Category Ecology

Green Industrial Policy and Socialist Reform

This essay was previously published by ZNetwork. China’s vast development and export of renewable energy gear and electric vehicles is helping to drive the green transition globally — the transition away from reliance on the burning of fossil fuels. As…

Future on Fire: A Review

David Camfield, Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change (Oakland: PM Press, 2023) David Camfield’s Future on Fire is a clarion call for the application of an “emergency brake” to the uncontrolled global warming produced by the…

Red Flag Warning: A Review

Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country, eds. Dani Burlison and Margaret Elysia Garcia (Chico, California: AK Press, 2025) Red Flag Warning is a new collection of essays and interviews dedicated to exploring mutual aid in…

Green Unionism Done Right

A Brief Review of the “Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition” Recently a group of refinery workers’ unions and Bay Area environmental justice groups released an overview of a Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition. In a reformist…

Against Productivism

Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in the production process. I am going to suggest that capitalism has a very distinctive way…