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- Marx and the Earth: Why we wrote an ‘anti-critique’The German daily Junge Welt interviews John Bellamy Foster on capitalism’s destruction of nature, ecological Marxism from Marx’s time to the present, and the environmental crisis as a class issue.---READ-->>
- Climate justice and the prospect of powerClimate justice activists have not yet found a path to transformational change. That can only emerge from the experiences of all working people here and worldwide, present and past.---READ-->>
- First nation chiefs deposed for supporting pipeline“When you are a hereditary chief leader you have responsibilities to your clan and you have to consult. They didn’t do that. Everything was a big secret up till now. At the end of the day, they are crawling into bed with Enbridge.”---READ-->>
- Book Review: The Birth of the AnthropoceneIan Angus: “I can’t recall another book that positions the present global crisis in Earth’s deep history so well, in a form that can be readily understood by non-specialists. Every ecosocialist should read it.”---READ-->>
- A vision of democratic ecosocialismHans Baer: “Democratic eco-socialism rejects a statist, growth-oriented, productivist ethic and recognizes that humans live on an ecologically fragile planet with limited resources that must be sustained and renewed as much as possible for future generations.”---READ-->>
- Science, Socialism and the AnthropoceneIan Angus: “We must have a concrete materialist understanding of how our world works and is changing. Without that, our political views would be floating in mid-air, with no concrete foundation.”---READ-->>
- Confirmed: 2015 set all-time heat recordsThe annual State of the Climate report confirms that 2015 surpassed 2014 as the warmest year ever recorded. Greenhouse gases, surface temperatures and global sea levels all passed previous highs.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2016Five new books for green lefts and left greens. Cuban science fiction … the birth of the Anthropocene … agribusiness and disease … surviving catastrophe … rising seas … private plunder of public assets.---READ-->>
- Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray BookchinJanet Biehl’s engrossing biography shows that Bookchin, an unlikely social theorist and radical philosopher, produced an important body of work of lasting significance.---READ-->>
- Colonialism, Racism and the Global Dust Bowl of the 1930sAn important new paper challenges prevalent conceptions of the Dust Bowl, in which colonial and racial-domination aspects of the crisis are invisible, and affirms the necessity of deeper conceptions of environmental (in)justice.---READ-->>
- Millions face drought and famine in Southern AfricaWorst drought in 35 years causes crop failures, widespread malnutrition in 10 countries. More than 640,000 drought-related livestock deaths have been reported due to lack of pasture, lack of water and disease outbreaks.---READ-->>
- How the Great Acceleration has changed the planetAn important history of the Anthropocene updates the classic ‘Something New Under the Sun.’ It describes how our world has been transformed since 1945, but avoids discussing why.---READ-->>
- ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’ – A CritiqueKamran Nayeri argues that Jason W. Moore’s theories involve major departures from Marxism, and do not themselves provide a coherent alternative approach to understanding capitalism’s impact on the natural world.---READ-->>
- A Radical Alternative to Capitalist CatastropheA valuable introduction to the development of Marxist thinking on the environment, by a leading ecosocialist. Michael Löwy explores proposals for radical change, and concrete experiences of the global struggle against ecocide.---READ-->>
- From Tar Sands to Green Jobs? Canada’s carbon emissions cannot be stabilized using plans that are acceptable to the capitalist classes and their interest in endless accumulation. An ambitious vision of ecosocialist alternatives must connect restructuring of work to wider social transformations.---READ-->>
- The Anthropocene and Marxism TodayVideo: John Bellamy Foster discusses the theoretical and programmatic challenges that the Anthropocene, a dangerous new epoch in planetary history, poses for socialists in the 21st century.---READ-->>
- ‘Town Halls’ in Toronto challenge Trudeau’s inaction on climateCanadian activists are finding ways to use the Liberal government’s highly restrictive ‘consultation’ process to demand real action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stop pipeline projects.---READ-->>
- Some comments on Andreas Malm’s ‘Fossil Capital’Another contribution to C&C’s ongoing discussion of Andreas Malm’s masterful new book on the origins and current implications of an economic system whose deep dependence on fossil fuels threatens the survival of civilization.---READ-->>
- Summer reading for green-lefts and left-greensClimate & Capitalism is taking a short break. To help you avoid painful withdrawal symptoms, here are five books and a pamphlet that should be in every ecosocialist’s book bag this summer — or winter, if you are in the southern hemisphere.---READ-->>
- Two Views on Marxist Ecology and Jason W. MooreFred Murphy argues that John Bellamy Foster misrepresented and unfairly criticized Jason W. Moore. Ian Angus disagrees.---READ-->>