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Government opposition to free public transport is pathetic and shameful
By Finghin Kelly Green Party Transport Minister, Eamon Ryan, this week presented to Cabinet the findings of a…
Ireland’s for-profit forestry is a scandal
By Ben Samson Using two satellites named Tom and Jerry to measure the mass of Europe’s shrinking groundwater…
Coal companies triple profits while the planet burns
By Isidora Duran Stewart The devastating effects of the profit-driven climate crisis reached a new height in 2022,…
What came from COP27? Hot air, fudges and meaningless agreements
By Ben Samond This year’s UN climate conference, COP27, ended just two days before the first football match…
COP 27: Capitalism wants profits before a livable planet
By Bill Hopwood, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in Canada) The deadly, and frightening, impacts of mounting climate…
China’s heatwave “the most severe ever recorded in the world”
Hong Liuxing, chinaworker.info Temperatures have risen as high as 45C degrees. Extreme heat of over 40C has been…
Bankrupt Pakistan faces the worst floods in its history
By Geert Cool, Left Socialist Party (our sister organisation in Belgium) Pakistan’s poverty-stricken masses face many problems. There…
Lessons from the Lucas Plan: How workers can fight against climate crisis
By Martina Gergits & Paul Gerrard We live in times of crises. The effects of the climate crisis…
US: Climate bill, cowritten by coal baron, makes history
By Meaghan Murray, Socialist Alternative US The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is being touted as the largest climate…
Government’s emissions targets — another Green sell-out dressed up as progress
By Aedan Hamrock In late July the government announced what they claimed was an ‘ambitious’ set of commitments…
