environment
Articles about the environment, including ecology, climate change, pollution and more.
Murdering the dead: Amadeo Bordiga on capitalism and other disasters - Antagonism
Antagonism's introduction to a collection of articles by Amadeo Bordiga, looking at how capitalism both exacerbates, and creates, supposedly 'natural' disasters.
Capitalism and other disasters
Reply to 'Letter on animal liberation' - Antagonism and Practical History
The authors of Beasts of Burden respond to Gilles Dauvé's Letter on Animal Liberation.
Beasts of Burden was written as a polemical text with the aim of provoking debate, so we were pleased to read you considered response. However, we have found it difficult to answer your response to our pamphlet. Some of your criticisms we fully accept.
Reply to Undercurrent - Antagonism and Practical History
The authors of Beasts of Burden respond to Undercurrent's review of the article.
Dear undercurrent,
Thankyou for reviewing Beasts of Burden, and making some interesting comments on it. We were (pleasantly) surprised at how favourable your review started. A minor point we'd like to make is that the pamphlet was a collective effort and not the work of a single author, as your review assumes.
Beasts of burden - Antagonism and Practical History
An attempt to rethink the separation between animal liberationist and communist politics.
Introduction
Looks Like We Got Ourselves A Convoy
Internationally and within the UK, fuel protests come and go, but the one time such protests seriously posed a threat - in many ways unintentionally - to the Economy and the State was in the autumn of 2000 (this is not to say they couldn't also pose a serious challenge in the future, though it seems very unlikely that such a challenge will come from the UK). This is a text written at the time.
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Looks as though we’ve got ourselves a convoy
Well-Pitched Notes On The Autumn 2000 Fuel Protests Towards Recomposing & Orchestrating Working Class Harmonisation On A Major Scale
Featuring such favourites as:
Country & Western Capital
Rainin' In My Heart
Fuel For Thought
Sometimes It's Hard To Be A Woman
Barricades erected and two police stations smashed in Athens over destruction of park by the City Council
After municipal bulldozers demolished one of the rare parks in the city of Athens, locals occupied the area, erected barricades, clashed with riot police forces and smashed two police stations.
On Monday 24th of January at 4 o’ clock in the morning bulldozers of the Municipality of Athens moved to destroy the park of Patision and Kyprou street in the greek capital’s most densely populated department, Kypseli. Cutting down more than 40 trees deemed by the Forestry Department as a natural heritage, the plans of the Athens Mayor is to build a 3 storage underground privately owned parking.
Ecology and its recuperation by capitalists
Brian Morris rings the changes for Freedom newspaper
Long ago the biologist Paul Sears described ecology as the "subversive science", and there is no doubt that when I first became involved in environmental issues in the 1960's, ecology was seen very much as a radical movement.
A climatic disorder? Class, coal and climate change - John Cunningham
At last November’s NUM convened conference, trade unionists and Climate Campers were invited to debate the explosive cocktail of (clean) coal, class and climate change. John Cunningham reports on the frustrating attempts to find a middle ground.
Source; http://www.metamute.org/node
New clashes with riot police in Corfu over refuse dump
New clashes between locals and riot police erupt in the south Corfu town of Lefkimi over the construction of open refuse dump.
In the afternoon of Thursday 20/11/08, the residents of Lefkimi in south Corfu staged yet another demo against the construction of the open refuse dump (XYTA) imposed by Athens in the vicinity of their town.
Environment - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to further reading on ecology, pollution and the environment.
Murray Bookchin:
The Ecology of Freedom
Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Forman
The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Dialectical Naturalism
The Politics of Social Ecology - Janet Biehl, w/ Murray Bookchin
Toward an Ecological Society
Other
The Heat is On - Gelbspan
Social Ecology After Bookchin - Light, ed.
Finding Our Way: Rethinking Eco-Feminism - Biehl
