“Net Zero by 2050” Means Disaster

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. 

It’s Time to Nationalize Corporate Energy

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. 

Jackson Mississippi Residents Still Don’t Have Clean Water

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. 

ERCOT CEO Paid $883K Salary While Texans Face Crushing Electricity Bills

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.

Lessons From the Texas Disaster

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.

Capitalism is a Breeding Ground for Power Outages

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.

Bill Gates Wants to Save the Environment He Has Helped Destroy

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.

Pandemics, Climate Crisis, and “Ecological Leninism”

The ecological emergency is underway. But Andreas Malm's interpretation of Lenin is not the solution.

Collision Course: Why Electric Vehicles Will Not Save the Planet

President Biden has made electric vehicles a major part of his environmental platform. Here, Ashley Dawson explains why such narrow technological fixes are unlikely to make much difference.