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- An absurd attack on Naomi Klein and John Bellamy FosterAre the authors of ‘This Changes Everything’ and ‘Marx’s Ecology’ undermining the fight for radical social and environmental change?---READ-->>
- Unions urge rapid and just transition to save climateAt COP20, the global labor federation calls for decisive climate action to keep warming below 2 degrees, promote equality and defend workers’ rights---READ-->>
- Trade unionists must join the climate fight!B.C. ecosocialists appeal for a cross-Canada labour climate caucus to campaign against climate catastrophe and growing threats to community safety---READ-->>
- ‘Too Many People?’ published in FrenchThe definitive ecosocialist response to overpopulation myths is now available in a French-language edition.---READ-->>
- Reflections on Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’This book may well change everything, not because it gets everything right, but because it helps us move forward … more grounded, more savvy and more hopeful---READ-->>
- Two accounts of Engels’ revolutionary lifeIan Angus reviews two very different books on the life of Karl Marx’s closest collaborator---READ-->>
- Review: Inequality and the 1%Danny Dorling’s new book demonstrates the harm done to the whole of society by rising inequality---READ-->>
- What ecosocialists can learn from Naomi KleinSocialists can’t just criticize neoliberal and liberal responses. We must actively support and build the movements that are confronting the climate crisis---READ-->>
- In defense of Naomi KleinRadicals who attack Klein’s book ‘from the left’ just expose their political irrelevance---READ-->>
- Following up on Luxemburg and ‘Socialism or Barbarism’My explanation of the origin of an important revolutionary slogan has been widely accepted.---READ-->>
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Why greens must be red and reds must be greenVideo: Ian Angus argues for a movement based on socialist and ecological principles, to save humanity and the rest of nature from capitalist ecocide.---READ-->> - $88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disasterGlobal governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change risks, report finds---READ-->>
- Population controllers kill more womenMore women died in India this week, the latest victims of official government population control programs.---READ-->>
- The wrong people are in chargeClass conscious blues, from the wonderful New Orleans blues musician Mem Shannon.---READ-->>
- The naked class politics of EbolaCenturies of imperialist plunder created the horrendous environmental and economic devastation that has made the Ebola epidemic possible.---READ-->>
- The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolutionBelgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.---READ-->>
- The rise and fall of environmentalism in the early Soviet UnionIn the 1920s, the Soviet Union led the world in environmental protection and ecological science. That experience, and its tragic reversal, has important lessons for ecosocialists today.---READ-->>
- IPCC: ‘Severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts’Eighteen key conclusions from the summary report issued this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change---READ-->>
- The IPCC still underestimates the situationBreaking the power of the fossil fuel industry won’t be easy, especially since it has to happen fast. But, thanks to the IPCC, no one will ever be able to say they weren’t warned.---READ-->>
- How can Latin America go beyond ‘extractivism’?The word was unknown until recently, but now ‘extractivism’ has become a source of heated debate and confusion. What’s really at stake? Federico Fuentes replies to Don Fitz.---READ-->>