Category: Ecology
Peter G. Prontzos positively reviews Eleanor Finley’s book on Murray Bookchin’s ideas on social ecology and their application in Rojava.
In the final agreement of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30 / in Blem, Brazil), no mention was made of fossil fuels as the main cause of the climate
Paul Messersmith-Glavin positively reviews Kohei Saito’s work on degrowth communism, as a political project that will expand the realm of freedom.
Brian Tokar argues against dystopian narratives on climate change that promote hopelessness, and calls for an approach focused on building mutual aid networks.
Sam Friedman argues that the Trump regime’s attacks on science is rooted in the capitalist class interest, which is fundamentally threatened by scientific knowledge of climate change.
The catastrophic Los Angeles fires of January 2025 are the inevitable ecological result of a century of unsustainable and artificial capitalist expansion in a geographic location that is simply not endowed by nature to support a large population center.
In an interview, Richard Seymour analyzes today’s far right as rooted in the imagery of disaster, which can pave the way towards eco-fascism as the climate crisis accelerates.
Dan Fischer reviews Ashley Dawson’s book “Environmentalism from Below”, on ecological struggles in the Global South that can lead global transformations.
Register at pepeace.org. Whether or not you make it, all donations go to Community Movement Builders, a “collective of black people creating sustainable, self-determining communities.”
Resolution adopted by the Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) conference, which took place in Kyiv, October 5-6, 2024.
How might we develop a socialist approach to technologies, in the face of the threat of rapid, potentially uncontrollable, climate change?
Michael Löwy argues that Marx’s thought has deep ecological significance, such as his theory of the “realm of freedom”.
Brian Ward narrates his experience of participating in the Standing Rock encampment in 2016 and analyzes the legacy of the struggle.
Puerto Rican socialist Rafael Bernabe calls for a Green New Deal in Puerto Rico, to facilitate its economic and ecological reconstruction.
Xi’s “new type civilization” is the opposite of all this. Instead of enlightenment, emancipation, freedom, critical thinking, science and democracy.
A history of Stop Cop City and the struggle to defend the Atlanta Forest. A must read for anyone interested in getting the whole story.
Dan Fischer analyzes the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, its roots in the Black Power movements and anarchist inspirations.
Review of “activist ethnographer” Nicole Fabricant’s book on youth activism and environmental justice in the South Baltimore Peninsula.
Kali and his fellow members of Cooperation Jackson are creating a model for how the rest of us might be able to achieve peace on and with Earth.
Starting in April 2021, a bold movement set out to defend Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia, where local politicians and corporate profiteers want to build a police training compound known as Cop City. In the following assessment, participants evaluate the strategic hypotheses that the movement has produced and tested over the past two years and reflect on the risks and possibilities of the next phase of the struggle.
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