Climate Change

By COOPER BARD The Sept. 10 presidential debate showed clearly that the policies of the two big capitalist parties have a number of points of bipartisan collusion, including support for Israel (and by extension, its war crimes perpetrated with U.S. weaponry), increasing the USA’s military strength generally, and competition against China in the tech and […]

As Latin Americans, where statistics show that Catholicism is predominant, it is possible that most of us have heard at some point in our lives that the Bible says that the world will end in fire. Many of us are probably reminded of this when we imagine wildfires and their ferocity. Reality shows us that […]

By Jeferson Choma The capital São Paulo and a large part of the country’s cities are living under a blanket of smoke. Earlier this week, the capital of São Paulo became the most polluted metropolis in the world. But it inherited this title from cities in the western Amazon, which last month was the most […]

Between July 16 and 21, 2024, several meetings were held combining actions and organizations, which brought together more than 30,000 participants in western France. These meetings were part of a series of protests against the so-called “mega-basins”, artificial water reservoirs, which have stolen from the environment and society, and against which several major mobilizations have […]

The monsoons in South Asia bring regular flooding to the region. In recent years, these floods have been exacerbated by rampant and unsustainable construction across the hilly north and northeast. Today, eastern Bangladesh and northeastern India are victims of this development. Bangladesh’s floods come right after a momentous political revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of […]

While the planet is on its way to recording 2024 as the hottest year that humans have ever experienced, the Iberian Peninsula has already experienced four heat waves this summer, without even having finished the month of August. By L. R. from La Corriente Roja, Spain In recent days a study by IS Global, published […]

Class solidarity has been promoted in campaign carried out by CSP-Conlutas and PSTU. By: Roberto Aguiar Ana Rita, a Porto Alegre Municipal Health worker and PSTU militant, together with her niece Melanie (Mel), created a solidarity canteen to help those in need after the climate catastrophe that hit Porto Alegre. They are organzing the distribution […]

In total, 850,000 people have been affected by the latest climate tragedy. By: Editorial Staff In a bulletin released on May 5, the Civil Defense of Rio Grande do Sul counted 83 deaths due to the storms that hit the state. Another 4 deaths are being investigated. In addition, 111 people are missing and 276 […]

By JEFERSON CHOMA In 2005, faced with the terrible and tragic consequences and policies adopted after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States, North American analysts coined the term “Disaster Capitalism” to refer to how capitalism produces catastrophes and then takes advantage of them to prey on and profit even more from […]

By Cooper Bard, Workers’ Voice On March 18, at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, oil company CEO Amin Nasser (president of Saudi ARAMCO) claimed that a transition away from fossil fuels was a fantasy. He cited numerous statistics attesting to the lack of penetration of renewables into the global economy despite extensive global investment. The […]

By: Soraya Misleh As the terrorist state of Israel moves forward with genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, it has also put green marketing into action, covering up its crimes against humanity with “greenwashing.” It participated in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 28), as it officially announced on its […]

2023 was the year when the effects of global warming became clear. The world witnessed terrible heat waves in the summer in the Northern Hemisphere and now in the Southern Hemisphere which have caused forest fires. In the Amazon, droughts have dried up rivers and landowners have taken advantage of this situation to set fire […]

Major heat waves and record temperatures are being recorded in various parts of the world. In the U.S. state of Texas, the temperature reached 50 °C (122 °F). But the heat has also extended its reach to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. By: Jeferson Choma Extreme heat puts especially elderly people, construction workers, mail carriers, […]

By TAYTYN BADGER Since the 29th of April, the land occupied by Western Canada has witnessed an unprecedented onslaught of wildfires unusually early in our wildfire season. This comes following months of record-breaking temperatures and incredibly low rain and snowfall. As of May 20, these wildfires have claimed over 842,000 hectares of land, largely boreal […]

The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) has become the victim of a despicable campaign of persecution by landowners. The “ruralist” [landowners] bench of the National Congress is preparing a Parliamentary Commission of Investigation (PCI) against the movement. It’s an attack by the landowners against this fight, but it affects all the movements fighting for agrarian reform, […]

It took less than 200 days in government for Lula-Alckmin’s campaign promises to be left behind. By: Waldemir Soares, CSP-Conlutas I believe there is no doubt that the current Planalto administration was elected to change the genocidal policies applied by Bolsonaro to indigenous peoples and its predatory stance towards the environment. Nor is it news […]