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Marxism, millennials, and climate change
“How could there be global warming? It’s 17 degrees out and it’s not even winter.” It was mid-November in Connecticut. The locker room saw men, mostly older, nod their heads in agreement. “Common sense tells you it’s just so much bunk.” The man holding “court” continued while the rest of us changed into our workout clothes. Now, what do climatologists tell us? The poles of planet Earth are warming...
Proposed Resolution: Defend working families from climate change horror
Submitted by the Illinois Communist Party Convention Scientists warn that climate change is already placing "the well-being of people of all nations at risk". They also warn about a "chance of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts on people in the United States and around the world". Other alerts show that glaciers are already melting from Greenland to Antarctica faster than expected. The melt is causing...
Trump's rejection of climate change: What is to be done?
Against slow moving and somewhat abstract threats, we tend not to be highly motivated to act even if the challenges are ultimately dire.
Convention Discussion: Climate change is an urgent necessity
Submitted by Juan Lopez, National Vice Chair CPUSA, Oakland, CA This too is an area that requires our party and members' involvement with most urgent laser beam focus. I of course agree when comrades point out that Climate Change is the product of capitalism and the class propelling the system. The real solution lies in a sustainable socialist society. We should definitely bring this into the discourse. But, it is...
Marxism on Climate Change; Nature is also Fundamental
Climate change and other environmental challenges are forcing us to look to the other part of the equation also, that of the nature from which all value is derived. If there are insufficient resources to feed, clothe, and house humanity, to provide the natural resources which are acted upon by production and technology, that too will have fundamental effects on what kind of society we have.
Puerto Rico’s crisis: capitalism, colonialism and climate change
Support for Puerto Rico is part of the resistance movement and we have to frame it as such.
Capitalism, climate and class power
Join us for the CPUSA teleconference on climate change and capitalism with Marc Brodine, Tuesday, January 17.
Change is Here, Change is Coming
(Remarks to National Committee Meeting June 20, 2009) I make no attempt to be comprehensive in these remarks. My aim is much more modest, as you will see. Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation...