The growing wave of privatization of land in Africa has made its precarious agricultural and food system even more vulnerable Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land From 'common goods'...
Foundations of an ecosocialist strategy
This article by a leading European ecosocialist, Daniel Tanuro, was written for the latest issue of the Montréal-based journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme (NCS), which features a number of articles on what is commonly referred to as the...
Canadian groups tell ambassador: 'Stop lobbying for the Keystone XL pipeline'
We can’t let the tar sands be Canada’s greatest legacy of the 21st century. The devastation already visited by tar sands development should be proof enough of what a shortsighted plan it is. Related posts… (auto-generated) EnergyEast tar...
The Great Distraction: ‘Overpopulation’ Is Back in Town
by Betsy Hartmann CommonDreams.org, August 30, 2011 What’s next to hit New York after Hurricane Irene? If you’re in the heart of Times Square during the month of September, you’ll get the chance to see a scary video about overpopulation playing...
Europe's third try at emissions trading: another failure
Europe’s carbon trading plan has produced windfall profits for major polluters, while undermining efforts to reduce pollution Related posts… (auto-generated) Carbon trading is an obstacle to effective climate action Carbon trading has...
Ten propositions on the climate crisis
Canadian Dimension editor Cy Gonick identifies key challenges facing the climate emergency movement
Population book misdiagnoses Australia's environmental crisis
Dick Smith’s Population Crisis: The Dangers of Unsustainable Growth for Australia. Allen & Unwin, Sydney Australia, 2011. ISBN 978-1-74237-657-8 reviewed by Simon Butler Green Left Weekly, August 28, 2011 Those who say today’s big social and...
Native American and Canadian First Nations join civil disobedience to stop tar sands pipeline
The Indigenous Day of Action, September 2, 2011, at the White House will express the solidarity of Native Nations, to protect Mother Earth and demand Obama respect the treaty rights and survival of Native Nations of the US and Canada Related posts…...
‘Capitalism cannot respond to climate change’
Noted Marxist economist and ecologist John Bellamy Foster is a feature guest speaker at the World at a Crossroads: Climate Change Social Change conference, which will take place in Melbourne Australia, September 30 to October 3. He was interviewed...
Canadians call for civil disobedience to stop tar sands
Call urges “one of the largest acts of civil disobedience on the climate issue that Canada has ever seen” in Ottawa, September 26 Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and land Ottawa tar...
Interview: Fred Magdoff on What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism
“It appears inconceivable to most of the people I spoke with that somehow there might be a future economic system that wasn’t capitalist.” Related posts… (auto-generated) Video: Fred Magdoff on the global climate emergency...
Deforestation is worse in 'protected areas' than in community-managed forests
“When done properly, the benefits of community-based management can be seen over the long term, leading to greater conservation participation, reduced poverty, increased economic productivity and the protection of many forest species” ...
South African food sovereignty campaigners expand land occupations
“The land reform has failed us. The municipality has failed us. We will not fail ourselves. We are occupying this land. We will not be removed. Ever!” Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and...
Anti-capitalism and environmentalism as a political alternative
We cannot analyse the global ecological crisis separately from the crisis in which we are immersed or the critique of the economic model that has led us into it. Related posts… (auto-generated) What the new IPCC report says about climate change and...
How Jeffrey Webber's From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia turns reality on its head
Given the hostile tone of his sweeping attacks on the government and its supporters, one would expect a thorough and detailed analysis. Instead we get a litany of errors and misleading statements. Related posts… (auto-generated) How Bolivia is...
Why GMOs won’t feed the world (despite what you read in the New York Times)
We need proven sustainable intensification agriculture that creates resilient communities, not the hollow promises of GMO promoters Related posts… (auto-generated) GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power GMOs and the fables of industrial...
Marxism has an ecological heart
In the past two decades several scholars have gone back to the writings of Marx and other early socialists. They have found that humanity’s relation to the planet’s ecology was a key element to a Marxist analysis of political economy. Related posts…...
Population debate heats up on C&C
The article “Seven questions for a populationist” has prompted some interesting comments and debate. Now one of the big guns of populationism, Simon Ross, CEO of the UK-based Optimum Population Trust, has posted his answers. He accuses...
David Harvey on the English riots: Feral capitalism hits the streets
A political economy of mass dispossession, of predatory practices to the point of daylight robbery, particularly of the poor and the vulnerable, the unsophisticated and the legally unprotected, has become the order of the day Related posts… (auto...
Building an ecosocialist network in New Zealand
The time is right to encourage further cooperation among people who identify as ecosocialists Related posts… (auto-generated) Towards an ecosocialist network "Towards Ecosocialism" proposes major shift for New Zealand socialist group Too...