Climate change
Cops arrest climate protesters
Around 2,000 climate rebels took to the streets on Saturday to demand “No going back” to environmental and ecological crisis.
10,000 protesters take on far right Slovenian government
There have been six weeks of protests against the prime minister
‘Everything is destroyed’ in wake of Cyclone Amphan
Millions of people in India, Bangladesh and Bhutan have been forced to flee from “super cyclone” Amphan that swept inland from the Indian Ocean on Wednesday.
Transform the streets and tackle climate chaos, says Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion (XR) vowed there will be “No going back” to the way that the Tories ignored the climate crisis before coronavirus.
As polluting industries face crisis - emissions must fall but workers should not pay
Some of the world’s most high-profile polluters are faltering in the coronavirus crisis. And already, it seems like good news for the environment.
Extinction Rebellion targets Barclays bank, the fossil fuel funder
Activists have taken their anger at the climate crisis straight to one of the drivers of the ecological catastrophe
Why are we addicted to fossil fuels? Michael Moore’s new film doesn’t have the answer
06 May 2020New film Planet of the Humans could damage the environmental movement
Anti-HS2 campaigners want money spent on NHS instead
04 May 2020Climate catastrophe activists blocked HS2 construction on Monday morning as part of their rebellion against the hugely damaging high speed railway.
Internationalism matters
28 April 2020When the working class is faced with global crises, an internationalist response is needed. The coronavirus outbreak is clearly one such crisis.
Locust devastation in East Africa is linked to climate change
25 April 2020Some 40 percent of the 160 million people in the region are already undernourished
Oil prices becoming ‘negative’ is a sign of more financial chaos to come
21 April 2020On Monday night the price of West Texas Intermediate oil, used as a benchmark in oil pricing, plunged by over 300 percent to almost minus $40 dollars a barrel.
Climate protester told to travel 400 miles to court during lockdown
27 March 2020The state is calling on Extinction Rebellion members to travel across Britain during the coronavirus pandemic
Reports round-up - climate strike, Ferry and Tube action and more
17 March 2020School climate strikers walked out on Friday last week in Sheffield.
It’s right to be this afraid
17 March 2020Coronavirus, climate catastrophe and nuclear war make us feel existential dread about the future of the world. But there is an emergency brake says Simon Basketter
Misery after Brazil landslides
10 March 2020Reports round up: Deal agreed at Harrods
10 March 2020Security guards and CCTV operators at Harrods department store in west London have accepted a deal over pay and working conditions.
Final week to win massive strike vote in Royal Mail
10 March 2020Royal Mail workers are campaigning hard to win a national strike ballot by the biggest majority possible.
Greta Thunberg says new laws won’t tackle climate crisis
09 March 2020Greta Thunberg has blasted the latest plan by the European Union (EU) commission to tackle carbon emissions as “empty words”.
Climate round-up: Activists follow school strike with forum to prepare for more action
03 March 2020Around 140 climate activists gathered to debate how to take the fight for ecological justice forward in Bristol on Saturday.
Tens of thousands march with Greta Thunberg in Bristol
28 February 2020School climate strikers poured on to the streets and demanded urgent action
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