Ecosocialism

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.
Ecosocialism Conference 2024

Britain: Humanity faces a planetary emergency — Statement from Ecosocialism Conference 2024

Ecosocialism Conference 2024 — There is an urgent need to build a movement with a programme to meet the climate emergency resulting from capitalist strategies.
Ukrainian flag

Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement): The path to victory and the tasks of the Ukrainian left

One of the key decisions of the Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) conference, which took place in Kyiv on October 5-6, 2024, was the adoption of the resolution, “The path to victory and the tasks of the Ukrainian left”.
Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change

Workers of the Earth, unite!: An interview with Stefania Barca

Stefania Barca affirms the need for a working-class ecopolitics while challenging the narrow understandings of class struggle and material interest that suffuse much of the current discourse.
Gustavo Petro

Marx’s theory of value: Collapse, AI and Gustavo Petro

Michael Roberts — It is not Marx and Engels who disregard the role and value of nature, but rather the capitalists.
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.

Susan Price (Socialist Alliance, Australia): Capitalism is incompatible with preventing catastrophic climate change

Susan Price — To say “Capitalism kills” is not hyperbole. Capitalism is simply incompatible with life on Earth.

Jess Spear (RISE, Ireland): Capitalism kills — The case for ecosocialism

Jess Spear — We need to place an understanding of the ecological crisis at the centre of what we are doing. We are not just ecosocialists when we are campaigning about the environment and socialists the rest of the time.
Construction workers in Marbella, Spain. Photo by Chris Gold. Used under CC license 2.0.

Green class struggle: Workers and the Just Transition

Gareth Dale — A resilient history of workers’ initiatives overcoming redundancies, alongside recent activist, trade-union and workforce collaborations, provide concrete examples for empowered just transitions.
Ecosocialist manifesto

Ecosocialist revolution: A manifesto

Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto is published by Anti*Capitalist Resistance. The document and was adopted by Anti*Capitalist Resistance at their 2024 conference.
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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