Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents six new books for ecosocialists.
Books and reviews
Tom Doig's book is a highly-readable account of profiteering and denial at the expense of the health of tens of thousands of people, told by those affected, writes Alan Broughton.
JD Svenson's Direct Action is a slow-burning novel, which steadily builds suspense to the very last page, writes Niko Leka.
Canadian socialist and feminist Suzanne Weiss begins her recent memoir with these words by W B Yeats: 鈥淭here are no strangers here, only friends you have not yet met.鈥 More than just an epigram, they describe a practice of solidarity that saved Weiss from the Holocaust and later shaped her more than six decades of activity as a life-long socialist, writes James Clark.
While researching Japanese working-class resistance to World War II, Kaye Broadbent discovered in a Japanese university archive Masao Sugiura鈥檚 1964 memoir, detailing the formation and activities of the Shuppanako Kurabu (Print and Publishing Worker鈥檚 Club). Based upon Sugiura鈥檚 1981 second edition, the English translation of Against the Storm provides an inspiring account of how Sugiura and his comrades were able to organise and sustain links between workers, despite increasing wartime repression by the Japanese military regime.
If you鈥檙e looking for an accessible summary of revolutionary theory and practice related to the climate crisis and how to overcome it,聽System Change Not Climate Change聽is a must-read, writes Valerie Lannon.
Bastani frequently quotes Marx, but his economics are Keynesian, his history is crude technological determinism, and his political program doesn鈥檛 go beyond social democratic reforms, writes Ian Angus.
Nuclear weapons need never have been built. Our world could have been free from the 鈥渇rozen tableau of terror鈥 of 9500 nuclear warheads capable of destroying the world 100 times over, as Peter Watson comprehensively shows in Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb.听
editor Ian Angus looks at six new books for ecosocialists. Inclusion doesn鈥檛 not imply endorsement.
Since it was first mooted in 2010, the Adani Carmichael Coal and Rail project in Queensland鈥檚 Galilee Basin has proven controversial. It has faced a series of legal challenges by environment groups and Traditional Owners, as well as campaigns by activists calling on financial institutions to divest from the fossil fuel industry. The starting date has been rescheduled several times as the viability of the project has been called into question and potential finance proves elusive.
It is timely then, at this impasse, that two new books are released documenting the story so far and canvassing possible outcomes.
Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus takes a look at a series of new books of interest for ecosocialists.
Doug McEachern鈥檚 novel follows the progress and regress of the two friends living in the 1960s as 鈥渆ndless acrimonious debates over militancy鈥 pepper their student group house in inner-city North Adelaide.
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