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Climate change

When workers fight for our environment

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

The role of trade unions and organised labour in preventing catastrophic climate change is a burgeoning field of research.1 Many academic contributions investigate climate policy issues but leave aside discussion of workers’ action.2 In contrast, this article focuses on past… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Ecology, Environment, Strikes, Working class

Non-violence, social change and revolution

Posted on 10th January 2020 by Richard Donnelly

As I write this, a global revolt is shaking ruling classes from Hong Kong to Colombia, via Chile, Haiti, Catalonia, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Protest movements in the United Kingdom are not on the scale of those in other countries.… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Ecology, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, social, strategy

Riders of the storm

Posted on 7th October 2019 by Camilla

According to legend, in the balmy days before the First World War the Times once carried the headline: “Fog on Channel, Continent Isolated.” Now the fog that pervades the Brexit process leaves Britain isolated. This issue of International Socialism appears… Continue Reading →

Analysis Boris Johnson, Brexit, Climate change, Extinction Rebellion

Our globe is burning!

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Peter Linebaugh, Red Round Globe Hot Burning (University of California Press, 2019), £27 Peter Linebaugh’s book comes with a long subtitle, a pithy summary of its contents: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Climate change, The commons

Betting on infinite loss

Posted on 24th June 2019 by Camilla

The 17th century Catholic thinker Blaise Pascal suggested that we imagine believing in God as a wager: Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you… Continue Reading →

Analysis Brexit, Climate change, Tory party

Dirty energy, capitalism and the working class

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

This article was written at the time of the first UK school student climate strikes. In February and March 2019, UK school students, in huge numbers, took their place in a global movement. The strikes were inspired by the actions… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Environment

Food, agriculture and climate change

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

Scientific evidence of the deepening environmental crisis is growing.1 Climate change is happening faster than scientific models had predicted. At the same time, despite rhetoric at the COP21 climate conference in Paris at the end of December 2015, we are… Continue Reading →

Article Agriculture, Climate change

Day school: Marxism and Nature

Posted on 27th April 2016 by Camilla

A one-day conference hosted by International Socialism Thank you to all the speakers, chairs, contributors, stallholders and helpers who took part in this conference. Here is a photo of the opening session and videos of all the speakers Capitalism’s thirst… Continue Reading →

Conferences & day schools Climate change, nature

Jobs, justice, climate: The struggle continues

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

A review of Paul Hampton, Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity: Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World (Routledge Studies in Climate, Work and Society, 2015), £90 The complete and utter failure of the world’s governments to take meaningful… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Climate change

Up against the clock: Climate, social movements and Marxism

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

Time is running out. This is not an alarmist call to arms but a reflection of the scientific consensus about what is happening to the climate and what will happen in the coming years unless action to reduce emissions of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Climate change

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