Ecology and the Greens

• Absolutely insane November 16 2006
  Simon Wells reviews Helen Caldicott's book Nuclear power is not the answer, New Press, 2006, pp221, £13.99
• Climate change and the necessity of communism November 2 2006
  No to market solutions. Jack Conrad explains why capitalism is the problem
  • Change and climate inseparable
  • Development needed
    
    
• Fiddling while planet Earth burns November 2 2006
  Simon Wells reviews George Monbiot's Heat: how to stop the planet burning Penguin, 2006, pp276, £17.99
  
  
• Llimits of green politics October 26 2006
  Green politics have caught on in a big way. Jack Conrad explores their contours, limitations and contradictions
  
  

• The power of reason and the market September 28 2006
  Simon Wells is not impressed by the market solutions to climate change advocated by Al Gore in Davis Guggenheim's film An inconvenient truth

• No future in the past June 29 2006
  Jack Conrad questions the romantic image of prehistory presented by green thinkers

• Changing solutions June 8 2006
  Tony Stevens says broadness for its own sake will achieve nothing, as the June 3 Campaign against Climate Change conference showed

• Changes and responses June 1 2006
  Climate change is nothing new. Nor can we stop it. What we need, insists Jack Conrad, is a society that can cope with sudden change

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Series: Ecology, pseudo-science and Marxist answers

• Greenism and neo-Malthusian pseudo-science April 6 2006
  In the first of three articles Jack Conrad argues that the global ecological crisis cannot be explained by crude overpopulation theories. Each social formation has its own laws, including laws of population
• Contours of green thought April 13 2006
  Greenism is hobbled by two fundamental faults. It cannot tame capitalism, nor does it offer a realistic way of superseding capitalism. In his second article in the series, Jack Conrad explores its limitations
• Darker shades of green April 20 2006
  In the third article in the series, Jack Conrad questions the romantic images presented by green primitives and cautions against the seductive lures of ecofascism

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• Cuckoos in the nest February 9 2006
  The Campaign Against Climate Change looks set to grow in 2006, writes John Downes. But where is it going programmatically?
• Prometheanism and nature January 19 2006
  Technological Prometheanism and capitalism’s profit-driven degradation of nature: Jack Conrad puts the case for revolutionary Prometheanism and sustainability
• Climate change: setting our sights sky high December 8 2005
  Respect national council member Elaine Graham Leigh was one of the organisers of the December 3 demonstration for action against global warming. She spoke to the Weekly Worker about the need for a democratic mass movement and for socialists to play a leading role
• A world to save! A world to win! December 1 2005
  Jack Conrad looks at climate change, the December 3 demonstration and the programme that communists should advance
  
  • Eco-socialist lite
    Martin Eckersley looks at the left press' coverage of climate change, which owes more to environmentalism than Marxism

• The only answer is revolution November 10 2005
  The book Marx’s ecology - materialism and nature by John Bellamy Foster does much to reclaim a lost tradition of ecological thinking in Marxism. As CPGB comrades in London draw towards to the end of an extensive series of seminars based on this work, Mark Fischer spoke to the author about the relationship of red and green

• Going back to Marx October 20 2005
  Derek Wall, a member of the Green Party for over 25 years, is the author of a new book, Babylon and beyond. He describes himself as an “eco-socialist” influenced by Marxism and is currently standing for election to the executive of the Green Party. He spoke to Mark Fischer about his vision of socialism and the state of the Marxist left
  • Fair trade or Marxism?
    Alec Long reviews Derek Wall's book Babylon and beyond: the economics of anti-capitalist, anti-globalist and radical green movements Pluto Press, pp220, £14.99
• ‘Natural’ disaster hits the poorest - October 6 2005
  While the actual earthquake itself was the product of geological fault lines, what communists stress above all else is the fact that we are not confronted here simply by a ‘natural’ disaster. Nature is at all times mediated through the agencies of human society and class relations, says Eddie Ford reports
  • Killed by neglect
    Urgent call for funds from Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan

Too tragic to be farce September 29 2005
In spite of the media hype, preparations for Hurricane Rita were just as chaotic and class-based as they were for Katrina, writes Martin Schreader
Reaping the whirlwind September 8 2005
The catastrophe along the southern coast of the US was as much a product of the capitalist system as it was an act of nature, writes Martin Schreader
Victims of criminal neglect, not nature September 8 2005
Paul Greenaway gives the communist perspective of the tragedy - and looks at the position of the Socialist Workers Party, which is far more principled than its response to the 2004 tsunami
A survivor’s story September 8 2005
Lisa Moore tells the story of her cousin Denise - instead of the 'rioting looters' depicted by the bourgeois media, she saw desparate people doing their utmost to help each other

• Fight for a red planet July 15 2004
  Eddie Ford takes issue with deep ecology, biocentrism, Gaiain consciousness and eco-theology
• Towards the Anthropocene March 18 2004
  Climate change will not be managed within the profit-driven system of capitalism, argues Jack Conrad
• New Greens pose left March 11 2004
  Jack Conrad points to the well-trodden slippery slope awaiting the SWP as they dash to "make a difference"
• Fair trade or socialism? January 8 2004
  Ben Lewis reviews George Monbiot's The age of consent
• Alternative tio New Labour? February 28 2002
  Bill Jeannes looks at the politics of George Monbiot and the greens