Socialist Resistance

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Socialist Resistance no30  |  page 9-10

This is scanned newsprint, not web text. The original PDFs carried no text layer at all, so every word here was read off the page by OCR. Expect dropped opening letters, run-together words and wrong characters. There was no contents page to cut the paper up by, so the articles were found from the size of their headlines: a headline may carry its kicker, and where an article ran beside a boxed panel a few lines of the neighbour can appear. The scanned issue is the authority; this text is here so the words can be found at all.

We are calling for much bigger emissions cuts than proposed and that all countries sign up to a legallybinding treaty, including the USA, the biggest polluter.

Ve need a broad, stron

nited campaign to achie this, as well as future dison different aspects of climate change and the solutions.

Here in Britain we also need to continue challenging New Labour's disastrous record on environmental issues.

This is especially true for those of us in RESPECT. As well as backing the Dec 3 protest, this year's conerence will debate comprehensive and radical eco-socialist alternatives.

They can be a basis for campaigning both locally and nationally and for uniting with others who want to make another world possible. action by other workers can force employers to reinstate workers they have sacked. However, such been unlawful since