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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
Reading from the left
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2019
The red and green shelf is overflowing! Nine important new books address topics ranging from ecosocialism and rising seas to trees, growth and global poverty.
There is no third way
Socialism is the only realistic solution to climate change
Capitalism will not and cannot prevent climate disaster. A socialist response at governmental and societal level is an historic necessity.
Is transition possible?
China and the Prospects for a Global Ecological Civilization
As the world leader in renewable energy capacity and production, China has the potential to open up a path for global ecosocialist transition, if …
New resources
Marx’s notebooks and the origins of Marxist ecology
Finally published in full, Marx’s notebooks from the 1860s provide important insights into his views on ecology and capital’s destruction of nature.
Reading matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2019
New books for reds and greens. How the Richest Drive Climate Change; Planning from Below; The Scottish Clearances; Slime; Here Comes the Sun; Eco-Socialism and Practical Utopias
Social ecology
Rojava: A practical example of ecosocialism?
This article, submitted to C&C by the Make Rojava Green Again campaign, introduces an important attempt to build a democratic, feminist and ecologist society.
The crisis is now
How fast is the climate changing?
Dangerous climate change is not just something that might happen in the future. It is visibly happening now and it is rapidly getting worse.
Video
The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift
Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf
20 Essential Books on Marxist Ecology (Updated)
As the great American labor organizer and socialist Mary Harris ‘Mother’ Jones said: “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”
New book launched
‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’
Book review and full video of meeting to launch ‘System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis.’
Creating an Ecological Society
Fred Magdoff on Climate Change, Capitalism, and Socialism
Video: What would a just and ecologically sustainable society look like? If the current economic system can’t respond, what strategies will advance our struggle?