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21st Century Barbarism
- Capitalism: A Structural Genocide
- Climate colonialism, illustrated
- Climate disasters displaced 32 million people in 2012
- Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollution
- In U.S., cops hold back hungry people as food dumped
- The biggest mass poisoning in history
- Invasion of Iraq causes epidemic of birth defects
- Ethiopia: World Bank promotes forcible ‘resettlement’ of indigenous people
Africa
- Population and poverty: Against the Gates agenda
- Is population control an anti-capitalist policy?
- Hunger in Ethiopia: overpopulation or dispossession?
- End rural slavery in South Africa!
- Stop land grabbing for agribusiness in Mozambique
- ‘For a class struggle approach to climate change and energy transition’
- Ethiopia: World Bank promotes forcible ‘resettlement’ of indigenous people
- Shell finances violent human rights abusers in Nigeria
Asia
- Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollution
- The biggest mass poisoning in history
- A nuanced analysis of China’s environmental crises
- Bangladesh: Floods + capitalism = starving children
- Manila flood disaster: A political response is needed
- China faces massive pollution challenge
- Philippines: Urban poor urgently need aid after devastating flood
- Asian social movements:
Regain momentum in the fight against climate change
Australia
- Climate emergency needs a people’s power solution
- To save the earth, nationalize the energy industry
- Marxism as if the planet matters
- The personal relevance of socialism
- Australian socialists on the climate change crisis
- Good news! Now we can destroy the world even quicker
- Why we need an ecosocialist revolution
- Is a united and effective climate movement possible?
Biodiversity
- Bolivia condemns UN’s pro-market biodiversity policy
- Nature’s matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty
- UN biodiversity plan: neoliberal measures to commodify nature
- Climate change impact: 11% of species extinct by 2100
- Biodiversity: The agreement that isn’t
Biofuel
- Biofuels and hunger, two sides of the same coin
- The only thing green in biodiesel is money
- Big land grabs accelerate dispossession of poor farmers
- How biofuels are destroying Indigenous communities in Malaysia
- It’s not easy flying green
- The CDM and Africa: Marketing a New Land Grab
- Guatemala: Blood in the Biofuel
- Jatropha Biofuel Project: Emissions Up to Six Times Greater Than Fossil Fuels
Bolivia
- Bolivia puts people and environment before profit
- Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions
- Evo Morales: Ten commandments against capitalism, for life and humanity
- Geopolitics of the Amazon
- Bolivia: A balance sheet for 2012, challenges for 2013
- Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale!
- Bolivia condemns UN’s pro-market biodiversity policy
- Behind Bolivia’s nationalization of Canadian mine
Books & Reports
- Capitalism: A Structural Genocide
- How capitalism’s assault on nature built Chicago
- Ration consumption or ration production?
- The Wealth of Commons: A World Beyond Market and State
- The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
- Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment
- Why small-scale alternatives won’t change the world
- ‘Catastrophism’ book on environmental movement: a prescription for abstention and defeat
Canada & Quebec
- Canada’s seven-year war on science
- Québec ecosocialists adopt basis for unity and action
- Why unionists must build the climate change fight
- Ian Angus: Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity’s future
- Toronto pipeline fight links local and global issues
- Inside the B.C. pipeline wars
- B.C. oil spill response ship runs aground
- Idle No More and Defenders of the Land call protests for Indigenous rights
Capitalism
- How capitalism’s assault on nature built Chicago
- Greedy plutocrat quote of the decade
- Terracide: Destroying the planet for profit
- The world is rich. The rich are the problem.
- Should socialists support degrowth?
- Global Capitalism and Climate Change
- Like unicorns, the ‘free market’ doesn’t exist
- Capitalism versus Planet Earth – an irreconcilable conflict
Carbon Taxes and Trading
- Carbon trading is an obstacle to effective climate action
- Carbon trading has failed: scrap the ETS now
- Should Chiapas farmers pay for California’s emissions?
- Do carbon offsets reduce emissions?
- Carbon trade markets collapsing
- The green economy (not!): Capitalism’s final frontier
- We can’t put a price on nature
- B.C.’s carbon tax is a failure … and Australia is following suit
Climate Change
- Climate emergency needs a people’s power solution
- Ecosocialist resources, 33
- The Carbon Capture fallacy, illustrated
- London trade union conference to confront climate change
- Climate disasters displaced 32 million people in 2012
- Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollution
- To save the earth, nationalize the energy industry
- The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics
Climate Justice
- Climate colonialism, illustrated
- Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollution
- Pablo Solon on the future of the climate justice movement
- To reclaim our future, we must change the present!
A program for changing the system, not the climate - Call for a global campaign to demand climate justice
- Pablo Solón: How can we overcome the climate crisis?
- Democracy is the solution to the climate crisis
- Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale!
Coal
- The unbearable light-mindedness of coal barons
- McKibben’s climate math is too narrow and too broad
- Australia’s fake debate on climate change
- Big Coal Lies About Jobs
- The Real Cost of Coal
- Dethroning King Coal in 2011, from West Virginia to Durban
- Dirty Business film debunks ‘clean coal’ myth
- Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest
Cochabamba
- Reflections On The Way From Cochabamba To Durban
- Bolivia: Cancún must not be Can’t-cún
- Most Canadians Support Climate Justice Now
- Toronto Teach-In Discusses Cochabamba Agenda for Climate Justice
- Responding to the Cochabamba challenge
- ALBA Countries Meet in Bolivia to Defend Rights of Mother Earth
- Bring Cochabamba to Cancun!
- What next for ecosocialists?
Consumers,consumption
- Ration consumption or ration production?
- The personal relevance of socialism
- Is ‘conspicuous consumption’ destroying the earth?
- Riots and role models
- On the origins of green liberalism
- Why corporate fat cats love ‘ethical consumerism’
- Barry Commoner: Pollution, affluence and class
- Why the movement should not #OccupyXmas
Corporate polluters
- Tar Sands: Is Canada a ‘resource colony’?
- Why Shell can’t be trusted in the Arctic
- The unbearable light-mindedness of coal barons
- Canada’s deadly auto factories cause breast cancer
- Poisoning people in Pennsylvania: Business as usual
- Walmart versus the earth
- International Coal Group: More lies told by lying liars
- Arctic ice melt, psychopathic capitalism,
and the corporate media
Cuba
- Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions
- Raul Castro at Rio+20: “The only alternative is to build more just societies”"
- Cuba prepares for rising sea levels and extreme weather
- Environmental internationalism: How Cuba can help save the earth
- The paradox of Cuban agriculture
- Cuban statement on Cancun deal
- Cuban Doctors Lead the Fight Against Cholera in Haiti
- Fidel: The Insanities of Our Time
Deniers
- A caveat on ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’
- Greedy Lying Bastards. Don’t miss it.
- No, global warming hasn’t stopped
- A reactionary ‘skeptic’ takes his best shot … and misses
- Arctic ice melt, psychopathic capitalism,
and the corporate media - Agnotology
- The petroleum-powered propaganda machine
- How wealthy polluters are blocking action on climate change
Ecosocialism
- The left needs an ecosocialist vision
- Québec ecosocialists adopt basis for unity and action
- More videos from NYC Ecosocialism Conference
- Needed: An ecosocialist cosmovision
- Online now: Talks at NYC Ecosocialism Conference
- Ecosocialist Conference shows potential for a united green left in North America
- ‘How to make an ecosocialist revolution’ now in Tamil
- What next for the U.S. climate movement?
Ecosocialist groups
- Six new flyers on ecosocialism (Print and post!)
- Québec ecosocialists adopt basis for unity and action
- Quebec ecosocialist network – ready for action!
- Call for an Ecosocialist Conference, April 20, NYC
- Montreal meeting to launch ecosocialist network
- Antarctic: The big melt accelerates
- The unbearable light-mindedness of coal barons
- An ecosocialist perspective for UK Greens
Ecosocialist resources
- Ecosocialist resources, 34
- Ecosocialist resources, 32
- Ecosocialist resources, 31
- Ecosocialist resources, 30
- Ecosocialist resources, 29
- Ecosocialist resources, 28
- Ecosocialist resources, 27
- Ecosocialist resources, 26
Editor's Notebook
- Ecosocialist resources, 34
- Ecosocialist resources, 33
- Breaking tar sands rules? Regulator says that’s okay
- On the road to change we need music like this
- The Carbon Capture fallacy, illustrated
- Ecosocialist resources, 32
- Six new flyers on ecosocialism (Print and post!)
- Greedy plutocrat quote of the decade
Energy
- Bolivia puts people and environment before profit
- To save the earth, nationalize the energy industry
- Stop the dash for gas! Activists shut UK power plant
- Thirst for power: How coal, nuclear and gas waste our water
- Capitalism’s destructive quest for extreme energy
- Green energy won’t save the earth without social change
- Natural gas: another magic bullet that won’t stop climate change
- No time to waste on transition to green energy
Europe
- Carbon trading is an obstacle to effective climate action
- The unequal pain of climate change in Europe
- Biofuels and hunger, two sides of the same coin
- Hope triumphs over experience
- Europe’s third try at emissions trading: another failure
- England: an explosion of bitterness and rage
- Europe’s Carbon Market Scam
- European Assembly for Climate Justice, Nov. 26-29
Extreme weather
Featured
- Climate emergency needs a people’s power solution
- Population and poverty: Against the Gates agenda
- The left needs an ecosocialist vision
- Marx and Engels, radical environmentalists
- Ration consumption or ration production?
- Bolivia puts people and environment before profit
- Terracide: Destroying the planet for profit
- Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global pollution
Films
- Voices of the tar sands blockade
- Wiebo’s War: Documentary opens across Canada
- If a Tree Falls: a Story of the Earth Liberation Front
- Dirty Business film debunks ‘clean coal’ myth
- Stewart Brand is wrong about DDT. Will he admit it?
- The Age of Stupid
- Film: Tipping Points Ahead
- Great Green Smokescreen
Food and Farming
- How capitalism’s assault on nature built Chicago
- Food fights against austerity
- In U.S., cops hold back hungry people as food dumped
- Farmers’ Union: Why we support Idle No More
- Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
- Climate change boosts food bills
- We cannot shop our way to food justice
- So God made factory farms
Forests
- Video: Exposing the REDD hoax
- Algonquin resistance forces Quebec to stop illegal logging
- Rio +20 has nothing to say on REDD
(and not much on anything else) - Barriere Lake Algonquin acquitted;
logging company lies exposed - Video: Is REDD a real solution for deforestation?
- A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
- UN biodiversity plan: neoliberal measures to commodify nature
- Attenborough asks corporations to protect wilderness from poor people
Fracking
- Fracking waste is too toxic for hazardous waste dump
- Good news! Now we can destroy the world even quicker
- Promised Land: Hollywood takes on the frackers
- Spell it out: No fracking!
- Video: Sydney demo demands “Stop Coal Seam Gas”
- Scientists: There is no such thing as “safe fracking”
- Stop EDF’s sell-out to the frackers!
- Anti-fracking movement growing in New York
Green Parties & NGOs
- UK Greens shift left
- Australian socialists on the climate change crisis
- How can the divided left move forward?
- Walmart pumps millions into ocean greenwashing
- Ecosocialist elected International Coordinator of UK Green Party
- Stop EDF’s sell-out to the frackers!
- Neoliberals on bikes
- The agribusiness takeover of pale green NGOs
Greenhouse Gas
- Canada’s emissions deception
- Behind the ‘Green Economy’ – A new drive to commodify nature
- 2010 greenhouse gases higher than IPCC’s worst case
- Hiding emissions with carbon accounting
- Report: CO2 Leaking from Saskatchewan CCS Site
- Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest
- Carbon Capture Can’t Clean the Tar Sands
- U.S. Climate Bill: No Emission Reduction Until 2026
Humor
- The Carbon Capture fallacy, illustrated
- Climate inaction, illustrated
- Thatcher’s funeral: A modest neoliberal proposal
- How not to change the world
- Postmodern meets the class struggle, illustrated
- The capitalist Lorax
- Peter Kent and Enbridge, illustrated
- Stephen Harper as captain of the Titanic …
Immigration
- Racism in a fancy green wrapper
- A population bomber is outraged
- The return of the population bombers
- Dave Foreman’s Man Swarm: Defending wildlife by attacking immigrants
- Anti-immigration groups organize against book that exposes population myths
- What’s causing the environmental crisis: 7 Billion or 1%?
- Population book misdiagnoses Australia’s environmental crisis
- Climate Activists Confront Anti-Immigrant Fake Greens
Indigenous Struggles
- Tar sands: Alberta puts a fox in charge of the henhouse
- Farmers’ Union: Why we support Idle No More
- Idle No More and Defenders of the Land call protests for Indigenous rights
- Hunger in Ethiopia: overpopulation or dispossession?
- First Nations pull out of tar sands pipeline hearing
- Idle No More and media hypocrisy about wealth
- Evo Morales: Ten commandments against capitalism, for life and humanity
- Geopolitics of the Amazon
Inequality & Class
- Who are the real parasites?
- The world is rich. The rich are the problem.
- Plutocrats: An informative and frustrating book
- Idle No More and media hypocrisy about wealth
- East and west, monster storms mainly kill the poor
- Inequality by the numbers
- Class struggle from above, illustrated
- Riots and role models
IPCC
- In Harm’s Way
- IPCC: Renewables could provide 80% of global energy by 2050
- IPCC vice-chair: Attacks on climate science echo tobacco industry tactics
- Is it time to change the IPCC?
- Anti-capitalism, Climate Change, and Copenhagen
- ‘We are facing the worst case scenario’
- New Data Shows IPCC Understated Warming
- Proposed ‘soft targets’ ignore the real dangers of climate change
Labor movement
- Why unionists must build the climate change fight
- ‘For a class struggle approach to climate change and energy transition’
- Video: One million climate jobs now!
- Trade unions must join the fight against climate change
- A People’s Petition for One Million Climate Jobs
- British trade unionists demand One Million Climate Jobs
- British Green leader to union conference: ‘We need to forge an alliance ‘
- UK unions and greens demand one million climate jobs
Latin America
- Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions
- The skewed priorities of Hugo Chavez
- Hugo Chavez on climate change and capitalism
- HUGO CHAVEZ, UNDEFEATED
- Evo Morales: Ten commandments against capitalism, for life and humanity
- Venezuela accelerates land reform
- Chevron tries to hide assets from Ecuador judgment
- Latin American rural groups urge united action against capital
Manifestos
- Québec ecosocialists adopt basis for unity and action
- To reclaim our future, we must change the present!
A program for changing the system, not the climate - Call for a global campaign to demand climate justice
- UK Greens shift left
- Evo Morales: Ten commandments against capitalism, for life and humanity
- An Indigenous action program for real change in Canada
- Latin American rural groups urge united action against capital
- Brazilian rural workers mobilize:
Unity for land, territory, and dignity!
Marxism & Ecology
- The left needs an ecosocialist vision
- Marx and Engels, radical environmentalists
- Needed: An ecosocialist cosmovision
- Capitalism versus Planet Earth – an irreconcilable conflict
- Nature and the economy: Marxism in an American labyrinth
- Geopolitics of the Amazon
- The contradictions of environmental Keynesianism
- What environmentalists need to know
Marxist theory
- Marxism as if the planet matters
- Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change
- Environmental determinism: Does climate control our destiny?
- Dialectics in Science: An interview with Helena Sheehan
- What went wrong with ‘real socialism’?
- Neil Smith on the fight for the unity of nature
- Why Marx Was Right
- Get political! Occupy activists urged to study and learn from revolutionary giants
Meetings and Conferences
- London trade union conference to confront climate change
- More videos from NYC Ecosocialism Conference
- Climate conferences set in England and Australia
- Online now: Talks at NYC Ecosocialism Conference
- Ecosocialist Conference shows potential for a united green left in North America
- Toronto pipeline fight links local and global issues
- Call for an Ecosocialist Conference, April 20, NYC
- Toronto conference lays basis for pipeline challenge
Middle East
- Iraq: Mission accomplished for Big Oil?
- Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid
- Worse Than Hiroshima: The Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Assault on Fallujah
- Climate Catastrophe and Israel’s Denial of Palestinian Access to Water
- Nile Delta: “The rising sea will conquer our lands.”
- Israel’s Discriminatory Water Policies Leave West Bank Dry
- Global Warming and the Iraq War
- Iraq and Climate Change
Mining
- Behind Bolivia’s nationalization of Canadian mine
- Toxic spill poisons Peruvian village
- Bolivia resolves to nationalize Canadian mining company
- Ontario: Indigenous resistance turns back mining assault on sovereignty
- Dirty Money: The true cost of Australia’s mineral boom
- Opening Pandora’s Box: The new wave of land grabbing
- Stop the mine company invasion of Indigenous lands in Ontario
- Communities Devastated by Mining Will Confront Barrick Gold
Movement Building
- Climate emergency needs a people’s power solution
- On the road to change we need music like this
- Six new flyers on ecosocialism (Print and post!)
- London trade union conference to confront climate change
- Why unionists must build the climate change fight
- Ecosocialist Conference shows potential for a united green left in North America
- To reclaim our future, we must change the present!
A program for changing the system, not the climate - Ian Angus: Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity’s future
Nuclear
- Mad Science: The Nuclear Power Experiment
- Poisoning people in Pennsylvania: Business as usual
- James Bay Cree Nation enacts uranium ban
- Fukushima: A disaster manufactured in the imperial boardrooms of capital
- Fukushima disaster was caused by Japan’s nuclear authorities, not the tsunami
- Anti-nuclear conference in Japan calls international day of action, March 11
- UK governments lied about the need for nuclear
- Christmas in the radiation zone
Oil, Oil Industry
- Greedy plutocrat quote of the decade
- Terracide: Destroying the planet for profit
- Tar sands: Alberta puts a fox in charge of the henhouse
- What BP doesn’t want you to know about the 2010 Gulf spill
- James Hansen: Keystone XL is a pipeline to disaster
- Why Shell can’t be trusted in the Arctic
- Exxon hates your children
- Chevron tries to hide assets from Ecuador judgment
Population
- Population and poverty: Against the Gates agenda
- Is population control an anti-capitalist policy?
- Hunger in Ethiopia: overpopulation or dispossession?
- A plague of David Attenborough
- Population, consumption, and rectangles
- We’re overpopulated with oil tycoons and coal barons
- Barry Commoner: ‘Pollution begins in the boardroom, not the bedroom’
- Counterfire review of Too Many People?
Protests & Revolts
- Food fights against austerity
- Idle No More and Defenders of the Land call protests for Indigenous rights
- Voices of the tar sands blockade
- Washington: 50,000 protest Keystone XL pipeline
- Nature’s mass protests against climate change
- Join the ecosocialist contingent in Washington, February 17
- Environmental journal editors reply to publisher
- Stop the dash for gas! Activists shut UK power plant
Quotes & Insights
- Is capitalism ‘obsessed’ with growth?
- Neil Smith on the fight for the unity of nature
- I don’t believe in charity
- China Miéville on art and politics
- Che: Marxism is an essential part of humanity’s heritage
- George Novack: The mission of humankind
- Michael Lebowitz: In the beginning is the dream
- Robert Biel: Imperialism and ecocide
Rio+20
- Rio+20 proves capitalism won’t save the planet
- Monbiot: Rio+20 produces 283 paragraphs of fluff
- A tale of two conferences: The social and ecological crises of capitalism
- Canada, US, and Vatican unite against human rights at Rio+20
- Video: Canadian youth activist opens People’s Plenary in Rio
- Raul Castro at Rio+20: “The only alternative is to build more just societies”"
- Thousands march through Rio to demand climate action from UN
- Bolivian activists: This is not “The future we want”
Science
- Canada’s seven-year war on science
- Is there a scientific consensus on global warming? You bet!
- The hockey stick is real, and it’s worse than we thought
- No, global warming hasn’t stopped
- Antarctic: The big melt accelerates
- Dialectics in Science: An interview with Helena Sheehan
- Oceans rising 60 percent faster than predicted
- The Citizen Scientist
Tar Sands
- Breaking tar sands rules? Regulator says that’s okay
- Video: Oil Sands Reality Check
- Tar sands: Alberta puts a fox in charge of the henhouse
- James Hansen: Keystone XL is a pipeline to disaster
- Inside the B.C. pipeline wars
- Quebec activists unite against tar sands pipeline
- Voices of the tar sands blockade
- Washington: 50,000 protest Keystone XL pipeline
U.S. governments
- Anti-fracking movement growing in New York
- Liberalism and climate change: A remedial assessment
- Obama’s anti-climate crusade
- Future World Bank president explains why Africa is ‘vastly underpolluted’
- U.S. guilty of criminal obstruction at climate talks
- Obama’s inaction threatens climate disaster
- Austerity Survival Guide
- Obama and Congress: Sacrificing the Earth on the altar of politics
UN Meetings
- Hugo Chavez on climate change and capitalism
- Bolivia at UN talks: The climate is not for sale!
- Via Campesina: UN climate talks achieve nothing, promote false capitalist solutions
- 3 things NOT to expect at the Doha climate talks
- Rich nations renege on climate finance
- Bolivia condemns UN’s pro-market biodiversity policy
- Why are climate negotiations locked in stalemate?
- The green economy (not!): Capitalism’s final frontier
Uncategorized
Via Campesina
- End rural slavery in South Africa!
- Via Campesina: UN climate talks achieve nothing, promote false capitalist solutions
- Latin American rural groups urge united action against capital
- World’s small farmers meet to promote agroecology
- Stop land grabbing for agribusiness in Mozambique
- Nature’s matrix: Linking agriculture, conservation and food sovereignty
- The people of the world confront the advance of capitalism: Rio +20 and beyond
- G8 food alliance won’t help farmers or end hunger
video & audio
- Ecosocialist resources, 33
- Population and poverty: Against the Gates agenda
- On the road to change we need music like this
- Video: Oil Sands Reality Check
- More videos from NYC Ecosocialism Conference
- Online now: Talks at NYC Ecosocialism Conference
- Ian Angus: Line 9, the tar sands, and humanity’s future
- Greedy Lying Bastards. Don’t miss it.
War and Imperialism
- Climate colonialism, illustrated
- Invasion of Iraq causes epidemic of birth defects
- Iraq: Mission accomplished for Big Oil?
- Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid
- Pseudo-green NGO offers to greenwash arms dealer
- UK Government Promised Oil Firms Access to Iraq Oil
- Sonia Shah: Oiling the war machine
- Worse Than Hiroshima: The Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Assault on Fallujah
water
- The looming threat of water scarcity
- The biggest mass poisoning in history
- Thirst for power: How coal, nuclear and gas waste our water
- Canada undermines the human right to water at World Water Forum
- Fracking: The new global water crisis
- Are safe water and toilets reserved for rich people only?
- Bolivian ambassador speaks out against water privatization
- Protect the Great Lakes as a Commons