Migration as revolutionary act; ecosocialist thought; conversations with Laura Pulido and Julie Sze; South Carolina hell; the European Union’s emissions trading scam, pt 1; renewable energy in Germany; plus poetry and reviews
On the 2016 us presidential elections and local elections in Kwazulu-Natal; special section on value; plus poetry and a review of anthropocene-speak publications
If we are confused and scared by Trumpocalypse and don’t know what to do, let’s consider looking toward movements that have long been enduring their own various apocalypses for years
On bourgeois uses of socialist states; special section on money; the environmental Kuznets curve; the European Union’s war on migrants; remembering comrade Giuseppina Ciuffreda; plus poetry and reviews
Environmental racism; racial liberalism; David Harvey meets Robert Reich; North Korea; Wall Street and climate change; Chile and salmon industry; plus book reviews
In the Netherlands, juridical measures are repressing squatting with the explicit aim of preventing vacancy, even though statistics show that vacancy figures continue to rise exponentially.
Olympic greenwashing; rethinking strategies for environmental justice; ecosocialist thought in Spain and China; sheep and dioxins; Caribbean tourism; round table on Jason Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life; poetry and reviews
The creation of a wind/solar energy infrastructure should be welcomed even with its problems, as we cannot wait for the end of the rule of capital to start building this renewable infrastructure.
The story of Jonestown obscures that Guyana in the 1970s was the center of a little known Pan African movement that linked the Caribbean with African and African American political exiles in the fight against empire.
If there can be one lesson that the creation of the State of Israel should teach us, it must be on the danger of accepting any and all political proposals from oppressed peoples by virtue that they have been oppressed.
There exists a habit of blackmailing public institutions and associations that express criticism of Israel and Zionism. Any criticism, even the slightest, is readily branded with the “anti-Semitism” charge.
Whether the carbon is stored in the soil, forests or crust, carbon sequestration from the atmosphere is the only geoengineering approach that is imperative, in order to bring and maintain the atmospheric carbon dioxide level below the safe level of 350 ppm.