Ecosocialism
Book your tickets to Ecosocialism 2023
LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal is sponsoring Ecosocialism 2023, a two day conference being held at Victorian Trades Hall in Naarm/Melbourne (Australia) over July 1-2.
The idea of degrowth communism was Marx’s last breakthrough — and perhaps most important
Peter Boyle — While researching later volumes of 'Capital', Marx began to realize that it wouldn’t be enough to repurpose capitalist growth for human ends. Instead, to heal metabolic rifts in nature, a communist society would need to slow down and touch grass.
Kohei Saito's 'Marx in the Anthropocene'
The joys and pitfalls of degrowth communism – Gus Woody reviews an important new book on ecosocialism.
Indian labour lawyer Clifton D’Rozario to speak at Ecosocialism 2023
Clifton D’Rozario will visit Australia to address the Ecosocialism 2023 conference over July 1–2 in Naarm/Melbourne.
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPIML) — We congratulate the people of Karnataka for delivering a decisive defeat to the anti-people and divisive BJP
Ecosocialism 2023 to discuss costs of new arms race
Peter Boyle — The ecological and social impacts of a new surge in global military spending will one of the discussions at the Ecosocialism 2023 conference in Naarm/Melbourne on July 1–2.
Malaysia: Class struggle in the face of environmental disasters
Huei Ting and Audrey Chan — Major floods and other environmental disasters are a call for greater class consciousness and better national policies to mitigate the devastating effects of extreme weather due to climate change.
Marxism for the age of climate emergency: On Kohei Saito's degrowth communism
Gareth Dale — Kohei Saito’s 2020 book Capital in the Anthropocene became a surprise bestseller in Japan, demonstrating a wider thirst for anti-capitalist analyses of environmental catastrophe and a popular openness to degrowth-oriented solutions.
Kohei Saito to speak at Ecosocialism 2023
Japanese Marxist academic Kohei Saito, author of Capital in the Anthropocene, will be a keynote speaker at the Ecosocialism 2023, being organised by Green Left — and supported by LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal — in Naarm/Melbourne over July 1–2.
Conference: Ecosocialism 2023 — A World Beyond Capitalism
Ecosocialism 2023 will bring together ecosocialists from around the world, particularly from the Asia-Pacific region, examining the intersection between the ecological, economic and political crises of this time and draw together activists from various progressive social movements to discuss how we campaign for a world beyond capitalism.
Marxian ecology, dialectics, and the hierarchy of needs: An interview with John Bellamy Foster
Interview with John Bellamy Foster — Our hope is that, as people mobilize against the environmental conditions produced by the present social system that increasingly threatens their lives, they will also be animated to protect the earth as a home for humanity, carrying out a worldwide ecological and social revolution
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation — We are currently living amidst a global environmental and climate crisis as experienced in the form of increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, global warming and several other consequences.