Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2022
Monday, 9 May 2022 — Climate & Capitalism Democracy, insects, Cuba, plastic, capitalist drug pushers & trespassing. Books for understanding and changing the world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a...
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Thursday, June 9 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Seven important new books on science, medicine, and socialism. Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism feature, hosted by...
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Tuesday, 12 July 2022 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Summer reading for greens and reds. New books on work, extractive industry., empire, pandemics, organizing, and socialism Ecosocialist...
View ArticleThe Future of Food? Genetic Engineering, Value Capture and Dependency
GM crops are required to feed the world is a well-worn industry slogan trotted out at every available opportunity. Just like the claim of GM crops being a tremendous success, this too is based on a myth.
View ArticleEddy Wiggins – The Lost Historian
Recently a friend introduced me to an incredible book. Printed in French, and unknown to many, "Eddy Wiggins: Le Noir et Le Blanc", is a loving tribute to a man who captured African Americans in Paris,...
View ArticleBooks: Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
Forests are one of the world’s most important biological reserves. They suck about a third of humanity’s carbon emissions out of the atmosphere each year. According to the United Nations, forests also...
View ArticleEcosocialist Bookshelf, August 2022
Sunday, 14 August, 2022 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Seven new books for people who know that the point is to change the world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly Climate & Capitalism...
View ArticleProf Judy Wajcman Trade Unionism, Work and Feminism Library Sale. 19th Aug...
At this time of resurgence within the British trade union movement, with union, wildcat and even consumer strikes breaking out across the country, the timing couldn't be better for this sale of books...
View ArticleSlouching towards utopia; or hurtling towards disaster?
Bradford DeLong is one of the world’s most prominent Keynesian economists and economic historian who is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. DeLong served as Deputy...
View ArticleEcosocialist Bookshelf, November 2022
Wednesday, 9 November 2022 — Climate & Capitalism Six new books and six recent essays: important reading for reds and greens Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books...
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Saturday, 10 December 2022 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Six important new books on fungi and racism and building socialism and wheat and more Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted...
View ArticleDegrowth and the end of capitalism
Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement
View ArticleBooks of the year
Every year at this time, I look back at any books that I have reviewed. I’ll start with Bradford DeLong’s book, Slouching towards Utopia, because this was considered the best economic history book of...
View ArticleEcosocialist Bookshelf: The Best of 2022
Saturday, 31 December 2023 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Ian Angus selects his favorite red and green books from the past year Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus....
View Article“If there is to be a livable future, it will be a future offline”
Claims of the system’s power to connect far-flung individuals and enrich one’s social life are risible. In the West, at least, the Internet’s primary effect has been to dissipate social energies into...
View ArticleOperation Z: The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine
We are so very pleased to bring our a readers a sample from Jacques Baud’s book on the conflict in the Ukraine, which has just been translated into English. It is called Operation Z (which is the...
View ArticleEcosocialist Bookshelf, February 2023
Wednesday, 8 February 2023 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Reading matter that really matters. Seven new books on how the world works, from cells to imperialism Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly...
View ArticleHousmans Radical Books Sale
Thursday, 29 August 2024 — Housmans Books As with all our booksales we try to keep prices as low as possible with nothing over £5. Lots of as-new copies of books, academic and trade, across a range of...
View ArticleThe Puppet Masters: How MI6 regularly mastermind state crises
David Burke’s book is relevant to all those interested in how MI6 have instigated terrorism in arenas as diverse as Russia, Armenia, Iraq and Syria.
View ArticleNew reading on Palestine
Friday, 25 October 2024 — Verso Books Our Autumn publishing includes new editions of Ilan Pappe’s Ten Myths About Israel and Eyal Weizman’s Hollow Land, a paperback edition of The Palestine Laboratory,...
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