Books
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The Ministry for the Future: A passionate call to save the earth
With all the environmental threats that humanity faces, it can be hard to be optimistic. This is reflected in the plethora of disaster novels that have appeared in recent years, whether inspired by climate change or pandemic, that explore in the appalling consequences of disease, floods, famine and so-on. Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel also… Continue reading
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The Monsanto Papers – Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice
The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson’s landmark lawsuit against Monsanto. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn’t survive long enough to take the witness stand. For the eclectic band of young, ambitious lawyers representing him, it was a matter of professional pride and personal risk,… Continue reading
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Housmans Books March 2021
28 February 2021 — Housmans Books March Bookshop News We hope you and yours are keeping well. As last month we are concentrating our energies on our online events programme. All our online events, past and future, are going up on our Youtube Channel, so do subscribe to the channel so as to be notified when new Continue reading
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Catastrophe and Utopia: Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Ministry for the Future’
We need no longer speculate about whether we live in a climate emergency. The scientific verdict has been out for some time now, each year’s report grimmer than the last. The UN World Meteorological Organization’s most recent report tells us that Arctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting at faster rates, the oceans are moribund,… Continue reading
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Review: Scott Anderson, Four CIA spies at the dawn of the Cold War — a tragedy in three acts (2021)
These portraits are a riveting expose of the Cold War as it took shape even as peace was achieved in 1945. As I read, I marveled at the herculean efforts of millions of talented, gung-ho players, devoting themselves and untold trillions of dollars, all to ‘defeat communism’. But I kept asking myself: isn’t that what… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2020
16 December 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Winter Solstice reading for reds and greens: Disappearance of Butterflies; Multidisciplinary Anthropocene; Future Sea; Age of Low Tech; Diversifying Power; Commercial Capitalism. Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that seem relevant to Climate & Continue reading
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Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger
Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: ‘You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else – congrats.’ (Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012) Continue reading
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Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
Recent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth System Continue reading
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Silvia Federici: The exploitation of women and the development of capitalism
Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch is a classic work of anti-capitalist feminism. The book examines capitalism’s investment in sexism and racism, showing how the consolidation of the capitalist system depended on the subjugation of women, the enslavement of black and indigenous people, and the exploitation of the colonies. Federici demonstrates that unpaid labor–especially that… Continue reading
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Corporate Watch: New book coming soon!
For as long as Corporate Watch has been around we have worked on technology related issues. Back in the ’90s we supported the anti-Genetic Modification movement which had huge successes in opposing corporate controlled genetically modified organisms (GMOs) being forced on an uninformed and unwilling public. Continue reading
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A People’s Guide to Capitalism
It’s not easy to explain Marx’s economics in a clear, straightforward and entertaining way. Nobody has done it better than Hadas Thier. Continue reading
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The Past as Prologue: Caliban & the Witch – a Review
First published in 2004, Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici is a work well worth revisiting in 2020. Continue reading
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The book every opponent of war needs
The Fifth Edition of A Global Security System: An Alternative to War (AGSS) is now available! Continue reading
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Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’ By Owen Jones
In his latest book, ‘This Land – The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), the Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2020
18 August 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Red & green readinNew books on fungi, climate & capital, food, bluefin tuna, & Cuban agriculture. PLUS new translations of Facing the Anthropocene, and two recent C&C book reviews Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link Continue reading
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Your invite to the Trade Secrets book launch
We’re very excited to be publishing our director Nick Dearden’s new book, Trade Secrets: The truth about the US trade deal and how we can stop it, in under a week’s time. We’d like to invite you to our book launch on Tuesday 1 September, where Nick will be in conversation with Zoe Williams, journalist at The Guardian and co-host of the Another Europe Is Possible podcast. Continue reading
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Our History is the Future: The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Resistance
A US district court ruled on July 6 that the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) must be shut down and emptied of oil, pending a full environmental review of the project. In March, the same court found the US Army Corps had wrongfully approved the pipeline in 2016. The Army Corps failed to assess the DAPL’s… Continue reading
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