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COP26: Military pollution is the skeleton in the West’s climate closet
Leaders at the COP26 summit have no intention of tackling the growing environmental impacts caused by their ‘defence’ spending.
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COP-out 26
Marxist economist Michael Roberts shares his take on the Glasgow climate talks—what is on and what is not on the agenda.
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The power to change the system
With COP26 just around the corner, a wave of industrial action in Scotland is demonstrating the huge opportunity of linking workers’ struggle with climate organising. Sara Bennett, Pete Cannell and Raymond Morrell argue that huge shifts in climate struggle are on the way, and that building these links will be essential to winning revolutionary change.
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Will the people with guns allow our Planet to breathe: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2021)
It is perhaps fitting that United States President Joe Biden arrived in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) on the climate catastrophe with eighty-five cars in tow months after declaring ‘I’m a car guy’ (for details on the climate catastrophe, see our Red Alert no. 11, ‘Only One Earth’).
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Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism
Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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Will Glasgow fix broken climate finance promises?
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Current climate mitigation plans will result in a catastrophic 2.7°C world temperature rise. US$1.6–3.8 trillion is needed annually to avoid global warming exceeding 1.5°C.
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What to expect from COP26: climate action, climate justice or greenwashing?
If Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were writing the Communist Manifesto today, it is not inconceivable that they would begin with the sentence: “A spectre is haunting humanity—the spectre of extinction.”
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World gathering of peoples for our Mother Earth and against the climate crisis – conclusions document
We are children of our Mother Earth, and as such we must take care of her and protect her, respecting her rights and fulfilling our duties and obligations to protect Mother Earth as a living and sacred being.
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Mexico’s AMLO blasts IMF for causing global crisis, after Fund takes aim at his energy policy
The IMF caused social and economic decadence in the world; they and other international financial organisations are responsible for the global crisis.
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As Chávez said, ‘let’s not change the climate, let’s change the system!’: a conversation with Max Ajl
An anti-imperialist approach to global warming in the context of COP26.
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COP26: why advanced countries must proportionately make by far the biggest cuts in carbon emissions–factual briefing
Fortunately, the scientific data produced by the IPCC makes it possible to calculate the real changes which are required to combat climate change.
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Review: ‘The Great Climate Cop Out’
The 25 page pamphlet lays out concisely and effectively why we cannot look to heads of government under a capitalist system to come to an agreement on phasing out fossils fuels, cutting emissions and creating a more sustainable economy.
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Foodstocks, bio-fuels and hunger
THE Modi government’s attempt to “explain” away India’s slipping from being 94th on the world hunger index in 2020 to 101st in 2021, a rank well below that of neighbours Pakistan, Nepal or Bangladesh, by questioning the “methodology” of the index, is jejune enough; but even more shocking is its total inability to see the reason behind the acute hunger in the country.
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Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.
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Book Review: ‘A People’s Green New Deal’
In this book Ajl covers most of the big questions facing rational, ecosocialist design: nationalization vs localism, modernization vs degrowth, techno-scientific solutions vs indigenous knowledge.
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Coming Climate Summit must take due care of the woes of developing Countries
Discussions in the forthcoming COP26 should focus on democratisation of climate finance that enables procedural climate justice.
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The coral atoll and the iPhone
I think Matt Cooper takes a too narrow definition of “metabolism” as a rather dull process of material exchange that occurs within a cell. From my reading, as a non-specialist, Marx was using the term in a broader sense as the material and ultimately purposeless means by which complex order emerges from disordered matter.
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Of course they would: on Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘The Ministry for the Future’
Everything is always different, yes, fine–but everything is really different now.
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A radical #greennewdeal is the only way to stop climate catastrophe – Jeremy Corbyn exclusive on #Cop26
When COP26 is held in Glasgow, the world will be watching to see if an international agreement is reached on the scale and speed of co-ordinated action that is needed to tackle the deepening climate catastrophe.
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Cuba now part of China’s ‘Belt and Road Energy’ alliance
Cuba joined the Alliance for Energy of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project to build an international mega-platform for cooperation and exchange under the principle of shared profit.