Looking forward to COP26
by Róisín McLaren, SSP national co-spokesperson · This November, the biggest talking shop in the professional conference circuit comes to Glasgow, the UN Conference of Parties (COP26). COP is the ...
climate change
Menaced by multi-headed crisis – flight or fight?
by Ken Ferguson · Amidst the dizzying series of dramatic developments in the Brexit saga, creating a historic crisis in UK politics, it needs to be understood that it is also located in a much wider ...
Workers and youth unite against capitalist polluters
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As we live through the molten heat, thunder and lightning, floods and general climate chaos of recent weeks, new reports on the catastrophic ...
Voice Forum: Socialist Solutions to Climate Change
What progressive solutions to climate change can save the world and make the lives of working people better? Saturday 29th June, 11am-1pm, Grassmarket Centre, Edinburgh EH1 2QA · For tickets and ...
What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that enrich and improve the lives ...
A clean green Scotland is possible… if we act quickly
by Annie Morgan, Glasgow South SSP • The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that we have little more than a decade to curb emissions or face catastrophic climate ...
Climate change: Big Oil knew all along
by Roz Paterson • You know what the worst thing is? They knew all along. Yes, they did! But then, you knew they knew, didn’t you? In your heart of hearts. In a sea of knowledge, they just ...
BiFab battle shows why we need public ownership
by Ken Ferguson • The successful outcome of the battle to protect the green jobs and skills at the BiFab engineering yards is a rare and highly welcome victory for workers and their unions. It is ...
Is climate change turning our food to junk?
Roz Paterson looks at some worrying new research • One thing we can all agree on—and that includes even the most right-wing, climate-change sceptical, oil-drunk zealot—is that there is more ...
Harvey’s havoc: a picture of a world that ignores climate change
by Roz Paterson • “I’m sick of this 100 year bullshit; this is the new norm.” So says one resident of Houston, Texas, who recently bought a family home in an affluent area of the city, billed ...
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