Climate change Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

By Jonathan Diebold The disaster movie 2012 shows a world ravaged by extreme weather events, apparently predicted hundreds of years prior by the Mayan civilisation. But it doesn’t take an ancient Mesoamerican prophecy to predict the floods which have afflicted Ireland recently,

Feb 6, 2026

Environment·News & Analysis

“We Can’t Eat Money” – Indigenous resistance and capitalist disregard at COP30

By Lenn Viken As the category five man-made hurricane Melissa swept the shores and lands of Jamaica in late October this year, delegates from countries all over the world were preparing for the UN climate summit COP30, held in Belém, a large

Dec 2, 2025

World News

Imperialist-backed horror for peoples of DRC

By Robert Cosgrave Since January, the March 23 Movement (M23), with the support of the Rwandan State, have made deep advances in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where they have been in conflict with the state since

Feb 20, 2025

Environment·News & Analysis·The North

Lough Neagh: A case study in how capitalism kills the environment

By Oisín Hill Lough Neagh, Ireland’s largest body of freshwater, and the source of 40% of the North’s drinking water, is set for another year of poisoning by toxic blue-green algae. In summer 2023 a “bloom” of toxic sludge, formed from thick

Jul 25, 2024

Environment·World News

NATO military spending is a war on the climate

By Miranda Stewart At a time when reducing greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever, a recent report makes clear that NATO military spending targets are pushing the world in the opposite direction. The report, ‘Climate Crossfire: How NATO’s 2% military

Feb 9, 2024

Environment·World News

Latin America: Rise in violence on the front lines of environmental struggle

By Pedro Meade and Ana Vitoria, Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (our sister organisation in Brazil) As we are seeing, climate crises are intensifying. Wildfires of unprecedented proportions are raging in Canada, there are historic droughts in Argentina, and increasingly severe storms are

Aug 6, 2023

Environment·World News

Climate change shows that now more than ever — capitalism must go

Isidora Durán Stewart Capitalism’s total inaction on the climate crisis is leading to devastating effects globally. This summer saw many parts of the world plunge into an extreme heatwave, with preliminary data showing that the first week of July 2023 was the

Aug 5, 2023

Environment·Featured Articles·World News

In hot water: The devastating impact of rising ocean temperatures

By Oisin Hill “The ocean is hotter than ever, what happens next?,” begins a news article published in May of this year by Nature, the world’s leading scientific journal. 2023 has seen the ocean’s surface temperature rise to its highest since records

Jul 25, 2023

Environment·World News

Environment: War causes untold damage to the environment

By Walter Chambers, International Socialist Alternative The immediate and horrific humanitarian costs of the war in Ukraine are measured in the number of fatalities and wounded caused by the fighting and continuous bomb attacks on Ukraine’s cities, as well as in the

Jul 2, 2023

Environment·Theory & History

Review: Marx in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito

Review: Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism By Kohei SaitoCambridge University Press, 2023 Reviewed by Chris Stewart A new book by Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito has been an unlikely bestseller in Japan, selling more than half a million copies

Apr 19, 2023

Climate change

Fourth flood warning in 10 days as flood defence schemes flounder

“We Can’t Eat Money” – Indigenous resistance and capitalist disregard at COP30

Imperialist-backed horror for peoples of DRC

Lough Neagh: A case study in how capitalism kills the environment

NATO military spending is a war on the climate

Latin America: Rise in violence on the front lines of environmental struggle

Climate change shows that now more than ever — capitalism must go

In hot water: The devastating impact of rising ocean temperatures

Environment: War causes untold damage to the environment

Review: Marx in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden