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‘This civilization as we know it is finished’
Ian Sinclair speaks to Professor RUPERT READ about his new book Why Climate Breakdown Matters and its apocalyptic predictions
FOR THE FEW NOT THE MANY: Extinction Rebellion demonstration on Westminster Bridge in London on April 15 2022; (left) Rupert Read
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Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
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A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
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PROFESSOR Rupert Read has devoted a huge amount of his life to green politics – as a Green Party member, councillor, parliamentary candidate and spokesperson, as an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, and in 2019 as a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, appearing on BBC Question Time.
With his new book Why Climate Breakdown Matters (reviewed in the Morning Star on Monday October 24) just out, Ian Sinclair asked Read about why he thinks this civilisation is finished, the importance of telling the truth about the climate crisis and where the green movement goes from here.
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