Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
THIS year has seen the continuing march of climate change and environmental devastation, in the wildfires in southern Europe and the US, the storms across the world, the flooding in Libya and the Indian subcontinent, drought in east Africa, the shrinking of the Antarctic ice field, collapsing Atlantic Ocean circulation, thawing tundra, record temperatures in the oceans and on land.
The human cost is to put millions of lives at risk from extreme temperatures, flooding or failing food production and supply.
Billions will fall out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has lived for millennia and those who survive will have no option other than to try to find somewhere else to live.
As Ontario burns, campaigners are demanding action – not more pipelines, says DAVE McKEE
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
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



