Electric vehicles (EV) are hot news. Sales worldwide soared in 2020, increasing by 43 percent over the previous year. Automakers and governments are embracing new EV markets and pushing electric vehicles as one of the most important solutions to climate change. Governments around the world are announcing support for the shift to EVs. Biden’s proposed […]
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Carmia Schoeman is a member of the Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa). On the morning of Sunday 18 April, Cape Town residents watched in shock as what started as a small fire on Devil’s Peak quickly raged out of control. Within 24 hours, with the help of strong winds and dry brush, […]
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Over a year has passed since billions of people’s lives were halted and turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, and while vaccinations are ramping up in some countries, the path to herd immunity is long and steep with hurdles like the threat of […]
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James Clement is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Genpatsu Iranai, Saikado Hantai! — We Don’t Need Nuclear Power, Oppose the Restarting of the Plants! That’s the call raised by many Japanese workers and youth following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster 10 years ago on March 11. Ten years ago this month […]
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The Braided Warriors, “Indigenous youth in səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territories defending the land and the people from capitalist colonial violence,” picked a good target in AIG Canada, “a transnational finance and insurance company that is insuring the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline in violation of Indigenous rights.” Make a credible threat to the profits, […]
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Young Indian climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested by the police at her home in Bangalore on 13 February. She was transferred to a cell in the capital Delhi. The reason for the arrest was her alleged involvement in a solidarity appeal by Greta Thunberg and others for the ongoing farmers’ protest in India. The […]
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With contributions from Allie Pev and Sustainabiliteens:Vijay Tupper, Sophie Tang, Lilah Williamson, and Harrison Johnston Young people are set to inherit a ravaged planet, and in response they are more radicalized than ever. In opposition to abortion bans in Poland, against inequalities held over from the Pinochet era in Chile, to defeating of the dictatorship […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Book details: The Return of Nature, John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, 2020 John Bellamy Foster’s ground-breaking Marx’s Ecology in 2000 demonstrated that Marxism, from the beginning, dealt with ecological questions. Its long-awaited sequel, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, developed these […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Engels’ Struggle for a Dialectical Concept of Nature Seven of the world’s leading climate and so-called Earth System scientists warned last year that the world could be very close to tipping points and even “a cascade of tipping points” that mean that gradual global […]
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Violent and disturbing conflicts between commercial and Mi’kmaw (also written as Mi’kmaq) fishers have been seen around the world. Videos from mid-October show commercial fishers and their supporters swarming lobster facilities, trapping Mi’kmaw fishers inside one, torching a vehicle outside the other. There are images of dumped lobsters on the ground. A few days after […]
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