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
Ozone man joins rogues' gallery
18 Oct 2007
Simon Wells examines why Al Gore was awarded the Nobel prize
Ungreen American
04 Oct 2007
Environmentalists around the world were less than impressed by president George Bush's speech at the major economies' meeting on energy, security and climate change last week. Simon Wells comments
End factory farming
09 Aug 2007
Yet again, we are in the midst of a foot-and-mouth scare. Eddie Ford analyses the situation
Compensation, not insurance
02 Aug 2007
Eddie Ford comments on the floods: Communists argue that in the event of a disaster or major accident any redress made should be based on a system of need, not individualised insurance schemes. And logically this requires that a universal compensation system be set up
Proposition number one and one-dimensional Marxism
05 Jul 2007
The SWP leadership has jumped on the 'stop climate change' bandwagon. But, argues Jack Conrad, if they want to be taken seriously the first thing for them to do is to reformulate their proposition one
Uncontrollable system
14 Jun 2007
Simon Wells on the 'compromise' on climate change agreed at the G8 summit
No technical solutions
07 Jun 2007
Simon Wells reports on the G8's less than serious attempts to tackle climate change
Mainstream 'solutions'
17 May 2007
The Campaign Against Climate Change held what seems to have become a regular event, its annual International Climate Conference, over the weekend of May 12-13, with over 350 people - mainly white, but a mixture of young and old - attending its plenaries and individual sessions. Tony Stevens reports
No individual solutions
11 May 2007
Simon Wells comments on the plans to introduce congestion charges in Manchester
More bad climate news
12 Apr 2007
Jim Moody on the irrationality of carbon offsetting and carbon credits
Let them eat shit
15 Feb 2007
What does the outbreak of avian flu in Suffolk teach us about capitalist factory farming? Eddie Ford outlines a communist alternative
Socialism or catastrophe
08 Feb 2007
There is no solution to global warming under capitalism, says Jim Moody in response to the UN report on the issue
Red and green
30 Nov 2006
Do you have to be red to be green?' was a debate between Pete Dickenson of the SP and the Green Party's 'male principal speaker', Derek Wall. Simon Wells reports
Absolutely insane
16 Nov 2006
Simon Wells reviews Helen Caldicott's book Nuclear power is not the answer, New Press, 2006, pp221, £13.99