Photo by Phil Fiddyment/Flickr Insects are in decline across the world because of industrial farming and heavy pesticide use which are threatening food production, according to the 2020 Insect Atlas,…
View of the refinery from the Fourth Congress of Biological Diversity, Paraguana. Photo by Quincy Saul/Ecosocialist Horizons Ian Angus is interviewed by Rebel News, a critical source of news and…
Adapted by WhoWhatWhy from Evrik and Mets501 / Wikimedia and Rafaelgr It’s two years since I published my last Essential Reading list. Since then I’ve received many suggestions for additions,…
A Marxist History of Capitalism Henry Heller Routledge, 2018 Since the 1970s, Marxist discussion of how and when capitalism was born has been dominated by two competing academic currents. World-System…
“To say that ‘science and technology can solve all our problems in the long run,’ is much worse than believing in witchcraft.” —István Mészáros This summer, the left-wing magazine Jacobin…
Photo by Chris Lim The most popular techno-fix for global warming is green energy. If energy companies would only deploy wind, hydro, solar, geothermal or nuclear, then emission-intensive fossil fuels…
Last week, British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough devoted over a third of a widely reported interview to his claim that human beings are “a plague on the earth.” “It’s…
As the Harper government works with oil companies to slander and discredit opponents of tar sands, will the supposedly impartial regulator be trusted? (Greenpeace Canada, January 26, 2012) As controversy…
