Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
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The Covid pandemic presents humanity with a stark choice
Capitalism is imploding, so humanity has a stark choice: preserve capitalism and run down the planet or preserve the planet and run down capitalism, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
Exuberance on the London Stock Exchange in 1992
The real ‘humanitarian threat’ isn’t Cuba but the United States, where poverty, lack of healthcare and illiteracy abound, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
Labour movement history in Britain shows workers secured reforms through collective pressure and political representation, rather than being gifted from above, writes KEITH FLETT
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
CAPITALISM has been imploding for a number of years; the coronavirus outbreak has brought it to a head.
Seen as necessary to save capitalism, the government’s interventions are good preparation for a post-capitalist future.
The railways fell into public ownership out of sheer necessity. Capitalism is calling on socialism to take over. It remains for the working class to do the same.
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