Climate and Environmental Crisis

The climate crisis is a working-class issue — and the working class has the power to stop it!

This statement was distributed at climate strike actions by the International Workers’ Solidarity Network. We’re all angry. All of us…

September 26, 2019

Indonesian fires threaten millions

Over the past few months, fires have destroyed millions of acres of rainforest in Brazil’s Amazon region, normally one of…

September 26, 2019

Reforestación: Cuba lidera el camino

Antes de 1492, lo que hoy es Estados Unidos tenía alrededor de mil millones de acres de bosques. Desde 1600…

September 26, 2019

¡Hagamos a las corporaciones, bancos y el Pentágono pagar por las reparaciones climáticas!

La huelga climática global del 20 al 27 de septiembre exige un examen inquebrantable de las raíces de la crisis…

September 26, 2019

Youth lead as millions say ‘Planet, not profits!’

Sept. 20 — ​Around the world today, it’s estimated that 4 million people took to the streets in an unprecedented…

September 24, 2019

Make the corporations, banks and Pentagon pay climate reparations!

The Global Climate Strike of Sept. 20-27 calls for an unflinching examination of the roots of the climate crisis. Despite…

September 18, 2019

Climate crisis poses life-and-death threat to people with disabilities

“It’s time to recognize climate change as a disability rights issue” was the headline for an article by Tiffany Yu,…

September 18, 2019

Reforestation: Cuba leads the way

Before 1492, what is today the United States had about 1 billion acres of forests. From 1600 on, at least…

September 18, 2019

Indicting the Pentagon as climate criminal

Why is the vast global movement that focuses on the imminent crisis facing the planet -- the climate crisis --…

September 18, 2019

Labor and climate activism

The prevailing myths about U.S. workers and the organized labor movement — that labor and climate action are in conflict,…

September 18, 2019