Green Unions at Work
A new T-SHIRT from Philosophy Football celebrates the South-West TUC’s pioneering Green Workplaces campaign to ensure sustainability where we are employed. Trade Unions have a key role in encouraging...
View ArticleIf Socialism Fails: The Spectre of 21st Century Barbarism
By Ian Angus From the first day it appeared online, Climate and Capitalism’s masthead has carried the slogan “Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way.” We’ve been quite clear that...
View ArticleCuban environmental activist will tour Britain
Cuban green activist Roberto Perez is in Britain during september so take a look at his work! More details when I get them. Here is the information from the Permaculture Association who are working to...
View ArticleClean Coal Conference
Labour Movement Conference; Class, Climate Change and Clean Coal The Climate Campers and The unions. The Upstairs Lounge The Bridge Hotel Castle Garth Newcastle Upon Tyne 1st November 2008 11-30 – 5-30...
View ArticleLoyalism goes ‘green’
I loved this from Rust Belt Radical, says it all…of course in the south we have a Green Party government in coalition with a Fianna Fail regime who are building motorways through prehistoric monuments...
View ArticleTransport Union Slams New Heathrow Runway As a Grave Mistake
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST rail union, the RMT, will continue to campaign for high-speed rail as the sensible and sustainable alternative to the massive and unnecessary Heathrow airport expansion announced...
View ArticleGovernment Refuses Parliamentary Vote on Heathrow Expansion
Government runs scared of Galloway move for vote on Heathrow expansion Amid unprecedented parliamentary scenes this afternoon Respect MP George Galloway sought to force a vote in effect on the...
View ArticleJOHN McDONNELL’S HESALTINE MOMENT
Transport union, the RMT, has praised Hayes and Harlington MP John McDonnell for his demonstration in the House of Commons today. Condemning the MP’s suspension from the house after he seized the Mace...
View ArticleGreen Left ‘Nuclear energy is a red herring’
An article entitled “Nuclear Power? Yes please..” appeared in the Independent newspaper on 23 February, 2009. It states that “four of the country’s leading environmentalists” advocate nuclear power as...
View ArticleMy university pension funds motorway through world heritage site
Yes the USS (university) pension is funding a company involved with the M3, the Irish Motorway that is going through Tara, one of the most important prehistoric landscapes in the world…so I am funding...
View ArticleSouth Downs National Park missing bits near to council estates
Just had this from Dave… Folks, See LETTER BELOW ref: the newly declared South Downs National Park…there’s an angle that the media coverage is missing, and it has something to do with class. Areas...
View ArticleWho is Going to Deliver Green Jobs?
by Dave Morris Sustainable Haringey communications group Who is going to deliver on Green Jobs? That’ll be us, then! A report from the Ford Visteon occupied car parts factory – Enfield North London...
View ArticleClean Coal – Good News All Round
Ed Milliband’s announcement that the government will invest in Clean Coal technology is brilliant news. Coal will continue to be used around the world, and there is tremendous potential to reduce CO2...
View Article`Capitalism is putting an end to humanity and the planet’
Viva Chavez, say I! `Capitalism is putting an end to humanity and the planet’ — ALBA on the 5th Summit of the Americas Venezuela’s resident Hugo Chavez greets Cuba’s President Raul Castro. Translated...
View ArticleVestas – the Fight Goes on
1) The workers and supporters are maintaining a blockade of the factory. The main leverage they have over politicians and the Vestas company is to prevent Vestas removing the remaining blades and...
View ArticleTrades Unions and economic ‘growth’
From http://martinwicks.wordpress.com Heather Stewart in the Observer Business section recently wrote: “…with the issue of climate change becoming ever more urgent and a growing recognition that...
View ArticleBetween the Essence and the Descent Falls the Shadow
via Madam Miaow With the distraction of the election, and the reaction to the austerity measures in Greece, the story of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had sort of passed me by. But, oh my God!...
View ArticleThe Case for a Green Investment Bank
By Michael Burke Campaigners have called for the Royal Bank of Scotland to be transformed into a Green Investment Bank to kick start a wave of investment in green technologies The supporting document...
View ArticleConspiracy of Doves: Towards a Theory of Persons
By Steve Arnott PART II Socialism and the “selfish” gene: a tale of quiz shows, game theory and natural selection In the first part of this series of essays I outlined in general terms a long term...
View ArticleThe Trees Will Applaud Her
by Nnimmo Bassey, from Pambazuka Wangari Muta Maathai, surrounded by her family, suddenly departed these mortal shores on 25 September 2011 in a Nairobi hospital. She will be missed for many reasons...
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