Tag: Environmental justice
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We are the Lorax and must speak for the trees
Rose reports on the environmentalist struggle against the city of Los Angeles to save San Pascual Park, demonstrating that democratic, community-based groups willing to fight for a future that benefits the people—not profits—are how we build our mobilizing muscles.
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Confronting the ecological crisis
Paul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.
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How Chinese and African organizers came together to protest an oil pipeline
Zhang Mazi explains how Chinese and African activists against an oil pipeline build transnational solidarity against international capitalist exploitation.
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Neocolonial wastelands
Daniel Johnson reports on the current situation following a 2021 investigation by Greenpeace that revealed how European countries, led by the U.K., Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, have shipped millions of tons of waste to Turkey.
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We need better than the Inflation Reduction Act
Thomas Hummel provides analysis of the environmental and economic impact of the Inflation Reduction Act which was signed into law last week.
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Europe’s energy addiction
Thomas Hummel provides analyses of the environmental impact caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war.
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Reports from the front
Report from Linda Loew on a Chicago protest against General Iron’s air pollution.
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Which strategy for the climate movement?
Simo Dorn reviews books by Noam Chomsky and Andreas Malm addressing the question, how can the climate movement win?
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The IPCC Report and the socialist way forward
Thomas Hummel elaborates on the ecological and political implications of the most recent IPCC report.
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From militant to Washington insider
Tim Goulet discusses the life and death of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka.