Peter Boyle reports on Ecosocialism 2020,听which brought together activists from Brazil, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia, to听discuss how to step up the fight for system change.
Fossil fuels
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is floating bringing forward billions of dollars worth of income tax cuts for the rich,听arguing it will boost the COVID-19-ravaged economy. Jim McIlroy argues it won't help our economy and nor will the government's push for more gas.听
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg urges us to join the dots, but Pip Hinman writes that our governments won't do so unless we make them.
Given the composition of the National COVID-19 Co-ordinating Commission, it is little wonder its pandemic 鈥渞ecovery鈥 plan is based on public handouts to the corporate gas sector, write Margaret Gleeson and Pip Hinman.
While many radicals attended the National Climate Emergency Summit, they were not asked to present which, as Hans A Baer writes, meant it showcased the market wing of the climate movement.
There are two positive things to come out of the horrific bushfire crisis ripping through our country: recognition of the connection between global warming and more frequent and intense bush fires; and the inspiring courage and generosity of volunteers and emergency service personnel to protect their communities, despite being hugely under-resourced.
The global #ClimateStrike movement is more than just a call for genuine climate action. It is also a recognition that governments have failed to take the action that was both possible and necessary to avert catastrophe.
Extinction Rebellion WA (XRWA) brought proceedings at state parliament to a halt on August 15 鈥 dubbed 鈥淒eclaration Day鈥 鈥 as about 500 people rallied outside while a group of XRWA activists delivered a message to Legislative Assembly members.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus looks at new books for green lefts on how the richest drive climate change; planning from below; the Scottish clearances; slime; and eco-socialism and practical utopias.
The Stop Adani Convoy WA, a part of the Stop Adani Convoy initiated by the Bob Brown Foundation through the eastern states, has now been welcomed at 10 towns across the eastern seaboard.
'I鈥檓 a 15-year-old activist and climate warrior. If you had asked 5-year-old me what I was scared of, I would鈥檝e said the monster in my cupboard. Ten years later and I鈥檓 scared of the monster in Parliament House', says Parker Craig.
John Bellamy Foster听is editor of Marxist journal Monthly Review, whose books include 惭补谤虫鈥檚 Ecology (2002) and The Ecological Revolution (2009). He spoke to听Fiona Ferguson, a听Belfast-based听activist in听People Before Profit. The interview below is posted the Irish socialist website听.
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