You are here: Home > Environmental crisis
Archive | Environmental crisis RSS feed for this section

OWS more…

By on October 19, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, Workers Rights

Occupy Wall Street, the Trade Union Movement and the Fight to Stop the Cuts and Concessions from The Organizer Tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of people have taken to the streets over the past four weeks across the United States as part of an Occupy Wall Street movement to protest [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Occupy Wall Street not Palestine

By on October 17, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Social justice

Occupy Wall Street not Palestine! We are part of the world’s 99% yearning for freedom, justice and equal rights! Palestinian BDS National Committee The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian civil society coalition struggling for Palestinian rights, is proud to stand in solidarity with the movements struggling for a new [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Occupy…

By on October 13, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, US politics, Workers Rights

Occupy Wall Street…What follows is a collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park: As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Options 66

By on October 12, 2011 in Book Review, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis

The magazine Australian Options no 66 Spring 2011 has good articles on: why we have to get out of Afghanistan and the costs of war; critiques of Gillard’s Clean Energy policies – a capital agenda, ecological modernisation, and limits and alternatives on climate change; unions greens and markets;education in the aboriginal world;national competition policy; the [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Rosewarne: Clean Energy is a capital agenda

By on October 12, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis

The Labor government’s Clean Energy Policy: a capital agenda by Stuart Rosewarne ‘The Clean Energy Future Policy, along with various proposed supplementary measures not incorporated into the resolutions of the multi-party talks, represents a considerable win for Australia’s emissions-intensive industries while promising no real abatement of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed, as the Treasury modelling [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Stilwell on tax reform

By on October 11, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, Social justice

I support a campaign to pressure the Gillard Government to include in tax reform – land and resources taxes, estate duties and on international financial transactions…for starters. The priority reform areas for the tax and transfer system need to be driven by goals of economic efficiency, social justice and ecological sustainability. by Professor Frank Stilwell [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Day 17: Occupy Wall Street

By on October 3, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, US politics

I am following on websites what’s happening with Occupy Wall Street: Day 17 Rebuild the American Dream. http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet The Campaign against the US wealthiest 1% is happening… TruthOut is one news source, today http://www.truth-out.org/tax-rich-more-patriotic-millionaires-urge/1317647752 http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/30/3951832/usw-supports-the-occupy-wall-street.html#ixzz1ZfNEKdgh Success? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/27-2

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Environmentalism and capitalism

By on September 26, 2011 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, Social justice

Fred Magdoff & John Bellamy Foster: ‘What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism’ (exclusive excerpt) August 1, 2011 — Monthly Review Press has kindly given permission to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal to publish “The growth imperative of capitalism”, an exclusive excerpt from Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster’s just released What every [...]

Read full story • Comments { 1 }

Marx and ecology

By on September 25, 2011 in Book Review, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Environmental crisis, US politics

The Ecology of Marxian Political Economy by John Bellamy Foster This article from Monthly Review is an extended version of a talk delivered at the Marxism 2011 Conference, University College of London, July 3, 2011. I recommend reading John Bellamy Foster’s book ‘The Ecological Rift Capitalism’s War on the Earth’ with Brett Clark and Richard [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }