Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LABICA Thierry
France and Great Britain stand side by side, beyond the throes of Brexit. The King may plant an oak tree at Versailles, but the complicity of the two heads of state lies elsewhere...
It’s true, eight years and tens of billions in arms sales by BAE Systems, Thales and Dassault to the Middle (...)
, by SHERWOOD Harriet
Exclusive: Letter signed by more than 1,200 leading figures calls for ‘unambiguous statement’ about climate crisis
The Royal Society is under pressure from more than 1,200 leading academics to issue a clear condemnation of the fossil fuel industry.
The academics have written to the (...)
, by CONWAY Terry
There are a number of different factors involved. Climate change is resulting in more dramatic weather patterns – periods of drought which lead to the ground becoming baked dry, followed by heavy thunderstorms which the land is not able to absorb. This leads to flooding and to more discharges. (...)
, by THORNETT Alan
Alan Thornett (pictured with a trophy eel in 1949) writes:
The most disastrous consequence, of today’s environmental crisis, is the catastrophic collapse of global biodiversity. This is now recognised as the greatest extinction event our planet has faced since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 (...)
, by MONBIOT George
Voters are finally furious about water pollution, but tackling it means unpicking a complex web of assaults from source to sea
I can’t help feeling a small surge of gratitude every time an environmental issue breaks the surface. That the state of England’s rivers seems at last to have become (...)
While the climate crisis is deepening and households are falling into poverty, inflation and soaring energy bills, fossil fuel firms are enjoying their tax breaks and reporting quarterly record profits. Market analysis on energy prices predicts continuing high prices of gas for the next two (...)
, by HORTON Helena
Recent extreme temperatures were higher than those simulated by climate models, analysis reveals
Climate breakdown made the recent record UK heatwave 10 times more likely, researchers have found. Analysis by World Weather Attribution reveals that temperatures in the UK during the heatwave, (...)
Ecosocialist Alliance, organised by Green Left, Left Unity and Anti*capitalist Resistance in the UK, have released a statement on the importance of not losing sight of the climate emergency, amid the events in Ukraine.
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The war in Ukraine
The Ecosocialist Alliance (...)
, by THORNETT Alan
Johnson’s much vaunted 10-point eco-plan is totally inadequate as a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis – or build-back greener as he likes to put it, writes Alan Thornett. His claim that the package would create up to 250,000 jobs is a sick joke. Even the £12bn funding for it is fake, (...)
“The fight for climate justice is the fight of our lives, and we need to do it right.” By grassroots collective Wretched of The Earth.
This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our (...)
, by BUSBY Mattha
Activists to rally at parliament urging government to declare environmental emergency.
Momentum, the youth climate strikers and Extinction Rebellion are to unite in protest outside parliament on Wednesday as Labour calls on the Conservatives to declare an environmental emergency in a (...)
A boat named after Honduran environmental activist, Berta Cáceres who was murdered in 2016, blocked Oxford Circus, London.
Extinction Rebellion’s sustained and inspiring civil disobedience actions that lasted for almost two weeks have put climate change issues front and centre where they (...)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
All disagreements aside, Extinction Rebellion is right to try to shut down the centre of London. It’s “Life or Death”, as they say. There is no middle ground. Either we drastically transform our metabolic relationship with the planet, or we prepare our extinction.
Complaint about (...)
, by JAFRI Kulsoom , MACNAMARA Charlie
If we’ve learned anything from recent history, it’s that even the most worthwhile issues and transformative politics can become co-opted by neoliberal politicians. The imminent spectre of climate disaster demands the most urgent response at all levels of government, but while the current (...)
, by Charity Today
There is public outcry today after three environmental activists become the first people to be jailed for an anti-fracking protest in the UK.
Simon Roscoe Blevins (26), and Richard Roberts (36) were given 16-months in prison while the third man Richard Loiou (31), was given 15-months on (...)
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