Socialist Resistance

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9TH FEBRUARY 2008 MALET STREET, LORDON WWW.CAMPAIGNCC.ORG

by Jude Bob Crow  |  Socialist Resistance no47  |  page 16

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cont NUT): Plymouth Trades Council, Shaun Cohen (GO/DCLO Group Execulive, PCS), Ian Allinson (NEC Unite - Amicus Section); Mike Forster (Chei Steward, Kinees UNISON); George Thompson (PCS Branch Secretary, NE London); Andy Reld (PCS NEC); George Binette (Convenor, Camden UNISON), Tony Kelly (Secretary, Ryde Trades Council); Shirley Franklin (Vice Chair, London Region UCU); Glen Kelly (NEC, UNISON): Pete Duffy (GMB Shop Steward); Ron Mendel (Branch Secretary, Northampion UCU); Oliver New (NEC, RMT); Eve Turner (Secretary, Ealing Trades Council); Graham Petersen (Health, Safety and Environment Officer, South

bourgeois answer to climate change, allowing the rich north and west to buy their way out of trouble while keeping the poor south and east in a pre-or semi-industrialised state. The Stern Report itself, while recognising the failure of the market, nonetheless poses the same mechanism to solve the crisis. 13. Our Demands Ecosocialists have to start from a class analysis, an analysis that can unite the largest possible number of people to make the rich, not the poor, pay. We support the building of a mass movement, nationally and internationally to impose the types of demand below. • For a unilateral reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Britain of 90% by 2030, with similar reductions in other developed countries; • For an international treaty to cap global carbon (General Secretary RMT); emissions, not because we think this is an easy option, or even likely to be achieved (this depends on the balance of forces), but because it is necessary and can unite the movements internationally against the failures of the capitalist system;

For ration-ing of air travel, any market in rations to be made illegal;

• Opposition to nuclear energy and the building of any new nuclear power stations;

• For a massive expansion of renewable energy;

• For subsidies from national and local govern• to replace the use of cars by providing cheap, accessible and frequent public transport;

• to ensure all new buildings are zero-carbon;

• to provide insulation, energy conservation, etc. for all homes to make them energy efficient. There is no point in asking then to take measures not being taken in the industri• End the destruction of the rain forests.

• Defend the rights of cli-