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Protesters make their way to Penneys on O'Connell street in Dublin during an Extinction Rebellion (XR) demonstration, as fashion retailers have come under intense scrutiny in the last year from environmental activists
GOVERNMENT and fashion giants are “clearly failing” on a “vast scale” to protect workers and the environment, socialist MP Claudia Webbe has told the Morning Star.
The MP for Leicester East said that Britain must do its part immediately as she backed a new War On Want report calling for workers and communities bearing the brunt of climate change to be at the heart of plans to make the industry sustainable.
She said exploitative employers bear a “huge responsibility” for building an industry at the expense of the poorest and most vulnerable, but that the “most guilty are the vast corporations and brands who insist on the lowest cost regardless of the consequences, while governments stand by and do nothing.”
As fossil fuels have had their day, JOSIE MIZEN makes it clear that it is now the government’s responsibility to initiate the transition to alternative employment in a manner that is organised, efficient and effective
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results