The biggest threat to the environment is the imperialist war machine

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Environment / The biggest threat to the environment is the imperialist war machine

While lecturing workers about ‘consumer choices’, western environmental lobbies give a free pass to the planet’s real polluters.

Environment / Ecology without class struggle is gardening!

Our planet can only be saved by scientific planning of human production and economic activity, taking into account all the consequences for nature.

Pollution / Demand renationalisation of the water system without compensation

Growing public outrage has forced a mealy-mouthed apology from Water UK, but the profiteers deserve jail sentences, not a wrist-slapping.

Jamaica / The human cost of bauxite-alumina mining in Jamaica

Another example of monopoly looting with no care for the consequences to people or environment.

Pollution / ULEZ: a green greed initiative

Not so much an environmental measure as a tax on driving and an effort to keep the car monopolies in profit.

USA / Message to US workers: Britain sending depleted uranium to Ukraine

The imperialists can seem incredibly powerful, but in fact their dominance is declining and their rule is showing signs of senility and decay.

China / Is China the target of the greatest propaganda campaign in human history?

How can we resist the rising tide of sinophobia when there is so little printed or spoken about China by western media and politicians that actually reflects reality?

Climate change / What a Cop-out!

Even the most inveterate supporters of capitalism have been forced to admit that the UN’s climate mechanism has been taken over by the oil lobby.

Pollution / Britain’s dire water situation is no joke

Privatisation has stolen over £60bn from essential services, leaving the country to wallow in its own filth.

China / Xi Jinping to CPC: The times are calling us, and the people expect us to deliver’

The last five years have indeed been ‘truly momentous and extraordinary’ ones in China’s history and development – and the next five look likely to be even more so.

Energy / Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: fracking is back on the agenda

Whichever way they turn, Truss and co are tying themselves in knots trying to escape the Gordian knot of the energy and inflation crises.

Netherlands / The Dutch farmers’ militant struggle

How can the needs of the people to eat and their need to live in a clean and stable environment both be met?

China / China investing massively to address climate change

China’s example shows the real way out of our climate disaster – but taken alone, even its great strides cannot be enough.

Environment / Stop these sociopaths from poisoning our rivers!

We are reaping the whirlwind after decades of criminal neglect of Britain’s privatised water and sewage systems.

Ecuador / Chevron’s disgraceful persecution of human rights lawyer Steven Donziger

Instead of paying billions in damages owed for horrific pollution of Ecuador’s rainforest, the oil giant is hounding and demonising its accusers.

Environment / Workers party hosts popular rally against LTN scheme in Birmingham

An excellent example of socialists connecting with the community in order to advance their interests and raise their understanding.

Environment / ‘Recycling’ today: greenwashing for a broken, ecocidal system

Why does our society seem so incapable of dealing with the rising tide of plastic that threatens to overwhelm us?

Environment / Bayer AG forced to pay over $10bn to settle cancer claims

A US court has unexpectedly agreed that Roundup does indeed cause cancer – and awarded unprecedented damages to victims.

China / Building a prosperous and environmentally-conscious society

A first-hand view of China’s march forward.

Pollution / Residents unite against power station plan next to Bristol inner-city nursery

Fight against unelected planning authorities exposes once again the true nature of Britain’s sham democracy.

Social wage / Bristol bus protest highlights failing public transport in Britain

Workers must demand renationalisation as the first step towards affordability, planning, and the sanity of a socialist economy.

Energy / Government plans to push fracking through the back door

If we want to save our planet, we’ll need to get rid of capitalism.

Pollution / Air pollution in Britain at scandalously high levels

And all for the sake of the profits of the automobile industry.

Energy / Frack flak buried

The government is trying to push ahead with fracking despite environmental and economic objections.

Pollution / VW emissions scandal

Capitalism will always put the need for maximum profit above the people’s health – or even saving the planet.

Energy / Fracking the world away?

Capitalism can’t be trusted to take care of our environment or our health.

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Climate change / Oxfam: Can fairer taxes save our environment?

Oxfam report on ‘carbon inequality’ identifies problems but fails to come close to any meaningful solution.

Environment / Glyphosates: Monsanto still getting away with murder

The 40-year Roundup saga is a prime example of how science is corrupted in the pursuit of profit in capitalist society.

Pollution theory

Science and technology / Right to repair: a threat to monopoly superprofits

Apple are using their monopoly to rob workers by designing their phones and laptops to break. It’s wasteful, anti-environment and anti-worker; it’s capitalism!

Climate change / Save humanity: the ticking time bomb of climate change

Even faced with their own destruction, the imperialists are incapable of doing anything to prevent a climate catastrophe.

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