• Ecosocialist conference 2024

    An ecosocialist conference will be held in London on Saturday 7th December 2024. This conference follows a successful event held last year. The conference will have a link for people outside London who want to participate. The main themes of the conference are: The preliminary list of speakers includes: The conference organizers hope that the…

  • Agriculture, COP28 and a just transition

    The COP28 conference in November 2023 was the first of the COPs to say anything serious about agriculture. Before the conference, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) put out a document on food and climate change. At the conference, over 150 countries signed a declaration on “sustainable agriculture”. Of course, the big agricultural…

  • EU farmers’ protests, socialism and climate change

    Farmers across Europe, especially in France, have been protesting against new EU agricultural rules. Many of the rules they have are opposing are measures to protect the environment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Of course, right wing politicians have jumped on the bandwagon, repeating the familiar stories that progressive climate policies are attacks on ordinary…

  • Gaza massacres and the climate movement

    Many climate activists have condemned the massacre of civilians in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). But the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel and the IDF’s horrific bombing campaign in Gaza have evoked sharp differences in some sections of the climate movement. The climate change movement stands with oppressed, vulnerable, exploited people everywhere. Support…