Tag: COP21
COP21 – climate and capitalism
Joe Sabatini dissects the neoliberal mindset behind the Paris talks in December and what the COP21 Agreement means for saving the planet.
Power play in the global climate movement
What Paris made clear is that now is the time to draw lines as the wider climate movement cannot fulfil its own agenda.
Campaigning for Climate Justice at COP21
For the last fortnight the COP21 climate summit has taken place in Paris. Alongside the official event, campaigners for climate justice took to the streets in...
Video: Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn call for climate jobs
Last night in Paris Jeremy Corbyn and Naomi Klein spoke to 800 people about trade unions and climate change, writes Jonathan Neale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwkB0ofzGEY
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Don’t mention trade: leaked document reveals EU plans for the COP21
A leak from the EU's shadowy Trade Policy Committee reveals officials charged with determining EU's climate policy vowing to keep trade regulations out of...
Why I’m cycling to Paris
John Walker explains why he's setting off on his bike to the COP21 in Paris.
Along with around 130 other people, I will be cycling to join...
Over 50,000 march in London to demand climate justice ahead of...
Nilüfer Erdem, Steve Eason, Amy Gilligan and Kate Bradley report
Tens of thousands of people marched through central London this afternoon as part of global...
Building a global climate movement: COP21 and beyond
Over twenty years of UN climate talks have failed, writes Tabitha Spence. The global demonstrations today are signs of a building movement that is unprepared...
Nuclear nightmare, gas fracking free-for-all and fuel poverty: Tories unveil UK...
As the world COP21 Paris summit on climate change nears, governments internationally are burnishing their environmental credentials for what will evidently be yet another...
Whose security? Climate protests in France during the state of emergency
The French government has called a 'State of Emergency' and banned all demonstrations for 3 months following the tragic events in Paris. Nick Evans explains why,...
Latest articles
Review: A Planet to Win – Why We Need a Green New Deal
Pete Cannell reviews an important contribution to the discussions around the Green New Deal.
Review: A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany
Merilyn Moos reviews a new biography of Werner Scholem, an uncompromising revolutionary to the end.
Join us at ENDGAMES
On 26 October, rs21 is hosting Endgames? Capitalism and the Climate Emergency. Harry Holmes introduces the event, and explains why you should come.
We rise again! Antiracism and industrial action at Royal Mail
Ikenna Azụbụike Ọnwụnabọnze reports on the antiracist action of Royal Mail workers in the Bootle and Seaforth Delivery Office and reflects on the necessity of collective action as the CWU announced the result of its ballot for a strike action yesterday.
Review: A Climate Emergency – Beyond a Capitalist Solution
Mike Downham reviews Ken Ferguson's new pamphlet, A Climate Emergency – Beyond a Capitalist Solution.
Raising the rate of resistance
Educators in the sixth form sector prepare for 3 days of strike action over funding and pay beginning Thursday 17 October.
What a way to make a living | Teaching at the margins
A teacher in a non-mainstream secondary school gives her view on the daily life of teaching in a school which specialises in providing education for students whose needs are not met by mainstream institutions.
Joker and the Mask of Poverty
Caliban’s Revenge asks who is behind the Joker's mask and who should be scared.
Solidarity against the Turkish invasion
Turkey’s invasion of north-eastern Syria (Rojava) must be opposed with practical international solidarity, not with calls for the US to continue its War on Terror.
Ecuador: Indigenous peoples fight back
Statement by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) on the revolt triggered by austerity measures demanded by the IMF.
Highlights
When is it illegal to strike?
In the UK, never. But it’s often unlawful. The climate strikes have highlighted the draconian British anti-union legislation and exposed confusion about the law and the consequences of striking unofficially.
What a way to make a living | Aye, there’s the pub
In the first piece in the series What a way to make a living, Jozef Doyle gives an insight on the day to day experience of working in a pub.
‘System change not climate change’ – Global Climate Strike
Friday 20 September saw the biggest climate protests in world history. Reports from the UK and around the world.
Fight the anti-democratic Tories and their bosses’ Brexit
In the closing weeks before the latest Brexit deadline, Boris Johnson and his Tory Party have suspended parliament in an attempt to enable them to force through a rotten Tory Brexit for which they have no mandate. The rs21 Steering Group argue to build the movement to bring down the government.
Popular uprising and the fight for independence in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico's mass movement and general strike have brought a corrupt US-backed neoliberal administration to its knees