Socialist Standard Past & Present

From Issue 20 of the World Socialist Review A recent episode of the PBS progra m Now , broadcast nationwide in most states on 4/22/2005, ann...

The Pathfinders Column from the December 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard “It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases… is c...

From the October 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard The findings of a survey carried out by YouGov in the wake of the recent Earth Summit ...

From the October 2002 issue of the Socialist Standard The record of Earth summits prior to Johannesburg can be summed up in four words: high...

From the September 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard A week may be a long time in politics, but it seems that ten years is not enough fo...

The Cooking the Books column from the July 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard In his book on the dangers of global warming, Heat, George...

From the December 2000 issue of the Socialist Standard We’ve been here before. On 28 June 1997, the Guardian announced: “EARTH SUMMIT ENDS...

From the July 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard That’s the most that will ever be done under capitalism about the problems that global w...

The Voice From The Back Column from the March 1999 issue of the Socialist Standard Knowledge is power “Evolution,” says the message from th...

From the February 1998 issue of the Socialist Standard In August of last year, analysing the Earth II Summit, we hinted that nothing much s...

From the April 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard At election times it often suits politicians to make sympathetic noises about environmen...

From the March 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard  The beginning of February saw the world’s top experts on climatic change descend on th...

The Cooking the Books column from the August 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard President George Bush II is nothing if not frank, ...

From the May 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard The US Government has abandoned its commitment to the Kyoto protocols for reducing...

The Cooking the Books column from the May 2008 issue of the Socialist Standard Of the fossil fuels the worst in terms of emitting carb...