Climate Change

3 Minutes

Climate and environment World

Pakistan’s flood disaster the legacy of broken system

PV October 3, 2022

By Imdad Qazi In Pakistan, torrential rains have turned into floods. Floods have destroyed vast regions of Baluchistan, Sindh, Saraiki Waseb (South Punjab), Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit. This territory encompasses about half of the whole country....

2 Minutes

Climate and environment World

Climate report shows planet can’t sustain capitalism

PV September 15, 2022

Editorial “More and more frequent extreme weather events …” “Melting polar ice caps a tipping point with global consequences …” “Rising temperatures are creating conditions in which human labour will be impossible without technical...

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...

7 Minutes

Climate and environment Labour

CPC centenary: The struggle for working-class environmentalism

PV April 30, 2021

Dave McKee Marxists have long understood the link between capitalist expansion and environmental degradation. As Frederick Engels wrote in 1876, “What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes...