Climate

2 Minutes

Climate and environment Editorial

Heatwaves raise need for radical action

DG September 2, 2022

Researchers are still gathering the numbers, but this summer has seen the warmest temperatures on record over the world’s land areas, as blistering heatwaves and wildfires swept across continental Europe, the UK, China and...

5 Minutes

Climate and environment World

Green colonialism: Europe hunts for African natural gas, breaking climate promises

DG August 31, 2022

From Unsere Zeit, newspaper of the German Communist Party Criticism of the major European powers by African nations has flared up in recent weeks as the former have been scouring the continent for natural...

4 Minutes

Culture

Cli-fi helps expose capitalist roots of climate crisis and need for socialist alternative

PV February 18, 2021

By Leslie Misson Climate fiction (cli-fi) is now a widely recognized literary genre. It has proliferated so rapidly that it’s difficult to keep up. Common features of cli-fi include references to alternative histories, aliens,...

3 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment Editorial

We need a working class climate plan, not capitalist greenwashing

Editorial February 17, 2021

“They took all the trees / And put them in a tree museum / Then they charged the people / A dollar and a half just to see ’em” So wrote Joni Mitchell in...