Books
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2022
Wednesday, 9 November 2022 — Climate & Capitalism Six new books and six recent essays: important reading for reds and greens Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even Continue reading
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Slouching towards utopia; or hurtling towards disaster?
Bradford DeLong is one of the world’s most prominent Keynesian economists and economic historian who is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. DeLong served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration under Lawrence Summers. He is a architype liberal Democrat in US politics and a classical Keynesian in economics. Continue reading
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Prof Judy Wajcman Trade Unionism, Work and Feminism Library Sale. 19th Aug 2022 onwards
At this time of resurgence within the British trade union movement, with union, wildcat and even consumer strikes breaking out across the country, the timing couldn’t be better for this sale of books on trade unionism, work and feminism, as donated to Housmans by Professor Judy Wajcman. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2022
Sunday, 14 August, 2022 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Seven new books for people who know that the point is to change the world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, Continue reading
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Books: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
Forests are one of the world’s most important biological reserves. They suck about a third of humanity’s carbon emissions out of the atmosphere each year. According to the United Nations, forests also “contain 60,000 different tree species, 80 percent of amphibian species, 75 percent of bird species, and 68 percent of the world’s mammal species.”… Continue reading
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Eddy Wiggins – The Lost Historian
Recently a friend introduced me to an incredible book. Printed in French, and unknown to many, “Eddy Wiggins: Le Noir et Le Blanc”, is a loving tribute to a man who captured African Americans in Paris, Gilles LeRoy, published a beautiful book of photographs that would have been lost forever. Lost, like the history of… Continue reading
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The Future of Food? Genetic Engineering, Value Capture and Dependency
GM crops are required to feed the world is a well-worn industry slogan trotted out at every available opportunity. Just like the claim of GM crops being a tremendous success, this too is based on a myth. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2022
Tuesday, 12 July 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Summer reading for greens and reds. New books on work, extractive industry., empire, pandemics, organizing, and socialism Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, June 2022
Thursday, June 9 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Seven important new books on science, medicine, and socialism. Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2022
Monday, 9 May 2022 — Climate & Capitalism Democracy, insects, Cuba, plastic, capitalist drug pushers & trespassing. Books for understanding and changing the world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2022
Saturday, 9 April, 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Our monthly selection of new books for people who want to change the world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that Continue reading
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States of Emergency: Keeping the Global Populations in Check
This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover. Reading it, one cannot help but shake one’s head in outrage at the long-planned nature of the wealthy global elite’s seizure of power under the guise of a germ emergency and the revolutionary crisis… Continue reading
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If you find banning books disturbing, what about burning them? 🔥 📕
In Tennessee they are banning them. But there’s more than one way to censor a book. As Internet Archive librarian Chris Freeland explains, corporate publishers are suing the Internet Archive, demanding our library destroy 1.4 million digital books. “Whether through corporate bullying or government banning, digital books are not immune from censorship,” explains Freeland. Many… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2022
Thursday, 17 February 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Reading matter for reds and greens: Five new books and five recent reviews Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, January 2022
9 January 2022 — Climate & Capitalism Start the new year with seven new books for red-greens and green-reds Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything Continue reading
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Long Read | Home and exile, freedom and loss
Mandla Langa and Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s new novels, The Lost Language of the Soul and The Wanderers, intersect in their reflections on the lives of Umkhonto weSizwe freedom fighters. Continue reading
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Top 10 C&C articles of 2021 … and all time
31 December, 2021 — Climate & Capitalism There are now 2,776 articles on the Climate & Capitalism website. How many have you read? In 2021, Climate & Capitalism published 91 new articles. These attracted the most readers. Continue reading
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Colonialism: a cancer on the planet
This highly unusual book highlights a forgotten journalist and thinker, but just as much, the assiduous research and interpretations by Tony Pecinovsky, a St. Louis activist and non-academic scholar, on the history of the U.S. Left. W.A. Hunton, to quote W.E.B. Du Bois, was “the kind of absolutely honest and unselfish scholar who is apt… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2021
16 December, 2021 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Six new books and six important essays for reds and greens Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) these Continue reading
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Books: A chicken can’t lay a duck egg
How often are we told that the market must be part of the solution to the climate crisis? The efficiency, the focus, the discipline embedded in the pursuit of profit, the refinement of responding to consumer demands, each of us maximizing our individual utility, those are the values that will get us all pulling in… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 