Environment

4 Minutes

Climate and environment World

Concerns over Japan’s plan to dump nuclear wastewater into Pacific

PV May 15, 2023

Experts unconvinced that water is fully cleansed 12 years after nuclear disaster Scientists and environmentalists have raised concerns over Japan’s plan to release 1.3 million metric tons of water contaminated during the Fukushima nuclear...

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....

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...

2 Minutes

Canada Climate and environment

Plastics corporations to use USMCA against “straw ban”

PV November 18, 2020

Last month, the Trudeau government announced plans for legislation to tackle plastic waste. The proposed law, which won’t come into effect until the end of 2021 – more than a year’s worth of plastic...