Environment Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Manchán Mangan (1970-2025) – adventurer, filmmaker, writer and environmentalist

By Manus Lenihan On Friday we learned with great sadness of the death at age 55 of Manchán Magan, adventurer, documentary filmmaker, writer, environmentalist and probably the foremost advocate for the Irish language in recent years. Magan was well-known as a TV

Oct 5, 2025

Environment·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

#SaveOurShores: Nationalise Lough Neagh now!

By Peter McGregor This summer has seen a massive bloom of blue-green algae in waters all across the north. This has included Lough Neagh and the River Bann, North Coast bathing waters and lakes in Fermanagh. If you live in an area

Sep 15, 2023

Environment

Maui wildfires: Capitalism’s climate crisis is scorching the planet

By Mandy Gee, Socialist Alternative (our sister organisation in the US) As of August 13, at least one thousand people are unaccounted for, and over 93 are confirmed dead in the deadliest disaster in Hawaii’s history: devastating wildfires that have wiped out thousands

Aug 18, 2023

Environment·News & Analysis

Climate failure: Government set to miss emissions target by “significant margin”

By James Fleming The Irish government will miss its 2030 emissions target “by a significant margin”, according to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) projections. Ireland had a target to reduce emissions by 51%, but it will achieve only 29% at best – if

Jun 17, 2023

Campaigns & Issues·Environment

What way forward in the fight against capitalist climate destruction

By Connor Rosoman & Philipp Chmel, International Socialist Alternative In the light of exacerbating climate crisis and absolute inaction of capitalist governments, the climate movement is testing out and adapting its tactics and strategies across the globe including with school occupations, blockades,

May 25, 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

World News

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 clothing collections each year as possible, at the lowest price possible. This business model became popularised since the 1980s and practically all affordable, mass-producing

Mar 28, 2023

Environment·News & Analysis

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 report by the consultants Ernst and Young (EY) which was commissioned by the NTA. The report amazingly recommended against the extension of free public

Mar 10, 2023

Environment·News & Analysis

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, the hottest year on record for Europe and the second hottest across Asia and North America. Pakistan was hit by catastrophic floods, Ethiopia, Somalia

Jan 7, 2023

Environment·News & Analysis

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 kicked off in a World Cup so energy-intensive that its total emissions are set to equal those produced annually by the Democratic Republic of

Nov 30, 2022

Environment

Manchán Mangan (1970-2025) – adventurer, filmmaker, writer and environmentalist

#SaveOurShores: Nationalise Lough Neagh now!

Maui wildfires: Capitalism’s climate crisis is scorching the planet

Climate failure: Government set to miss emissions target by “significant margin”

What way forward in the fight against capitalist climate destruction

Review: Marx in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito

Hyper exploitation and profiteering – the reality of “fast fashion”

Government opposition to free public transport is pathetic and shameful

Coal companies triple profits while the planet burns

What came from COP27? Hot air, fudges and meaningless agreements

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden