climate change

Eco-anarchy in the UK: dissidence group mobilises for climate justice

Submitted by RosalindR on Jun 24 2018 11:59

A direct action group shut down roads in London’s political district Friday evening to oppose new runway construction at London’s Heathrow Airport. The rush-hour road-block in Parliament Square was the culmination of a campaign by Vote No Heathrow, an autonomous branch of the Rising Up direct action network. It saw a 14 day hunger-strike, solidarity fasts and arrests for non-violent civil disobedience.

The Poverty of Luxury Communism

Submitted by QQ on Apr 5 2018 21:02
Fully Automated Luxury Communism

A spectre is haunting Europe and the US, the spectre of... productivist national protectionism from the Left. QQ and Mike Harman respond to Novara Media and Jacobin Magazine.

2016: the hottest year on record

Submitted by libcom on Aug 15 2017 17:00
People walk through a heat mirage

A new report by a US government agency has found that temperatures in 2016 were the highest in 137 years of direct measurements, breaking the record for the third consecutive year.

Lies of the land: against and beyond Paul Kingsnorth’s völkisch environmentalism

Submitted by Out of the Woods on Mar 31 2017 12:56
The ‘Wretched of the Earth’ bloc, London climate march, December 2015

Paul Kingsnorth, writing in The Guardian, has called for an explicitly nationalist environmentalism. Out of the Woods offer a critique and an alternative.

Freedom September 17, 2005

NB// This is a bit rough and ready as I'm testing a new scanning wand, but what the hey.

ON THE EDINBURGH STUDENT OCCUPATION AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS

Fighting Heathrow expansion from within

Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Dec 9 2016 15:20

Invitation to join a workers' intervention at Heathrow airport

Infrastructure against borders

Submitted by Out of the Woods on Dec 6 2016 09:36
UNITY (union of asylum seekers) rally, Glasgow 7/10/06

Climate change could displace millions of people. Can fascistic responses be inoculated against? The second of two pieces looking at climate migration, anti-migrant populisms, and no borders politics.

Refuges and death-worlds

Submitted by Out of the Woods on Nov 25 2016 09:57
Migrants demonstrate, Calais: banner reads Tombent les murs [May the walls fall]

Climate change could displace millions of people, and border politics are a matter of life and death. The first of two pieces looking at climate migration, anti-migrant populisms, and no borders politics.

Human nature

Submitted by Out of the Woods on Mar 16 2016 11:14
A human hand montaged with a tree and a cityscape

A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.