A Marxist Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America
Despite the unconfirmed Wuhan lab leak theories, most scientists believe that COVID-19 came to humans from animals. Whatever the final prognosis is on COVID-19, many other diseases in recent memory, like H1N1, SARS, and Ebola, have spread to humans through …
Calls to build 10 million units of permanently affordable green public housing should be at the center of the climate justice movement. By Tom Barnard Visualize this: tens of millions of Americans living in housing communities that not only provide …
DSA’s eco-socialist strategy should draw inspiration from Kate Aronoff’s excellent new book Overheated. By Ty Moore “In some ways, the question of whether or not to nationalize fossil fuel assets is even simpler: Do we trust the companies that have …
It’s the job of socialists to show that there are concrete steps working people can take today to put us all on the path to save the world from the climate criminals we call capitalists. By Stan Strasner When DSA …
By John Molyneux and Jess Spear John Molyneux and Jess Spear wrote a short pamphlet, What is Eco-Socialism? Here, we publish an excerpt of it to present the concept and key ideas of a socialist contribution to the environmental justice …
Congress is battling over trillions of dollars which could finally do something meaningful to combat the effects of climate change. While we fight for our future and a habitable planet, it’s clear that a framework of eco-capitalism won’t be enough. …
The new issue of our Reform & Revolution magazine is on its way to the printing press: We’ve made eco-socialism the central theme to contribute to a Marxist and working-class strategy on the question of climate justice facing the environmental and …
An unlikely alliance between ecosocialists and organized labor has led to an impressive outreach campaign that’s responsible for pushing two of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, Joe Manchin (WV) and Angus King (ME), into co-signing the PRO Act with the majority of their Democratic colleagues.
Paul Murphy is a member of the Irish Parliament elected in 2014 on the basis of his firm opposition to the government’s attempts to impose water charges. Alongside 27 other activists, he was charged with the False Imprisonment of Joan Burton at a water charges protest in 2014. However, the #JobstownNotGuilty campaign proved victorious — 7 defendants were found not guilty, the attack on the right to protest was defeated, and the trumped up charges against all the other activists were dismissed. Paul is also a member of RISE (Revolutionary Internationalist, Socialist, Environmentalist), which is a network of People Before Profit, Ireland’s eco-socialist party. RISE is also the Irish sister organization in political solidarity with DSA’s Reform & Revolution caucus. Alex Moni-Sauri from Reform & Revolution spoke with him about a socialist strategy for eradicating COVID-19.
This article examines the connection between the exploitation of women and of nature under capitalism. Jess Spear argues against ecofeminism that says “that women’s connection to nature is rooted in their reproductive biology.” She makes the case that “[t]he essentialism …
