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Climate change

Capitalism’s new catastrophes

Posted on 31st December 2023 by International Socialism

A review of The New Age of Catastrophe, Alex Callinicos (Polity, 2022) £18 Alex Callinicos’s The New Age of Catastrophe is a hugely important book. Capitalism depends on divide and rule and is endlessly inventive in that regard. In the… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Climate change, philosophy

Strategies for survival in the era of extinction

Posted on 14th January 2023 by International Socialism

A review of Socialism or Extinction. The Meaning of Revolution in a Time of Ecological Crisis, Martin Empson (Bookmarks, 2022), £10 In 1915, during the First World War, Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg saw two possible futures: socialism or barbarism. In… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Climate change, Ecology

On the precipice

Posted on 3rd January 2023 by International Socialism

What are the prospects for left politics as 2023 begins?1 To say that the coming year will be one of crisis is simply to state the obvious, a point now accepted across the political spectrum and echoing through end of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Climate change, Ecology, economic crisis, Economics

Linking class, imperialism and climate: is there an “imperial mode of living”?

Posted on 4th July 2022 by International Socialism

A review of The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism, Ulrich Brand and Marcus Wissen (Verso, 2021), £16.99 Over the past decade, Marxists have published many valuable works on capitalism and ecology.1 Yet, there… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Climate change, consumerism, Ecology, imperialism

When workers fight for our environment

Posted on 9th October 2020 by International Socialism

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

Non-violence, social change and revolution

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

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

Riders of the storm

Posted on 7th October 2019 by Camilla

According to legend, in the balmy days before the First World War the Times once carried the headline: “Fog on Channel, Continent Isolated.” Now the fog that pervades the Brexit process leaves Britain isolated. This issue of International Socialism appears… Continue Reading →

Analysis Boris Johnson, Brexit, Climate change, Extinction Rebellion

Our globe is burning!

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Peter Linebaugh, Red Round Globe Hot Burning (University of California Press, 2019), £27 Peter Linebaugh’s book comes with a long subtitle, a pithy summary of its contents: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Climate change, The commons

Betting on infinite loss

Posted on 24th June 2019 by Camilla

The 17th century Catholic thinker Blaise Pascal suggested that we imagine believing in God as a wager: Let us weigh up the gain and loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you… Continue Reading →

Analysis Brexit, Climate change, Tory party

Dirty energy, capitalism and the working class

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

This article was written at the time of the first UK school student climate strikes. In February and March 2019, UK school students, in huge numbers, took their place in a global movement. The strikes were inspired by the actions… Continue Reading →

Article Climate change, Environment

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