IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Cop26: it's socialism or extinction
The Young Communist League argues there is no point in trying to fight climate change without fighting capitalism itself: big business, corporate monopolies and shameless polluters are our enemy, not part of the solution
We are so often told that we are all in this together — but we are not. We are not equally responsible for this mess and we do not equally share the risks of devastation.
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COP26 has been billed as one of the last chances to save the planet and humanity as we know it. For nearly 30 years these meetings have brought together world leaders to discuss and debate the best way forward, yet little has changed in that time.
In fact, since the first meeting held in Berlin in 1995, global CO2 emissions have increased by 56 per cent. The imperialist world’s governments are paying this crisis nothing but lip service, rolling over to let the monopolies and big business that they represent in fossil fuels, agribusiness, manufacturing and finance run rampant across the globe. Politicians are still desperate to cling to the economic system that created this crisis.
This week we have seen the representatives of right-wing governments gather to express warm words and pledges in order to protect the capitalist system, with keynote speeches from some of the biggest polluters on the planet including BP and Amazon.
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