Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
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Putting workers at the heart of a just transition
While it’s becoming harder for world leaders to deny the climate emergency, it’s still possible for them to deny the role capitalism has played in causing it, writes MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP
WARNING: A projection at the Grangemouth Oil Refinery in Falkirk
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG
But the beneath the racism and misogyny of the far right lies a shared grievance with the left — Starmer’s complete betrayal of working people, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Lucy Powell may not exactly be the left’s choice, but her bid for the deputy leadership is certainly not the Labour right’s choice — and if she wins, that could mean the ascendancy of Andy Burnham and the end of Keir Starmer, writes VINCE MILLS
THE world’s leaders have descended on Glasgow, for what many agree are the most important climate talks in history.
While our Westminster and Scottish governments attempt to greenwash their records, and delegations of negotiators rub shoulders with the world’s most polluting companies, many are looking to the grassroots activists outside the conference for real leadership.
It’s clear that a transition is inevitable. The relentless efforts of environmental scientists, community campaigners and indigenous peoples have made climate denialism a fringe view. The question now is what action will be taken to ensure the transition is a just one.
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Attempts to mystify the workings of the economy in a neoliberal smog are failing — the British public is calling out for an interventionist approach under direct state control, writes MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP
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