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Nothing clean about it
10 Oct 2024
Labour is pouring billions into over-hyped CCS technology as part of an effort to prolong the life of fossil fuel capitalism, writes Eddie Ford. Lobbying by oil companies has paid off handsomely
Another useful innocent
12 Sep 2024
Nuclear power should be supported because it is conducive to trade union organisation and because it is a way of dealing with all that weapons-grade plutonium. So argues Leszek Karlik, a member of Poland’s soft-left Razem party
Fiction: utopian and scientific
12 Sep 2024
We all have our ways of weighing up the probabilities, of orienting our moral sense. In his intriguing talk to Communist University 2024, Paul Demarty examines the changing face of utopian literature and the role it, and science fiction, can play in Marxist politics
Nuclear power’s useful idiots
29 Aug 2024
Advocates claim that nuclear power is essential if humanity is to enjoy a life of abundance and nature is to have room to flourish. But, says Jack Conrad, that is falling for a big lie
Nature’s gift to humanity?
22 Aug 2024
It is neither particularly expensive nor particularly dangerous. Using nuclear energy is, though, essential if we are to enjoy a life of abundance and nature is to have room to flourish, claims Emil Jacobs
Regulation has failed
04 Apr 2024
Gambling and swindling on a colossal scale. Hedge funds and bitcoin exchanges should be closed down, demands Michael Roberts
Staring at an electoral drubbing
05 Oct 2023
Peddling conspiracy theories, bashing the EU, migrants and the undeserving poor - no wonder Nigel Farage loved it. But, writes Eddie Ford, this year’s Tory conference was dominated by one issue: HS2
Sex, lies and celebrity
28 Sep 2023
Sexual misconduct is inseparable from celebrity culture and the capitalist media apparatus. But, asks Paul Demarty, can Russell Brand ever get a fair trial?
New faces on the final frontier
31 Aug 2023
India has joined the club of states to have landed spacecraft on the moon - a matter of geopolitics rather than scientific endeavour, suggests Paul Demarty
Techno-conservatism
31 Aug 2023
This is no time for degrowth, green reductionism or confining our ambitions to mere custodianship of nature, argues Daniel Lazare