Article: How to be an anti-capitalist today
Erik Olin Wright, co-author of Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a democratic economy, has a new article in Jacobin that asks some important questions about the nature and limits of different kinds of anti-capitalist politics today. His argument that “Anticapitalism isn’t simply a moral stance against injustice — it’s about building an alternative” resonates with […]
Carmelo Ruiz: Is food really becoming scarce?
To celebrate the publication of the brand new edition of Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins’ classic book, World Hunger: 10 Myths, we offer a new article by our Puerto Rico-based colleague, Carmelo Ruiz: That food is becoming scarce because demand and population growth are outstripping supply is an article of faith that is rarely […]
Is the Paris climate conference designed to fail?
… by ISE director Brian Tokar. Addressing common myths about the upcoming Paris conference, how events since the 2009 Copenhagen conference have set the stage for what could be a fatally flawed agreement, and how activists in Europe and the US are responding. available at CommonDreams, Counterpunch, ZNet, New Compass, Toward Freedom, and a terrific new website, Paris Climate Justice.
New books of interest
Several new books of interest to social ecologists are out this month: Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin by Janet Biehl, from Oxford University Press The first-ever biography of Murray Bookchin, written by his personal collaborator and copy-editor from 1987-2006. The book discusses the variety of philosophies and movements that Bookchin helped shape, […]
On Marx, Bakunin and revolutionary internationalism
ISE supporter Richard Greeman is a retired professor, was a colleague of Cornelius Castoriadis, Raya Dunayevskaya and Immanuel Wallerstein, and is a prolific translator of the anti-authoritarian Russian revolutionary Victor Serge. Richard is a founder of the Praxis Research and Education Center, based in Moscow, and director of the Victor Serge Foundation. This essay is […]
Turkish Army burning Kurdish forests: Call for a delegation
From the Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, August 18, 2015 With the restart of the war in North-Kurdistan by Turkish state in end of July 2015 the Turkish Army has started to burn down forests. After 2,5 years of negotiations about the start of a peace process between the Turkish government and the Kurdish Freedom Movement, the […]
On Bookchin & the Kurds + New solidarity project
An excellent overview of the Kurdish movement and its influences from social ecology has just been posted on ROARMagazine. Also the New Compass, based in Norway, has just posted a link to a new Kurdish solidarity project, based in Greece. Here’s an excerpt from the ROAR article: In his 2005 pamphlet, Declaration of Democratic Confederalism, […]
VT/NY Day of Action vs. extreme energy transport
From our good friends at Rising Tide VT and Green Mountain Earth First! Photos are courtesy of Popular Resistance and the Earth First! Newswire. More details on the Williston action vs. pipeline construction and the trans & women’s action on the Champlain Bridge can be found here: Nine arrested while hundreds rally in day of […]
On the Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism
A recent article in the journal Antipode situates Murray Bookchin’s theory of dialectical naturalism within the broader dialectical tradition, and contrasts his approach with Herbert Marcuse’s technological pessimism.
2014 Social Ecology Intensive Seminar
January 3-10, 2014 in Denton, Texas This year Texas has become an inspirational focal point in struggles for reproductive rights, anti-racism, climate justice, and democracy. This January, the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE) will be coming for the first time to Texas (just 40 min. north of Dallas) to offer a 7-day Intensive Seminar. During […]
