Thunberg's Call for General Strikes: The Confusions of a Liberal Protest
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 17 2019 10:57
The Youth Climate Protest have turned to the mass strike as a weapon of protest. Unconsciously, they have grafted one of the major elements in the struggle for working class revolution onto their "utopian-reformist" demands. In doing so they distort the real meaning of such a strike.
Teesside Construction Workers Challenge the State
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 7 2019 09:29
On Thursday 30 May construction workers at the Tees Renewable Energy Plant, owned by MGT Power, walked out in a wildcat action over safety conditions at the site. When workers act on their own class terrain they begin to challenge the capitalist structure as a whole.
Climate Change: Capitalism is the Problem
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 7 2019 09:37
The capitalist mode of production, characterised by exchange for profit, private property, wage labour and capital accumulation, has only existed for around 300 years. Since the late 19th century it has found its way to even the most remote corners of the Earth by the way of exploitation, dispossession and imperialist competition. It has brought immense scientific and technological progress but at great cost. Wars, poverty, hunger, inequality, and oppression have plagued this system throughout its existence.
What does “climate emergency” mean? Let’s define that OUTSIDE parliament
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on May 2 2019 07:41
The UK parliament declares a "climate emergency" while supporting Heathrow airport expansion, fracking, and fossil fuel subsidies. We need to make our own decisions about what the emergency is and how to deal with it
Crisis, War and Environmental Catastrophe: There is No Alternative to the Social Revolution!
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 29 2019 20:53
2019 finds humanity in an increasingly dangerous place. The consequences of global economic stagnation, itself the product of a much deeper crisis of profitability, can be seen in the rise of nationalism, racism and xenophobia. These in turn threaten not only to add to the increasing proliferation of unending wars around the world but to the possibility of more general conflict further down the line. Not unconnected to the current wars are the environmental disasters which the pursuit of profit has already inflicted on millions across the globe. If allowed to proceed unchecked capitalism threatens, in one way or another, the very existence of the only home humanity has.
Climate change must be a thing: it's on prime time TV
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Apr 23 2019 09:04
The political establishment will try co-opting new climate protest movements, such as Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes. Let's stop that happening
Criticism without Critique: A Climate Camp Reader
A document collecting various critiques of the 2000s Climate Camp movement. Originally produced by Shift Magazine and Dysophia.
Citizens for better science
The left should advocate for free access to not only scientific literature and data but also the means of production of science.
Southall Waterside Stinks! – Local working class resistance against soil and air pollution
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 6 2018 17:53
In the media workers are usually portrayed as people who don’t care about ‘the environment’ – we see mining workers defending mining jobs or car workers demonstrating to keep car plants open. We forget that working class people tend to have much less of a choice to ‘act environmentally friendly’ – we lack the financial means to buy electric cars, organic food or hemp-based underwear - and there often is not much of a choice when it comes to jobs and working class communities that have formed around them.
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