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How the PRO Act Will Change U.S. Labor Law
Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change | April 23, 2021
With the news that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin will co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, Labor and its allies are beginning to get a gleam in their eyes. Labor activists see the... read more

Ecosocialism and the Climate Crisis
David Klein | System Change Not Climate Change | March 21, 2021
Humanity's failure to slow the rate of global heating can be measured by a single number: the number of parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. A decade ago this number was... read more

This Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like
Kate Aronoff | The New Republic | March 10, 2021
The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension. Tuesday night [March 9], the Protecting the Right to Organize Act passed the House by 225–205... read more

New IEA Data Shows World on Path to Resume 'Carbon-Intensive Business-as-Usual'
Andrea Germanos | Common Dreams | March 3, 2021
Following warnings that the coronavirus-triggered drop in planet-warming emissions would be short-lived without structural changes, the International Energy Agency released data Tuesday showing that... read more

Structures of Fossil Feeling: Ashley Dawson's People's Power
Dave Jones | New Politics | February 1, 2021
A Review of Ashley Dawson, People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (OR Books, 2020) I don’t mind admitting, when my wife and I purchased a solar array two years ago, I basked a bit in my... read more

Ecosocialist Solstice Live Artists Showcase Sunday 20 December
System Change Not Climate Change | Facebook Live | December 19, 2020
SCNCC is thrilled to be hosting our first Ecosocialist Solstice Artivists Showcase, in which we will feature and celebrate the visual, escritorial, and performing arts, and the artists and writers... read more

Covid-19 and Capitalist Production: A Review of Rob Wallace’s Dead Epidemiologists
John Reimann | Left Voice | November 29, 2020
In Rob Wallace’s most recent book, he reviews what is known about the development of the virus that causes Covid-19 in the context of industrial farming combined with habitat destruction. Inherent... read more

China's President Xi Jinping inspects the Three Gorges Dam

Climate Arsonist Xi Jinping: A Carbon-Neutral Economy with a 6% Growth Rate?
Richard Smith | System Change Not Climate Change | November 22, 2020
With California and Oregon on fire as Climate Week opened in New York on September 21 “climate arsonist” Donald Trump took to the virtual floor of the UN General Assembly and slammed China for its... read more

Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm’s ecological revolution
Cihan Tugal | Open Democracy | October 30, 2020
Although scientists have been publishing on the viral consequences of deforestation for decades, Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency is the first publicly accessible book that... read more

SCNCC Perspectives & Guest Commentaries

How the PRO Act Will Change U.S. Labor Law

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Structures of Fossil Feeling: Ashley Dawson's People's Power

Dave Jones | New Politics

Ecosocialist Solstice Live Artists Showcase Sunday 20 December

System Change Not Climate Change | Facebook Live

Climate Arsonist Xi Jinping: A Carbon-Neutral Economy with a 6% Growth Rate?

Richard Smith | System Change Not Climate Change

Endorsing Biden Undercuts the Left

Carol Dansereau | System Change Not Climate Change

Silhouette of a child up peering through a fence at the U.S. border

For the Children, the Bunnies, the Redwoods, the POC, the Women

Maura Stephens | System Change Not Climate Change

Credit: Photo illustration by Laura Darling

“Social Cost of Carbon”: What Price Existence?

Dave Jones | System Change Not Climate Change

Trump or Biden? Duh! We’re picking our battleground, not our leader

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Fine particles hang in the air over Shanghai, China, 2009 (Photo by Lei Han) Creative Commons license via Flickr

The Chinese Communist Party Is an Environmental Catastrophe

Richard Smith | Foreign Policy

Covid-19 and Capitalist Production: A Review of Rob Wallace’s Dead Epidemiologists

John Reimann | Left Voice

Mike Davis & Rob Wallace on Covid, Capitalism & Ecology

Global Ecosocialist Network | YouTube

Kali Akuno on the Path to Ecosocialism and Survival

System Change Not Climate Change | YouTube

We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis

Ted Franklin | Truthout

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm

Team | System Change Not Climate Change

Marxism in an age of catastrophe - capitalism created an era of plagues

Mike Davis | Socialist Worker

Chicago nurses protest lack of protective masks.

'Make the Damn Masks!'

Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability

COVID-19: Updates & Analysis for Activists

Staff | Center for Political Education

Women in India queue up to buy groceries

The Pandemic Is a Portal

Arundhati Roy | Financial Times

Joe Biden at an October 2020 Town Hall on ABC

Biden: Now YOU Need to Follow Climate Science

Jeff Cohen | Common Dreams

Is there still time to stop climate catastrophe?

Phil Gasper | SocialistWorker.org

IPCC Report: First Thoughts on Next Steps

Sydney Azari | Medium.com

The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism

David Klein | truthout.org

Scientists propose changing the rules of history to avoid environmental collapse

University College London | Phys.org

Trump’s war on science

Cliff Connor | Socialist Action

The Sea Level Threat To Cities Depends On Where The Ice Melts — Not Just How Fast

Christopher Joyce | NPR

Ice Apocalypse

Eric Holthaus | Grist

Scientists Issue Dire Warning on Climate Change & Key Researcher Urges “Changes in How We Live”

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

Ecosocialism and the Climate Crisis

David Klein | System Change Not Climate Change

Ecosocialist Solstice Live Artists Showcase Sunday 20 December

System Change Not Climate Change | Facebook Live

Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm’s ecological revolution

Cihan Tugal | Open Democracy

Imagining the End of Capitalism with Kim Stanley Robinson

Derrick O'Keefe | Jacobin

Ecosocialism and the Potential for Cultural Change

Mike Shaughnessy | London Green Left

Kali Akuno on the Path to Ecosocialism and Survival

System Change Not Climate Change | YouTube

We Need a Green New Deal to Confront the Economic Crash and Climate Crisis

Ted Franklin | Truthout

Green New Deal protest march - Sunrise Movement

Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change

Naomi Klein | Dissent

Graffiti from Melbourne - Less Cops More Nurses

Social Reproduction Theory And Why We Need it to Make Sense of the Corona Virus Crisis.

Tithi Bhattacharya | Blog

How the PRO Act Will Change U.S. Labor Law

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

This Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like

Kate Aronoff | The New Republic

Leninism without the working class? The missing subject in Malm’s ecological revolution

Cihan Tugal | Open Democracy

What Can Workers Do to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee | Facebook Live

How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup

Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability

Rogue Action Center burned to the ground by wildfire

As the West Coast Burns, We Don’t Need Unity. We Need to Point the Finger at Those Responsible

Ryan Olds | Labor Notes

The Australian Green Bans: When Construction Workers Went on Strike for the Environment

Steve Morse | Labor Notes

Jeremy Brecher on Using Our Power to Stop Climate Disaster and Create a Just World

System Change Not Climate Change | YouTube

Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism

Jeff Cohen | Common Dreams

Meeting Chaos With Calm: How To Prepare For A Potential Coup

Mateo Nube | Medium

Social Self-Defense Against the Impending Trump Coup

Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability

Kali Akuno on the Path to Ecosocialism and Survival

System Change Not Climate Change | YouTube

Trump or Biden? Duh! We’re picking our battleground, not our leader

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Just Saying "Systemic Racism" Doesn't Expose Systemic Racism

Jeff Cohen | Common Dreams

Police officer wearing gas mask Credit: Tony Webster/Creative Commons

Caring About the Climate Crisis Means Supporting the Demand to Defund the Police

Alec Common | Common Dreams

Strike for Your Life!

Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability

Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019

| 350.org

"All eyes of the world are on Juliana" - Tune in Tuesday

Editors | SCNCC

The Australian Green Bans: When Construction Workers Went on Strike for the Environment

Steve Morse | Labor Notes

Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm

Team | System Change Not Climate Change

Flags fly at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in 2016, near Cannonball, North Dakota

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Prevails as Federal Judge Strikes Down DAPL Permits

Press Room | Earthjustice

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Jessica Garraway | Common Dreams

Native rights and resistance after Standing Rock

Nick Estes and Ragina Johnson interviewed by Khury Petersen-Smith | Socialist Worker

Groundbreaking “Carbon Pricing Report” Released by Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance at COP 23

Jade Begay | Common Dreams

Will You 'Promise to Protect'? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL

Jake Johnson | Common Dreams

Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance

Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance |

Special Report: Revolt at Trump’s Pro-Coal, Pro-Nuclear & Pro-Gas Panel Rocks U.N. Climate Summit

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C

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