News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
By Janelle Velina It is about time that socialists in the West put their fears about nuclear power aside and consider the benefits and the greater potential that nuclear energy can bring under a socialist system. The movement against it was a negative critical point for socialism in the West, with Big Oil holding back progress. See... Continue Reading →
[With the technological boom, capitalism has driven the world into a disgusting, unprecedented level of consumerism and waste that is spoiling our environment and destroying the lives of some of the poorest people on Earth. This article is just one example that shows that it is almost always the proletarian world that is left to... Continue Reading →
[Lenin reminds us in this 1913 article of the sinister, bourgeois, and reactionary nature of neo-Malthusianism which is a defeatist and anti-worker outlook that is antithetical to historical progress. In more recent years, adopting this extremely misanthropic stance with regard to the environment and climate change seems to be an increasing (and alarming) trend in... Continue Reading →
[The article below details how environmental destruction, poverty, and economic crises are rooted in the imperialist nations' problems of overconsumption and unequal wealth distribution. The neo-Malthusian narrative about "useless eaters" and that the world has an "overpopulation" problem is beneficial to the capitalist class because when all focus and blame is shifted away from the... Continue Reading →
[This is terrible news for all life on Earth. The continued and accelerating destruction of the Amazon will have a catastrophic environmental impact for the entire planet, not just within the country of Brazil. It should be clear to every sane person that the greed of capitalism is driving humanity towards an ecological apocalypse. Half-measures... Continue Reading →
[Profit is the driving force behind the extinction of many animals. Now with less than 100,000 left, it appears that the giraffe might also meet the same fate. This article from The Guardian highlights the disgusting nature of consumer culture in the US, and how it is contributing to the decline of a magnificent species.... Continue Reading →
[As Hurricane Matthew gains strength it is important to remember how these extreme weather events caused by global warming effect people from Third World nations. Many have expressed concern for Haiti in particular. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It has been the victim of the most US military interventions in history.... Continue Reading →
[Water is key to life! Without fresh water we are doomed! Through pollution, climate change, and over-consumption, fresh water is becoming more and more scarce. In the article below we can see how the oppressed in India have mistakenly turned against each other in the fight for water. It is important that the oppressed maintain... Continue Reading →
[Our common home is under attack! Our dearest comrade Planet Earth, who gives us life, is slowly shedding us. At the ends of the Earth, the Ice Caps are melting because humans cannot stop their addiction to cheap oil. In Africa, western oil corporations exploit weak regulations to sell toxic fuel to our fellow beings. ... Continue Reading →
by Ahmad Ibrahim PHOTOS: KAZI TAHSIN AGAZ APURBO (http://www.thedailystar.net/) Mondagini Bakti stands in front of me with her left hand on her hip and her right hand outstretched towards the light, her palm stained with the yellow of ground turmeric. “Usually, I grow tomatoes, sometimes potatoes and also eggplants. But this year, I've also planted... Continue Reading →
[Climate change is a global problem that will require a global response with international coordination. The capitalist-imperialist system is incapable of solving this issue for many reasons; chiefly because its endless and wasteful consumption is the primary source of the problem. The old global economic order must be smashed and be replaced by the New... Continue Reading →
by Robinson Meyer (the Atlantic) The sun has not risen above the North Pole since mid-September. The sea ice—flat, landlike, windswept, and stretching as far as the eye can see—has been bathed in darkness for months. But later this week, something extraordinary will happen: Air temperatures at the Earth’s most northernly region, in the middle... Continue Reading →
