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A Redder Shade of Green reviewed by The Progressive Populist

February 20, 2024

Society and nature are weighty topics. Ian Angus confronts them with force in A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism. ¶ We read of the related work of 19th century natural and social scientists, from Charles Darwin, Justus von Liebig and Karl Schorlemmer to Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Their revolutionary critiques blend with those of Earth System scientists of the 21st century, from Paul J. Crutzen to John R. McNeill and Will Steffen. ¶ I read Angus’ informative and provocative book as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria pounded Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. Climate chaos is here. Blame fossil-fuel-driven imperatives of capitalism to grow endlessly...

Via Truthout: “Protect the Dreamers, but Don’t Fall for an E-Verify ‘Compromise’”

February 20, 2024

E-Verify is back on the political agenda. ¶ For years, politicians have wanted to force all of the country’s 7.7 million private employers to check new hires against this online system–which compares employees’ documents with government databases in order to catch immigrants without work authorization–but so far, the efforts to impose a universal E-Verify requirement have failed. Now the idea has been given new life by a tentative agreement that President Trump and Democratic leaders made on September 13 to promote legislation protecting the immigrants previously covered by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...

“The Movement and the Money” by David L. Wilson, via Jacobin

February 20, 2024

“What’s behind the recent rise in wages for undocumented workers?” David L. Wilson asks. “It could be immigrants’ rights activism.” Wilson, with Jane Guskin, is author of the 2nd edition of "The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers"...

“Red All Over”: Socialist.ca reviews A Redder Shade of Green

February 20, 2024

At 179 pages, this is a must-read book for everyone wanting a just society and a sustainable environment. Marxist Ian Angus is a prolific writer on science and socialism. He states, “Red and green together are the colours of ecosocialism…there can be no true ecological revolution that is not socialist, and no true socialist revolution that is not ecological.” – hence the name of the book…

Reconstructing Lenin reviewed by Science & Society

February 20, 2024

Vladimir Lenin was the pivotal figure of the 20th century. His life and work dramatically pose the central dilemma of that century (and of our own): Should humanity progress by reforming bourgeois society along liberal social democratic lines, or should it move forward by overthrowing capitalism and establishing an entirely different social and economic system? Lenin’s life also suggests that social revolution remains a practical possibility even when historical circumstances seemingly render it unlikely....

“‘Vanilla ISIS’ in Charlottesville want to take us back to the 18th century”: Gerald Horne & Andrew Batcher on RT America

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, author of Confronting Black Jacobins and the forthcoming The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, talks with Andrew Batcher, organizer of DC Anti-fascist Coalition, about rise of the far-right across the United States and the painful aftermath of Charlottesville, via Ashlee Bank‘s “Race in America,” on RT.

Eric Holt-Giménez takes to the air, on Heritage Radio Network

February 20, 2024

Eric Holt-Giménez, author of the soon-to-be published A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat, recently talked to Katy Keiffer, host of What Doesn’t Kill You: Food Industry Insights on the Heritage Radio Network, “the world’s pioneer food radio station,” based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Listen, below, or at What Doesn’t Kill You.

“The Rise and Fall of Syriza: Finding a New Way Forward for Greece’s Radical Left”: Helena Sheehan talks to The Real News Network

February 20, 2024

Helena Sheehan, author of "The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left," talks to Sharmini Peries of The Real News Network about her book and about Syriza’s embrace of the austerity measures it once promised to stand against, and the current situation in Greece. Note: this interview consists of three parts.

Hurricane Harvey, Climate Change, and Capitalism: Fred Magdoff on Sputnik Radio

February 20, 2024

Fred Magdoff, author, with Chris Williams, of Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation, talks with Brian Becker on “Loud and Clear,” via Sputnik Radio. Listen, below, or at Sputnik News

The Syriza Wave: The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review

February 20, 2024

Helena Sheehan has been reporting and writing about Greece and about the Greek Left for quite a long time. Having been politically associated with Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left), she became active, between other things, in the movement of solidarity with the Greek resistance, before and after the electoral victory of the Left in the general elections of January 2015...