Our mission is to facilitate a global movement toward the ecosocialist horizon. The whole future depends on it.
What is ecosocialism?
Ecosocialism is a vision of a transformed society in harmony with nature, and the development of practices that can attain it. It is directed toward alternatives to all socially and ecologically destructive systems, such as patriarchy, racism, homophobia and the fossil-fuel based economy. It is based on a perspective that regards other species and natural ecosystems as valuable in themselves and as partners in a common destiny.
Ecosocialist Prefiguration
An important political principle now emerges — one that applies to the production of use-values for the sustenance of life, and also to the production of ways beyond capital. The potential for the given to contain the lineaments of what is to be may be called prefiguration…
ECOSOCIALIST Articles
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The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly revealed the inequalities and injustices that daily plague the world. The triple crisis of viral plague, systemic economic breakdown, and the failure and/or unwillingness of Governments to provide necessary protections, especially for the poor and people subjected to white supremacy, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, and misogyny has thrown us into a fight for our lives.
A report back from the Gathering of the Americas: Resistance, Environments, Decolonization, Indigeneity January 2020 (en castellano abajo) Holding up a solar light bulb system developed and used in rescue,relief and rebuilding efforts throughout Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo co-founder Alexis Massol chuckled: “This might not look like a tool or weapon of revolutionary activity…But it is, it is!”
Ranil Senanayake is the originator of the science and art of Analog Forestry, and founder of the Belipola Arboretum and the International Analog Forestry Network. He is respected as the foremost systems ecologist in Sri Lanka, and has lectured and worked throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The essay by Joel Kovel was first written as a communique to introduce his book The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? (Zed Books, 2007) to ecosocialist comrades in Latin America.
Effects of Capitalism
Economic Crisis
We find ourselves in an economic crisis that is every day growing both more acute and more generalized. Economic crisis is all at once vast and intimate, social and technical, political and personal.
food Crisis
If how we grow and how we eat are emblematic of who we are, as the well-known adage suggests, then we should bear witness to Vandana Shiva's insight that "The hijacking of our food systems is the hijacking of our democracy."
Climate Crisis
Capitalism is the culprit behind the global warming trend because it is based on endless production of goods and services running on or made up of fossil fuels, which release greenhouse gases when used.
Ecosocialist Horizons Hour
Daro Behroozi and Joel Kovel interview the great pianist and theoretician Connie Crothers, who shares her connections between music, energy, consciousness, and struggles against capitalism and for a better world. The question at hand, among many others: does changes in music precede changes in consciousness, and from there, changes in social relations (revolution)? Tune in to find out.
Ecosocialist Horizons Hour returns with Daro Behroozi as host, interviewing writer and activist Ali Issa whose recent book “Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq” compiles interviews with, and reports from, Iraqi feminists, labor organizers, environmentalists, and protest movement leaders.
Join Ecosocialist Horizons Hour for a special interview with Terry Bisson, American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his short stories. Several of his works, including ‘Bears Discover Fire’, have won top awards in the science fiction community, such as the Hugo and the Nebula. We will be discussing his revolutionary classic, ‘Fire on The Mountain’.
Welcome to another special edition of the Ecosocialist Horizons Hour (EHH), exploring the importance of food in the liberation of this planet and all its people.
In this uncompromising analysis of the Niger Delta, where the life expectancy rate is a miserable 42 years, architect, writer and environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey shares his thoughts on a massive oil extraction project that is doing nothing for the local population but poisoning and polluting the soil on which they live, the water they drink and the air they breathe.