The world’s top five oil and gas companies have spent $1 billion since the 2015 Paris climate agreement on lobbying and PR to obstruct policies addressing climate change. Meanwhile, youth climate strikes continue to spread. Climate NGO InfluenceMap revealed that ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and Total spend a total of $195 million a year on […]
On the 15th March school students from all around the country went on strike against climate change. In Leicester, over a hundred 11-18-year olds came, which is more than twice as many as were at the last protest. Students protested at the Clock Tower, then marched to Jubilee Square. When we got there a student […]
By Indira Prasad Despite the success of vaccine trials, the badger cull is to be extended again in 2016 to more areas of the country with new cull zones in Herefordshire, Dorset, Cornwall and Gloucestershire. The link between Bovine Tuberculosis (BTB), the badger population and the controversy surrounding the issue can be traced back to […]
The massive and growing threats posed to human life by global warming are critical issues that must be addressed. This is why hundreds of concerned citizens marched through Leicester earlier today — to demand that our government take meaningful action in the forthcoming climate negociations which start later this month in Paris. Today’s protest was, […]
Earlier this year David Cameron announced, “We’re going all out for shale” while simultaneously announcing bribes to councils and local planning authorities in order to spread destructive fracking operations across the country. Fracking being yet another polluting and wasteful method of energy production that is entirely suited to capitalist profiteering. Egdon Resources is just one […]
The oil wells are running dry, Companies are going fracking- Water pollution, risks to health, Earthquakes they are a-cracking. Billions spent on holy grail Of laser-powered fusion. To recreate the Sun on Earth, So expensive the delusion! Nuclear’s the way to go, All we need is fission. Handy for bombs as well, Absurd, deluded mission. […]
David Cameron commented on the recent British floods by saying that “he thought they were probably due to global warming”. While a single incidence of flooding is not in itself evidence of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more and more common – the flooding in the UK has been linked to a cold […]
Veolia is a huge multinational corporation, employing in excess of 330,000 people worldwide. Like all capitalist enterprises, Veolia, in its bloodsucking pursuit of profits, is engaged in a perpetual struggle to force down its most vulnerable employees wages and conditions. This improves profit margins, further increases the gap between the richest and poorest in society, […]
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. Humans like to help one […]
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing against all cuts to public services. Its candidates are ordinary working people and trade unionists. We stand for the millions, not the millionaires. Train driver and Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union president, Alex Gordon, appeals to Londoners to vote for TUSC in the forthcoming Greater […]
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