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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 Austerity
argues 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