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Climate change
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Hyper exploitation and profiteering – the reality of “fast fashion”
By Saana Taussi ’Fast-fashion’ is a form of clothing production which is based on releasing the highest number of…
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…
Capitalism and the age of ‘permacrisis’
By Manus Lenihan Collins Dictionary has decided that the word of the year for 2022 is ‘permacrisis,’ because…
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,…
Marx, the ‘metabolic rift’ and capitalism’s assault on nature
By Chris Stewart and Keishia Taylor In recent years millions of young and working class people have engaged…
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…
Chaos, crisis & catastrophe – capitalist decay in the 2020s
By Laura Fitzgerald It’s been dubbed the Age of Disorder. The 2020s and the present era of capitalism…
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…