degrowth

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Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution: Possible consequences in the Philippines

Daniel Tanuro — An emergency plan for social and ecological justice is only possible if it is linked to a fight for the political power.
sustainable growth is degrowth

Revolutionary degrowth in the Anthropocene

Peter Boyle — Any significant revolutionary change that takes place this century will have to do so amid catastrophic global climate change.
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For an ecommunist alternative to degrowth and ‘luxury’ communism

Esteban Mercatante explains how capitalism is at the root of a “multidimensional” ecological crisis, and the need for an ecommunist strategy that takes us beyond the degrowth/ecomodernism divide.
A miner shows a bag containing coltan in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Critical minerals and genocide in the Congo

What’s behind the sudden surge in interest in rare earth minerals? Phil Hearse investigates.
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Manifesto for an ecosocialist revolution — Break with capitalist growth

The Fourth International has publishing this Manifesto because it is convinced that the process of ecosocialist revolution, at different territorial levels but with a planetary dimension, is more necessary than ever.
Which way arrows

Growth or degrowth? Ecosocialism confronts a false dichotomy

Ståle Holgersen — Stark binaries obscure the real problems we face in building a movement against capitalist ecocide.
Dollars versus Earth

To save the environment, we must end the profit system

Ian Angus talks about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth and ecosocialism.
From Karl Marx to Eco-Marxism

From Karl Marx to Eco-Marxism

Michael Löwy — Reflection on Marx’s contribution to an ecological perspective has made considerable progress in recent decades.
degrowth and ecosocialism

Two (wrong) views on Marx, degrowth, and productivism (plus John Bellamy Foster on ecosocialism and degrowth)

Monthly Review — The myth of Prometheanism in Marx’s thought, revived by two opposite extremes on the issue, has resulted in the erection a “Tower of Babel” that threatens to extinguish much that has been achieved by Marxian ecology.
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Fourth International: Draft manifesto of revolutionary Marxism in the age of capitalist ecological and social destruction

Fourth International — An ecosocialist society is needed, and can be achieved only through a revolution. This manifesto tries to assess the best ways and means towards this aim.
Marx in the Anthropocene. Towards the Idea of Degrowth communism

Marx, communism and degrowth: On Kohei Saito’s ‘Marx in the Anthropocene’

Daniel Tanuro — In ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’, Kohei Saito showed how the mature Marx had broken with productivism. His new book, ‘Marx in the Anthropocene’, continues the reflection.
A year on, that’s still right. London demonstration, November 2022. Photo by Steve Eason

Defining ecosocialism

Simon Pirani — Making ecosocialism a reality is a huge, many-sided collective task.

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