Climate school-strikers are leading a powerful, internationalist revolt against climate change.
… May’. I had all those kindly, patronizing, adulty feelings. But something deeper too. I … say it would be wrong to have another referendum, because the majority would vote to …
Wisdom only begins when we let in the grief and rage of understanding climate breakdown. Can we find radical hope in the face of social collapse around the world?
… where we live. Mr. Dhillon tells me the during partition his parents hid a Muslim … a few weeks in Punjab. Half of them were Hindus and Sikhs killed by Muslims. Half were Muslims killed Hindus and Sikhs. I grew up knowing that it is …
Greta Thunberg has called for a world-wide strike on Friday September 20 - for children and adults. Here's how to make this a reality.
… on Friday September 20 - for children and adults. Here's how to make this a reality. … and her student comrades have called for adults to join them in a world-wide # … enough to see this moment. I have spent my adult life in trade unions, and helped organize …
How can we centre community organising and mutual aid in response to coronavirus?
… are pleased that the lockout in China has reduced pollution. Some say the real issue is … key interventions are common medicines that reduce fevers and keep airways open, and … people. But if measures can be found that reduce the rate to less than 1.0 person per …
How will the covid-19 outbreak effect the world economy?
… take the recession first. Since 1832 the industrialised countries of the world have gone … locked down. Perhaps two thirds of Chinese industrial workers are currently at work, and production is perhaps half of capacity. The …
We can help one another through this epidemic, and simultaneously organize to make governments, employers, welfare offices and landlords give us what we will need to survive.
… community activism. Effective treatment and reducing the number of people who are sick at the same time will reduce fatalities. So, above all, we need tens … beds – and we need to close the schools and reduce the spread of the virus now. Here are …
Workers can take collective action in response to the coronavirus outbreak - and save lives.
… and to make corporate profits. Even as the industrial center of Italy, Lombardy, went into … lockdown, the Italian confederation of industry persuaded the government to keep the … been trying for ten days to persuade other industries to make ventilators, yet as I write …
Hospital staff can pressure the government to solve supply problems and save lives. The rest of us can help. This article explains how.
… budget controls, the normal procurement procedures, the normal terror of spending. It is … calls. Social media is not a frivolous indulgence now. Phones and computers are how we conduct the most important relationships in our …
'If you are vulnerable, like me, the information in this article may be terrifying. But this information is crucial if you and those you love are to stay safe.'
… ventilator can save more lives. Any decent adult would make the same decision. But no-one … is doing – what? Waiting for procurement procedures? The army should be in those factories … People power can force governments to produce ventilators too. But we are in a race …
The rich want to end the lockdown. But before any government does this we need mass testing, proper equipment for essential workers and real protections for the most vulnerable.
… could. They feared that lockdowns would produce mass unemployment, a stock market crash … and then the Republican governors of individual states went around Trump and ordered … Automobiles were the most important industry in the US. Three months later all those …
'The question was whether to die of hunger or coronavirus.'
Lockdowns and starvation Jonathan Neale | 21st April 2020 News Coronavirus Editor’s Picks 800px-lockdown_vadodara_01.jpg 'The question was whether to die of hunger or coronavirus.' All around the …
The protests by public health workers for PPE hold portents for how we globally respond to the threat of climate breakdown.
Remember the dead: fight for the living Jonathan Neale | 23rd April 2020 Comment Coronavirus Workers' Rights Charles Koch Editor’s Picks 94468551_10159743083879573_1598090393776291840_o.jpg The …
'The truth is that we have all been too cowed, too demoralised, hopeless or frightened. It is time for us to change that in ourselves.'
Why are we not in Trafalgar Square? Jonathan Neale | 23rd September 2020 | Comment Coronavirus Activism internationalnursesday-001.jpg 'The truth is that we have all been too cowed, too demoralised, …
The Texas blackouts are the latest deadly consequence of climate breakdown. And a Green New Deal and climate jobs are the solution.
… to all the homes, businesses and industry in a particular area. That utility can … carry electricity to homes, businesses and industry. The engineers who run this grid have a … the grid, here’s the rub. There has to be redundancy in the grid – extra pathways in case …
Bill Gates has made billions and understands capitalist markets - from the perspective of an investor. To confront climate breakdown we need to see things as human beings.
… decades’ before we can get anywhere near reducing emissions by 90%. This is because, … he recommends, we can get close to 100% reductions in the rich countries in 30 years … come on stream, the non-rich countries reduce their emissions, and we can solve the …
We need global solidarity to deliver climate jobs.
… countries. But in 2019 the rich countries produced 38 percent of global greenhouse-gas … emissions, while the not-rich countries produced 62 percent. And we have to cut emissions … systems, and to convert all buildings and industries to something close to carbon-free …
And the day after the Glasgow COP. What do we do then?
… for all electricity, all heating, all industry and almost all transport. Then we can … to come up with new, better promises to reduce emissions. Or maybe, as with China, not … since 2004. This enormous change has happened during the years when climate change was not a …
We need millions of new climate jobs every year if we have any hope of cutting the emissions necessary to avert breakdown.
… at COP26 must focus immediately on a global reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases. … are alternatives. Those two measures will reduce these emissions from 6.5 billion tons a … billion tons. A massive program of jobs can reduce emissions from fossil fuels by 35 billion …
The world leaders meeting at COP26 will fail not because of personal failings but because of the capitalist system that they need to confront.
… will mean the death of their corporations. Industries People often say that Shell of BP … The majority of capitalists speak for other industries, and they are torn. Schools On the … not an optional extra here. Nor is it a moral duty. Solidarity is the precondition of …
The famine in Afghanistan could claim the lives of a million children. It is driven by climate breakdown - and Western foreign policy.
… This would be more than the total number of adults and children who died in twenty years … their defeat in the Vietnam War, the US introduced sanctions that isolated the country and … nurses, teachers, civil servants or police. During the occupation, foreign aid had paid 75 …
LONG READ: A critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
… the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, who are reduced to an almost entirely vegetarian diet … parts of a new adaptation came together to produce modern humans. The short story is that … big animals where kills depended on speed, endurance and weapons. We know this from the …
The protests erupting across China deserve international solidarity. The future of the planet could be determined by their success - or failure.
… our species and about 40 per cent of human industrial workers live in China. Almost 30 per … party. Moreover, the continuing falls in production and interruptions in the supply chain … Repression won’t make the movement go away During the first couple of days of the …