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Eco-socialism means organising workers
Sentiments like 'we must all act now' are an understandable reaction to the deepening environmental emergency — but the left must recognise not everyone can fix the climate catastrophe: only the working class has the power necessary to save the world, argues MATT HOLLINSHEAD
The burgeoning environmental movement is comfortable in attacking ‘the system’ even going as far as to identify capitalism as the problem itself — but it still avoids posing this as a class struggle to be fought between actual bosses and actual groups of workers

IN the wake of the IPCC report, which said what most of us already knew, that human influence has unequivocally warmed the planet and we can no longer prevent it, only mitigate the extent and consequences, many have called for immediate action — though few people seem clear what should be done, or by whom.

The left and the Labour Party have traditionally taken their cues on the struggle against climate catastrophe from essentially middle-class environmentalists and green NGOs, but thankfully, this seems to be changing.

A recent article by Coventry MP Zara Sultana even argued that the critical climate change question is no longer that politicians and multinationals are denying the world is heating up but their refusal to accept the problem as political — they want it to be a question of individual choice. Instead, Sultana rightly argues that it is fundamentally a class question.

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