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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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‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong
Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.
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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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Stories of resistance
Fighting back against extractivism, false solutions, and social and climate abuse around the world.
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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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Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media
A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.
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10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear
The world needs safe, non-exploitive technologies. Nuclear doesn’t qualify.
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The fishing revolution
Centuries before the industrial revolution, the first factories transformed seafood production.
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The first cod war
How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire.
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Newfoundland = New found fish
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
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Commodity cod & factory ships
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
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Bidenfreude: COVID-19 in post-Trump U.S.
A jokester once characterized Yale University as a hedge fund with a campus attached to it. One might say something similar of the country in which Yale is based.
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Greenhouse gases set new record, despite COVID-19 lockdown
Top meteorologist: only a complete transformation of our industrial, energy and transport systems can stop climate change.
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The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
John Bellamy Foster’s brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens.
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Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
Since 1987 the ocean has warmed 4.5 times as fast as in the previous three decades. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that even if emissions are substantially reduced, by 2100 the ocean will heat 2 to 4 times as much as it has since 1970–and if emissions are not cut, it will heat 5 to 7 times as much.
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Book Review: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
Gradual reforms can’t do the job: only profoundly radical measures can ensure human survival in an epoch of global sickening.