Ecosocialism
5 August 2021 · Ecosocialism, Fourth international, Scotland
Welome to ecosocialist.scot!
Socialist Resistance is pleased to announce the launch of the ecosocialist.scot website and associated social media sites on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram. ecosocialist.scot will provide …
19 December 2020 · · Britain, Ecosocialism · 1 comment
Air pollution – Britain’s invisible killer
In a land-mark ruling, the inner south London coroner Philip Barlow, has ruled that the death of nine year old Ella Kissi-Debrah from Lewisham from an asthma attack in February 2013 was part…
6 December 2020 · · Britain, Ecosocialism, Tories · 1 comment
Johnson’s 10-point eco-plan
Johnson’s much vaunted 10-point eco-plan is totally inadequate as a green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis – or build-back greener as he likes to put it, writes Alan Thornett . His claim th…
27 November 2020 · Ecosocialism
Ecosocialism: the strategic debate
Those of us who inhabit planet Earth in the 21 st century face a huge problem. Our own species, homo sapiens (modern humans), are trashing the planet at an ever increasing and more destructi…
17 November 2020 · Biodiversity, Ecosocialism · 4 comments
Making Rewilding Part of a Socialist Future
A. Lee asks if ‘Rewilding’ is just a way for capitalism to sell us stuff. If you look in any popular bookstore these days, you’ll find books on rewilding.... There are books about rewilding …
30 October 2020 · · Covid-19, Ecosocialism
Covid-19: the tip of a deadly iceberg
The most important issue in terms of the Covid-19 pandemic is the one least discussed, writes Alan Thornett This is the ecological dimension: i.e. disastrous and destructive relationship bet…
15 October 2020 · Ecosocialism · 12 comments
Ecosocialism: the strategic debate
Those of us who inhabit planet Earth in the 21 st century face a huge problem. Our own species, homo sapiens (modern humans), are trashing the planet at an ever increasing and more destructi…
5 October 2020 · · Britain, Covid-19, Ecosocialism · 1 comment
Covid-19 resurgence – a glimpse of the apocalypse
Covid-19 is not just out of control, it is rampaging across the world. Sensational headlines are focusing on Trump; hardly surprising given his attitude to the virus, writes Alan Thornett . …
14 August 2020 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Reviews
Cometh the [midnight] hour, cometh the book!
Allan Todd reviews Derek Wall’s 2020 Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis published by Merlin Press. This book had me from its very first page, with this well-chosen …
26 July 2020 · · Britain, Economics, Ecosocialism, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Relaunch Labour’s Green New Deal
According to the World Health Organisation, the Covid-19 pandemic is still accelerating globally; infections have doubled in the past six weeks, writes Alan Thornett . This is another sharp …
7 July 2020 · · Biodiversity, China, Ecosocialism
Support China’s ban on its wildlife trade
An important debate has emerged, on the left, in response to China’s proposed ban on the wildlife trade in its so-called wet markets – following the role this trade is suspected to have play…
8 June 2020 · · Covid-19, Ecosocialism · 5 comments
Covid-19 changes everything
Covid-19 is a huge and many-sided issue, writes Alan Thornett. There is the disastrous governmental response leading to thousands of deaths, there is the approaching mass unemployment pandem…
22 April 2020 · · Biodiversity, Climate Change, Covid-19, Ecosocialism · 1 comment
International Earth Day and Covid-19
Today, April 22, is International Earth Day , writes Alan Thornett . It was established 50 years ago following a massive oil spill off the coast of California as an opportunity to reflect on…
21 February 2020 · · Ecosocialism · 1 comment
The electric cars revolution
The internal combustion engine (ICE) is the biggest consumer of fossil fuel and emitter of CO 2 on the planet, writes Alan Thornett . It has powered road transport for over a century. It is …
20 September 2019 · · Britain, Ecosocialism, USA
Green New Deals must push the boundaries
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 signif…
8 July 2019 · Ecosocialism, Our History, Reviews · 1 comment
Population and contraception: the Godwin, Malthus, Place, debate
William Godwin: A Political Life by Richard Gough Thomas, published by Pluto Press in 2019 reviewed by Alan Thornett This biography is well written and informative. It is a good summary of W…
18 June 2019 · · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Facing the Apocalypse: Arguments for Ecosocialism
by Alan Thornett, Resistance Books & IIRE, 2019, 310 pages reviewed by Michael Lowy This is an important book . One may disagree on some issues -e.g. population, which I do not believe shoul…
7 May 2019 · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Facing the Apocalypse – Arguments for Ecosocialism
Facing the Apocalypse – Arguments for Ecosocialism; by Alan Thornett RRP £17. Pub. Resistance Books and Merlin Press.ISBN: 978-0-902869-91-2; 342pages, reviewed by Pete Murry I’m not sure th…
17 April 2019 · Ecosocialism · 3 comments
Extinction Rebellion, Reform and Revolution
Extinction Rebellion (XR) must be doing something right argues Andy Stowe . Within a few weeks of the organisation becoming nationally known the Daily Heil , preferred paper of lower middle-…
23 February 2019 · Ecosocialism
Derek Wall: internationalist ecosocialism of word and deed
Terry Conway for RedGreen Labour interviewed ecosocialist activist, internationalist and writer Derek Wall. RGL: You have been involved in environmental politics in one form of another for a…
20 February 2019 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Uncategorized, Youth
The climate is changing – why aren’t we?
I’m in my mid-sixties and have been politically active since my late teens, writes Terry Conway . This week I have had one of the most positive political experiences of my life, supporting y…
19 February 2019 · Ecosocialism, Latin America, Reviews
Hugo Blanco: From Trotskyism to Indigenous Vitality
As Hugo Blanco is due to speak at a series of meetings across Britain, we reprint a review in which Andrew Ryder discusses We the Indians: The Indigenous Peoples of Peru and the Struggle for…
14 February 2019 · · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Youth
Climate, class and revolting children
Radical action on climate change should be the many versus the few, not the young versus the old, writes Chris Saltmarsh . The global wave of student strikes for climate action has come to t…
19 November 2018 · · Biodiversity, Ecosocialism
WWF report: wildlife in freefall
The 2018 edition of the highly respected World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report – and its associated Living Planet Index – have just been published, writes Alan Thornett . The Report…
2 November 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Germany
A victory in the struggle to protect the Hambach forest
"Hambi bleibt!" ("Hambi remains!" The rallying cry of the movement. Hambi is an affectively charged abbreviation.) The long, mass citizens’ struggle to protect the Hambach woods near Cologne…
25 July 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Europe, Uncategorized
Fires in Greece: the politics of natural disasters
The government has persistently allowed private interests in construction, industry and tourism to be prioritised over serious ecological and safety concerns, writes Kleanthis Antoniou , a s…
10 July 2018 · · Britain, Ecosocialism
The fight against Heathrow is far from over
On Monday June 25, Westminster took two decisions which were a major breach in Britain’s commitment to combatting climate change – as well as being disastrous for other reasons, writes Terry…
12 June 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Labour Party, transport
Heathrow: step up the campaign against expansion now
Tory Transport Minister Chris Grayling announced to Parliament on June 5 th , after endless prevarication, what he called the government’s ‘final proposal’ on airport expansion in the shape …
20 February 2018 · · Britain, Climate Change, Ecosocialism
Planning for a future which doesn't cost the earth
The Campaign against Climate Change Trade Union Group is organising an important conference on climate change and the trade unions on Saturday, March 10, 2018 at Hamilton House London WC1H 9…
5 February 2018 · · Ecosocialism, South Africa · 1 comment
Cape Town water crisis—sign of things to come
Cape Town—in which some of Africa’s most affluent live– is rapidly running out of water, writes Alan Thornett . Population growth and a record drought, exacerbated by climate change, are cre…
15 January 2018 · · Britain, Ecosocialism, Tories · 1 comment
Plastic waste and political hypocrisy
Ten years after plastic pollution has reached a global crisis point—brilliantly highlighted recently by David Attenborough’s stunning Blue Planet II series—Theresa May has decided that it is…
11 January 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Obituaries
Physics teacher became a pioneer ecologist
Factory worker Alan Roberts returned from war service to gain a degree in physics. While teaching at Monash his passionate opposition to nuclear power led to him becoming one of Australia's …
16 December 2017 · · Ecosocialism, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Corbyn to make politicians pensions greener
This week, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell signed the pledge for the Fossil Free UK campaign to Divest Parliament , writes Joe Walsh The Parliamentary …
9 November 2017 · · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Green and Red Rules for Radicals
Ian Parker reviews Derek Wall’s new book Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals , just published by Pluto Press Of the main complaints made against ‘ecosocialist’ politics, attempts to combine R…
6 November 2017 · · Ecosocialism
Support the protests at COP 23
The 23 rd UN global climate summit, known as COP 23, opens today in Bonn Germany and runs for two weeks until November 17 , writes Alan Davies. Already thousands have protested in Bonn deman…
24 October 2017 · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Labour Party
Young Labour supports fossil fuel disinvestment
Young Labour are calling for action on the climate crisis after a motion was passed at the National Youth Policy Conference 2017 over the weekend of October 14-15 reports Joe Walsh . It will…
8 September 2017 · Ecosocialism
UN report shows climate change key factor in oppression of the poor
Lies, damn lies and statistics, right? Well not always - sometimes statistics dramatise social reality is a graphic way argues Phil Hearse . A year before the devastating floods in India, Ba…
2 May 2017 · · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Dead Zone: Where the Wild things were
Alan Thornett reviews Philip Lymbery's important new book from Bloomsbury (2017) Bloomsbury Publishers, who published Elizabeth Kolberts The Sixth Extinction in 2014 has published another im…
25 October 2016 · Ecosocialism, Reviews
Facing the Anthropocene
Facing the Anthropocene - fossil capitalism and the crisis of the earth system by Ian Angus (1) Monthly Review Press, October 2016 £15.99 Reviewed by Alan Thornett The first passage of the l…
7 October 2016 · · Ecosocialism
A major step towards the Anthropocene
Alan Thornett looks at current debates: We are at a crossroads in terms of the impact of our species on the planet. The actions of modern human beings, ‘ homo sapiens’—i.e. us—are set to det…