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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 2)
Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 1)
In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.
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Anti-Anthropocene vote is ‘null and void’
Commission chairs say organizers of ballot violated statutes and ignored scientific evidence.
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Nature’s heartbeat, visualized
A stunning animation displays the pulse of the Earth System’s metabolism.
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Paul Burkett, rest in power
In memory of Paul Burkett, Marxist scholar and jazz musician, 1956-2024.
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Introduction to the Brazilian edition of Facing the Anthropocene
Ian Angus’s Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) continues to be well received worldwide. This is the introduction to the most recent edition released in the autumn of 2023—a Portuguese translation from the noted Brazilian publishing house Boitempo.
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Introduction to the Brazilian edition of ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
Important steps towards formally defining a new epoch in Earth System history.
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Scientists choose site to mark the start of the Anthropocene
Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record of radical global change.
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Insect Apocalypse in the Anthropocene, Part 3
Ian Angus on chemical warfare against insects.
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Insect Apocalypse in the Anthropocene, Part 2
The world’s insects are among the principal victims of capitalist agricultural concentration.
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The discovery & rediscovery of metabolic rift
Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.
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The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’
A key concept in Karl Marx’s Capital is widely misunderstood.
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Against enclosure: The commoners fight back
Articles in this series: Commons and classes before capitalism ‘Systematic theft of communal property’ Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back by Ian Angus In 1542, Henry VIII gave his friend and privy councilor Sir William Herbert a gift: the buildings and lands of a […]
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Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor. CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 4
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Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.
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‘Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity’
World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’.
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200+ medical journals demand emergency climate action
Editors urge ‘fundamental changes to how our societies and economies are organized’.
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Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
“The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production.” (Karl Marx)
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Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism
“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)
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The fishing revolution
Centuries before the industrial revolution, the first factories transformed seafood production.