Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest
The fossil fuel industry often pretends to have the public’s best interests in mind. The operative word is “pretends.”
Indigenous protests condemn B.C. pipeline project
“We have drawn a line in the sand. There will be no Enbridge Pipeline and there will be no crude oil tankers in our waters. This is not a battle we intend to lose.”
Mark Twain: Misusing numbers
[Book Quotes] Figures don’t lie, but …
What next for the Ecosocialist International Network?
Joel Kovel and Ian Angus are founding members of the Ecosocialist international Network. In these messages, originally posted on the EIN discussion list, they offer somewhat different perspectives on how the group should organize itself and develop further.
Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice!
An appeal from La Via Campesina, the international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers
Betsy Hartmann: An Environmentalist Essay on the Greening of Hate
The rhetoric of some population and environment groups is edging dangerously toward the same arguments used by proponents of the greening of hate.
Ecosocialist Resources, 20
Our continuing guide to online articles for left greens and green lefts. … Land reform in Venezuela; Trotsky’s ungreen legacy; Offset frauds; Pakistan
What next for ecosocialists?
The Ecosocialist International Network will meet in Paris, Sept. 26-27, to discuss its future and the way forward for ecosocialism. This article is a contribution to that discussion
John Molyneux on Marxism and the environmental crisis
Socialists who base their politics on Marxism need to be in the forefront of building the anti climate change movement, arguing their case
How agrofuel land grabs are undermining African farming
Food is a natural right and agricultural products should not be treated as commodities whose ultimate purpose is the generation of business profits rather than meeting needs of the people
To save the world, the Left must reclaim utopia
Socialism was conceived as a creative and idealistic movement, but lost its way for most of the 20th century. Recapturing this imaginative energy can help find solutions to such huge threats as climate change.
Canadian Dimension: Special Issue on Ecosocialism
The latest issue of Canada’s most widely read magazine of the left focuses on the “rising tide of ecosocialism”
Australian TV airs ‘manipulative and dangerous’ attack on immgrants
“Population Puzzle” proposes a false solution to real problems, lets the real culprits for capitalist growth off the hook
Ecosocialists discuss the Australian election
Why did the Greens gain? Was this a shift to the left? What should left-greens and green-lefts do now? How can the fight for radical social change be moved forward?
Outrage at Shell-funded UN Report on Nigeria oil spills
UNEP study using information from the oil companies responsible for the massive oil pollution in Nigeria
Greens Gain in Australian Election
Progressive social movements will be looking to the Greens to offer strong support in the struggles ahead, no matter which major party eventually forms government
This is agribusiness: exploiting workers and poisoning consumers
If the theory of ‘consumer sovereignty’ is correct, then U.S. consumers must want salmonella in their omelets, and the DeCoster agribusiness operation, a habitual violator of safety, environment and other laws, is just responding to market demand.
Economics: Garbage In, Garbage Out
We interrupt this journal for a brief rant …
Russia’s fires and Pakistan’s floods:
A taste of what’s to come
The disasters of the past few weeks sound a warning: this is the way of the 21st century, if decisive action isn’t taken soon
New Book: Climate Change: Who’s Carrying the Burden?
New book from CCPA “rallies the call of climate justice advocates and activists concerned with system change not climate change”