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An Experiment in Reclaiming Reality and Reviving Solidarity

Big social change depends on big social movements, but our societies are too fragmented. That’s why—on the cliff-edge of climate collapse—it’s worth trying to rekindle trust and reclaim our collective ability to make sense of the world.

Greg FreyNovember 17, 2021featuredComment

Black Jacobins, Green Jacobins

Western-dominated responses to ecological crisis in the Caribbean are intensifying neo-colonialism. A new book documents the region’s emerging climate left, rooted in a tradition of anti-colonial, socialist resistance.

Sophie D'AnieriSeptember 29, 2021featuredComment

The Case for the Civilian Climate Corps

A national work service program would build a political base for further Green New Deal victories, making it a vital climate infrastructure demand.

A Shameless Plug: Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells and the Mythology of a Just Transition

The hype surrounding ill-conceived Green New Deal-style legislation merits reflection on the Left’s tendency to let a compelling story get in the way of acknowledging objective constraints.

Molly RobinsonJune 14, 2021featuredComment

Public Power for a Desperate City: Planting Ecosocialism in the Ruins of New York

How I learned to organize in an age of perpetual disasters.

Daniel GouldenMay 13, 2021featured, Editor's picksComment

Revenge of the Plans

Why do we keep reviving technocratic climate politics when it has consistently failed?

Matthew HuberApril 2, 2021featured Comments

When the Comedy Left Crashed L.A. Politics

How a ragtag group of leftist comedians went up against fossil fuel interests and corporate Democrats—and won.

Tom PikeFebruary 24, 2021featured Comment

Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way

A review of Less is More and interview with Jason Hickel.

Samuel Miller-McDonaldFebruary 11, 2021featured, Interview, interview Comment

We Need a 16-year-old Voting Age

Teenage enfranchisement is a vital step towards both meaningful democracy and climate action.

Saul LevinJanuary 19, 2021featuredComment

An Abolition Politics for the Climate Crisis: Out of the Woods’ Hope Against Hope

State-centered climate solutions risk putting us on the path to ecofascism. The Out of the Woods collective provides an alternative framework: Disaster communism.

Nafis Hasan and Vignesh RamachandranDecember 16, 2020featured, Editor's picksComment

The Environmental State is in Danger. Here’s How We Can Fight Back.

Fostering collective action against retrenchment during COVID-19 gives us the opportunity to win some unlikely allies.

Ayla BurnettOctober 19, 2020featuredComment

Just Transition: Learning From the Tactics of Past Labor Movements

It is time to take a lesson from the early pioneers of the just transition and recognize the power that organized labor can wield to fight for environmental, economic and social justice.

Olufemi Taiwo and Dylan PlummerOctober 12, 2020featured, Editor's picksComment

“Public Transit is a Right, Not a Commodity”: An Interview with Jovanka Beckles

The longtime Richmond, California-based activist discusses her campaign for AC Transit Board of Directors, the urgency of implementing a Green New Deal at the local level, and public transit as an avenue for achieving environmental and racial equity.

Molly RobinsonSeptember 22, 2020featured, Interview, Interview show, interviewComment

The Strategic Case for Animal Liberation

Ecosocialists view animal rights as the third rail of climate politics. The opposite is true.

Dayton MartindaleAugust 28, 2020featured Comments

“Why is it our responsibility to sustain unsustainable ways of life?” The Navajo and Allies Speak Out

Unpacking resistance to climate change, colonialism, and COVID-19 on the Navajo reservation.

Brendon KleenAugust 22, 2020featured, Interview, interviewComment

Anti-Racism, Climate, and Popular Ecology: a Potent Alliance in France

The synthesis of the climate movement and the anti-racist movement in the theory of popular ecology highlights why these movements can find success working together.

Olly HaynesAugust 17, 2020featuredComment

Unpacking Class-Struggle Social Democracy: An Interview with Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht

The Trouble sat down with Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht of Jacobin to discuss their book Bigger Than Bernie, the Green New Deal, and lessons mined from the second Sanders campaign.

Johnathan GuyAugust 4, 2020featured, Interview, interviewComment

We Need Ecosocialism to Stop the Next Pandemic

Our future is not just one of more ferocious storms and drier summers, but more virulent, deadly epidemics.

John FaviniJuly 24, 2020featured, Editor's picksComment

Democracy: The Miracle Waiting for Us

If this is a dry-run for climate and ecological breakdown, Covid-19 makes one thing clear: we are gravely unprepared. To avoid the exponential worsening of ecological collapse, we will need a miracle.

Greg FreyJuly 17, 2020featuredComment

The Three Climate Strikes

If Fridays for the Future wants to start winning, they’ll need to reckon with the material bases of power. Drone strikes and civil insurrections in the Global South hold important lessons.

RK UpadhyaJuly 12, 2020featured Comment