On Friday November 12, the last day of COP26, a peaceful rally of several hundred for climate justice was disrupted by over-the-top action of the Vancouver Police Department. An Indigenous man, as part of a ceremony, placed red handprints, representing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, on the building that houses Canada’s Department of […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). After two weeks, 30,000 delegates, observers and lobbyists are concluding the Global Summit COP26 in Glasgow. The result — empty promises and inaction. The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is a “global greenwash festival and a failure,” said Greta Thunberg when she spoke at […]
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After the millions of Covid-19 deaths, the climate crisis has brought additional death tolls last summer. Floods, forest fires and other extreme weather events dominated the news. To force real action we need to take to the streets! Indigenous women are showing us the way, marching in their thousands through Brazil’s capital on 10 September […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. As International Socialist Alternative stated earlier this year, the predictions for a roaring economic recovery by capitalist institutions like the IMF were based on overly optimistic assumptions. The latest crisis affects the supply chains. Over 100 container ships unable to unload in the Port […]
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Pedro Meade is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). As we know, the consequences of the climate catastrophe will affect everyone, but it is poorer and working-class communities, particularly in poorer countries, that will bear the brunt of this disastrous situation. This is a fundamental feature of modern imperialism where major […]
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With passion and anger young people denounced the failures of capitalism and politicians to deal with growing climate disaster. Socialist Alternative Youth (SAY) in Metro Vancouver organized a meeting on Saturday, November 6 in solidarity with the protests at COP26 in Glasgow. To build for the rally, held at Douglas College in New Westminster, over […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). The unfolding climate crisis is the clearest sign, among many, that this system has to go. “The World Meteorological Organization reported recently that the climate crisis has spawned extreme weather that has killed more than 2 million people […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The war in Ethiopia has entered a third phase close to a year after its start, with a new offensive launched by the federal army against Tigray. The human consequences of the war are disastrous, with the country facing the worst famine globally for […]
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COP 26 — a summit of World leaders and 30,000 politicians, businessmen, bankers, “green investors” and “green lobbyists” and many other hangers on are expected to be in Glasgow this week to attend the event which is sponsored by an array of multinational corporations in the energy, car, chemical, pharmaceutical and IT sectors. These are […]
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Climate change is real, and its impacts are clear. Increasingly the climate disaster feels apocalyptic. The real issue is not: is there climate change? What is to be done? – that is the question. Some, especially young people, feel despair worrying about the future state of the world. If the governments and corporations that dominate […]
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