Climate and Environmental Crisis

Community confronts company and politicians after train wreck

President Joe Biden’s trip to Kiev, Ukraine, Feb. 20 shocked people living near East Palestine, Ohio, who have been devastated…

March 2, 2023

Portrait of the eco-defender as a young man

By Julia Wright The one is an elder behind bars. The other is a young man who lives thousands of…

February 23, 2023

Profit motive behind fiery, toxic train wreck

Corporate greed and capitalist irresponsibility led to a fiery, jackknifed derailment of a Norfolk Southern Railway train in East Palestine,…

February 13, 2023

The working class − gravediggers of capitalism

Based on a talk given at the Feb. 5 webinar “Global Class War: Lessons from Sam Marcy for workers struggles…

February 9, 2023

Georgia is in a State of Emergency??? An Atlanta resident’s response

In the afternoon of Jan. 26, Governor Brian Kemp declared a “state of emergency” in Georgia, to run through Feb.…

January 31, 2023

The killing of Forest Defender Tortuguita in Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia Public outrage, resistance and sadness at the senseless killing of a Forest Defender — 26-year-old Manuel Teran, known…

January 24, 2023

Southwest Airlines: Hundreds of thousands impacted by capitalist greed

Airlines canceled over 18,200 flights in the U.S. and hundreds more in Canada between Dec. 22 and 28, affecting millions…

January 13, 2023

Buffalo ‘bomb cyclone’ exposes failure of capitalism

Buffalo, New York Buffalo is reeling from its worst snowstorm in a generation. From Dec. 23-25, Western New York state…

December 29, 2022

Disastrous Keystone oil spill in Kansas

A major Keystone oil spill of roughly 600,000 gallons occurred Dec. 7 in a creek in rural Washington County, Kansas,…

December 23, 2022

Water polluting energy company gets green light to resume fracking

Pennsylvania Nearly 14 years after a water well explosion on Jan. 1, 2009, made residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, aware of…

December 21, 2022