Author: CNS Editors

  • Critical Minerals and Energy Transitions: Towards Ecosocialist Alternatives

    Critical Minerals and Energy Transitions: Towards Ecosocialist Alternatives

    We are told that prospects for energy transitions depend on rapidly expanding the extraction of so-called “critical minerals.” It is imperative that ecosocialists critically interrogate these claims, especially the projected demand for these materials. This review article presents several major anticipated contributors to “critical minerals” demand and outlines some ecosocialist alternatives to reducing these…

  • Episode 5: The Environmental Injustices of American Capitalism [INTRO]

    Episode 5: The Environmental Injustices of American Capitalism [INTRO]

    A recording of the Socialism 2023 conference panel “The Environmental Injustices of American Capitalism: An Introduction” with Daniel Faber, Leigh Brownhill, and Linda Quiquivix of Capitalism Nature Socialism.

  • Volume 33, Number 3

    Health and Environmental Justice Struggles in America’s Prisons During a Global Pandemic ★ The Zoological Marx ★ Essence, Alienation and Animal Liberation: Toward a Humanism for Non-Humans ★ Veganism as Left Praxis ★ Green New Deals: What Shapes Green and Deal? ★ Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory: A Rejoinder to Hornborg ★ Commons in the…

  • Volume 33, Number 2

    Overcoming Hierarchy ⭒ The Crimes of “Environmental Militias” in the Amazon Forest ⭒ Reasserting Humanity in a Polluted Neighbourhood ⭒ Envisioning a Utopian Ecosocialism in the Darkness of the Covid-19 Pandemic ⭒ Towards a Bioregional Planning ⭒ Hornborg’s Response to Somerville ⭒ “Collaborative Research and Action for Climate Justice in California” ⭒ World’s Oddest…

  • Volume 33, Number 1

    Critical Conjunctures, Socialist Unity, Radical Prospects ⭒ Russell Maroon Shoatz, Implacable Revolutionary (23 August 1943 – 17 December 2021) ⭒ Moishe Postone, the Mode of Production of Capital and Cuban Agriculture ⭒ The Challenges of a Kurdish Ecofeminist Perspective: Maria Mies, Abdullah Öcalan, and the Praxis of Jineolojî ⭒ A Critique of Ecologically Unequal…

  • Episode 3: Rojava’s Struggle and International Solidarity

    Episode 3: Rojava’s Struggle and International Solidarity

    Join members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava in conversation about the history and geography of Rojava’s struggle, the need for international leftist solidarity, and what we can learn from Rojava. https://cnsjournal.podbean.com/e/rojava-struggle-and-international-solidarity/

  • Volume 32, Number 2

    We are in the process of uploading the complete Capitalism Nature Socialism catalogue for free online access and will soon provide links below of pre-print proofs. For purposes of citation, please locate the published version of this issue in the journal archive. House Organ Resisting a “Digital Green Revolution”: Agri-logistics, India’s New Farm Laws and the…

  • Volume 30, Number 2

    On value and nature; degrowth and the commons; symposium on degrowth socialism; plus poetry and book review; and last but never least, happy 70th to Monthly Review!

  • Volume 30, Number 1

    Ecofeminism as basis for ecosocialism; ecosocialist thought in China; ecosocialist teaching strategies geared to students, workers, farmers, prisoners; on reproducing status quo environmental policies; plus poetry and book review

  • Volume 29, Number 4

    Imprisonment as environmental injustice, climate disaster; ecosocialist thoughts on Engels; conversation with Don Mitchell; post-developmentalist blues; wind energy in Mexico; labour and environmentalism; plus poetry and reviews

  • Volume 29, Number 3

    Hurricane Maria; remembering Joel Kovel while celebrating Marx’s 200th anniversary; Lenin in Iowa, pt 2; a conversation on value and the bees; Cornelius Castoriadis; tar sands; electric grid deceptions; plus poetry and book reviews

  • Volume 29, Number 2

    Neoliberal environmental injustice; celebrating Marx’s 200th anniversary; Lenin in Iowa, pt 1; Raymond Williams; screw-overs in Greece, pt 2; a conversation on value and the bees; plus poetry and film review

  • Volume 29, Number 1

    Special ecofeminist issue on power, peace and protest; Berta Cáceres; greening the Americas; organising in South Africa and US; COP23 and the commons; plus graphic art, poetry, and reviews

  • Volume 28, Number 4

    Remembering Jim O’Connor; Rojava and the October Revolution; bioregionalism; climate and US imperialism; screw-overs in Greece, pt 1; sacrifice zones; comrade Valentino Parlato; David McDermott Hughes; Jim Jarmusch’s Detroit

  • Volume 28, Number 3

    The climate refugee crisis; special section on capital accumulation, hegemony, and socio-ecological struggles; the European Union’s emissions trading scam, pt 2; plus poetry and film and book reviews

  • Volume 28, Number 2, 2017: Border Hell

    Migration as revolutionary act; ecosocialist thought; conversations with Laura Pulido and Julie Sze; South Carolina hell; the European Union’s emissions trading scam, pt 1; renewable energy in Germany; plus poetry and reviews

  • Volume 28, Number 1, 2017: Trumpy Troubles

    On the 2016 us presidential elections and local elections in Kwazulu-Natal; special section on value; plus poetry and a review of anthropocene-speak publications

  • Volume 27, Number 4, 2016: Socialism Rules!

    On bourgeois uses of socialist states; special section on money; the environmental Kuznets curve; the European Union’s war on migrants; remembering comrade Giuseppina Ciuffreda; plus poetry and reviews

  • Volume 27, Number 3, 2016: Flint Horrors

    Environmental racism; racial liberalism; David Harvey meets Robert Reich; North Korea; Wall Street and climate change; Chile and salmon industry; plus book reviews

  • Volume 27, Number 2, 2016: The Olympics Suck!

    Olympic greenwashing; rethinking strategies for environmental justice; ecosocialist thought in Spain and China; sheep and dioxins; Caribbean tourism; round table on Jason Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life; poetry and reviews