Copenhagen climate summit: All targets, no action
Market priorities look set to shape the Copenhagen climate summit if we leave it to our leaders to save the planet, writes Sadie Robinson in this week’s UK Socialist Worker. The countdown to the...
View ArticleGlobal warming:the failure of capitalism
The putative leader of the opposition in Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, has threatened to resign if his Liberal Party does not support amendments to the Labor Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction...
View ArticleCopenhagen fiasco promises increased carbon emissions
Officially, the “global community” has been committed to keeping average temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees above 1990 levels. A United Nations Environment Program report in September showed...
View ArticleTime for a mass movement to stop their climate change
The debacle over Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme – billions of dollars of our money for the big polluters – and the looming failure that will be Copenhagen show that we shouldn’t leave...
View ArticleCopenhagen competition – the gabfest in song?
Danny Kaye did a great little song called wonderful wonderful Copenhagen. Come on readers – give us a song on this most wonderful of capitalist gabfests; this kitchens’ thieves of polluters. Here’s a...
View ArticleJust what is an emissions trading scheme?
To understand what the debate on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is about, and what Tony Abbott’s magic pudding solution to pollution actually amounts to, let’s look briefly at what an emissions...
View ArticleThe failure of Copenhagen: the success of environmental imperialism
You can only understand the failure of Copenhagen by understanding imperialism. Imperialism is primarily the rivalry between major powers like the US and China. As a subset of this competition these...
View ArticleStop work to stop the bosses’ war on the environment
We can make their polluting society unworkable and unprofitable. We can win real action to address climate change. We have the power. Mass civil disobedience by a significant minority can stop the...
View Article2010: a class odyssey
During 2010 the third phase of the global financial crisis – making workers pay – began to play itself out. Capital in Europe has used and is using its parliamentary dominance – it doesn’t matter...
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