Resistance to Capitalist Climate Disaster

Written by: Sand G. on 23 July 2025

Source: www.australiangeographic.com.au/

On 15 July the federal court dismissed a case brought by Torres Strait community leaders that aimed to require the government to prevent climate harm in their communities. The court found that the colonial-capitalist government of this stolen land has no ‘duty of care’ to Australians to prevent climate related harm. 

The Australian Government, constantly singing about reconciliation, has admitted that it has no real obligation to protect unceded Indigenous land and that it’s more than happy to let corporations destroy country. It might come as no shock to many, since the Australian government never seems to demonstrate a duty of care to the people, especially to First Nations people. 

But the ruling of the judge says a lot about the future of climate action. The judge, washing the court’s hands of responsibility, said ‘this is a matter of government policy, and should be decided through political processes’. 

Source: https://anglicanfocus.org.au/

What political processes are available to the people to make sure that government prevents this climate disaster? Surely, with around two thirds of Australians agreeing for the last 20 years that climate change is an extremely urgent issue and more needs to be done to prevent it, that proper political processes would have responded to that?

Instead we have the opposite. Despite the clear will of the people to prevent climate catastrophe and protect country, successive governments bend over to big businesses, criminalise protests, and change laws to limit community appeals on projects happening on their country. 

Many Australian state governments either have, or are introducing laws to override environmental protections and prevent the public from speaking up about it. Climate protesters have been jailed and fined huge amounts of money, simply for standing on bridges or blocking trains, while the governments that allow communities to be destroyed by climate disasters walk free. 

In Boorloo Perth, protesters had guns pointed at them by policy simply for standing outside the Woodside CEO’s home.  Clearly, the political processes for the people to make government listen are not there. 

The judge, in this ruling, admitted what communists know to be true: courts, Parliament, and the Australian Government are not accountable to the people – we are in a dictatorship of capitalists.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

Australian workers have quoted this for over 100 years, and it’s all the more relevant now. This revealing court case has shown that injustice is how government works. More and more doors are closed to the people as we stare down the barrel of climate induced disasters. Their answer to our calls for change is “shut up and piss off” while they let multinational corporations destroy our communities for the sake of profit. 

So how should the people respond? Our Party recently reiterated our stance on rejecting the rigged game set by the government and embracing revolutionary action. We disdain to hide this view, and we look to the example of First Peoples who have waged armed and unarmed struggle against the occupying government for over 200 years. 

Our government has no concerns about using state enforced violence on us, so how long are we going to take it? 

Our Party stands with First Peoples and other anti-imperialist anti-capitalist comrades as we work to evolve our struggle in protecting our communities from the threat of colonial capitalism.

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