Dave McKee Marxists have long understood the link between capitalist expansion and environmental degradation. As Frederick Engels wrote in 1876, “What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and [...]
Last month, the Trudeau government announced plans for legislation to tackle plastic waste. The proposed law, which won’t come into effect until the end of 2021 – more than a year’s worth of plastic garbage away – will list plastic as a toxin and [...]
Manitoba’s Conservative government has used the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic crisis as an opportunity to ram through legislation aimed at privatizing the province’s forests, parks, water infrastructure and flood control. A [...]
Planet of the Humans (2019) Released on YouTube, April 2020 Written and Directed by Jeff Gibbs Producer Michael Moore April 2020 was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and environmentalist all around the world marked this date in [...]
Earth Day is often an occasion for corporate interests to greenwash destructive profiteering; it should become a day to demand a new socialist economic system.
The community of protesters standing in solidarity with North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux represents the largest gathering of Native Americans in more than a century, yet it has been largely ignored by the mainstream media.
