These are the
most popular posts on this blog, as judged by unique page views, by month, for
2021. Another difficult year, for sure, but it did see the formation of the
Ecosocialist Alliance. The blog is
closing now until January.
Happy Holiday
and New Year to all our readers.
January
UK
Green Left Invitation to form a United Ecosocialist Front for COP26
Green Left, the
ecosocialist grouping in the Green Party of England and Wales, has launched an
initiative for a unified ecosocialist response to the COP26 United Nations
climate change conference, in November, in Glasgow, later this year. All those
parties, groupings and individuals who take an ecosocialist view, are welcome,
and indeed encouraged to join together, and amplify our collective voice. More
February
The
Ecosocialism / Degrowth Debate
A piece written
by Timothée Parrique and Giorgos Kallis titled Degrowth: Socialism without
Growth, which was re-posted on this blog a couple of weeks ago, has led to a
debate within the ecosocialist community. The subject was discussed at the most
recent Global Ecosocialist Network members meeting, prompting a number of
different views from those present. This is my take on degrowth in an
ecosocialist context. More
March
Women
and Nature: Towards an Ecosocialist Feminism
It was hot
outside that day. In the remote area of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa a
young man watched as five men approached him on the porch. “Could we have a
drink?” one of them asked. As they finished the water they asked if they could
go inside and thank the woman that lived there. The young man led them in the
front door. Moments later shots rang out as the men gunned down the young man’s
grandmother and environmental organiser, Fikile Ntshangase, and raced out. More
April
Eco-socialism
& ‘green new deal’ pipe dreams
“Capitalism can
no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to
stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are
doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless
growth.”—Remaking Society, Murray Bookchin, 1990, p 93-94 More
May
What
Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?
The Green New
Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for decades.
It would guarantee Medicare-for-All, Housing-for-All, student loan forgiveness
and propose the largest economic growth in human history to address
unemployment and climate change. More
June
Ecosocialist
Alliance Calls on G7 for a Just Transition
On this, World
Environment Day (BST), an Ecosocialist Alliance has released a public statement
(reproduced below), ahead of the G7 conference, calling on the leaders of those
nations, for a Just Transition away from social inequality and the ecological
crisis. The G7 conference is from 11 to 13 June, in Cornwall, England.
Ecosocialist organisations and individuals from the UK and other countries have
signed up to the statement. More
July
From
the Depths of the Pandemic towards an Ecosocialist Utopia
In the depths
of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need bold and imaginative thinking — it is time to
embrace the utopianism that is implicit to the Marxist tradition. More
August
Building
Ecosocialism - A review of Max Ajl’s A People’s Green New Deal
There’s nothing
more important today than the politics of climate change. How societies respond
to global heating will increasingly shape all political life. More
September
The
Climate Crisis and a Global Green New Deal
Let me first
say that I don’t think that the debate on the climate emergency between advocates
of degrowth versus the Green New Deal is becoming increasingly polarized,
certainly not as a broad generalization. Rather, as an advocate of the Green
New Deal and critic of degrowth, I would still say that there are large areas
of agreement along with some significant differences. More
October
Ecosocialist
Alliance Releases COP26 Statement
The
Ecosocialist Alliance, organised by Green Left, Left Unity and Anti-Capitalist
Resistance in the UK, have released a statement ahead of next month’s COP26
conference, in Glasgow, Scotland, from 31 October to 11 November. More
November
Introducing...The
Socialist Green New Deal
The Green New
Deal remains the most potent political concept in recent years: it has
undergone several phases and adoption by many political parties and movements.
It has strong support across progressive trends in western Europe but has not
been properly implemented anywhere. More
December
Capitalism,
Ecology, and the Green New Deal
The world’s climate is changing, and it’s surprising — and disappointing — how little our responses have changed since we first recognized the problem decades ago. Since the 1970s, the world has been well aware of climate impacts of burning fossil fuels and many have recognized how our political economy lies at the heart of the problem. Marxist thinkers in particular, like Paul Mattick, were quick to describe the irreconcilable contradiction between our extractive and growth-oriented economic systems and the carrying capacity of our natural ecosystems. More
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