Climate and Environmental Crisis

Climate change and class struggle

Workers and their allies throughout the world argue that it is possible to make climate, meaning the patterns of daily…

March 13, 2018

Capitalism’s weather war

The devastating cold weather in half of the U.S. during the past weeks has been covered almost gleefully by the…

January 9, 2018

Bears Ears fight exposes history of U.S. genocide

The Trump White House’s plan to steal 1 million acres from Bears Ears National Monument lays bare the history of…

December 19, 2017

Eyewitness Ames plant fire, Part 2: Corporate poison and politics

By Xzander Stephens Parkersburg, W. Va., area On Oct. 21, the Ames plant fire here lit up a week of…

November 10, 2017

Climate activists denounce hurricane devastation

New York — Led by youth of color, thousands rallied and marched into Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct.…

November 6, 2017

#NoDAPL water protectors sent to jail

Following the directions of Big Oil’s Dakota Access Pipeline company, North Dakota Judge Thomas Merrick on Oct. 19 convicted and…

October 29, 2017

Why FEMA can’t protect us

First came the devastation of hurricanes Harvey in Houston and Irma in Florida. Now, an even more terrible disaster is…

October 4, 2017

Capitalism, environmental racism and injustice

More than just torrential rains and flooding from Hurricane Harvey have put Houston in the spotlight. The fourth-largest city in…

September 24, 2017

Post-Irma Florida: Poor suffer most for lack of gov’t preparation

The aftermath of Hurricane Irma, despite the storm hitting Florida with less force than at first expected, again highlights the…

September 20, 2017

Hurricane Irma’s devastation: Nothing ‘natural’ about it

Sept. 11 — Scientists know it. The rash of powerful storms to hit the Caribbean and the Southern states of…

September 11, 2017