The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
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Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against humanity’s future.
Condemn the murder of Honduran indigenous leader!
Berta Cáceres was a firm defender of small farmers and indigenous peoples’ rights and an inspiring social activist, both at regional and continental level, in defense of social and environmental justice, She was murdered in her home on March 3, by “unknown” gunmen.
Ecosocialist resources, February 2016
Reading for reds and greens: Michael Moore on Flint water; Bill McKibben and Robert Fanney on climate and the Zika virus; Richard Fidler on Venezuela; Martin Empson on jobs, climate, justice
Ian Angus: COP21, the climate crisis, and ecosocialism
Interview with Climate & Capitalism editor: The environmental question is the most important problem that we face in the 21st century: If we don’t recognize its centrality, our politics will be irrelevant.
The tragedy of the commons, the Pope, and the system
Michael Lebowitz: “The tragedy of our commons is that our finite world is being destroyed by the relentless drive for profit, by the system we must name—capitalism.”
Naomi Klein’s: Capitalism versus Climate
In ‘This Changes Everything,’ Naomi Klein shows that industry interests are opposed to those of ordinary people, a point climate activists have had trouble communicating and been reluctant to embrace
Climate change: It’s going to take a revolution
A new video by Suhail Ilyas: The growing strength of the climate movement around the world gives us great hope, but only a revolution can save the world for future generations.
Unions and the climate justice movement
An IWW supporter discusses how can radical activists and environmentalists work with conservative workers and unions.
In Paris, just say ‘no’ to COP21
Climate negotiations resume soon in Paris. John Foran argues that the best outcome of COP21 may be no agreement at all.
‘Buen vivir’ and the dilemmas of the Latin American left
Atilio Boron: “What has emerged in Latin American politics is more than a debate over development, growth or the environment; it is a profound controversy over the course of civilization itself.”
Ecosocialist resources, August 2015
Call for energy justice … 2015 is hotter than you think … Islamic climate change declaration … Against Deep Green Resistance … Anthropocene book review … Exporting crude oil … Racism and ‘speciesism’ … Climate change in Canadian election
Green consumerism is no solution
The entire premise that justice and sustainability can be purchased in the marketplace is patently absurd.
U.S. veterans: Dismantle the anti-climate, pro-war economy
Former soldiers challenge the war on our planet at Minnesota conference addressed by leading climate scientist James Hansen
Ecosocialist resources, July 2015
Ecosocialist Resources, published monthly (more or less) in Climate & Capitalism, links to articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to our mission
Naomi Klein, Vatican unite to fight climate change
Naomi Klein and Cardinal Peter Turkson are set to head a prominent climate change conference at the Vatican.
Avaaz and Greenpeace spread G7 climate illusions
The G7 Summit set a political trap for climate activists — and some NGOs fell right in, declaring a victory that didn’t happen.
Trade unions organize for Paris climate talks
“Strong social forces with the ability to change the course of society do not suddenly erupt at the global level. They have to be built from below.”
Naomi Klein: To fight climate change we must fight capitalism
Interview with the author of This Changes Everything: “If you can marry an economic justice agenda with climate action, people will fight for that future”
400 ppm – an eco-political music video
From Canadian musician/activist Bill Carroll, a very blue song and video that explains climate crisis and climate justice in three minutes.