The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the fatal explosion on the BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig has exceeded the Exxon Valdez catastrophe of 1989, when eleven million gallons of crude oil devastated the pristine Alaskan coastline.
A White House energy official described the Gulf of Mexico spill as the worst environmental disaster [...]

Peter Hadden died peacefully at his home in Belfast on 5 May 2010 and was cremated at Roselawn Cemetery on 10 May. Peter, who died of cancer which he had fought every inch of the way over the previous three years, was 60 years of age.
This obituary will not do justice to Peter Hadden, no [...]

As the Copenhagen summit approached last December, Scientific American ran a striking cover story, A Plan for a Sustainable Future. This showed how wind, water and solar power could supply the entire world’s energy needs by 2030. (November 2009) Renewable energy is superabundant. Authors Mark Jacobson of Stanford University and Mark Delucchi of the University [...]

The fightback has just begun!
For fighting unions and mass workers’ parties! For international solidarity and socialism! No to war and occupation! Support the Greek general strike against capitalism’s austerity! For a European-wide day of action on 5 May!
This is a “situation of war” – said Greek Prime Minister, Papandreou, in presenting the case for cuts, [...]

May 1, or May Day, is an important day in the history of the labour movement. For more than 120 years it has been a focal point for internationalism and the fight for workers rights.
It was the first Congress of the Second International in 1889 that decided to organise worldwide demonstrations on May Day to [...]

A mass uprising starting in Talaz rapidly spread to Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, last week. Demonstrators defied the bullets of the riot police to overthrow the hated regime of president Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who fled to the south of the former Soviet republic.
More than 80 opposition protesters were gunned down and a further 400 [...]

The worst capitalist crisis since the 1930s has led to increasing crises, turbulence and change in the world. The crisis has shattered the ‘eternal growth’ perspective put forward by the ruling classes during the economic upswing and undermined the legitimacy of capitalist governments and institutions.
In the development of the eurozone (which ‘celebrated’ its 10th anniversary [...]

But is this a reason to celebrate?
There is a palpable feeling of euphoria that extends beyond Washington over the passage of what is known as the Obama Health Care bill in the House of Representatives. The US Health Care Act passed with a narrow majority of 219-212 with not a single Republican vote in favor [...]

SP Newsletter No.302
Scandals over the past few months have given rise to people’s concerns about the reliability of scientific evidence on climate change. Recent polls have also suggested that concern about the threat of global warming is weakening in Australia.
In November it was alleged that a series of hacked emails from the Climate Research [...]

“Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Death Row for almost 30 years in Pennsylvania. He’s currently sitting in a very small dark cell on death row. He is in solitary confinement as are all on Death Row. Mumia only gets to bathe three times a week. He is allowed outside five days a week for a [...]