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Ecology

Britain’s fishing crisis after Brexit

Posted on 20th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

The need to “seize back control of fishing rights in British waters” was pitched as a symbol of all that was wrong with the European Union by the Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum.1 The right-wing Brexit campaign, including Nigel… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Brexit, Ecology, Environment, European Union, Fish, fisheries, Fishing

Anthropocentrism versus ecocentrism: notes on a false dichotomy

Posted on 23rd July 2021 by Richard Donnelly

In the 1840s, in the manuscripts later published as The German Ideology, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels set out the first comprehensive statement of the approach to understanding history and society that underlay their writing and political activity for the… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Ecology, env, philosophy

When workers fight for our environment

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

The role of trade unions and organised labour in preventing catastrophic climate change is a burgeoning field of research.1 Many academic contributions investigate climate policy issues but leave aside discussion of workers’ action.2 In contrast, this article focuses on past… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Ecology, Environment, Strikes, Working class

Making an ecological worldview

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Monthly Review Press (2020), £30. Since John Bellamy Foster published Marx’s Ecology in 2000, the idea that Karl Marx had little to say on environmental issues has… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews Ecology, Environment, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Science

A triple crisis

Posted on 6th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin, 1940, Notes for “On… Continue Reading →

Analysis coronavirus, Ecology, Health, Labour Party, The Economic Crisis, The United States, Tories

Socialism in a time of pandemics

Posted on 22nd March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

It is tempting to see pandemics as unpredictable, cataclysmic incursions of nature into human society.1 Yet the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) is anything but a “natural” phenomenon. Epidemics and pandemics happen in a social, political and economic context,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Agriculture, coronavirus, Ecology, Economics, Health, health and social care, The Economic Crisis

Non-violence, social change and revolution

Posted on 10th January 2020 by Richard Donnelly

As I write this, a global revolt is shaking ruling classes from Hong Kong to Colombia, via Chile, Haiti, Catalonia, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Protest movements in the United Kingdom are not on the scale of those in other countries.… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Ecology, Environment, Extinction Rebellion, social, strategy

Marx and the robbery of the soil and the worker

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017), £22.32 Kohei Saito’s book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism is based on extensive and ­painstaking research.1 As well as Marx’s published… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Ecology, Karl Marx

Value isn’t everything

Posted on 12th October 2018 by Camilla

The rapid advances in Marxian ecology in the last two decades have given rise to extensive debates within the left, reflecting competing conceptions of theory and practice in an age of planetary ecological and social crisis. One key area of… Continue Reading →

Article Ecology, nature, value theory

Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Brill/Haymarket, 2016), £21.99 Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Ecology, Environment

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