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 PRO Act as the key to building back a powerful...
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 392. As of February 2021, Mauna...
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 climate virtue. True enough, the tax incentives were a...
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 who create them. Register for the event, which will...
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 environmental record while ignoring his own efforts...
We need to build a strike-capable mass movement that unites diverse groups behind powerful demands for system change. This is the only way to reverse course on climate destruction and intertwined crises. There is no time to waste. This...
Voting for Biden won’t save them. Not voting for Biden will doom them. You couldn’t have paid me to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016; I’d voted for all prior Green Party candidates over the dreadful Democratic Party choices — except for the...
One strategy for lowering CO2 emissions, favored by many environmental organizations and currently implemented in several states, is to formally impose a “social cost of carbon,” or SCC, at the point of production. Proponents claim that this would...
Joe Biden’s political resume is a catalog of reasons we on the Left condemn the Democratic Party as one of the “two right wings” of the single party of capital. Yesterday’s Man is frack-happy, dances with billionaires, and wants to jail anarchists...
“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to...
