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“It’s Eco-Socialism or Death”: An Interview With Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson
Editors | Jacobin | February 18, 2019
The Green New Deal (GND) is now part of the national conversation. But for decades, social movements have been doing the on-the-ground work to resist fossil capitalism and envision a different... read more

A Green New Deal for American Labor?
Saurav Sarkar | Labor Notes | February 17, 2019
The simple yellow protest signs were stenciled “Green Jobs for All.” Speaker after speaker stepped into the middle of the office floor, marked with a U.S. House of Representatives seal.... read more

A Green New Deal Is the First Step Toward an Eco-Revolution
John Bellamy Foster with Vaios Triantafyllou | truthout.org | February 12, 2019
A professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, John Bellamy Foster is also the editor of the socialist magazine Monthly Review. He has written widely on capitalism, Marxism and ecological... read more

Sunrise Movement demonstration in San Francisco

The Green New Deal Takes Its First Congressional Baby Step, as Pelosi Mocks “Green Dream or Whatever”
Kate Aronoff | The Intercept | February 7, 2019
The first hand of the Green New Deal has been dealt. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., on Thursday unveiled a five-page, nonbinding resolution that frames a 10-... read more

Palestine and the Climate Crisis
David Klein | Mondoweiss | February 6, 2019
The urgency of the global climate crisis makes it imperative for any social justice movement to come to grips with, and confront it in some way. There can be no social justice, after all, on a dead... read more

Sunrise Movement "Dear Democrats - Step Up or Step Aside"

The Green New Deal -- An Ecosocialist Study Guide
Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change | January 30, 2019
(Updated Feb 13, 2019) This study guide began as a reading list for the Ecosocialist Reading Group of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. I sought to include some... read more

Why it’s time to think about human extinction
Dr David Suzuki | Kerwin Rae Business Coach Sydney Australia | January 28, 2019
Australian podcaster Kerwin Rae interviews Dr. David Suzuki, the popular Canadian science broadcaster, educator, and environmental activist. Rae comments that Dr. Suzuki "hits us with some home... read more

SCNCC Perspectives & Guest Commentaries

Palestine and the Climate Crisis

David Klein | Mondoweiss

The Green New Deal -- An Ecosocialist Study Guide

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Yellow Vest demonstration in Belfort, France

Opportunities and Challenges Posed by the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) Protests and the Sunrise Movement

Kamran Nayeri | Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism

The Crisis of Civilization and How to Resolve It: An Introduction to Ecocentric Socialism

Kamran Nayeri | Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosociaism

Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future

Michael Löwy | Great Transition Initiative

Screenshot from Financial Times Video on Climate and Migration

A Marxist Feminist Ecosocialist View of a Financial Times Video about Climate Change and Migration

Sandra Lindberg | System Change Not Climate Change

Global Police State

William I. Robinson | Change Links

A Lesson in How Not to Mitigate Climate Change

Andreas Malm | Verso Books

Sunrise Movement in the Halls of Congress

The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What’s Next Is Up to Us

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Is there still time to stop climate catastrophe?

Phil Gasper | SocialistWorker.org

IPCC Report: First Thoughts on Next Steps

Sydney Azari | Medium.com

The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism

David Klein | truthout.org

Scientists propose changing the rules of history to avoid environmental collapse

University College London | Phys.org

Trump’s war on science

Cliff Connor | Socialist Action

The Sea Level Threat To Cities Depends On Where The Ice Melts — Not Just How Fast

Christopher Joyce | NPR

Ice Apocalypse

Eric Holthaus | Grist

Scientists Issue Dire Warning on Climate Change & Key Researcher Urges “Changes in How We Live”

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

Abrupt Climate Justice

John Foran | Resilience

“It’s Eco-Socialism or Death”: An Interview With Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson

Editors | Jacobin

The Green New Deal -- An Ecosocialist Study Guide

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

The Crisis of Civilization and How to Resolve It: An Introduction to Ecocentric Socialism

Kamran Nayeri | Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosociaism

Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future

Michael Löwy | Great Transition Initiative

The wildfire that wiped out Paradise, California.

An Ecosocialist Path to Limiting Global Temperature Rise to 1.5°C

Richard Smith | Real World Economics Review (forthcoming March 1, 2019)

Ecosocialism’s Greatest Challenge: The Color-Line and the Twenty-First Century Ecoleft

Ted Franklin | SCNCC

The New York Times Front Page - Summer of Fire

The Fires This Time and Their Implications for Ecosocialists

Richard Smith | SCNCC

Too Late? A Horror Story

Gene Warren Jr. | The Socialist

The State of Ecosocialism in the UK in 2018

Mike Shaughnessy | London Green Left Blog

A Green New Deal for American Labor?

Saurav Sarkar | Labor Notes

New Deal Soil Conservation Postage Stamp

Beyond the Green New Deal

Max Ajl | The Brooklyn Rail

What Is The Climate Equivalent of “Medicare For All”?

Nathan J. Robinson | Current Affairs

Can Ecosocialist Praxis be a Real Alternative?

Gordon Peters | London Left Green Blog

In Face of Climate Crisis, Environment and Trade Union Movements Finding Common Cause

Susann Scherbarth | Common Dreams

A just transition from climate change and unemployment – a trade union perspective

Joseph Mathunjwa | Daily Mavrick

The New AFL-CIO Stand on Climate Change

Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability

Not-for-Profit, Open for Business

Sophia Burns | The North Star

Op-Ed: A call to arms – the climate change crisis amidst mass unemployment

Jonathan Neale | Daily Maverick

COP24: No Response to the Crisis

Nadja Charaby, Maria Theresa Lauron, Till Bender, Katja Voigt, Tadzio Müller and Alanah Torralba | The Bullet

The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What’s Next Is Up to Us

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Singers perform at the Extinction Rebellion rally in London, England, on October 31, 2018. Kay Michael / Extinction Rebellion

The Global Extinction Rebellion Begins

Dahr Jamail | TruthOut

Fracking protestors jailed by UK 'Banana Monarchy' judiciary

Allan Todd | London Green Left Blog

Ecosocialism’s Greatest Challenge: The Color-Line and the Twenty-First Century Ecoleft

Ted Franklin | SCNCC

Tracking the battles for environmental justice: here are the world’s top 10

Julie Snorek | The Conversation

Occupella performing at April 29, 2017 Climate Mobilization in Oakland

Fighting for System Change by Song

Bonnie Lockhart | SCNCC

Organizing on a Sinking Ship: The Future of the Climate Justice Movement

Kevin Buckland | ROAR Mag

Finding Pathways to a Better Future: Part 1: Where Have We Been?

John Foran | Resilience

Native rights and resistance after Standing Rock

Nick Estes and Ragina Johnson interviewed by Khury Petersen-Smith | Socialist Worker

Groundbreaking “Carbon Pricing Report” Released by Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance at COP 23

Jade Begay | Common Dreams

Will You 'Promise to Protect'? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL

Jake Johnson | Common Dreams

Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance

Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance |

Special Report: Revolt at Trump’s Pro-Coal, Pro-Nuclear & Pro-Gas Panel Rocks U.N. Climate Summit

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

LIVE: GENEVA SWITZERLAND / DIRECT ACTION @ Credit Suisse

Oil pipeline opponent uses 'necessity defence' - What is it?

CP | CFJC Today

Indigenous-Led Protest Shuts Down Banks in Seattle

Sydney Brownstone | The Stranger

Will Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Oilsands Pipeline Become the Standing Rock of the North?

James Wilt | DeSmog Blog

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Sing!

Uprisings, rallies, meetings, and marches are livelier when graced with song. This book of new lyrics for familiar songs is the Bay Area women's singing group Occupellas's contribution to the ecosocialist canon. It's a free download. Song has been an important part of every people's movement that has ever won.

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