Environment

Governments, corporations, news outlets and social media reacted differently to two sea vessels’ tragedies, over the last two weeks. The first incident took place on 14 June. Over 500 migrants [...]

Sunday 12th February 2023 . We declare our solidarity with all the victims of the terrible earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday 6 February. This is a huge human catastrophe. [...]

Greenwash and lies cause disaster, while government promotes coal and methane Floods have again ravaged South Africa’s third-largest city, Durban, killing at least 300 residents on Monday, [...]

Climate change is probably the most talked about topic in the world today, even in spite of the scourge of Covid 19 which has literally brought the world to a stand-still. As is well established, [...]

Some eco-socialists still look to China as a hope in a hopeless world, impressed by the President’s words and advancements made in China to change its energy producing balance away from [...]

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released its latest report on the state of the climate crisis. The report comes at a time when the African continent [...]

Coronavirus is wreaking havoc across the world, killing people, hospitalizing countless others and spreading fear. Covid-19 has killed more than 40 000 across the world and has possibly infected [...]

1. The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is generally presented as a “natural disaster”, an “external shock” to the normal functioning of the capitalist system. But this is quite untrue. There [...]

The word catastrophe is being used more and more by institutions reporting on the effects of extreme weather in the two regions of Africa, Southern and South Eastern Africa, and of late [...]

With the unemployment rate in South Africa increased to 27.2 percent in the second quarter of 2018 from 26.7 percent in the previous period. The number of unemployed rose by 103 thousand to 6.08 [...]