Author: alanjjohnstone
No Nations
After Glasgow’s COP26, many who attended, either as delegates or protesters, go away disappointed that for all the talking, the summit had not accomplished its aims. Success was always a forlorn hope. The World Socialist Movement is trying to get all those who have been excluded from the ownership and control of the means of production…
What does ‘too many people’ mean?
We are told that the more people there are in the world it must mean more resources used and therefore fewer resources to go around for everyone. It is a logic that has led to some highly unsavoury arguments reflecting racist views. By arguing that population growth is the main cause of hunger and environmental ruination, we play into the hands…
The Worst of Times
The environmental crisis is not the result of exceptions nor of any aberrations to the market and profit accumulation system of capitalism. The system of capitalism is at the centre of our climate change emergency with its production of commodities for the sake of realising surplus value. The World Socialist Movement (WSM) exposes the capitalist system’s destructive relationship with nature and its disastrous consequences. Our planet is being poisoned…
EL MITO sobre los impuestos
Cuando los partidos políticos capitalistas están en desacuerdo, el tema de los impuestos a menudo se cierne sobre nosotros. ¿Debería reducirse o aumentarse el impuesto sobre la renta? ¿Qué se debe hacer con respecto a los impuestos del gobierno local? ¿Por qué todo el alboroto sobre los impuestos es tan importante? ¿Por qué impuestos? Para…
We, the People
Politicians, UN officials, NGO members, and thousands of environmental activists from across the world have come to Glasgow’s COP26 to decide what ‘green’ economics really means. They all agree and accept that each country is to interpret the concept of a green economy according to national priorities and it is up to each country to define what is meant by a…
The Peoples’ Planet
The long-anticipated COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow is not very promising for our human civilisation. The well-established data of the realities of global warming is now very clear. The issue isn’t the science, it’s now the politics and the economics. Saving the environment must also go hand in hand with the rights of capitalists and nations to make…
LA DEGRADACIÓN DEL PRIMERO DE MAYO
PRIMERO DE MAYO, AYER Y HOY El Primero de Mayo está aquí de nuevo, con sus diferentes tipos de celebraciones. La que nos preocupa son las manifestaciones y procesiones de los trabajadores que han sido una característica en muchas partes del mundo desde la última década del siglo 19. Estamos celebrando nuestras propias manifestaciones del…
Can Climate Activism Be The Catalyst for Socialism?
The dream of a just and class-free society has long stirred the hopes of women and men, shackled by exploitation, poverty, oppression, and war. The early 19th-century labour movement envisioned a cooperative community of producers and many constructed intricate blueprints for egalitarian societies. So we can’t claim that Marx and Engels invented the idea of a…
¿ADMITIÓ LENIN LA DERROTA?
La última lucha de Lenin, de Moshe Lewin. Faber y Faber. 36s. Las últimas cartas y artículos de Lenin, Progress Publishers, Moscú. Lenin hizo su último discurso público en noviembre de 1922 en el Soviet de Moscú. Murió en enero de 1924, pero no había podido hablar ni escribir desde el marzo anterior. Así, las…
Our Socialist Ecotopia
The World Socialist Movement (WSM) declines to camouflage its goals out of concern that they might be perceived as unpopular. Not usually received as receptively as it should by some environmentalists, our aspiration of producing an abundance to provide plenty-for-all, appears contrary to the austere anti-growth message advocated by various green activists. But it is certainly a goal…