May’s heatwave has broken records, with highs of 35°C. The unprecedented spring temperatures have exposed how Britain is not prepared for the threat of global warming, and how the impacts of climate change are felt unequally.
The oil and gas monopolies are ramping up pressure on Labour to expand fossil fuel drilling in the North Sea, using the Iran war as an excuse. This isn’t to lower bills or boost national security, but to reap enormous profits at the expense of the planet.
Apocalyptic scenes are coming out of Iran: clouds of toxic black smoke choking the residents of Tehran, and black acid rain falling from the skies. Imperialism isn’t just responsible for the direct casualties of war – it is also responsible for ecological catastrophe.
We have just breached one of the first, potentially irreversible climate tipping points, threatening catastrophic climate breakdown. Meanwhile, Indigenous climate activists protested the hypocritical, self-serving COP30 climate conference in Brazil.
“I recently read the RCP’s article on Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand. It resonated with me as someone who has made the journey from Just Stop Oil and getting arrested for direct action, to revolutionary communism and class struggle.”
In India, millions of tyres are sent each year from Britain to be burned in dangerous furnaces. In Brazil, miles of rainforest are being cleared to make way for the COP climate conference. Everywhere, the capitalists’ ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis are being exposed.
The notion of ‘degrowth’ – which advocates cutting down production to save the planet – has gained popularity within the climate movement. But there’s nothing radical about these academic, reformist ideas. Here, Lubna Badi provides a Marxist response to ‘degrowth’.
Recent storms have laid waste to large areas of Britain, exposing how utterly inadequate the country’s infrastructure is in the face of climate-related disasters. Only socialist planning can ensure that society adapts and averts a catastrophe.
Several wildfires are raging uncontrollably in and around the US city of Los Angeles. From the climate crisis, to the underfunding of fire departments, to water privatisation – the blame for this catastrophe lies squarely with the capitalist class.
Six days after flash floods left at least 214 people dead, the Spanish King and Prime Minister were pelted with mud and chased away by angry protesters. These unprecedented scenes were an expression of seething class rage.
With the earth’s natural carbon sinks collapsing, and 15,000 scientists warning that we are entering “an unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis”, it is clear that something drastic must change. We say: fight the climate crisis! Fight capitalism!
The USA has been battered by a series of deadly hurricanes in the past few weeks. These disasters have exposed that capitalism cannot deal with the consequences of the climate crisis – a catastrophe of its own making.