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Blue wave needs red vision

Posted on December 10th 2009 | No comments
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On Saturday December 5, around 50,000 activists took part in the London ‘blue wave’ demonstration against climate change. Ben Lewis was there

Organised by the Stop Climate Chaos campaign, the protest was conceived as a way of building up pressure on the great and the good assembled for the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. The event [...]

Review: Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England – Steve Jones

Posted on September 11th 2009 | No comments
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Beyond the limits
Huw Sheridan reviews Steve Jones’s Darwin’s island: The Galapagos in the garden of England Little, Brown, 2009, pp307, £20
The anniversarial hype surrounding Charles Darwin continues unabated. The BBC alone broadcast a seemingly endless flow of programmes as part of its Darwin season.
Jones’s book is essentially a polemic against the parody of Darwin’s life [...]

Climate of fairness

Posted on December 12th 2008 | No comments
A fairer capitalism? Errr...

Despite an SP and SWP presence, no one proposed the necessary solution to global warming, writes Simon Wells

The Campaign Against Climate Change held its annual demonstration on a bitterly cold afternoon last Saturday, coinciding with the latest United Nations negotiations being held in Poznan, Poland, to agree a post-Kyoto deal.
A fairer capitalism? Errr…
Starting from Grosvenor [...]

Global warming: no capitalist answers

Posted on September 30th 2008 | No comments

On the brink
Climate change and global warming can no longer be ignored or downplayed. The question nowadays is not whether there is an ecological crisis; it is how it is to be combated.
As of yet, the most influential answers have come under a ‘green’ heading, with ‘green’ ideas being influential not only in terms of [...]

Climate change and censorship

Posted on July 24th 2008 | No comments

The furore over The great global warming swindle is about more than climate change denial, argues James Turley
After over a year of wrangling, the Office for Communications (Ofcom) media watchdog has found Channel 4 in breach of various sections of the broadcasting code, over the documentary The great global warming swindle.
The programme triggered a serious [...]

People and Planet needs Marxism

Posted on December 1st 2007 | No comments

It is now clear that, if the slump in political activity among youth of the 1990s has recently subsided somewhat, the main beneficiaries of this have been liberal campaigning groups. People and Planet is the pre-eminent example, and its annual Shared Planet festival takes place at Sheffield University on November 16-18. The bulk of the [...]

Climate change and the future of cities

Posted on September 15th 2007 | No comments

First published in Communist Student no.3
by Laurie McCauley
In the wake of the widespread flooding in June and July of this year, the worst on record, the government’s announcement that it will continue to approve applications for building on floodplains came as a shock to many. It is estimated that the number of people at risk [...]