Society & Culture > Ecology
To save the planet, fight for a red world
03 Dec 2009
Capitalism is showing itself to be totally incapable of cutting back on carbon emissions, writes Eddie Ford
Darker shades of green
20 Apr 2006
Jack Conrad questions the romantic images presented by green primitives and cautions against the seductive lures of ecofascism
Natural insights
13 Apr 2006
Derek Wall, a founder member of Green Revolution, the socialist platform in the Green Party of England and Wales, reviews Nikolai Bukharin Philosophical Arabesques Pluto Press, 2005, pp407, £35
Greenism and neo-Malthusian pseudo-science
06 Apr 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
Cuckoos in the nest
09 Feb 2006
The Campaign Against Climate Change looks set to grow in 2006, writes John Downes. But where is it going programmatically?
Prometheanism and nature
19 Jan 2006
Technological Prometheanism and capitalism's profit-driven degradation of nature: Jack Conrad puts the case for revolutionary Prometheanism and sustainability
Stop climate change
08 Dec 2005
Climate change: setting our sights sky high
08 Dec 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
Eco-socialist lite
01 Dec 2005
Martin Eckersley looks at the left press' coverage of climate change, which owes more to environmentalism than Marxism
A world to save! A world to win!
01 Dec 2005
Jack Conrad looks at climate change and the programme that communists should advance
The only answer is revolution
10 Nov 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
Fight for a red planet
15 Jul 2004
Eddie Ford takes issue with deep ecology, biocentrism, Giain consciousness and eco-theology
Mission Earth
15 Jan 2004
George W Bush is reportedly going to use his 'state of the nation' address on January 28 to announce plans to establish a permanently manned base on the moon some time over the next eight to 15 years, but what about the Earth? Jack Conrad takes apart the lunar madness
Darwinism and Marxism
19 Dec 2002
Mike Macnair reviews The structure of evolutionary theory by Stephen Jay Gould (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2002, pp1,433)
World climate conference
30 Nov 2000
Mastering nature