By Michael Roberts The sixth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) runs to nearly 4,000 pages. The IPCC has tried to summarise
Category: Science & Environment Archive
Editorial: climate change is ‘inevitable, unprecedented and irreversible’
Only ten or twenty years ago, most activists in the labour movement would have assumed that climate change, although an important problem, would be one
End Vaccine apartheid now!
By Jack Gerson (in the USA) – a form of this article appeared in Facts for Working People, 4th August 2021 – see link at
By Richard Mellor in California The American Petroleum Institute (API) may have the “American” name to it, but it’s important to understand which Americans are represented by
Trans people’s rights – a socialist perspective (Part One)
By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP – personal capacity) (Part Two here) Over the last few years, the visibility of transgender (trans) people has
Global warming: planning not pricing
By Michael Roberts Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming
By John Pickard Although global warming as a major political issue is a relatively ‘recent’ one, from the point of view of the science, it
By Richard Mellor in California “An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.”, Lerone Bennett Jr. The Year Earth Changed is
By Richard Mellor in California My wife and I decided to drive over to the coast today to get out of the house. We live
by John Pickard In the two centuries since its rapid development of industry, capitalism has developed science and technology as an integral part of its
