LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
Climate chaos – wilfully looking the other way
The British government’s current policies are about as far from being consistent with Britain’s net zero plan as it is possible to be, argues RICHARD HEBBERT
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators take part in a rally in London, on the last day of the environmental action group's four days of action that they have called "The Big One". Picture date: Monday April 24, 2023.
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR
KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
by Henry Fowler, General Strike 100 project co-ordinator
‘Solidarity with the Cuban people’s revolution is our overriding priority,’ international secretary KEVAN NELSON told the Communist Party’s political committee on Wednesday
THE effects of climate change are plain to see. Over recent months we have seen excessive temperatures and wildfires in southern Europe, while the US and China have recorded the hottest temperature on Earth since records began.
For the global South, this is no more than business as usual, with flooding in the Indian subcontinent and desertification in Africa — where we have also seen the first famine caused by climate change, in Madagascar. In irreversible developments ice caps are melting, sea currents changing and permafrost thawing.
Climate organisations, most notably the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have reported recently that, far from containing post-industrial global warming to the 1.5°C set by the Paris Agreement, we will shortly pass that figure and are set to heat the Earth up by 2.5-3°C by the end of the century; temperatures which would be disastrous.
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