In ‘The Return of Nature,’ John Bellamy Foster documents the chain of people and ideas that connects Marx and Engels to the 20th century’s greatest ecological thinkers
Book Review
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Book Review
Ecosocialist critique lacks a concrete program for radical change
‘Climate Change Solutions’ shows that capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis, but the alternatives it offers don’t meet the challenge
Movement Building
Does fighting climate change require postponing the fight for system change?
Should ecosocialists put aside calls for radical social change until after we win reforms that solve the climate crisis within capitalism?
Red & green reading
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2020
New books on fungi, climate & capital, food, bluefin tuna, & Cuban agriculture. PLUS new translations of Facing the Anthropocene, and two recent C&C book reviews
Book Review
People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons
Not just renewable energy, but global system change! A call to arms for a transformative approach to energy and a new society.
Climate crisis
Heatwaves are longer and more frequent, worldwide
New study provides ‘unequivocal indicators’ that global warming is not just underway but speeding up. Scientists insist ‘the time for inaction is over.’
Book Review
Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, pork, and power in America
How pigs became commodities and key elements of the interlocked social, economic and political institutions of US capitalism.
Movement Building
First meeting of Global Ecosocialist Network issues Covid-19 statement
Activists from four continents plan activity, elect steering committee, and call for solidarity with the workers who are risking their lives for us all
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2020
Six important new books: The Return of Nature … Deaths of Despair … Rebel Cinderella … August Bebel … The Green New Deal and Beyond … The Triumph of Doubt
Global crisis
Angus interview in Peruvian indigenous newspaper
Lucha Indigena (Indigenous Struggle), edited by legendary Peruvian peasant leader Hugo Blanco, translates ‘Ecosocialism or Barbarism’ interview
Book Review
Making the case that green politics must be ecosocialist
Essays by pioneering ecosocialist Joel Kovel argue that radical social change is the only way to prevent ecocatastrophe
Global crisis
Ecosocialism or barbarism: African journal interviews C&C editor Ian Angus
“A conscious and collective struggle to stop capitalism’s hell-bound train is our only hope for a better world.”
Reading, red and green
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, March 2020
Six new books to read while maintaining social distance. Yellow Earth; Socialist Practice; Friedrich Engels; Chicken History; Traveling Plants; Coal and Empire
Eight new books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2020
Robbery of nature; Choosing a future; Neoliberal lives; Indigenous resistance; Canadian oil vs the climate; Environmental justice in danger; Agrobiodiversity; Cars and capitalism
Organizing to amplify ecosocialist voices around the world
African journal interviews John Molyneux, a founder of the new Global Ecosocialist Network, on the challenges before ecosocialists today.
Movement Building
Announcing the Global Ecosocialist Network
Activists on five continents form a new international association, a network of ecosocialists to coordinate activity and build worldwide resistance to capitalist ecocide
Debate
Abstract environmental ethics provide no guide to action
After 50 years of debate, academic philosophers of environmental ethics still interpret the world in various ways, but aren’t much help in changing it.
Deadly gains
A system that steals from our future
“We have been mortgaging the health of future generations to realize economic and development gains in the present”
Deadly growth
Capitalism versus Life on Earth
Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation.
Healing a metabolic rift
Urban farming as a response to climate-driven food crises: Cuba shows the way
Cuba’s experience suggests that urban farming can help stave off potential famine when the climate crisis cuts food production