Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ALCORN Zane
Melbourne,
Worldwide, building construction and use accounts for around 40% of greenhouse gas emissions (materials, actual construction, heating, cooling, lighting etc.). The use of green building materials and construction techniques must be a key element in the drive to curb global warming. (…)
, by FOSTER John Bellamy
Ecology is often seen as a recent invention. But the idea that capitalism degrades the environment in a way that disproportionately affects the poor and the colonized was already expressed in the nineteenth century in the work of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Writing in Capital in 1867 on (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
This is an edited version of the main document discussed at the September 1/2 annual general meeting of Socialist Resistance in Britain. The document explains why Socialist Resistance is changing its political programme, perspectives and public profile towards being an anti-capitalist, (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
The notion of the ‘photosynthetic ceiling’ is all the rage in environmental circles. It is the idea that humanity will consume an increasingly large and disproportionate amount of the photosynthetic capacity of the Earth, to the point where in the short term it would use it all up. Although (…)
, by KOVEL Joel
Homo sapiens has been contending with its effects on nature since Paleolithic days and the first great extinctions wrought by hunting bands. But it was not until the 1970s that these became experienced as a great ecological crisis threatening the future of the species. The modern environmental (…)
, by ILTIS Tony
The good news is that Australian politicians and corporations are finally recognising that there is an environmental crisis. The bad news is that the “solutions” being promoted by the establishment define what is realistic for capitalism, so the “need” for big business to remain profitable sets (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
In his introduction to the Socialist Resistance day school on ecosocialism, Daniel Tanuro, Belgian environmentalist and contributor to International Viewpoint, takes to task revolutionary Marxists of the twentieth century who have been slow to understand the importance of ecology while Marx (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Belgian environmentalist, Daniel Tanuro, argues that the dependence on the market proposed by the Stern Report as a solution to climate change can only lead to a cul-de-sac. To escape without a blood bath or an ecological disaster, there is only one way: to break with the logic of the market. (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
“They make you pay for bread, the sky, the earth, the sun and the misery of your life.” Paul Eluard
Little by little, the elements of the rapprochement between supporters and opponents of Kyoto in the imperialist world are beginning to emerge. On the one hand, the European Union has adopted (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
The impact of Al Gore’s film, interest in the Stern report, the echo of the reports from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the growing success of the demonstrations organised by the Climate Action Campaign illustrate the increasingly lively public concern on the question (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
The exponential growth of attacks on the environment and the increasing threat of the breakdown of the ecological balance point towards a catastrophic scenario that puts in danger the survival itself of the human species. We are facing a crisis of civilization that demands radical change.
If (…)
, by TANURO Daniel, van YPERSELE Jean-Pascal
Question: What is a dangerous perturbation of the climate and can we still avoid it?
Answer: In its article 2, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) sets itself the goal of avoiding “a dangerous anthropic perturbation” of the climate system. But the level of (…)
, by TANURO Daniel
Speech at the event “Ecosocialism or Barbarism”, Socialist Resistance, London, 2 December 2006.
Revolutionary Marxists have been slow to commit themselves to the environmental question. That is why I decided, a few years ago, to read or re-read MARX and ENGELS from the point of view of (…)
, by SAGAR Satya
On the second anniversary of the Asian earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004 it is worthwhile pondering what the entire tragedy was really all about. Going by the numbers - over 225,000 dead, a million more displaced and impoverished or by the area affected-12 countries across two (…)
, by DIXON Norm
The terrible devastation wreaked on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in late August, which took the lives of at least 964 people, and the subsequent political crisis caused by the failure of US President George Bush’s government to adequately respond to the disaster, catapulted the issue of (…)
, by FISCHER Mark, FOSTER John Bellamy
The book Marx’s ecology - materialism and nature by John Bellamy Foster does much to reclaim a lost tradition of ecological thinking in Marxism. As CPGB comrades in London draw towards to the end of an extensive series of seminars based on this work, Mark Fischer spoke to the author about the (…)
, by KURIEN John
The human and ecological catastrophe provoked by the tsunami of last 26th December in South Asia provided an intensely rare opportunity and momentum for international solidarity. This disaster has also permitted to discover the immense precari-ousness of living conditions of coastal populations, (…)
, by HARRIBEY Jean-Marie
A workgroup set up by ATTAC’s Scientific Council has been working for a year and half on the question of development.In its plenary sessions the Council has on several occasions examined the progres of ideas on this subject and provided the modifications it juge necessary. The totality of this (…)
, by FOSTER John Bellamy, SORON Dennis
The Failure of Global Environmental Reform
Aurora: Many environmentalists came away from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 with a great deal of optimism, believing that the cause of global environmental reform had finally been seriously placed on the political agenda. Today, with environmental (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
This Congress was the first in the history of the Fourth International to adopt a resolution on ecology. This document, published in draft form in International Viewpoint nearly two years ago, was debated at length at the FI’s International Executive Committee (IEC) and amended accordingly by (…)
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