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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.
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Feeling the heat: Capitalism and global warming
Marty Hart-Landsberg — Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise. Yet, we have seen only modest attempts to bring emissions down.
![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.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_medium/public/2024-07/GettyImages-1764949103-scaled.jpg?itok=ZENdVXSy)
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.
![olkets Klimamarch is held in Copenhagen before the upcoming EU Parliament elections on Sunday 2 June 2024.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_medium/public/2024-07/nordic_EU-elections-1320x742.jpg?itok=hTAQ_8GU)
More than just an electoral upwind? Nordic left-wing parties after the EU elections
Record results for (Centre-)Left parties in the Nordic countries, with far-right parties losing ground. Ada Regelmann gives a sober assessment of the European elections results in Denmark, Finland and Sweden.
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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.
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Jason Hickel: Climate, energy and natural resources
Jason Hickel — Ecological breakdown is being driven by the capitalist economic system, and – like capitalism itself – is strongly characterized by colonial dynamics.
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Global crisis, conflict and war: What internationalism for the 21st century?
Pierre Rousset provides an overview of the unfolding “polycrisis” the world is immersed in.
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Fighting climate change – Beyond Canada’s carbon tax
First published at Life on the Left.