Climate Change
Davos and the Melting World Economy
The rich elite are meeting in Davos to discuss the challenges facing humanity in 2024, like climate change and AI. But any proposed solutions are driven by the aim to sustain the world capitalist order.
Michael Roberts
January 17, 2024For Climate Leninism!
Andreas Malm has called for “ecological Leninism” to fight the climate emergency. Good. But above all, Leninism means smashing the capitalist state.
Nathaniel Flakin
October 1, 2023Stellantis Workers in France Walk Out to Demand Breaks amid Heat Wave
Workers at a Stellantis plant in France walked out to force management to address their health concerns amid the suffocating heatwave.
Samuel Karlin
September 14, 2023The Imperialist History Behind the Maui Fires
At the center of the latest climate change disaster is the long and ongoing struggle for water and land rights for Native Hawaiians.
Emma Lee
August 22, 2023A New Film Shows How to Blow Up a Pipeline — But Would That Save The Planet?
The new film based on Andreas Malm’s book offers lots of fun action — but very individualistic politics.
Nathaniel Flakin
June 6, 2023Biden Won’t Stop Climate Change
Many hoped that President Biden would be America’s first “climate president,” but there’s no such thing.
M. Carlstad
May 9, 2023Norway: Thousands of Youth Demonstrated against “Green Colonialism”
From the end of February to the beginning of March, over a thousand youth protested against the construction of wind turbines on Sami land. This movement represents the birth of a militant, Indigenous-led environmentalist movement.
Matthew Walters
May 1, 2023Police Story on Forest Defender Tortuguita’s Death Was a Lie
A recent autopsy reveals that Georgia cops brutally murdered land defender Tortuguita. It shows that the police’s purpose is to protect private property, and repress workers who protest capitalism and the structures that uphold it — violently if necessary.
M. Carlstad
April 29, 2023Train Derailment in Metro Detroit Illustrates That Capitalist Control of the Railroads Is Fundamentally Unsafe
With the capitalists in control of the railroads, they will destroy the environment and poison and kill workers. The catastrophe in East Palestine will not be the last if we don’t nationalize our railroads and put the safety of people and the environment over profit.
Emma Boyhtari
February 28, 2023Reprint: Solidarity with the Movement to Stop Cop City and Defend the Weelaunee Forest
Left Voice endorses the statement released by the autonomous movement to Defend The Atlanta Forest. We republish the statement below and echo the movement's call for solidarity with their movement.
Left Voice
January 23, 2023