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Climate change
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Capitalism and the age of ‘permacrisis’
By Manus Lenihan Collins Dictionary has decided that the word of the year for 2022 is ‘permacrisis,’ because…
Coal companies triple profits while the planet burns
By Isidora Duran Stewart The devastating effects of the profit-driven climate crisis reached a new height in 2022,…
Marx, the ‘metabolic rift’ and capitalism’s assault on nature
By Chris Stewart and Keishia Taylor In recent years millions of young and working class people have engaged…
What came from COP27? Hot air, fudges and meaningless agreements
By Ben Samond This year’s UN climate conference, COP27, ended just two days before the first football match…
COP 27: Capitalism wants profits before a livable planet
By Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in Canada) The deadly, and frightening, impacts of mounting climate…
Chaos, crisis & catastrophe – capitalist decay in the 2020s
By Laura Fitzgerald It’s been dubbed the Age of Disorder. The 2020s and the present era of capitalism…
Bankrupt Pakistan faces the worst floods in its history
By Geert Cool, Left Socialist Party (our sister organisation in Belgium) Pakistan’s poverty-stricken masses face many problems. There…
Government’s emissions targets — another Green sell-out dressed up as progress
By Aedan Hamrock In late July the government announced what they claimed was an ‘ambitious’ set of commitments…
Free, reliable and frequent public transport now!
By Conor Burke The government’s recent decision to reduce fares for public transport by 20% was immediately offset…
Protesting Stockholm+50: a socialist planet for the needs of all
By Philipp Chmel & Bill Hopwood-LSP/PSL (ISA in Belgium) & Socialist Alternative (ISA in Canada) On June 2–3…
