Climate crisis

Climate activists describe Whitehaven as Australia鈥檚 鈥渨orst鈥 coal company: it has plans for six new, or expanded, coal projects in the coming year, many of which have already been given their approvals. Coral Wynter reports.

Free West Papuan political prisoners

More than 100 people marched for West Papua's freedom as part of a School Strike 4 Climate student strike . Alex Bainbridge reports.

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Capitalism cannot achieve the economic, political and scientific planning and cooperation needed on the scale required to address the climate crisis, argues Barry Sheppard.

Paste up drawing by Guy Denning in the streets of Liverpool circa 2013

Described as using a 鈥渂lend of street art and brutal political commentary", Guy Denning鈥檚 work is 鈥渁 powerful protest, visually demanding attention to the injustices and inhumanities of our world鈥, reports Susan Price.

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Mark Baugher provides an overview of the challenges in charting a roadmap towards ecosocialism ahead of the Global Ecosocialist Network and marxmail.world on-line forum on September 10. which features Rehad Desai, Howie Hawkins, Simon Pirani and Sabrina Fernandez.

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Derek Wall reviews Tad DeLay鈥檚 new book,聽Future of Denial: The ideologies of climate change, a Freudian Marxist take on the climate crisis that touches on how the far right is accelerating fossil fuel emissions and attacking minorities.

Labor has launched its push to become聽a renewable energy 鈥渟uperpower鈥. But, as Peter Boyle argues,聽any imagining of a green future needs to break imperial and colonialist power relations with the Global South.

books

From Earth鈥檚 history to global heating, water crises and socialist strategy 鈥 Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents eight new books for radical readers.

Nationalising, or 鈥渋nsourcing鈥 Rex, including regional and inter-capital city services, could be the first step in taking the airline industry into public ownership. Jim McIlroy reports.

Renfrey Clarke writes that some of Peter Dutton鈥檚 nuclear power plan 鈥渇acts鈥 are comedic 鈥 in a very dark kind of way. But the Coalition鈥檚 endorsement of nuclear will have a deadening effect on investment in renewables.

The big four banks are pretending to be good climate citizens while they continue to fund fossil fuel projects, including via back door means. Alex Bainbridge reports.

woman bucketing mud from her flooded home

The southwest monsoon, exacerbated by super typhoon Carina (Gaemi) has caused widespread flooding and devastation in the Philippines and Taiwan, killing 25 people and causing mass displacement, reports Susan Price.