Climate and Environmental Crisis

U.N. report shows how People’s China cleaned Beijing’s air

The United Nations Environment Programme recently released a report called “UN Environment 2019: A Review of 20 Years’ Air Pollution…

January 22, 2020

Raging fires in Australia ignite mass protests

While devastating fires, ignited by a record-breaking heat wave in Australia, have grown in strength and number since September 2019,…

January 12, 2020

Capitalist growth and social change – a WW commentary

Growth. Every day, the price of stocks on Wall Street go up and down depending on the growth of the…

December 17, 2019

Protest disrupts football game over climate crisis

During halftime at the classic Yale and Harvard football game on Nov. 23 in New Haven, Conn., hundreds of protesters…

December 6, 2019

The real enemies of the planet

A map of the world, recently circulated online, claims to identify the world’s worst offenders responsible for the climate crisis.…

October 29, 2019

As oil companies destroy Houston, community challenges Valero

In Houston, a city choked by oil refineries and regulatory capture, people are fighting back against one of the largest…

October 29, 2019

Huelgas climáticas mundiales: la crisis de la Tierra despierta millones

En Montreal, provincia de Quebec, Canadá, más de 500.000 personas marcharon el 27 de septiembre en un esfuerzo por detener…

October 8, 2019

Cuba, reforestation and the climate crisis

The following is a slightly edited talk given at a Workers World Party forum on Oct. 3 in New York…

October 7, 2019

Scapegoating the homeless for climate crisis

Two weeks ago, when President Donald Trump flew to California for two days to fundraise for his election campaign, his…

October 4, 2019

Workers march to end climate crisis

That climate crisis is a workers’ issue was emphatically affirmed by the IndustriALL Global Union when it called on all…

October 4, 2019