climate change

Nepal disaster

The disaster in Nepal and the need to build resilience: An ecosocialist energy transition perspective

The scale of the disaster in Nepal, which spread across borders, demonstrates the stark reality of the existential climate emergency, writes Partido Lakas ng Masa.
The flood and landslide destroyed settlements along Nepal's Trishuli River, in a disaster that has claimed hundreds of lives.

Nepal: Climate crisis capitalism and the political economy of the Himalayas

Floods do not affect everybody equally. Nepal’s recent ecological disaster is simultaneously a class disaster, writes Kunal Chattopadhyay.

Ian Angus on capitalism, ecosocialism and metabolic rifts

Ian Angus discusses his latest book ‘Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System’.

(Video) Why socialists must understand metabolic rifts

Ian Angus speaking at the Canadian launch of “Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System”.

The road to hell — and back

Phil Hearse reviews William I Robinson’s new book “Epochal Crisis: the Exhaustion of Global Capitalism,” saying if you want to understand what is going on in the world, then read this.
fossil capitalism

Focus on fossil capital, not degrowth: A critique of ‘Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution’

Mark Baugher — The ‘Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution’ puts the cart before the horse. It commences a struggle against capitalist lifestyles before winning the struggle against the capitalist system that breeds those lifestyles.

Metabolic rifts: Michael Roberts interviews Ian Angus on his new book

Ian Angus discusses his new book, ‘Metabolic Rifts’, which offers a scientific basis for understanding the deep causes of today’s environmental crises, and a program for action to prevent catastrophe in our time.
Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth

You don’t miss what doesn’t exist

Don Fitz — Stan Cox’s ‘Anthropause’ does what far too few degrowth books do by focusing on the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff.

(Video) What justice on a burning planet? The left and the climate emergency

Haymarket Books and Verso Books host an urgent conversation about climate catastrophe and the left.
Second Ecosocialist Encounter

Ecosocialism or extinction: Defending life, building free territories and ecosocialism from and for the peoples

Statement from the Second Ecosocialist Meeting, held in Belém, Brazil, November 2025.
The Aramco oil refinery in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. COP30 offered no fossil-fuel phase-out; oil-producing nations blocked binding language, and the final deal focused on voluntary road maps instead.

COP 30: Entrenching the crisis of climate politics

Brian Ashley — The gap between official international climate policy and the lived reality of a warming world has never been wider. In Belém, that gap became a chasm.
People's Summit

Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30

Statement from the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from November 12-16.

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