This pieces is a response to “We Can’t Beat Climate Change Under Capitalism. Socialism Is the Only Way.” Ashley is correct that addressing the climate crisis requires a radical transformation of the economic system, including more state-led...
This piece is a response to “We Don’t Have Time to End Capitalism—But Growth Can Still Be Green.” While the question of whether we should address capitalism first or climate change first is often posed in sequential terms, it is a false...
From time to time, SCNCC endorses statements made by other groups that advance the principles we support. The statement by the Ecosocialist Working Group (EWG) of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is one such statement. We hope...
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 future. Such grassroots social mobilization — but at a...
(Updated March 6, 2019) This study guide began as a reading list for the Ecosocialist Reading Group of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. These are some of the key readings for anyone who wants to understand the...
The following is a slightly edited version of remarks delivered by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, January 25, 2018. Our house is on fire. I am here to...
No Ph.D. talking here. Just a woman who reads and studies, as Marxists recommend. I’m disturbed by a video just accessed on YouTube: “Climate change and the migrant caravan.” The news piece suggests that sympathetic and enlightened attitudes lie...
(Excerpts from the keynote speech given by Professor William Robinson at the Nov 18 L.A. Ecosocialist conference, “Capitalism is killing us! A community forum on ecosocialist solutions to a warming world” ) A global police state is...
Climate activists must seize the time and get to work on the Green New Deal proposal. Every once in a while, an idea that has been blowing in the wind for years catches fire and starts a conversation that might change the world. It’s happening now...
The agrarianist Wendell Berry wrote once that modernity had bred a dangerous and close-to-fatal ignorance about ecology. In contrast to earlier ways of life, our social relations, which are our productive relations, do not force us to reckon with...
