October 1, 2025
In this month's "Note from the Editors,"
MR editors detail importance of understanding the world's grossly unequal carbon emissions output in terms of class while also recognizing the role of imperialism at the center of the crisis. "The rapidly worsening climate conditions threatening the world population," they write, "can thus be seen as a product of the ongoing
class war perpetuated by the 'billionaire class' against working people everywhere."
January 1, 2025
In this interview with Claudia Antunes of Brazilian magazine Sumaúma, Ian Angus takes stock of our current planetary crisis, from its origins in Marx's ecological thought and the present debate over its designation to the future of human civilization as we know it. "The key question is," he concludes, "Are we going to see large number of people moving for change?"
October 1, 2024
It is undeniable that the rapidly worsening ecological crisis is threatening not only future generations, but the youth of today. Why, then, is the U.S. educational system failing to teach students the reality of this human-caused catastrophe? "Even science itself," MR editors write, "is to be sacrificed on the altar of capital."
September 1, 2024
In an interview with Brazilian magazine Margem Esquerda, John Bellamy Foster shares with Fabio Querido, Maria Orlanda Pinassi, and Michael Löwy the formative experiences that contributed to his work as a young activist and, later, a preeminent scholar of ecological Marxism. The interview concludes with a message to the ecological left in Brazil and elsewhere: "Whatever solutions there are to the present planetary crisis must, in historical-materialist terms, arise from concrete social formations, on the basis of which the new revolutionary transformations will take place."
July 1, 2024
As the world hurtles toward planetary catastrophe, driven in large part by the unchecked burning of fossil fuels in the Global North, China has emerged as a leader in renewable energy. This dynamic, Julie de los Reyes and Jewellord Nem Singh contend, mirrors China's ascendance in many sectors, revealing "the glaring failure of the liberal international order to address pressing social and environmental issues."
February 1, 2024
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
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December 1, 2023
Mahesh Maskey, editor of Bampanth (Nepal), interviews John Bellamy Foster about the growing emphasis on Marxian ecology among socialists in the Global South and North and the history of solidarity between MR and Nepali leftists.
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October 1, 2023
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
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July 1, 2023
In nine theses, Michael Löwy elaborates on the central themes of ecosocialist degrowth. "The ecological crisis," he begins, "is already the most important social and political question of the twenty-first century.… The future of the planet, and thus of humanity, will be decided in the coming decades."
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February 1, 2023
The Half-Earth movement calls for rewilidng half the earth as a means of combating the planetary crisis. Brian Napoletano explores the implications of the Half-Earth approach as outlined Vettese and Pendergrass's Half-Earth Socialism.
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