Climate Change, Capitalism and Working-class Struggle
We — the organised working class, and socialist environmentalists within that — will be decisive in determining our environmental future. This pamphlet arms activists with ideas to win this fight, to halt and reverse climate change. It demonstrates the centrality of workers’ action, with articles and reviews on a broad range of topics.
From wildfires and hurricanes in the US, to floods in Bangladesh and Europe, and droughts throughout Africa, climate change — 1°C already — is hitting hard. Yet in extreme weather, the years ahead look worse still. Ever-increasing use of fossil fuels and inaction on climate change puts us on a trajectory to more chaotic and destructive extreme weather, and numerous irreversible changes.
This calls not for despair, but for urgency in the radical action and organising that can win the changes we need to limit the destruction. A world limited to 1°C will be almost unimaginably better than a world limited to 1.5°C; 3°C unimaginably better than 4°C.
We — the organised working class, and socialist environmentalists within that — will be the decisive force in determining which future is realised.
This pamphlet seeks to arm activists with the ideas necessary to win this fight, to halt and reverse climate change. It demonstrates the centrality of workers’ action, with articles and reviews on a broad range of topics.
Table of contents of fourth edition:
- Stop the fossil fuel reboot!
- The fight on climate adaptation
- Fighting climate crises — AWL conference document, 2019/20
- XR’s #CEE bill — not a “big” solution
- Environmentalists in Singapore, on May Day
- Building workers’ action at climate strikes
- Escalating pandemics: Capital abides no limits
- Socialist politics and climate change
- For a Socialist Green New Deal — The fight at Labour conferences
- Workers Action for Climate Justice (Ende Gelände bulletin, 2017).
- Marx, ecology, and science — Review of Kohei Saito’s “Marx’s Ecology”
- XR: Take the rebellion into workplaces
- Towards an independent working-class climate movement
- The politics of carbon drawdown — Review of Holly Buck’s “After Geoengineering”, and Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Under a White Sky"
- Carbon capture and storage? Not yet a yelp
- The Vestas Jobs Battle
- The shop stewards who represent the future — Review of Paul Hampton’s “Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity”
- Capital, not population, is the culprit — Review of David Attenborough’s “A Life on Our Planet” (here and here)
- Climate change and extreme energy — Workers’ Liberty conference document, 2013
- Climate resistance must be built from below — Review of Simon Pirani’s “Burning Up”
- COP26 and the credibility gap — and part 2 here
- More rail yes, HS2 maybe not — debate (and here)
Plus more short features, throughout!