Articles by Subject

COVID-19

We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis
Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
Marxism in an age of catastrophe - capitalism created an era of plagues
'Make the Damn Masks!'
COVID-19: Updates & Analysis for Activists
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Green New Deal

The Australian Green Bans: When Construction Workers Went on Strike for the Environment
Out of Time: The case for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry
Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism
We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis
Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change
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Webinar

Jeremy Brecher on Using Our Power to Stop Climate Disaster and Create a Just World
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Agriculture

How much will the US Way of Life © have to change?
What To Do About Predictions of Imminent Food Collapse
Beyond the Green New Deal
Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots
Agroecology: Radically Changing How We Face Food Insecurity and Climate Change
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Capitalism

“Social Cost of Carbon”: What Price Existence?
Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism
Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change
Test Article
Marxism in an age of catastrophe - capitalism created an era of plagues
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Climate Change

The Chinese Communist Party Is an Environmental Catastrophe
A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress
San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West
Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019
Climate Emergency Declarations Guarantee Nothing; We Need Total System Transformation for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
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Climate Justice

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress
Planet to Win: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen
San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West
A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
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Climate Science

Is there still time to stop climate catastrophe?
IPCC Report: First Thoughts on Next Steps
The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism
Scientists propose changing the rules of history to avoid environmental collapse
Trump’s war on science
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Coal

A Major but Little-Known Supporter of Climate Denial: Freight Railroads
'Coal is over': the miners rooting for the Green New Deal
"Without a Popular Movement We Don’t Stand a Chance”: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Spreading the Cult of Carbon
'Talk Is Cheap': G20 Told to End Public Subsidy of All Dirty Fuels by 2020
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Culture & Media

San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West
Leftists Need Holidays Too. Let’s Imagine Anti-Oppressive Ones.
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Divestment

Norway will divest from coal in push against climate change
With sit-ins around country, students escalate 'divestment spring'
On inconvenience and revolutionary action
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Ecosocialism

We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis
Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change
Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Corona Virus Crisis.
The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of Civilization
A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress
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Energy

'Coal is over': the miners rooting for the Green New Deal
Corbyn calls for “public, democratic control and ownership” of energy in order to transition to renewables
"Without a Popular Movement We Don’t Stand a Chance”: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Time to Pull the Plugs
A just transition from climate change and unemployment – a trade union perspective
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Environmental Groups

San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West
Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be "Good Business"
Ecosocialism’s Greatest Challenge: The Color-Line and the Twenty-First Century Ecoleft
Not-for-Profit, Open for Business
The Nature Conservancy is wrong. Planting trees is not equivalent to halting the burning of oil
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Environmental racism

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
Breaking: Environmental Justice March Hits Road Block in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Africa: New evidence of ongoing corporate looting
Groundbreaking “Carbon Pricing Report” Released by Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance at COP 23
Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance
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Existential Threat

For the Children, the Bunnies, the Redwoods, the POC, the Women
Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
Beyond Cabin Fever: The Left Confronts COVID-19
Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019
Climate Emergency Declarations Guarantee Nothing; We Need Total System Transformation for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
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Extinction & Biodiversity

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
Climate Emergency Declarations Guarantee Nothing; We Need Total System Transformation for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
Why it’s time to think about human extinction
Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse
Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots
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Extreme Weather

Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade
Climate & Extreme Weather News - Hurricane Update
El Diablo in Wine Country
Berkeley Fire Department
Deadly Fires Sweep Portugal and Northern Spain
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First Nations/Indigenous

The Australian Green Bans: When Construction Workers Went on Strike for the Environment
Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Prevails as Federal Judge Strikes Down DAPL Permits
A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism
Native rights and resistance after Standing Rock
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Fisheries

B.C. fish farms hit by occupations following release of footage showing sickly, blind salmon
An uncertain future for our living, blue planet
Mass whale death in Northeastern Pacific — hot blob’s record algae bloom to blame?
The disaster we’ve wrought on the world’s oceans may be irrevocable
Dr.Jeremy Jackson, Marine Ecologist, at the Healthy Planet Local Heroes Awards Gala
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Food Justice

How much will the US Way of Life © have to change?
What To Do About Predictions of Imminent Food Collapse
Beyond the Green New Deal
Agroecology: Radically Changing How We Face Food Insecurity and Climate Change
Flacking for GMOs: How the Biotech Industry Cultivates Positive Media—and Discourages Criticism
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Forestry

Brazil to open up 860,000 acres of protected Amazon rainforest to logging, mining and farming
Land grabbing, deforestation and your pension: How to take action on TIAA -CREF
Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth's wilderness in 25 years
Why E. O. Wilson is wrong about how to save the Earth
Ecuador's government wants to sell its rainforest to Chinese oil companies
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Just Transition

Out of Time: The case for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry
Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change
Beyond Cabin Fever: The Left Confronts COVID-19
Planet to Win: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen
San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West
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Health

Marxism in an age of catastrophe - capitalism created an era of plagues
COVID-19: Updates & Analysis for Activists
The Pandemic Is a Portal
Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Corona Virus Crisis.
Strike for Your Life!
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Industry Spin

Groundbreaking “Carbon Pricing Report” Released by Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance at COP 23
Granddaughter of Exxon scientist confronts CEO over oil giant's decision to fund climate lies
America Petroleum Institute praises Congress for lifting crude export ban
Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says — but it funded deniers for 27 more years
Exxon's gamble: 25 years of rejecting shareholder concerns on climate change
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Key Articles

Beyond Cabin Fever: The Left Confronts COVID-19
Focus on China: The East is green?
Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance
Refocusing resistance for climate justice. COPing in, COPing out and beyond Paris
A rational agriculture is incompatible with capitalism
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Labour - Unions

As the West Coast Burns, We Don’t Need Unity. We Need to Point the Finger at Those Responsible
The Australian Green Bans: When Construction Workers Went on Strike for the Environment
Jeremy Brecher on Using Our Power to Stop Climate Disaster and Create a Just World
Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism
Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change
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LNG - Fracking

Fracking protestors jailed by UK 'Banana Monarchy' judiciary
Happening Now! Support the Protest! SoCalGas Blowout at Aliso Canyon: Two Year Anniversary
Exxon, Shell Censured for Claiming Natural Gas Is 'Cleanest' Fossil Fuel
Frustrated Colorado anti-oil and gas activists turn toward civil disobedience
Petronas pulls the plug on Canada’s Pacific Northwest LNG megaproject
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Militarism

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
Seymour Melman and the New American Revolution: a Reconstructionist Alternative to a Society Spiraling into the Abyss
Beyond Harvey And Irma: Militarizing Homeland Security In The Climate-Change Era
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Nuclear power

Is nuclear power a solution to the climate crisis?
Full Report from an “International Meeting on the Energy Mix and the Commons” – Buenos Aires, Argentina (English)
Why James Hansen is wrong about nuclear power
Landmark injunction cheered as crushing blow to Japan's nuclear restart
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Oil - Pipelines

"Without a Popular Movement We Don’t Stand a Chance”: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Native rights and resistance after Standing Rock
'Valve-Turners' Putting Lives On the Line For Our Climate Emergency
Friday October 13, 2017 Pipeline activist could face 21 years in prison for shutting off Keystone valve
Kinder Morgan warns of massive losses and blames Burnaby for pipeline delays
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Oil by Rail

"Without a Popular Movement We Don’t Stand a Chance”: Andreas Malm on Climate Change
Benicia (California) nixes Valero’s plan to run crude oil trains through Sacramento, Davis and Roseville
Dr. StrangeWeather, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb-train
Tar Sands by rail disasters: the latest wave in the bomb train assault
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Policy

A Million Votes for Hawkins/Walker Will Do More Than a Biden Win
Trump or Biden? Duh! We’re picking our battleground, not our leader
Out of Time: The case for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry
ProPublica: Cap and Trade Is Supposed to Solve Climate Change, but Oil and Gas Company Emissions Are Up
The Green New Deal Takes Its First Congressional Baby Step, as Pelosi Mocks “Green Dream or Whatever”
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Pollution

Breaking: Environmental Justice March Hits Road Block in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
Tracking the battles for environmental justice: here are the world’s top 10
Keystone Pipeline mishap has TransCanada scrambling again
What the media hides about China's economic slowdown
Flint mayor declares 'manmade disaster' over lead-tainted water supply
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Protest - Revolt

Trump or Biden? Duh! We’re picking our battleground, not our leader
Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism
Caring About the Climate Crisis Means Supporting the Demand to Defund the Police
Strike for Your Life!
Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019
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SCNCC Network News

SCNCC Signs Pledge to Mobilize: Climate Justice Is Immigration Justice!
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SCNCC 2015 Convention
Fighting the frackers at Cove Point
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Social

The tragedy of American science
Shock doctrine of the left: a strategy for building socialist counterpower
The centre-left’s narrative on climate change has convinced no one
Gender equality and earth's future
Geneticists decry racist interpretation of evolution
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Solar/Wind power

Time to Pull the Plugs
In the Shadow of Honest Journalism: GateHouse Media Publishes Atrocious Anti-Wind Article Devoid of Scientific Evidence
A just transition from climate change and unemployment – a trade union perspective
Full Report from an “International Meeting on the Energy Mix and the Commons” – Buenos Aires, Argentina (English)
4 Reasons Nuclear and Fossil Fuel Supporters Criticizing 100% Renewable Energy Plan Are Wrong
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Transportation

Can autoworkers save the climate?
It's Earth Day. Thanks, Toyota!
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Video

Richard Smith on China's Engine of Environmental Collapse
Why it’s time to think about human extinction
Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn Discuss How to Get The World We Want
Climate change and capitalism
US-China climate accord is neither "historic" nor a "landmark"
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War/Military-industrial complex

The tragedy of American science
Trump, Putin and the Pipelines to Nowhere
What if the workers were in control?
Trump’s election showed widespread discontent: Our job is to help transform popular discontent into a political force
Video: US National Security Policy for Climate Change Seeks Security for Corporate-Controlled Assets
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Water, drought, flooding

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Prevails as Federal Judge Strikes Down DAPL Permits
What To Do About Predictions of Imminent Food Collapse
What fueled the inferno?
59,000 farmer suicides in India over 30 years may be linked to climate change, study says
The Melting of Greenland: Prof Konrad Steffen
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Women/feminism

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Corona Virus Crisis.
Socialist Foreign Policy Must Center Climate Change
Interview with a Militant of the MST
Why Environmentalists Must Be Antifascists
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