World War I began 100 years ago. Today's ecosocialist movement has much to learn from the revolutionaries who campaigned to stop that catastrophe.
Bolivian reality versus the ‘extractivism’ debate
Some left critics of progressive governments in South America point to differences between 'pro-extractivists' and 'anti-extractivists.' Federico Fuentes says that framework hinders real understanding of the issues.
Chiapas residents: Stop the San Cristóbal-Palenque highway
Indigenous communities in Chiapas, Mexico, oppose government plans to drive a tourism highway through their lands
In Ohio, don’t drink the water!
Nearly half a million people have been told that their tap water is unsafe to drink, poisoned by industrial farming, sewage, storm water runoff and industrial pollution.
The Freetown Declaration on land grabbing in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has experienced a mass influx of foreign investors acquiring large tracts of arable and forest land for agriculture and mining
The real environmental problem is catastrophe, not ‘catastrophism’
Ian Angus replies to Sam Gindin: If we agree with Marx, then supporting and building the real environmental movement, while finding ways to advance ecosocialist ideas within it, will take precedence over worries about imperfect statements some...
An activist comments on the ‘eco-castastrophism’ debate
Terry Moore says that all movements and activists exaggerate or downplay sometimes. Only open and fact-based debate can help us avoid mistakes.
Debate
Environmental catastrophism: Sam Gindin responds
Replying to Ian Angus, Sam Gindin says the real issue is how to build mass support for replacing capitalism with an environmentally-sensitive socialism.
From direct action to organization, lessons from Canada’s Line 9 sit-ins
Protests, marches and direct actions are vitally important, but to win our goals we need to build mass, democratic political organizations
All out for climate protests in New York, Sept. 19-23!
Mass actions planned at UN meeting: Join the ecosocialist contingent and help build a broad coalition to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
Global warming stopped? Not in the real world.
Remember all those articles that claimed global warming has stopped? Here's proof that those were anti-scientific fantasies.
How green is the Green New Deal?
The Green New Deal depends on continued growth. Our focus must be on finding ways to decrease production while increasing humanity's quality of life
Trying to make environmentalism = population control
Gabriel Levy reviews Paul Sabin's book, "The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future."
Once again, on ‘environmental catastrophism’: A reply to Sam Gindin.
Ian Angus says ‘environmental catastrophism’ is a red herring. The real issue is whether socialists should give high priority to resisting capitalism’s war on the planet.
On environment, Sam Gindin gets it wrong
Vancouver ecosocialist Brad Hornick responds to Sam Gindin's dismissal of "environmental catastrophism"
Barry Commoner and the Great Acceleration
Long before today's scientists accepted the idea, socialist-ecologist Barry Commoner argued that there had been a qualitative change in humanity's relationship with nature in the years following World War II ... and explained why it happened and...
Evo Morales: ‘Our liberation is for the whole of humanity’
'Only we can save the source of life and society: Mother Earth. Our planet is under a death threat from predatory and insane capitalism. Another world is not only possible, it is indispensable, because otherwise, no world will be possible.'
Progressive extractivism: hope or dystopia?
Continuing the debate on extractivism in Latin America. Don Fitz says it highlights different views on what type of society we are working to build and how we plan to get there.
Workers of the World, Divest! (Or lose everything!)
The movement to divest from fossil fuels is strong and growing. It's time for the labor movement to join that process.
Poorest nations: Time is running out for climate agreement
Least Developed Countries warn that if substantial progress isn't made this year, the Paris climate meeting is likely to be another failure