My friend Kamala Emanuel, a member of the Socialist Alliance in Perth, on Australia’s west coast, posted this on Facebook. It’s brilliant.
Archive | February, 2013
Montreal meeting to launch ecosocialist network
L’objectif visé est celui d’une critique fondamentale du système capitaliste et de la composition de réponses adéquates aux actuelles crises écologiques et sociales.
Like unicorns, the 'free market' doesn't exist
Let’s bury the myth: there never has been, is not, and never will be a capitalist free market economy
Ecosocialist resources, 26
Ecology and Marxism; The ultra-rich vs the rich; David Harvey lecture on capital; Climate change in the Amazon & Andes; Fossil fuel divestment campaign
Quebec activists unite against tar sands pipeline
Alternatives urges united movement, action in the streets
How not to change the world
Another strategy that doesn’t work
Climate change boosts food bills
Last year’s U.S. drought means Canadians will pay more to eat
Voices of the tar sands blockade
Exclusive video footage shot by the Texas blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance.
Capitalism versus Planet Earth – an irreconcilable conflict
Book excerpt: “A stark choice faces humanity: save the planet and ditch capitalism or save capitalism and ditch the planet”
We cannot shop our way to food justice
The food system is a tool for corporate profits, but it can also be an entry point for recognition of food access as a human right
Ecosocialist resources, 25
Seed giants vs. farmers; The rich get richer; Keystone climate impact; Gracchus Babeuf
Nature and the economy: Marxism in an American labyrinth
The supposed conflict between environmentalism and Marxism is actually a clash between both of those and a workerist or productivist distortion of what Marx really wrote
Washington: 50,000 protest Keystone XL pipeline
Video coverage from Democracy Now, Plus: Most Canadian media try to downplay the largest U.S. climate march ever
Carbon trading is an obstacle to effective climate action
A reply to critics of “Time to scrap the ETS.” Getting rid of Europe’s emissions trading scheme will let us move towards climate policy that works
Australian socialists on the climate change crisis
A defining feature of politics today is the refusal of the capitalist class and its political representatives to confront the global climate crisis.
Naomi Klein on the ‘ethical oil’ hoax
Tar sands oil is like regular oil, but a lot dirtier
So God made factory farms
The truth behind a superbowl commercial myth
Ecosocialist resources, 24
Mobilizing against Line 9; Obama, markets & climate; Just development in India; Quinoa wars; Antibiotics and meat
Nature's mass protests against climate change
We’re building important protests against climate change, but so far Nature’s protests are bigger, more militant, and more uncompromising.
Plutocrats: An informative and frustrating book
Reporter exposes privilege and inequality … while defending the system that causes it