Video: Ian Angus argues for a movement based on socialist and ecological principles, to save humanity and the rest of nature from capitalist ecocide.
Ecosocialism:
$88 billion a year in subsidies for climate disaster
Global governments spend more than double what energy companies invest to find new regions for oil and gas drilling, despite climate change risks, report finds
Population controllers kill more women
More women died in India this week, the latest victims of official government population control programs.
The wrong people are in charge
Class conscious blues, from the wonderful New Orleans blues musician Mem Shannon.
The naked class politics of Ebola
Centuries of imperialist plunder created the horrendous environmental and economic devastation that has made the Ebola epidemic possible.
The IPCC report: Between nightmare and revolution
Belgian ecosocialist Daniel Tanuro says the latest IPCC report has sounded an alarm that we must not ignore. Only radical change can avert climate disaster.
The rise and fall of environmentalism in the early Soviet Union
In 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.
IPCC: ‘Severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts’
Eighteen key conclusions from the summary report issued this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The IPCC still underestimates the situation
Breaking 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.
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.
The origin of Rosa Luxemburg’s slogan ‘socialism or barbarism’
Historians have offered various explanations, none of which really work. Ian Angus traces an important socialist slogan to its unexpected source.
Naomi Klein: ‘Only mass social movements can save us’
John Riddell reviews 'This Changes Everything' — a rich resource of fact and argument that every climate justice activist should read, use and share.
How Bolivia is leading the global fight against climate disaster
Despite being small, landlocked and poor, Bolivia is punching way above its weight in confronting the climate crisis and formulating radical solutions
Hansen’s ‘fee and dividend’ plan: An exchange
Should the proceeds of a tax on fossil fuels be spent on social programs or distributed? Ian Angus and Michael Friedman discuss climate change exit strategy
Drawing a line in the tar sands
Book Review: Why opposition to the Alberta Tar Sands is central to the climate justice movement ... and how this campaign is transforming activism itself
E.P. Thompson on human nature and socialism
A 1960 passage that is even more relevant today ...
After the People’s Climate March, it is time to demand more
A People's Climate March organizer reflects on the march's successes and missed opportunities, and sees a movement on the verge of a new beginning.
Think apocalyptic – and turn despair into action
Contrary to the critics of 'catastrophism,' building an effective counterforce to the multiple crises we face requires us to get apocalyptic.
The climate march cynics are wrong
Leftish criticisms of the Peoples Climate March fail to understand the role of mass demonstrations in building movements and radicalizing participants.
Climate justice gets a new lease on life
Patrick Bond: Radicals who saw the Peoples Climate March as pro-capitalist missed the point. The action showed growing grassroots support for real change.