Voting for liberals won’t work. Nor will isolated actions by small groups. Building mass movements is hard work, but it is the only way to win
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Movement debate
Ecosocialism and/or Degrowth?
Should the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?
War Communism?
Book Review: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
Gradual reforms can’t do the job: only profoundly radical measures can ensure human survival in an epoch of global sickening.
Movement Building
South African movement adopts Climate Justice Charter
Mass grassroots campaign calls for system change now and for a climate justice deal that ends the suffering of the most vulnerable and oppressed
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?
Dead End Strategies
The dangerous folly of eco-primitivism: A reply to John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen
Once icons of radical environmentalism, the views they now promote lead to a self-defeating mix of scapegoating, isolation and nihilist adventurism.
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
Book Review
Building resistance to Canada’s destructive mining industry
Long-time activist Joan Kuyek brilliantly shares lessons from decades of fighting environmental and community disruption by Canada’s mining corporations
A Renewed Call
For Feminist Resistance to Population Control
When population is cast as the problem, restrictions like fertility control, heightened borders, dispossession, detention and imprisonment are posed as the solutions
Book Review
Essays on the New Global Capitalism
‘Into the Tempest’ argues for a transnational popular project that leads to globalization from below
Music-Video
Greta’s Song: ‘I want you to panic!’
Composed and performed by The Sweet Janes, a duo based in Innsbruck, Austria.
Movement Building
Hands off Greta Thunberg!
Defenders of capitalism, joined by some on the left, are attacking the young woman who has become the symbol of a mass movement. Our place is by her side.
Movement Building
What kind of rebellion will save humanity from extinction?
The real power of mass civil disobedience is not its ability to shock the powerful into listening, but rather its potential to draw masses of people into action.
Movement Building
Challenging capitalism is the ultimate climate mitigation strategy
There are no easy fixes, but to succeed, climate activists must build a broader movement to challenge and transcend global capitalism
Movement building
What will it take to win a Green New Deal?
Canadian NGOs have launched a “Pact for a Green New Deal.” Will they build the movement that’s needed to win real changes?
Six new books
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2019
Marxist environmental essays … Science and the Anthropocene … Is disaster avoidable? … Capitalism at sea … Beef and class struggle … Climate and the biggest volcano
Review
Labor unions and green transitions in the USA
New report investigates how US unions are addressing climate change — and why and how their positions vary.
Movement building
Ecosocialists debate the Green New Deal (continued)
Continuing our discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal proposal, and how the left should respond.