Peruvian peasant leader on the pain and hope of indigenous struggles
Fighting for Life
Emitters win again
COP27 achieved nothing. No surprise.
Another in a long line of meaningless UN climate meetings
Billionaire Arrogance
Food, Farming, and Africa: An Open Letter to Bill Gates
Food sovereignty activists challenge a wealthy white man’s flawed assumptions, hubris, and ignorance
MST Calls for Action
‘Capital’s attack on nature endangers humanity’
Brazilian peasant leader: Build a global movement to save humanity and our common home!
Reading Matters
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2022
Six new books and six recent essays: important reading for reds and greens
WMO report
The hottest eight years on record
Sea level rise accelerates, European glacier melt shatters records, extreme weather causes devastation
Climate Talks
COP27: Fiddling while the world burns
Effective action must replace talk, delay and false solutions
Book review
Slouching towards utopia, or hurtling towards disaster?
Top economist's paean to capitalism glosses over gross inequality, wars, and ecological destruction
Climate Justice
After the floods, Pakistan needs reparations, not charity
The people of Pakistan are the latest victims of a global crisis to which they have contributed almost nothing
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2022
Seven new books for reds and greens
Capital vs Commons
Marx and Engels and Russia’s Peasant Communes
Would Marx support corporate land grabs?
Social murder
Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
From Ireland to India, free trade brought plunder, famine and death
Climate crisis
1.5°C warming may trigger multiple tipping points
Five of sixteen identified tipping points are already in the danger zone
Marxist Theory
The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’
A key concept in Karl Marx's Capital is widely misunderstood
Metabolic Rifts
How plants transformed the Earth’s makeup
The evolution of land plants caused revolutionary changes from the surface to the deep interior
Save the Blue Commons!
How corporations are stealing the sea
Overfishing, seabed mining, corporate greed: it's time to take back control
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2022
Seven new books for people who know that the point is to change the world
UN Report
Global hunger numbers jump; 2.3 billion are ‘food insecure’
World is further away from ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition
Climate Crisis
U.S. has the warmest nights ever
July 2022 was a textbook case of how global warming gets even more pronounced after dark.
Book review
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
To stop illegal logging we must understand the poachers