Green New Deals (GNDs), of various kinds, are increasingly a feature of the global climate and ecological struggle, writes Alan Thornett . They are not new but today they have greater significance. The most important such deal to-date is one submitted to the US Congress – entitled ‘Recognizing (...)
White nationalists around the world are appropriating the language of environmentalism.
The white nationalist who allegedly massacred 22 people in El Paso in early August posted a four-page screed on the chatroom 8chan. In it, the shooter blames his attack on the “Hispanic invasion of Texas” (...)
Rebel interviews Ian Angus — editor of the journal Climate & Capitalism, and author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth, and A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism — about the pressing need to develop the politics of ecosocialism (...)
As temperatures rose close to 50°C in North India and water supplies were about to cease, and as a tremendous heat wave descended upon Europe, a sizeable crowd gathered on 18 June in the community centre/pub Gólya operated by a leftist cooperative in the middle of Budapest, Hungary. The occasion (...)
Facing the Apocalypse: Arguments for Ecosocialism by Alan Thornett, Resistance Books, 2019
Eco-Socialism for Now and the Future: Practical Utopias and Rational Action by Robert Albritton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Eco-socialism has been a topic addressed by an increasing number of books in (...)
On May 21, 2019, the Anthropocene Working Group, established by the Subcommision on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, voted by more than the necessary 60 percent to recognize the existence of the Anthropocene epoch in geological time, beginning around (...)
A review of Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’ published on 11 June 2019 by Verso Books.
Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) was a slogan in search of a movement, and now it has its manifesto. The aim: to accelerate capitalism’s positives (technological progress), (...)
Solving the ecological crisis requires a mass movement to take on hugely powerful industries. Yet environmentalism’s base in the professional-managerial class and focus on consumption has little chance of attracting working-class support. This article argues for a program that tackles the (...)
There is a growing body of ecomarxist and ecosocialist literature in the English-speaking world, which signals the beginning of a significant turn in radical thinking. Some Marxist journals, such as Capitalism, Nature and Socialism, Monthly Review and Socialism and Democracy have been playing (...)
A techno-green future of limitless abundance sounds great, writes Aaron Vansintjan, but it’s totally unsustainable.
If you hadn’t heard, despair is old hat. Rather than retreat into the woods, now is the time to think big, to propose visionary policies and platforms. So enter grand proposals (...)
The resolution “The capitalist destruction of the environment and the ecosocialist alternative” presented by the Ecology Commission and endorsed by the outgoing Bureau was adopted 112 votes for, 1 against, 2 abstentions.
In memory of Berta Caceres, indigenous activist, ecologist and feminist (...)
Why energy policy is not only about economic or ecological issues, but also fundamental requires the consideration of impacts on social justice.
Energy policy is one of today’s major challenges for modern societies. The question whether and to what extent we have access to energy highly affects (...)
Hans Baer: “Democratic eco-socialism rejects a statist, growth-oriented, productivist ethic and recognizes that humans live on an ecologically fragile planet with limited resources that must be sustained and renewed as much as possible for future generations.”
The Next System Project , chaired (...)
I don’t need to tell you we face an existential threat. Scientists tell us we face a “climate emergency.” Last year was the hottest year ever recorded, beating 2014, which beat 2012. We break new records every year. The fourteen hottest years ever recorded have been recorded since 2000. January (...)
Open pit mining transforms functioning ecosystems into tailings of sand, overburden, rock and potentially dangerous chemicals.
“Open pit mining”, sometimes called “open-cast mining”, involves digging up the surface of the earth to get to the mineral.
“Overburden” is the material that is dug up (...)
I very much welcome Daniel Tanuro’s recently posted article on the IV site on climate change and ecology entitled “Confronted by the ecological emergency: project of society, programme, strategy”. It is based on presentation he made at the FI international youth camp in Belgium in August of this (...)
In April 2014, two different teams of American glaciologists, specialists in the Antarctic, reached - by different methods, based on observation - the same conclusion: because of global warming, a portion of the ice sheet has begun to dislocate, and this dislocation is irreversible.
Although (...)
The concept of eco-socialism is based on a double paradoxical note: the solution to the “ecological crisis” due to the capitalist mode of production necessitates a response of a socialist type, whilst the environmental balance sheet of “actually existing socialism” is catastrophic. I will briefly (...)
Review of Green Capitalism: why it can’t work by Daniel Tanuro. Published in French as L’impossible capitalism vert (Editions La Découverte), then in English in 2013 by Merlin Press in association with Resistance Books and the IIRE. This is an important work and should be widely read by anyone (...)
The conflict between labor and the environment is a neoliberal construct. What we need is a broad coalition that can fundamentally transform production.
Nowadays it sounds so familiar, almost natural: the mutually exclusive demands and apparently opposing agendas of labor and the (...)
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