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Socialism Today issue 155 February 2012
19 January 2012
Once again, a United Nations-sponsored climate change conference has completely failed to address the issue of global warming. The latest attempt pushed any hope of a deal back far too late for meaningful action, writes Pete Dickenson for the latest Socialism Today.
Arctic Sea Ice loss animation demonstrates drastic climate change through global warming, photo NASA
14 December 2011
No progress at climate conference
When is an agreement not an agreement? When it's an agreement to reach an agreement in the future, writes Pete Mason, East London Socialist Party.
Flooding in the centre of Gloucester, 2007, photo Chris Moore
7 December 2011
Climate change and extreme weather
Scotland enjoyed its warmest November on record and the UK's autumn was the second warmest since records began in 1910, the Met Office confirmed this week, writes Pete Mason.
Photo Paul Mattsson
19 October 2011
15 October: day of intercontinental resistance
Break the power of the banks and big business: On 15 October, all around the globe, the "enraged", the "indignad@s", the "occupiers of Wall Street", took to the streets to challenge the power of big business...
1 June 2011
Glencore - Profiting from global hunger
The Swiss based multibillion dollar mining, energy and food trader Glencore was listed on the London and Hong Kong stock markets on 24 May, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.
Young people march for a future: Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students on the 29 January London demonstration against education cuts, photo Senan
18 May 2011
Con-Dems: Supporting Youth Enslavement
In an attempt to demonstrate the 'unity' of the coalition after the Lib Dems' disastrous results in the local elections, Cameron and Clegg attended a series of events to launch their new plan 'Supporting Youth Employment'.
4 May 2011
Smoke and mirrors: City of London fat cats saw their 2010-11 bonus pot shrink 8%, compared to a year earlier, to £6.7 billion...
26 January 2011
Food price hikes fuelling unrest
FOOD PRICE rises have caused mass protests in Algeria, Mozambique and Yemen, as well as being a major factor in the movement that recently toppled the Tunisian dictator, president Ben Ali, writes Naomi Byron.
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...
23 November 2010
Massive food price hikes spell disaster for poorest people
THE FINANCIAL speculators and hedge funds that so spectacularly contributed to the financial crisis resulting in the 'Great Recession' have now turned their attention to the international food market with devastating consequences, writes John Sharpe.
18 November 2010
The long march in Bangladesh: interview with a march organiser
The people of Bangladesh are among the poorest in the world. Wages are so low that they undercut those of China in many industries.
20 September 2010
The Scale of the Problem of Environmental Threats
The scale of the environmental threats facing us need to be understood, so that the difficulty in mitigating and then eliminating them can be estimated...
20 September 2010
Introduction to Planning Green Growth
To avoid embarrassment, at a time when famine is sweeping the region, some of the governments involved are making cosmetic cuts in their delegations and restricting extravagant consumption of luxury items...
20 September 2010
Barry Commoner, the well known environmental writer and theorist, first developed the equation in the 70s, later modified into the form I=P.C.T...
9 September 2010
Global food crisis reveals failure of capitalism
RESIDENTS OF Maputo, Mozambique's capital, took to the streets last week protesting at a 30% hike in the price of bread, writes Simon Carter.
21 April 2010
Banks use microloans to fleece poor
MICROLOANS ARE small loans to people who would otherwise not have access to finance, they are often for amounts of around $20...
Tommy Sheridan - hounded by News International, photo IS
3 March 2010
Global media monster News International condemned
RUPERT MURDOCH'S News International Ltd (a UK subsidiary of News Corporation) has been lacerated by a report from a House of Commons select committee into the News of the World's (NoW) phone hacking activities, writes Philip Stott, International Socialists, (CWI in Scotland) Dundee.
2 December 2009
Copenhagen climate change talks: World powers reject urgent action
Weeks before the mid-December UN summit in Copenhagen was due to convene, Barack Obama killed any lingering hopes that it would deliver a new treaty on global warming to replace the one agreed at Kyoto in 1997. PETE DICKENSON looks at the sticking points that led to failure and the prospects for the 'political framework' that now appears to be the likely outcome in Copenhagen.
25 November 2009
Flipping cheek: 'Vampires in charge of the blood bank' comes to mind with news that two MPs on the parliamentary standards and privileges committee have made dubious expenses claims...
Melting ice caps can indirectly lead to flooding: Flooding in Gloucester, photo Chris Moore
18 November 2009
More evidence of climate change: Socialist planning needed
Climate change is accelerating. On 4 November the North Sea arctic ice cap fell below the record lows for November set during 2007. Updated daily, the National Snow and Ice Data centre's website shows...
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