“They Just Don’t Care”: Environmental Racism and Detroit

The Boynton neighborhood, where activist Emma Lockridge resides, is located within Detroit 48217, known as Michigan’s most polluted zip code. For the past eight years, Emma and her community have been fighting to force Marathon Petroleum to buy out their homes.

The Northwest Heatwave Killed Hundreds and Capitalists Won’t Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction

Record-breaking temperatures were felt across the Pacific Northwest in the past week, affecting 13 million people and creating deadly wildfires and thunderstorms. The connection between extreme weather and climate change is as clear as ever, but neither Biden nor Trudeau are capable of taking meaningful action.

A Native-Led Fight Against Pipeline Construction Has Begun in Minnesota

Native water protectors in Minnesota are waging a battle against the Line 3 pipeline construction which violates their treaties and threatens the environment.

“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. 

How Oil Workers and Environmentalists United in Struggle

Interview with Adrien Cornet, a leader of the strike at the Total refinery in Grandpuits, France

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. 

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.

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.