If socialism in one country was a pipe dream, so will be the idea of an ecological transition in one country. To make it work, the Green New Deal will have to be internationalized.

The damage caused by air pollution is now being compared to the effects of tobacco use. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution poses the greatest environmental threat to global health in 2019, killing seven million people prematurely every year, which is around the number of deaths caused by cigarettes.

Dec 12, 2018

Introduction

Québec solidaire will make climate change the party’s main political campaign issue in the coming year, both in and outside the National Assembly. The campaign will build on the major proposals in the QS economic transition plan featured in the recent Quebec general election.

[Web page editors note: See this compilation of articles that offer background for understanding events in Venezuela.]

Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? 10 facts to counter the lies

[reposted from Green Left Weekly]

by Pascualina Curcio, January 25, 2019

Click here for this leaflet distributed by Vancouver Ecosocialists.

Kamran Nayeri | Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism | January 5, 2019

There have been millions of conflicts that reflect the fundamental antagonism between the working class and capital: in workplaces, in politics, in most of the institutions that help make the system tick. Through struggles, workers, sometimes in alliance with peasants, have won markedly better working conditions, protective laws, extensive social welfare provisions, even, in a few cases, sweeping revolutionary transformations. They have fought against racism and sexism and the destruction of Mother Earth. Indeed, the working class has significantly changed the world.