Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
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The climate crisis resides in a developmental context
For real climate co-operation, which seeks the salvation of our planet and humanity, Sino-US tensions must be eased, argues KEITH LAMB
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
“HOW can we achieve our global climate goals without having Beijing working with us? We can’t it’s that simple! There’s no way any one country can solve this crisis and particularly if we’re large emitting nations.”
This was the answer of US climate envoy John Kerry being interviewed on MSNBC.
He went on to say that China and the US had agreed to separate climate, which affects us all, from the many other bilateral Sino-US issues.
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