Books
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NO WAR WITH IRAN
7 January 2020 — 7 Stories Press DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY OF HOWARD ZINN’S TERRORISM AND WAR For more books on U.S. imperialism, visit our #NoWarWithIran Reading List Continue reading
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A Child’s Christmas Gift of Freedom
It is heartening to know that there are young children still reading books. While a growing majority of parents have been seduced into destroying their children’s imaginations by placing them in front of screens, there are still holdouts who realize that if their children are ever to become free-thinking adults, they must grow up expanding… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Best of 2019
12 December 2019 — Climate & Capitalism This was a bumper year for books of interest to ecosocialists. Here are ten that we found particularly interesting or valuable, or both. Climate & Capitalism receives more books than we can possibly review, but we can and do compile a monthly list of those that seem relevant to Continue reading
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Green Strategy: To beat climate change, humanity needs socialism
Humans may not survive. Reports from the UN’s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change provoke images of land masses drowning, fleeing populations, starvation, terrible droughts, terrible storms, migrating diseases, new deserts, and intolerable heat. It’s an “ecological Armageddon,” says one expert. We hear about “the sixth extinction,” the geologic epoch that is our own. It’s called the “Anthropocene.” The… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2019
4 November 2019 — Climate & Capitalism The red and green shelf is overflowing! Nine important new books address topics ranging from ecosocialism and rising seas to trees, growth and global poverty. 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 Continue reading
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Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care
This short, readable and stimulating book begins with the author overturning perceived knowledge about the 18th century economist Robert Malthus. Malthus is best know for his extended work An Essay on the Principle of Population, an influential book that has rarely been read by those who claim to extend his ideas. Giorgos Kallis argues that… Continue reading
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Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative is driving humanity to the brink of extinction. At the present rate of global greenhouse gas emissions, the climate crisis alone could soon end civilization and destroy the biosphere. Biologists report that up to a million species of plants and animals are on the verge of extinction. Global capitalism is not only… Continue reading
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Edward Snowden: The man who exposed the electronic surveillance of everyone by US intelligence By Kevin Reed
In the final chapter of his memoir Permanent Record, Edward Snowden issues a warning to his readers. He writes, “[I]t wouldn’t take much for an interested government to find out that you’ve been reading this book. At the very least, it wouldn’t take much to find out that you have it, whether you downloaded it… Continue reading
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Pentagon-funded researcher smears ‘The Management of Savagery’ in error-filled Times Literary Supplement screed
Lydia Wilson, a researcher at a US Department of Defense-backed outfit, has taken to the Times Literary Supplement to publish a malicious attack on “The Management of Savagery.” The review is a hyper-ideological defense of US empire filled with distortions and bone-headed errors. Continue reading
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Book Review: The (Real) Revolution In Military Affairs
Considerable amounts of ink have been been spent in writings about the Revolution in Military Affairs. It is a concept that claims that new military doctrines, strategies, tactics and technologies would lead to an abrupt and significant change in the conduct of warfare. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER – OCTOBER 2019
26 September 2019 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Undercover Policing & Trade Unions Conference, London 2. Stop Nato – December 2019 INSTORE EVENTS 3. ‘Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown And Social Collapse’ 4. ‘Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined’ with JJ Bola 5. ‘Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture’ with Amelia Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Sept. 2019, Part 2
19 September 2019 — Climate & Capitalism Reading matters We seldom receive enough new books to justify two columns in one month, but our red and green bookshelf is overflowing … Climate & Capitalism can’t review every book we receive, but this column lists and links to those that seem relevant to our mission, along with Continue reading
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Theft or exploitation?- a review of Stolen by Grace Blakeley
All our wealth has been stolen by big finance and in doing so big finance has brought our economy to its knees. So we must save ourselves from big finance. That is the shorthand message of a new book, Stolen – how to save the world from financialisation, by Grace Blakeley. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2019
8 September 2019 — Climate & Capitalism Reading Matters Five books for reds and greens …. Waste … Solar Power … Sustainable Food Systems … Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society … America’s Overripe Economy. Climate & Capitalism can’t review every book we receive, but this column lists and links to those that seem Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 2019
28 August 2019 — Housmans NEWS 1. Global Climate Strike, September 20-27 / 20% off all environmental books 2. ArchWay With Words Book Festival 2019 // Sat 14th – 21st September Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2019
New books for reds and greens. How the Richest Drive Climate Change; Planning from Below; The Scottish Clearances; Slime; Here Comes the Sun; Eco-Socialism and Practical Utopias Continue reading
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The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup
Activists make the case that this widely used pesticide is wreaking havoc on the earth, killing not just weeds but multiple species, including our own Continue reading
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Gorbachev’s legacy: Russia’s 9/11 or Let a hundred weeds bloom
Reading Taubman’s exhaustive biography of Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, I was rivetted time and again, marvelling (as did Shultz and everyone who cared): how did this guy get from collective farm winner of the Red Banner of Labour to the top? My first question in reading a bio is ‘would I like to have this person… Continue reading
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The Handbook of Karl Marx: profitability, crises and financialisation
The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, edited by Matt Vidal, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith and Paul Prew, brings together a series of chapters by prominent Marxist scholars covering all aspects Marxist theory, from historical materialism, dialectics, political economy, social reproduction and post-capitalist models. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 