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2022 was hottest year ever

January 27, 2023 Deji Olayinka, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

2022 was officially the UK’s hottest year on record. The Met Office has confirmed that climate change has driven the UK into its first year with an average temperature above 10°C. There’s no sign of […]

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Climate change and the coalition policies of Scottish Greens

January 3, 2023 From Socialism Today Issue 263 Dec-Jan 2022/23

The Scottish Green Party operates a de facto coalition with the Scottish National Party (SNP) at Holyrood. There was much made about the historic agreement that, in August 2021, saw Greens take up government roles […]

COP27

Egypt’s repressive regime a hypocritical host of COP27

October 27, 2022 David Johnson

Those attending the COP27 United Nations climate change conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh won’t see the environment most Egyptians live in. Blue sea and sky, coral reefs, air-conditioned hotels and conference […]

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Global Warning: COP27 summit set for failure

September 26, 2022 Matt Dobson, from September 2022 issue of Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Summer 2022 saw the hottest temperatures since records began, during capitalism’s industrialisation period in the 1850s. No area of the planet was untouched by scorching heat waves. Even the measures to secure water supplies and […]

Environment

Tory government ends moratorium on fracking

September 22, 2022 Chris Baugh, Lancashire Socialist Party

One of new British prime minister Liz Truss’ first announcements was to end the moratorium on fracking, in force since 2019. The ban was introduced after fracking-induced earthquakes, protests, and direct action at Preston New […]

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Heatwave exposes cracks in the broken profit system

July 21, 2022 Bea Gardner, Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Record-breaking temperatures have affected much of Europe and most of the UK, with temperatures exceeding the highest previous temperature by several degrees in Wales and touching 40 degrees in England. Despite health advisers and the […]

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Ireland North: Establishment parties allow drilling at controversial goldmine

August 10, 2021 Anton McCabe, Militant Left (CWI Ireland), Omagh

The mining company, Flintridge Resources, will be allowed to drill boreholes as ‘permitted development’ at a controversial goldmine at Cavanacaw, four miles upwind of Omagh town centre, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The five establishment […]

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COP26: Socialist change to end the climate crisis

July 11, 2021 Oisin Duncan, Socialist Party, Scotland

An unprecedented heatwave in Canada and the US Pacific north west has left hundreds dead and caused destructive wildfires. Extreme weather events like this are consistent with global heating producing climate change. However, ‘big energy’, […]

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The dark side of ‘clean energy’

April 12, 2021 Clare Wilkins from Socialism Today (April 2021 issue)

Are ‘green’ and digital technologies environmentally friendly? The transition to green and digital technologies is portrayed as the way to move to zero carbon emissions and a clean environment by reducing our dependency on nuclear […]

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Is there still time to stop catastrophic climate change? A socialist response

February 18, 2020 Judy Beishon, first published in Socialism Today (No.234, December-January 2019-20)

A widely-reviewed recent book by David Wallace-Wells, ‘The Uninhabitable Earth – A story of the future, presents a grim picture of the future consequences of continuing global warming. But the real story of the future […]

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    February 3, 2023
  • 1st February – Half a million on strike in Britain
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  • Europe – War, economic crisis and rising class struggle
    February 1, 2023
  • Israel: Mass protests against far-right, ultra-nationalist government
    January 31, 2023
  • Capitalist society convulsed and in turmoil: new challenges and tasks for Marxists and the working class
    January 30, 2023
  • Britain: 1 February – 500,000 workers taking national strike action across five unions
    January 27, 2023
  • 2022 was hottest year ever
    January 27, 2023
  • Busting the bosses’ “no money” lies
    January 25, 2023
  • Authoritarian Tories block Scottish parliament’s gender recognition reform
    January 23, 2023
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    January 21, 2023

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    December 28, 2022
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    October 31, 2022
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    September 17, 2022
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    August 27, 2022
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    August 24, 2022
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