Start getting support for the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Conference

This is a short piece for the next issue of Socialist Resistance. Faut de mieux it also has the model resolution I put to my union branch. Or would have if it had been quorate.
The trade union movement’s voice has been virtually inaudible in the debate on climate change. Every crackpot right wing think tank [...]

The Three Meanings of Ecosocialism

IAN ANGUS is the editor of Climate and Capitalism (www.climateandcapitalism.blogspot.com) and a member of the coordinating committee of the Ecosocialist International Network. This article is excerpted from a talk he gave to a meeting sponsored by Green Left and Socialist Resistance on October 10. It will appear in next month’s issue of SR.
“The world is [...]

Ecosocialism talk: download the MP3

This site is becoming a real multi media affair. I’ve had a couple of genuine requests to make available the MP3 of Ian Angus’ introduction on ecosocialism from people who want to listen to it on the bus. You can download part 1 here and part 2 here. Underneath the player there is an arrow [...]

An Ecosocialist response to climate change

Here are the videos of Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capital talking at last night’s forum hosted by Socialist Resistance and Green Left.
Among the areas covered are:

An attempt to define ecosocialism.
What are the tasks of ecosocialists?
The developing ecosocialist movement.
The ecological content of indigenous struggles in Latin America.
The inadequacy of the political solutions offered by [...]

Irish Greens go into Government and make themselves look stupid

This piece for the next issue of SR is by Joe in Belfast. He is something of an unreconstructed ortho-Trot. Though you’d probably have worked that out for yourself. It is a beginner’s guide to just how rubbish the Irish Green Party have been since entering Bertie Ahern’s government. As Lenin, probably, once [...]

Socialist Resistance is changing its political programme

Socialist Resistance is changing its political programme, perspectives and public profile towards being an anti-capitalist, ecosocialist organisation. This is to make explicit a change in our perspectives that has been underway for at least a year and now needs to be signaled publicly. At the core of this change is our contention that free-market, privatising [...]

Marxism, ecology and climate change

Next week I make my annual trip to Birmingham. Into every life a little rain must fall. I have to speak at a Socialist Resistance meeting.  Powerpoint is a useful way of pulling your thoughts together and this presentation is roughly what I’m going to be saying. In twenty minutes it’s not possible to [...]

Middle England, rain and class: What would Trotsky do?

For several years I was convinced that my grade C in O level Maths was due to the number of candles my mother had lit in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. My Maths teacher probably still is. Don’t quote any of my assertions on scientific matters unless you’ve checked them.
Middle England [...]

Trade Union conference on Climate Change

There was a planning meeting for the Campaign against Climate Change (CACC) Trade Union conference on Climate Change in Birmingham last weekend.  I wasn’t at it but I know some people who were and this is a very brief summary of what happened and what is planned.
 
The event is to be called the “Campaign against [...]

Australia’s environmental crisis

This is a piece for the next issue of Socialist Resistance by Marcus Greville who is an organiser for Green Left Weekly. If Marcus can get a job as an organiser then I’m in with a pretty good chance of becoming captain of the New Zealand rugby team.
Australia is currently in the grip of an [...]