Environment

Environment

• What would a ‘Green New Deal’ look like in Britain?

  

  A Green New Deal, now a popular idea in Britain as well as the US, can help to merge environmental struggle with class struggle, argues Jago Corry

• Climate chaos is the most political issue of our time, to stop it we need systemic change

  

  Climate breakdown is a political issue, and to stop it we need to tackle it at the root, argues Jim Scott

• Revolt in France: could Macron be under threat?

  

  Yellow Vests mass protests enjoyed a third weekend of militant action across France, with trades unionists and other groups supporting. John Mullen reports from Paris

• Averting chaos: class, climate change and the movements

  

  Profit and powerful interests are precipitating planetary disaster. Protests such as Saturday's in London must be developed into a mass movement to force political change, argues Feyzi Ismail

• The People's Assembly launch the Britain is Broken campaign

  

  Austerity has failed but it continues to wreak havoc for millions of people. Shabbir Lakha reports from the launch of a new campaign to end austerity

• The public supports urgent action on climate chaos: it's government that is failing

  

  There's just 12 years left to keep our environmental inhabitable. Campaigning from below is crucial; we can't depend on the climate dealmakers, writes Nathan Street

• Stop Tommy Robinson, All out for 17 November - Counterfire Freesheet November 2018

  

  Opposing the far right, people's vote, police racism, precarious workers, climate chaos, universal credit and more in this month's Counterfire freesheet

• Marx and the fight against climate change - Counterfire Media Podcast

  

  Elaine Graham-Leigh and Tom Lock Griffiths discuss the Marxist perspective on ecology and the fight against climate change in the third episode of Counterfire Media's Podcast

• Decarbonisation, jobs and justice

  

  As the IPCC report stresses the urgent action needed to tackle climate change, we must challenge the narrative that an ecologically sound economy would be bad for workers

• Project Macron in crisis

  

  From the Benalla affair to the Hulot resignation and plunging poll ratings, there's no end in sight for the troubles of the French President, writes Susan Ram

• UK councils invest over £9bn in fracking industry

  

  Newly released data shows that councils in the UK are investing billions in fracking, we need to keep pushing for divestment commitments

• The summer of climate chaos

  

  The heatwave seems to be over, but with floods in Kerala to wildfires in California making history, capitalism still can’t fix climate change, writes Elaine Graham-Leigh

• The dynamics of disaster

  

  Capitalism will destroy humanity. Only working class mass mobilisation and struggle can stop this, argues John Westmoreland

• Adrift: A Secret Life of London's Waterways - book review

  

  The fight against rapacious developers is at the heart of a new account of life on London’s canals, says John Rees

• Town and country attitudes

  

  Is there really the great divide? John Rees examines the changing landscape of the countryside

• Justin Trudeau's dirty deeds for dirty oil

  

  He reps for poisonous pipelines whilst claiming climate piety; Trudeau’s slick cynicism springs protest from London to British Colombia, reports John Clarke

• A Redder Shade of Green - book review

  

  Ian Angus’ essays range across many issues at the intersection of politics and environmental science, illuminating the meaning of ecosocialism, finds Kevin Crane

• Marx the ecologist

  

  Some criticise Marx as anti-environmental, but understanding his ecology is essential to grasping his critique of capitalism, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Environmental entropy is inescapable in capitalism

  

  No truly effective green politics can do without a coherent argument against the capitalist mode of production, argues Nathan Street

• Creating an Ecological Society: Towards a Revolutionary Transformation - book review

  

  Magdoff and Williams provide a powerful case that ecological disaster can be overcome by a revolutionary transformation of social relations

• Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System - review

  

  The Anthropocene is the result of post-1945 capitalism, according to Ian Angus, in a vital contribution to the ecosocialist argument, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Suez Sita’s brand of eco-capitalism is a trap

  

  Hippy styled waste management in Doncaster has got workers’ resistance to look forward to, reports Mick Wattam  

• Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

  

  Jason Moore shows that capitalism is innately destructive of its environment, but the solution is revolutionary socialist organisation, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Monbiot and the media

  

  George Monbiot’s essays are a valuable and stimulating exception in the mainstream media where dissenting voices are rarely heard, argues Ian Middlebrook

• Only a People‘s Brexit will bring the change we need

  

  We need to get organised in order to avert the economic and ecological disaster that the Tories' Brexit will cause

• Beneath the bonnet: capitalism and cars

  

  A clash of new and old forms of capitalism exposes the anarchy and wastefulness within our rotten system, writes Chris Bambery

• Austerity Ecology And The Collapse-Porn Addicts

  

  Austerity Ecology provides a valid critique of lifestyle greenism, but its techno-fix approach is no replacement for a mass movement for system change, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Turquoise Tories? The government and climate change

  

  Cameron argued that his government would be the greenest ever, but market solutions are turning out to be no solutions at all, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• The Anthropocene. The human era and how it shapes our planet

  

  Our effect on the planet may well mean that we’re entering a new geological epoch, but what really matters is organising to fight for the world we need, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh

• A Diet of Austerity

  

  A Diet of Austerityargues that to fight climate change, we need system change, and the blame must not be shifted onto individuals, finds Orlando Hill

• A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change

  

  How and why the working class are being blamed for climate change, and what we can do about it

• Time to Act against climate change

  

  On March 7th more than 20,000 people marched in London against climate change. Elaine Graham-Leigh reports

• The Burning Answer. A User’s Guide to the Solar Revolution

  

  The Burning Answer shows that all our energy could come from clean, renewable sources without much technical difficulty, but getting there is a political problem, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• The Green surge and the new politics in Britain

  

  The surge in membership of the Green party shows that British politics is not marching to the right - James Meadway looks at the implications for the Left

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

  

  System change not climate change: ultimately revolutionary change is needed. This is the message of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything, argues Elaine Graham-Leigh

• Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work

  

  The urgency of action on climate change is undeniable, but Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work, shows clearly why capitalism is the problem, argues Marienna Pope-Weidemann

• The People’s Climate March: thousands demand action

  

  Elaine Graham-Leigh: The People’s Climate March sent a clear message to the politicians - climate change remains an issue of central importance and we are watching what they do

• Direct action success for anti-fracking camp

  

  Matt Bonner reports how activists from Reclaim the Power targeted thirteen companies, government departments and academics who stand to profit from the industry