Science and Technology
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By Dan Morley
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Monday, 14 February 2011 |
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A new documentary produced by the BBC, called ‘The Secret Life of Chaos’
(it has now been taken down from iPlayer, but can still be seen here: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secret-life-chaos/ )
has attempted, with a degree of success, to reveal how the latest
developments in science through ‘chaos theory’ are finally beginning to
make redundant any religious explanation of the workings of the universe
and the emergence of intelligent life.
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By Marxist.com
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Thursday, 14 October 2010 |
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The "red mud" surge in Hungary several days ago, which destroyed houses, ruined land, cost a number of lives and has poluted the Danube - with a second surge being threatened - has shocked people not only in Hungary but throughout Europe and beyond. How did it happen - and who is to blame? The bosses media outlets are being in the main somewhat vague on this - our reporter in Hungary goes behind the scenes.
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By Our Oil Industry reporter
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 |
 Much is said in the news about the disastrous situation that now
exists in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon
explosion. An ecological disaster of gigantic proportions has been
created by the profit motive, which is what drives the BP executives.
However, were the company to be thoroughly unionised, with workers’
representatives controlling every level of safety, this disaster could
have been averted.
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By Michael Hureaux Perez in the USA
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 |
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the
real state of US capitalism today. While making a lot of noise, Obama
is not prepared to take on the oil companies in any serious meaningful
way. What he is doing is passing the buck to the US working class.
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By An ex-oil worker
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Tuesday, 22 June 2010 |
 The huge spillage of oil in the Gulf of Mexico was an accident
waiting to happen, as this brief comment from an ex-oil worker points
out. It shows quite clearly that our environment cannot be left in the
hands of a greedy, money-grabbing coterie of capitalists who own and
control the means of production.
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By Michael Hureaux Perez (USA)
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Monday, 17 May 2010 |
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It’s been close to a month since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig
exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, just 45 miles south of the
already beleaguered gulf coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. The
ensuing oil spill may well surpass that which followed the wreck of the
Exxon Valdez, which poured over 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s
Prince William Sound in the spring of 1989.
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By Will Roche BECTU (personal capacity)
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Monday, 19 April 2010 |
 The House of
Lords has just approved the Digital Economy Bill. It has caused ripples
across
the technology world, most notably because of its proposals regarding
the
suspension of repeat file sharers’ internet connections, and gives the
courts
power to issue injunctions against websites accused of hosting
copyright-infringing material. Internet freedom campaigners have reacted
with
dismay.
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By Adam Booth and Chris Burrows
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Thursday, 01 April 2010 |
 For many people, the idea of a revolutionary change in
society seems like a pipe-dream that will never be possible in their
lifetime. In this respect, Trotsky developed the idea of
the “Transitional
Programme”: a set of demands that could take society from our current
situation
under capitalism, towards our final goal of international socialism. What
would such a transitional programme look like for the
environment? What set of demands should socialists make regarding the
climate
change?
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By Adam Booth
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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
 In the previous few months, we have attempted to show how capitalist
‘solutions’ to climate change, such as market-based methods like carbon
trading, are not able to combat the environmental problems facing
humanity and our planet. Similarly,
international treaties that attempt to operate within the confines of
capitalism are also doomed to failure, as was seen in Copenhagen last
year. Capitalism cannot solve these problems – capitalism is the
problem.
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By Antonio Bâlmer (www.marxist.com)
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 |
 In the society in which we currently
find ourselves, class society, a small minority of the population holds
ownership and control over industry, banks and all major means for
producing wealth. Because we, the workers, do not get to enjoy this
wealth, although we create it, our lives are reduced to working for
wages that disappear when we pay the bills. How does the ruling class
keep us putting up with such a lifestyle? One way is the fact that the
ruling class’s ideology permeates contemporary culture and dominates
the media.
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By Frederik Ohsten in Copenhagen Friday, 18 December 2009 Print
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Tuesday, 22 December 2009 |
 The dramatic collapse of the talks at
the Climate Summit in Copenhagen serves to highlight one thing: the
capitalist governments of the world cannot solve burning issues, such
as damage to the environment provoked by the anarchy of the market. The
thirst for profit is in direct contradiction to the interests of the
working people of the world. Social revolution on a global scale is the
only real answer to the problem.
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By Adam Booth
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Monday, 21 December 2009 |
 At 5.30am on Saturday 19th
December, after almost two weeks of negotiations, the UN Framework Convention
on Climate Change in Copenhagen
ended with an almost universal agreement that the summit had been a complete
failure.
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By Socialistisk Standpunkt
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Friday, 11 December 2009 |
 As the climate change "summit" continues in Copenhapen, we reproduce here an English translation of a leaflet produced by Marxists in Denmark for a demonstration last Saturday
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By Adam Booth
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Sunday, 29 November 2009 |
 From 7th to 18th December
2009, delegates from 192 countries will be gathering in Copenhagen, Denmark,
in order to create a new, “legally-binding”, global treaty on climate change.
The UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (known
as COP15) marks the culmination of two-years of negotiation to try and generate
a replacement for the Kyoto
protocol, which is due to expire in 2012.
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By Andy Fenwick
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
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At a recent meeting of a local Labour Party
Branch in Worcester,
a slick high tech presentation was given by a group called Transition Worcester,
who said they had the answer to the environmental crisis. It is to turn the
clock back 200 years to a mythical age where all trade was local and people
enjoyed the benefit of locally grown meat, fruit & veg. Within this presentation were ideas such as we
should no longer trade with developing countries and we should therefore export
our unemployment to the third world.
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