To The Swedish Government and all participants at the Rio +20 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. From the Gothenburg Conference: Celebrate! Resist! Transform! for environmental justice and just transition 18th to 20th of May 2012 A JUST TRANSITION NOW – NO...
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Building a true green economy | by Sunita Narain
The world has to reinvent growth as it is costing it the Earth June 5, the World Environment Day, is meant to celebrate the idea of the environment and put it into practice. It is a day to take stock of where we stand and where we should be headed in future. The theme...
Of green economy and sustainable capitalism
The European Environment Agency recently released a report on progress towards the “green economy” in Europe. The EEA defines the “green economy” as one in which “the environmental, economic and social policies and innovations enable society to use resources...
Marxism, morality, and human nature | by Phil Gasper
Marx rejected bourgeois morality in favor of an ethics of human emancipation, says Phil Gasper ACCORDING TO the German socialist and philosopher Karl Vörlander writing in the early twentieth century, “The moment anyone started to talk to Marx about morality, he would...
South Africa pushed to the limit: The political economy of change | by Colin Bundy
Hein Marais, London: Zed Books, 2011 Reviewed Hein Marais has produced a sustained, rigorous and compelling analysis of the political economy of post-apartheid South Africa. It is has no rival as an overview of the country’s trajectory since 1994. The first five...
Capitalism vs. the Climate | by Naomi Klein
There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were...
Is there an Ecological Marxism? | by Elmar Altvater
(Lecture at the Virtual University of CLACSO – Consejo Latinoamericano de las ciencias sociales,)In this lecture I try to show that and how the concept of societal relations of man to nature based on Marxian categories can be used for a better understanding of...
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now | by Naomi Klein
I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at...
South Africa pushed to the limit | by Hein Marais
The political economy of changePraise for Hein Marais’ latest book“An extraordinary achievement. This is, by a considerable margin, the best book yet on the political economy of South Africa. Marais combines an unrivalled knowledge of the literature with a prose style...




