From Ireland to India, free trade brought plunder, famine and death
Social murder
Climate crisis
1.5°C warming may trigger multiple tipping points
Five of sixteen identified tipping points are already in the danger zone
Marxist Theory
The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’
A key concept in Karl Marx's Capital is widely misunderstood
Metabolic Rifts
How plants transformed the Earth’s makeup
The evolution of land plants caused revolutionary changes from the surface to the deep interior
Save the Blue Commons!
How corporations are stealing the sea
Overfishing, seabed mining, corporate greed: it's time to take back control
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2022
Seven new books for people who know that the point is to change the world
UN Report
Global hunger numbers jump; 2.3 billion are ‘food insecure’
World is further away from ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
Climate Crisis
U.S. has the warmest nights ever
July 2022 was a textbook case of how global warming gets even more pronounced after dark.
Book review
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
To stop illegal logging we must understand the poachers
Interview with Jeff Sparrow
Capitalism’s crimes against nature
To stop climate change, we must understand how capitalism generates destructive processes that put Earth at risk
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2022
Summer reading for greens and reds. New books on work, extractive industry, empire, pandemics, organizing, and socialism
Hoax in Sinai
Egyptian regime using COP27 to greenwash repression
Genuine global grassroots movements must not take part this state-orchestrated charade
Wealth and profits soar
The Inequality Pandemic
More billionaires, more extreme poverty. Global inequality has skyrocketed since Covid began
Respect and convergence
For ecosocialist degrowth
Mapping areas of agreement between two of the most important radical ecology movements
Deforestation
Indigenous organizations in Peru declare state of emergency
Stop assassinations, end land grabs, recognize rights to ancestral territories
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2022
Seven important new books on science, medicine, and socialism.
Capital vs Commons, 6
A forgotten revolutionary: Thomas Spence on saving the commons
"When a people create landlords, they create tyrants and oppressors"
Climate Vandalism
Greenhouse gases trapped 49% more heat in 2021 than in 1990
Climate-changing pollution reaches record levels, driving unprecedented heating
Earth System Science
A major advance in defining the Anthropocene
Anthropocene Working Group announces shortlist of ‘golden spike’ locations; Scientists plan to vote this year
Overheating
Climate change indicators set records
The most recent seven years are the seven warmest years on record.