"Ecosocialism, meaning socioecological transformation, is a new synthesis to face the challenge of both social and environmental crisis, which have the same roots"
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Marxism, ecology and human history
Land and Labour: A new book explores humanity's contradictory relationship with the environment: our destructive role, and our potential for positive change
Philippines eyewitness: devastation, solidarity and hope
In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, ecosocialist Tony Iltis reports from the ruins of Tacloban City, one of the most neglected areas in the Philippines.
Climate politics must be as radical as the climate crisis
To respond to the climate emergency, our politics must be as radical as our reality.
On the nature and causes of environmental violence
"We need a much broader definition of violence than is allowed for by limiting its meaning to a physical and immediate brutal act of aggression, and one that includes an environmental dimension. "
Ecosocialist panel on climate change strategies
Video of talks and discussion at a public forum on "Strategies to Stop Climate Change" hosted by the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group, in Vancouver, BC, on December 3
Yuen and Angus debate ‘environmental catastrophism’
Replying to a critique in Monthly Review, Eddie Yuen says Ian Angus "misses my central problematic of politicization." Angus says Yuen's response displays "the most debilitating of common leftist neuroses."
Breaking news! Lower income = lower consumption
Hold the presses! Economists make shocking discovery!
BRICS lessons in (un)sustainable urbanization
Patrick Bond says the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) economies are increasingly polluted and deadly. Much more damage will be done, and multifaceted resistance must likewise strengthen.
Socialists debate nuclear, 4: A green syndicalist view
Continuing our discussion of nuclear energy, Steve Ongerth of the IWW says it's no coincidence that many of the same forces that are fighting to deny climate change and hold back renewables are also pushing nuclear power.