We are living through a decisive period in the fight against climate change. At current rates we are heading for 3C of global warming by the year 2100 \u2014 well above the 2C limit set by the Paris Agreement to avert a climate disaster.<\/p>\n
This disaster is already unfolding. China, Germany and Belgium have been hit by unprecedented flooding in 2021. In the US, Canada, Turkey and Greece, severe heatwaves have taken hundreds of lives. It is clearer than ever that we need to act now. In light of this, November\u2019s COP26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, will pose important questions about how to seriously tackle climate change.<\/p>\n
Since the last summit in 2019 the situation has only got worse. A growing list of big business affiliates to the COP26 highlights that any kind of \u201csystem change\u201d is off the table for the assembled governments. The conference will not provide any serious solutions. But it will be an important opportunity to get organized and build a fight for real action. This is why International Socialist Alternative (ISA) is mobilizing for a big and loud socialist contingent in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
This is the leaflet that ISA members will distribute in the Glasgow protests:<\/p>\n
Capitalism is killing the planet \u2014 fight for a socialist alternative!<\/strong><\/p>\n We are an international organisation of revolutionary socialists in over 30 countries fighting for an end to capitalism and its crises including the worsening of the climate crisis and all forms of oppression. Join our international mobilisation to protest the COP26 climate summit in November: https:\/\/linktr.ee\/SocialistAlternativeForClimate<\/p>\n We are living through a decisive period in the fight against climate change. At current rates we are heading for 3C of global warming by the year 2100 \u2014 well above the 2C limit set by the Paris Agreement to avert a climate disaster. This disaster is already unfolding. China, Germany and Belgium have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[148,124],"tags":[37194,37199],"class_list":{"0":"post-30703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-news","9":"tag-cop26-3","10":"tag-glasgow"},"yoast_head":"\n\n
\n<\/strong>For massive public investment in services, housing and infrastructure to stop emissions and to protect us against climate related disasters. We need more, better & free public transport!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
\n<\/strong>As a first step, tax the super-rich and corporations to invest in green technology, energy and jobs.<\/li>\n
\nStop pipeline projects, deforestation and imperialist exploitation of natural resources while ensuring the needs and rights of Indigenous and other communities as well as a job guarantee for all workers.<\/li>\n
\nOrganise grassroots climate committees of young people & workers – activate your community, school, workplace and union from bottom to top – to build a coordinated movement of protests and strikes that paralyse the economy and force real changes.<\/li>\n
\nA system based on profit and competition cannot be made work to save the planet. To quickly cut emissions while guaranteeing a decent life and future for all, it is necessary, in a first step, to take the biggest corporations into public ownership combined with international democratic socialist planning. After all, we can only control what we own.<\/li>\n
\nWith an overthrow of the current system of exploitation of humans and nature, it will be possible to create millions of well-paid sustainable jobs and build a new green economy. This is also a prerequisite to end wars and conflicts and give a real answer to people who are forced to flee from their homes as a result of the climate crises.<\/li>\n
\nNo to the US-China cold war, which weaponises the climate crisis. Cancel all foreign debts and scrap patents on green technology as well as medical and pharmaceutical technology. Knowledge, skills and resources must be shared based on international workers\u2019 solidarity and cooperation.<\/li>\n
\nTo win the revolutionary change necessary to end capitalism, the destruction of our planet and all forms of oppression, join a revolutionary organisation – Join ISA<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"