Society & Culture > Ecology
To save the planet, fight for a red world
03 Dec 2009
Capitalism is showing itself to be totally incapable of cutting back on carbon emissions, writes Eddie Ford
Combating the Capitalistocene
23 Sep 2021
With global temperatures in danger of increasing to 1.5 ºC above pre-industrial levels by 2025, Eddie Ford fears that governments might actually do something - at our expense
Code red for humanity
12 Aug 2021
The IPCC report is out and what it says is grim, says Eddie Ford: major climate change is ‘inevitable’ and ‘irreversible’. Objective circumstances cry out for the left to agitate, educate and organise around a far-reaching minimum programme to prepare the working class to take power on a global scale
Unnatural disaster
05 Aug 2021
A combination of scorching heat, greed and a warmongering government has resulted in widespread fires. Esen Uslu reports from Turkey
At the tipping point
05 Aug 2021
Can the bourgeoisie be forced to adopt climate socialism? Highly unlikely, but we should not rule it out in principle. Eddie Ford highlights the necessity of a minimum programme
Grim warning from Canada
08 Jul 2021
Heat domes and devastating fires are ominous portents of runaway global warming. Eddie Ford warns that the future looks bleak - unless the working class organises to replace capitalist class rule at the global level
Politics not as usual
08 Jul 2021
After Batley and Spen, Derek James reports on debates over Labour’s prospects and amending our programme
Expensive, dangerous, unnecessary
04 Mar 2021
The solution to global warming does not rely on going over to nuclear power and a thousand Sizewell Cs - an accelerationist delusion, argues Eddie Ford
Luddite delusions
25 Feb 2021
Our arguments about energy forms must be based on solid grounds, says an insistent Emil Jacobs
No escape from Earth
25 Feb 2021
Dreams of Martian colonies cannot substitute for revolutionary change on this planet, argues Paul Demarty
Swords into ploughshares?
18 Feb 2021
Nuclear power is no answer to global warming, argues Eddie Ford - it is incredibly expensive and inherently dangerous
Loss of biodiversity continues
01 Oct 2020
A global socialist solution is becoming ever more urgent declares Jim Moody
Socialism or extinction
17 Sep 2020
Wildfires in Oregon and California point towards catastrophe in the near future, writes Eddie Ford
Arguing against the wrong ‘Marxism’
17 Sep 2020
Despite commonly believed myths, writes Chris Gray, Marx and Engels saw human emancipation as linked to the protection and enhancement of nature
Unrecyclable threat
25 Jun 2020
Jim Moody reviews Deia Schlosberg’s The story of plastic
Interlocking phenomena
25 Jun 2020
What is the connection between the coronavirus pandemic, ecological catastrophe and global capitalism? Mehdi Kia investigates