Workers' Liberty

A review of Martin Empson, Marxism and ecology (2009).

Vestas occupier and activist Ian Terry who was in Copenhagen to speak at the Klimaforum and take part in Workers’ Climate Action activity against Vestas, spoke to Dan Rawnsley.

Workers Climate Action activists at the Copenhagen climate summit (7-18 December) marched in to the entrance hall of the 18th-century Odd Fellow palace, where the multinational wind turbine manufacturer Vestas was holding a drinks party, with banners and a megaphone. We remained there for around half an hour, chanting slogans and handing out leaflets to partygoers.

The Copenhagen climate talks were an utter failure. But what lessons do Marxists argue climate campaigners should draw from this experience?

The Copenhagen climate talks were an utter failure. But what lessons do Marxists argue climate campaigners should draw from this experience?

The Danish government had dubbed their project ‘Hopenhagen’ and billboards extolling this branding were placed all over the city with garish lighting displays and expensive statues.

World leaders have converged on Copenhagen, Denmark, for the UN Climate Change Conference; the notional aim is to put together a new global treaty on the climate, possibly to be signed next year and to come into effect when the Kyoto Treaty runs out in 2012.

Fresh from closing down production on the Isle of Wight, in Britain, wind-turbine multinational Vestas has announced that it will lay off workers in Colorado, USA.

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Members of the BASSA branch of the Unite union, which represents cabin crew working for British Airways, will begin re-balloting for strike action over pay freezes and job cuts on January 25th, with results due back on February 22nd.

The Copenhagen conference on 7-18 December will be a disappointment on a gargantuan scale. Whatever agreement is reached next week, it will not turn the tide in time to significantly reduce emissions.

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An activist with the Camp for Climate Action (Climate Camp) spoke to Solidarity about some shortcomings in its current politics.

The Stop Climate Chaos (SCC) coalition aims to mobilise 40,000 people for the largest ever climate demos in the UK on 5 December.

The climate talks in Copenhagen in December had been billed as the most important international meeting since the Second World War. Instead, they are likely to be the greatest let-down since global warming was first debated internationally two decades ago.

Sixty or seventy people attended the Workers’ Climate Action (WCA) conference in London on 10–11 October. Some had been involved in the network since the beginning, but many were new to WCA.

What follows is a critical report on the “Great Climate Swoop” a mobilisation by Climate Camp on Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station. It took place on 17–18 October.

Last weekend activists gathered at the University College London to discuss the politics and direction of Workers’ Climate Action. Some had been involved in the network since the beginning, but many were new to WCA.

At the end of September, the Morning Star published a letter I wrote that reflected the different approaches taken by the SWP and the AWL to the Vestas dispute after the end of the occupation