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3 April 2013
"Is green growth possible?" debated
Over 40 people crammed into Housmans Bookshop in north London on 27 March to hear a debate between the Socialist Party's Pete Dickenson and Derek Wall from the Green Party, writes Neil Cafferky.
Climate change demo December 2005 , photo Paul Mattsson
13 March 2013
Energy starvation and climate change
Alternative energy and socialist planning needed: A spectre is haunting the world, the spectre of irreversible climate change. But at the same time the world is in the grip of a desperate hunger for energy, writes Geoff Jones.
Flooding in Gloucester in 2007, photo Chris Moore
23 January 2013
Book review: Planning for the Planet
How socialism could save the environment. The cover bears a striking image of a polar bear marooned on an iceberg: summing up the devastation of global warming, writes Paul Moorhouse.
12 September 2012
Con-Dem housing measures - in 'the thick of it'?
The government has announced a package to revive house building, including 'guarantees' for new homes said to be worth £10 billion, writes Paul Kershaw.
Profit at all cost, cartoon by Alan Hardman
6 June 2012
Energy bill puts profits before the planet
Socialist planning needed: A recent poll has shown 68% support - 80% among 18-44 year olds - for building wind farms across Britain...
2 May 2012
How socialism could save the environment Special limited offer for readers of the Socialist: £7 including postage. By Pete Dickenson.
18 April 2012
Emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change have escalated to critical levels. Pete Dickenson indicts the representatives of the capitalist market system, citing the antagonisms between the major industrial powers.
18 April 2012
Planning for the Planet book references
This webpage is part of the reference material in Planning for the Planet, and provides clickable links to resources and other references noted in the book, writes Web references to notes at end of chapters, where available without subscription.
29 September 2011
The battle for Dale Farm and Travellers' rights
The attempt by the local council to forcibly evict Travellers from their land at Dale Farm in Essex has highlighted the issue of Gypsies' and Travellers' rights in the UK
28 September 2011
Dale Farm - call off the evictions of residents
Basildon council's attempts to evict 86 Traveller families from Dale Farm have been thrown into confusion by decisions of the high court, writes Dave Murray, Basildon.
7 September 2011
Since 31 August residents of 52 "unauthorised" plots at Dale Farm Travellers' site in Essex are under threat of forcible eviction, which Basildon council say will take place after 19 September, writes Dave Murray, Basildon Socialist Party.
19 February 2011
In a socialist society the means of producing wealth would be transferred from the hands of an unelected elite, concerned only with making a profit, to the democratic control of ordinary working people...
Socialist Party members on NHS demonstration in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
19 January 2011
Government health bill spells disaster for patients and workers: THE GOVERNMENT is planning a massive assault on the NHS in England in its latest health bill. This is on top of billions of pounds of 'efficiency savings' ie cuts, in the NHS budget, a London health workers explains...
1 December 2010
Climate change: Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe
CLIMATE CHANGE is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says. Millions suffered great hardship...
3 November 2010
Tube workers take more action for safety
More than 11,000 tube workers are striking for 24 hours against job cuts from 2 November...
29 September 2010
"THE COUNCIL has decided to outsource nearly everything. The first thing we heard about it was in the local media a few days before the main council meeting that voted this through...
20 September 2010
Preface to Planning Green Growth
This important and timely new pamphlet (published on the eve of the 'Earth Summit' in Johannesburg), analyses the causes and scope of environmental destruction across the globe and asks what is the way forward, writes Pete Dickenson.
20 September 2010
The Techniques of Socialist Planning
After the initial time of rapid expansion, a steady state society will emerge where the enormous power of planning, combined with the release of human resourcefulness and energy under socialism, will enable huge steps to be taken to preserve the environment...
20 September 2010
Democratic, rational planning will permit a consistent improvement in ecological conditions to be achieved over many decades until full sustainability is reached...
9 June 2010
Why public sector cuts are not inevitable
Editorial: The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour's excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party - including New Labour - is colluding in. Nothing could be further from the truth...
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