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 (...)
Ecosocialism is an attempt to provide a radical, civilizational alternative to capitalism, rooted in the basic arguments of the ecological movement, and in the Marxist critique of political economy. It opposes to capitalism’s destructive progress (Marx) an economic policy founded on non-monetary (...)
I am especially excited about the theme of this year’s conference because it represents what I think is a historic advance in left thinking. In all the years of the Left Forum, not to mention the Socialist Scholars Conference before it, plenary speakers have addressed a huge range of left topics (...)
AS I LOOK back on E.P. Thompson’s work and the impact it had on me, his biography of William Morris — William Morris, From Romantic to Revolutionary (1977) — stands out brighter than all other texts, including his deservedly acclaimed The Formation of the English Working Class.
It was the genius (...)
Daniel Tanuro is the author of L’impossible capitalisme vert (“the impossible green capitalism”) . In this article, he presents an analysis of the Ecosocialist Manifesto of the French Left Party. Highlighting the real advances contained in this document, but also its limitations, he contributes to (...)
With a turn-out of 48.9 per cent, the Icelandic electorate approved on October 20, 2012, by 66.3 per cent of the votes cast, the outline of the new draft constitution. This is an indication that the Icelandic Parliament, which must adopt the constitution, will have to take into account. In (...)
The following article is adapted from a presentation at the Solidarity summer school in August 2012. Nicholas Davenport is a member of the newly formed Ecosocialism Working Group of Solidarity. The editors of Against the Current view this contribution as part of an urgently needed discussion. (...)
Barry Commoner, the great environmentalist, has died at the age of 95. I first learned about Commoner when in 1980 the socialist group of which I was a member, the International Socialists, decided to support his campaign for the presidency that year on the ticket of the Citizens’ Party. Our (...)
Demonstrating the economic value of nature once seemed at the forefront of progressive thinking, but on the ground it is turning into the latest wave of landgrabbing. What went wrong?
What is green grabbing?
Melissa Leach – I think Guardian journalist John Vidal might have first coined the (...)
This article was prepared for presentation to the conference on “Harmony and Ecological Civilization” organized for a group of visiting Chinese academics interested in ecological Marxism by the Institute for Postmodern Development of China (IPDC), Claremont, California, on April 27 and 28, 2012. (...)
Chris Williams is a longtime environmental activist and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2010). He is professor of physics and chemistry at Pace University and chair of the science department at Packer Collegiate Institute and is a (...)
Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major priority in the run-up to the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit in June 2012.
In less than six months, the UN summit in Rio de Janeiro will take place (20-22 June 2011), twenty years after the historic Earth Summit. That summit despite its (...)
The fundamental flaw at the heart of UNEP’s report “Towards a Green Economy” is its failure to analyse the extraordinarily unequal power relations that exist in today’s world, and the interests at play in the operation of this global economic system.
In all its hundreds of pages, the UNEP report (...)
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