Native water protectors in Minnesota are waging a battle against the Line 3 pipeline construction which violates their treaties and threatens the environment.
John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a nonmechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The U.S. military has announced its intention to expand its presence in the Arctic. This perfectly highlights why the fight against climate change must be anti-imperialist.
As the Arctic permafrost melts and biodiversity collapses, “net zero by 2050” promises are an attempt to bullshit the public while allowing business as usual to continue undisturbed.
A nationalized energy production and distribution system controlled by workers and consumers is the necessary fight to create a just and equitable green energy transition away from the current deregulated and for-profit paradigm.
Four weeks after freak storms crippled the Texas power grid and water systems across the South, the majority-Black city of Jackson, Mississippi is still without clean water.
The deadly electricity fiasco in Texas is yet another example of how capitalism really works. The CEO of the grid is paid close to a million-dollar salary while the “market” generates bills to working-class people that could force them into bankruptcy.
Below, Ashley Dawson, author of People’s Power, explains how the man-made disaster caused by the failure of the Texas electrical grid this week shows the necessity for publicly owned and worker-controlled production of clean energy.
Record-setting winter storms have struck the United States and left millions without power amid frigid temperatures. But while the weather may cause deadly power outages, capitalism sustains them.
The third richest man in the world has a new book about “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” The book is full of harebrained schemes. It’s nothing but an attempt to distract people from the solution: expropriating people like Gates and ending capitalism.
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