in southern California, 1937.

‘The green transition is a myth’: Adam Hanieh on the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism

Adam Hanieh — We cannot understand the Gaza genocide today, or the crucial place of the Middle East in US geopolitical ambitions, without centering the ongoing centrality of oil to capitalism.

(Video) Climate change is a class issue

Sarah Glynn and John Clarke discuss their new book, ‘Climate Change is a Class Issue’.

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