Six new books on the science for the people movement, health care under capitalism, the criminalizing of poverty, Yemen in crisis, the origins of everything, and communism and democracy
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Uniting ecology and revolution: ‘Facing the Anthropocene’ featured in leading Québec newspaper
Le Devoir, the francophone newspaper of record in Canada, reviews new French translation of Facing the Anthropocene, and interviews its author, Ian Angus
Site C Dam: BC NDP fails major environmental test
The government's decision to build the dam makes it abundantly clear that the struggle to defend indigenous rights and the environment must be built outside of parliament
Electrical pulse fishing: Switch it off now!
Will the EU ban technology that electro-shocks fish into nets before bottom-dwelling fish in the North Sea are driven to extinction?
Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
Turkish socialist describes growing understanding that Marx's ideas on ecology are important, and that the oppression of labor, women and oppressed peoples is not separate from the crisis of nature and ecosystems
‘A contribution to a genuinely materialist ecology’
Éric Pineault’s preface to the French edition of Facing the Anthropocene: “Ian Angus offers a critique of capitalist modernity based on a vision of liberation shaped by the recognition of substantial and real ecological limits”
China Miéville: The Limits of Utopia
Utopias are necessary. But not only are they insufficient: they can be part of the system, the bad totality that organises us, warms the skies, and condemns millions to peonage on garbage scree.
Renewables plan would leave world’s poorest in the dark
Converting to renewables isn't enough. The majority of the world’s people will be denied a good quality of life unless their energy sources increase substantially
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2018
Five important books on famines and world hunger, on Ebola and other deadly epidemics that spread from animals to people, and on the pesticide poisons in our food.
New materialism: ‘Idealism of the most useless sort’
Following my review of The Progress of This Storm, a reader comments on a philosophical fad that is 'burning through academia faster than a forest fire'