This short story of a few chapters from the end of a century of oil in Venezuela, might open some windows through which that bright light might shine – from other side of the sanctions, live from the revolution that won’t be televised.
On this day, Sunday December 10, 2023, as Israel is in its second month of…
A recording of the Socialism 2023 conference panel “The Environmental Injustices of American Capitalism: An Introduction” with Daniel Faber, Leigh Brownhill, and Linda Quiquivix of Capitalism Nature Socialism.
The central case in Saito’s new book is that the more Marx learned of the metabolic rift, the more he embraced ecological and anti-colonial positions until ultimately he arrived at “degrowth communism.”
The process of diamond and gemstone commodification masks the exploitation of labour and the extractive practices that wreck the ecology and impair the health of local populations, and have a particularly debilitating effect under neoliberal extractive regimes and regulations.
Beautiful, powerful, and edifying, Stephen Buhner’s book is recommended to everyone who has felt the full scope of the environmental crisis and wants, at the very least, to encounter someone else who has faced the abyss of grief and has some insights about how to live with it.
The following is an English translation of the Guacamaya poem accompanying the Repressive Forces leaks…
The following is an English translation of the Guacamaya communique accompanying the Repressive Forces leaks…
The Future is Degrowth recommends practical proposals for degrowth, and while the authors recommend a lot of things which would be vast improvements over what we have now, they don’t really know how it’s going to happen, and so what we can expect is a conflict-ridden and untidy process.
Veganism should be enacted broadly on the Left as a praxis not only of anti-speciesist or animal-rights-motivated politics, but also broader politics of anti-capitalism and liberation.
We can distinguish between two forms of humanism in the Marxian tradition and locate the conceptual space occupied by animals in each, providing valuable conceptual tools for critical animal studies to employ.
Thinking about animals as a class, with common interests and common suffering, enables us to see suffering and exploitation as results of a larger system, not particular acts of cruelty.