Climate Change
Capitalism Is Responsible for Climate Change
Global climate change is not the responsibility of humans in general. It is the result of the way in which production is organized on our planet. In other words, it is the responsibility of capitalism. A contribution to the debate from our sister site in Mexico.
Farid Reyes
September 17, 2019Capitalism Is Destroying the Planet—Let’s Destroy Capitalism!
An international declaration of the Trotskyist Fraction—Fourth International on the Global Climate Strike taking place from September 20 to 27.
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
September 15, 201910 Things You Need to Know about the Fires in the Amazon
Who is behind the fires being set in the Amazon? What is happening to the people displaced because of deforestation? What consequences will this have for the environment? Here are the ten things you need to know about the fires currently consuming the Amazon basin.
Ana Rivera
September 14, 2019Devastation in the Bahamas Provokes Nothing But Xenophobia From Trump
As the Bahamas experiences one of its worst humanitarian crises, Donald Trump is refusing to grant temporary protected status to people displaced by the hurricane and is barring Bahamians from entering the country. His denial of the extent of Hurricane Dorian’s destruction highlights the differences in how the ruling class and the working class will have to respond to impending climate disaster.
Maryam Alaniz
September 13, 2019‘For Them, the Amazon Is for Capital Accumulation’
Left Voice interviewed Brazilian Marxist and environmentalist, Gilson Dantas on the recent fires in the Amazon and a socialist response.
Left Voice
September 9, 2019Capitalism and Existential Despair
Suicide, mental illness, and collective anguish—that is capitalism in 2019. Alienation and atomization have reached such a level that it seems as if the world is in danger of ending. How can socialism provide hope?
Chris Wright
September 7, 2019Will Greta Thunberg Bring Bigger Climate Strikes to the U.S.?
On Wednesday afternoon, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in New York City. She had travelled across the Atlantic in a sailboat. Are bigger climate strikes coming to the U.S.?
Nathaniel Flakin
August 29, 2019The Fires in the Amazon Were Set on Purpose
Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reported a record total of 72,843 fires this year, an 80 percent increase compared to 2018. Almost 10,000 of those fires were spotted in the last week. These fires were set on purpose and Bolsonaro is to blame.
Maryam Alaniz
August 22, 2019Massachusetts Teachers Union Calls for a Strike to Win Green New Deal
The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), representing 110,000 education workers, has called for a strike to curtail climate change through a Green New Deal. This militant initiative shows the way forward: Working people can stop capitalism’s destruction of the planet.
Thaddeus Greene
August 6, 2019Unions Must Join the Global Climate Strike
Greta Thunberg and other teenage climate activists have issued a call for a worldwide general strike to end fossil fuel extraction. Will union leaders support this important action for the planet? Or will they side once mode with fossil fuel executives?
Robert Belano
June 4, 2019