SOSIALIS ALTERNATIF: COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT: SAVE THE PLANET

Sunday, 13 December 2009

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE SUMMIT: SAVE THE PLANET - FIGHT CAPITALISM!

DEMOCRATIC PLANNING THE ONLY SOLUTION

Just before this summit, new alarming facts were released:

Carbon dioxide levels have reached 385.2 ppm – the highest level for 650,000 years, according to WMO (World Meteorological Organistion).
Despite the Kyoto deal in 1997, carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 41% compared to 1990 levels. Last year, despite the economic crisis, they increased by another 2%, more than the annual average of the 1990s, according to NatureGeoscience.

These developments are in line with the worst predictions of the UN Climate Panel – predicting a temperature increase of 6 degrees within a century. Already today, 300,000 deaths every year are related to the direct or indirect effects of climate change. Scientists argue there are only six years left (until 2015) to change today's destructive energy consumption and production patterns before "catastrophic" effects become unavoidable. This shows: Our struggle is a race against time.

The climate crisis is caused by the capitalist system and its multinational companies. The political leaders in Kyoto and now in Copenhagen have no solutions. Their only aim as governing parties and states is to escape being branded as "climate bad guys" while passing the bill to someone else! Through false capitalist solutions like caps and trading with emission rights etc, they want to continue to rely on fossil fuels. This is because they are in the pocket of big business, not least the oil and energy industries. Numbers 1 and 2 on Fortune's 500 biggest companies are oil giants, Exxon and Chevron. Numbers 4 and 5 are General Electric and Wal-Mart. Without challenging the power of these multinationals – including all their politicians – the climate crisis can not be solved.

What is needed is a global and democratic climate movement, involving workers, youth, poor farmers and all who are hit by the effects of global warming. No trust can be placed in governments or companies.

Democratic socialism, organised on a global scale, is the only alternative to the capitalist system. Instead of resources being wasted on profits, bonuses, the military, destroying the entire globe, we need democratic planning according to the needs of people and the environment.

The CWI stands for:

A target to reduce emissions by at least 50% by 2020, with the aim of at least a 90% reduction by 2050.
Oppose the imposition of increased taxes and charges (such as carbon taxes) on the backs of working class people. Make the real polluters pay – big business!
Massive public investment to replace fossil and nuclear fuels with renewable energy.
A wholesale shift to sustainable transport, housing, agriculture, forestry and industry, for global planning under democratic workers' control.
A transformation of industries such as car production and coal, defending all jobs and wages to use the technology and knowledge of the workforce to produce socially useful and environmentally friendly goods
Nationalisation of the 500 multinationals which dominate the world today, economically and politically
Mobilise and unite the daily struggle for jobs, welfare and climate – for an international joint struggle of trade unions, environmental groups and left organisations including the NPA in France, Die LINKE in Germany, and Syriza in Greece with the aim of building socialist and environmentally conscious mass parties.

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Sosialis Alternatif

Sosialis Alternatif adalah seksyen CWI di Malaysia yang merupakan sebahagian daripada CWI (Committe for Workers' international) yang sedang beroperasi di hampir 50 negara yang merangkumi setiap benua. Kami melibatkan diri bersama anak muda, pelajar, kelas pekerja dan golongan tertindas yang lain dalam isu-isu hak demokrasi, hak ekonomi dan hak sosial, untuk memberikan perpektif sosialis sebagai penyelesaian kepada konflik sistem kapitalisme yang menjadi punca asas kepada rasisme, kemiskinan, kehancuran alam sekitar, peperangan serta penindasan sosio-ekonomi dalam masyarakat.

Sosialis Alternatif berkempen untuk membawa satu perubahan sosialis di Malaysia dan antarabangsa di mana masyarakat akan diorganisasi secara demokratik untuk menampung keperluan sejagat dan bukannya berpaksikan kepada nafsu keuntungan segelintir kapitalis.

Sosialis Alternatif pada ketika ini sedang melibatkan diri dalam kempen bagi meningkatkan penglibatan anak muda dan warga pekerja dalam pembinaan politik kelas pekerja dan anak muda sebagai alternatif kepada politik pro-kapitalisme yang dicanangkan oleh BN dan Pakatan. Ini adalah sebagai landasan ke arah membentuk satu masyarakat berbilang kaum dan agama yang mampu berkongsi kekayaan dan pembangunan negara bersama secara demokratik serta memelihara alam sekitar untuk keharmonian dan kesejahteraan sejagat.

Kita sedang melalui krisis ekonomi yang terburuk sejak 'the great depression' atau 'kemelesetan hebat' 1930-an yang sekali lagi membuktikan bahawa kapitalisme bukannya satu sistem yang unggul tetapi penuh dengan konflik dan percanggahan akibat kediktatoran pasaran bebas. Keruntuhan ekonomi biasanya akan membawa pelbagai kesengsaraan kepada berjuta-juta rakyat miskin, anak muda dan kelas menengah. Masalah pengangguran, perumahan, infrastruktur asas dan banyak lagi masalah akan timbul dan para kapitalis pula akan terus menindas rakyat biasa bagi memaksimumkan keuntungan dan kuasa mereka. Malahan puluhan ribu rakyat biasa terbunuh dalam peperangan-peperangan yang dilancarkan semata-mata untuk bersaing untuk mengondol sumber dan kekayaan alam, ini termasuk peperangan Palestin-Israel. Kapitalisme bukan sahaja menghancurkan kehidupan rakyat biasa tetapi juga sedang menghancurkan alam sekitar akibat aktiviti perindustrian dan pembangunan yang tidak mampan dan diluar kawalan.

Anak muda dan kelas pekerja perlu bergabung dan meningkatkan perjuangan untuk membina alternatif kepada sistem kapitalisme. CWI juga berhasrat untuk membina solidariti antarabangsa di kalangan anak muda, kelas pekerja dan golongan tertindas yang lain mellaui pembinaan sosialis Internasional.

Sertai Sosialis Alternatif dalam usaha membina sosialisme berlandaskan perpektif jelas sebagai alternatif kepada sistem kapitalisme di Malaysia dan di peringkat antarabangsa. Hubungi kami di : cwi.malaysia@gmail.com.