Harsh Chemicals burn worker’s skin
Janise Botstander* gives an account of farmworker Willem Vink’s, skin poisining and his dismissal.
Month: July 2011
Breath for bus (life in Sasolburg)
Lebohang Mokoena* explains air pollution, its causes and effects on people’s health. He argues for the need for pollution control in developing countries such as South Africa.
Global Food Security
Vandana Cowley* discusses global food security in the light of increasing food prices, socio economic conditions and climate change; as well as the particular burden that falls on women.
The relation between climate change and food security
Jacklyn Cock discusses climate change and how it deepens the struggle for food security, especially in Africa. She argues that because of its methods of production, capitalism cannot solve the crisis but will only deepen it.
ALTERNATIVES: Transitional Programme for the Environment
In this article Adam Booth discusses environmental issues in the context of a transitional programme. This is a programme that can shift economies under capitalism in an anti-capitalist direction.
Eco-socialism: ‘feasible environmental solutions’
Green Left Weekly’s* Leslie Richmond spoke to John Rice, activist, socialist, Greens member and one of the initiators of the network.
Campaign Against Climate Change: climate jobs
Climate jobs are jobs that cut down the amount of greenhouse gases we put in the air and thus slow down climate change. ‘Green jobs’ […]
Greenpeace and the challenge of local activism
Patrick Bond* criticises the methods of Greenpeace and some of their decisions to support the South African government, and argues that they need to support local activism.
Documents of the movement: World people’s conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Indigenous People’s Declaration Mother Earth can live without us, be we can’t live without her. We, the Indigenous Peoples, nations and organisations from all over […]
Climate Justice in Not Negotiable!
The hosting of the COP17 conference in Durban at the end of this year has focused the minds of the social justice movement in South […]