josie sparrow

An introduction to some of the themes and thinking behind our ECOLOGIES edition.

Tom Gann, The Editors

Updates on what's been going on at New Socialist, and launching #NS500, our subscription drive.

Jason W. Moore, Tom Gann, josie sparrow

The Marxist geographer talks with Tom Gann and josie sparrow about world ecology, Marxist beef, and what it means to be in solidarity with oppressed and devalued natures.

Justin Davis

Histories of colonialism and extraction, told through their impacts on orangutans—and stories of red ape resistance.

Lauren Pikó

To think about the relationship between past and present in terms of 'precedent' can seem odd—but this structure of feeling has become central to how events are understood and represented in contemporary Britain.

Dan Barrow

In a contemporary "expansionist" Marxism, luxury plays a central role, but it also remains underthought—particularly in its ecological implications. The "severe luxury" of William Morris has much to teach us.

Max Ajl, Rob Wallace

Calls to end animal agriculture and rewild much of the world are calls for the intensification of the exploitation of the rural by the urban, and the dispossession of peasants, small farmers, herders and nomads.

Aidan Ratchford

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba was forced to embarked on an agroecological programme of food sovereignty. Now, it offers an example to the rest of the world.

Kaajal Modi

The cultural politics of fermentation, explored through recipes, theory, poetry, and stories.

Sabrina Huck

A left populism with a major green element has been advocated as a way to reconstitute the left and address ecological crisis. However, the experience of the German Greens points to the limits of this project.

Justin Umali

In the Philippines, the struggle against imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism is a precondition of any ecological sustainability.

Clair Quentin

The shortages of the pandemic revealed the physicality of a wide range of commodities. To ignore this physicality is to obfuscate capital's imperialist and ecocidal character.

Andrew Key

How might we respond to Kate Soper's call for an avant-garde eco-socialist political imaginary? What is the time and space of the avant-garde?

Enis Yucekoralp

A conception of the sublime, liberated from its racist, sexist and domineering classic form, should form a part of any ecosocialist imaginary.

Amardeep Singh Dhillon

An extended study of the historical and world-ecological context of the Farmers' Movement struggles.

Harry Holmes

The effects of flooding are determined by regional and by class inequalities. As the state withdraws its from crucial functions, this imposes tasks for the left that are currently under-analysed.

Dave Cullen

A number of eco-modernists are now arguing that the threat of climate crisis means that nuclear power is necessary. However, it remains wildly impractical, and at odds with any world we would like to build.

Adam Blanden

The Government’s so-called Green Industrial Revolution is really a plan to subsidise the private sector in a period of low growth and dampened demand.

Daniel Willis

Could a growing wave of resistance across Latin America help to protect democracy and advance ecosocialist aims?

Out of the Woods

The Out of the Woods collective share some of their favourite music, with an accompanying essay exploring how these tracks relate to and shape our politics.

Lucy McFadzean

Much of the focus on the cultural politics of the GLC in the 1980s has been on flagship campaigns and events. The Rio Cinema tells a different story: the nurturing of a cultural ecology.

M Tetrapod

Schools are intricately bound up with formal systems of policing and incarceration. Is resistance possible, or are the roles of ‘teacher’ and ‘cop’ too mutually dependent?

Tom Williams

The former Southampton number seven has repeatedly disgraced himself with a series of public pronouncements. How does this connect with the way he played football?

Toby Manning

Glam, in all its queer, communal, proletarian glory, is the soundtrack to a militant 70s that we must reclaim for the left.

Holly Firmin

Martin Lewis offers sometimes useful advice—but his interpellation of viewers as consumers, vulnerable to exploitation through a lack of knowledge, dissipates potential for collective action.

Mark Seddon

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War ideologically attempts to present "the unholy trinity" of violent repression carried out by the US in Central America as both exciting and necessary.

Josh Weeks

James Dean Bradfield's embrace of allegory in 'Even in Exile' represents the violence of the destruction of Chilean socialism, whilst also fanning a spark of hope.

Rose Cleary

Have you heard the one about the cleaner who destroyed a work of art? How do these jokes relate to the "improving" function of museums, and to anxieties about the materiality of art?

Rhian E. Jones

The musical Les Mis often serves as a shorthand for suburban ghastliness and conservatism, yet its most obvious signifiers relate to a doomed popular uprising. How to reconcile this?

Juliet Jacques

If the last year and a half has shown us anything, it’s that conditions of artistic production are shaped by politics. It is only by remaining involved with politics that we, as artists, can hope to change them.

Louis Althusser

The mass-produced automobile brought about shifts in spatial relations, the reproduction of labour power, and consciousness—shifts that completely overhauled strategies of bourgeois class struggle.

Álvaro García Linera

Bolivia's former Vice President traces the material conditions that enabled the militancy its mining proletariat.

Elle O'Rourke, Jules Joanne Gleeson

An exclusive extract from the introduction to TRANSGENDER MARXISM.

Martín Arboleda

The urbanisation of the countryside enacted by the mining industry in Chile has produced devastating spatial, racial, and gendered polarisations.

Nick Estes

The long traditions of Indigenous resistance, of which #NODAPL was a part, demonstrate the possibilities for just and liberated futures.

James Trafford

The idea of a global commons and of "natural limits" emerged in the 1970s, and forms a Neo-Malthusian structure of thinking that underpins certain environmentalist movements and practices.

Tom Gann, Owen Hatherley

The left's most prolific author on Red Metropolis, London's municipal socialism, class recomposition and its political effects, and the influence of William Morris.

Daniel Frost

Owen Hatherley's Red Metropolis is a valuable account of the achievements of the London Left—but is limited by its pessimism and an unwillingness to draw lines.

Jules Joanne Gleeson

Chitty's book, though unreliable in parts, provides significant empirical support to those who read sexual liberation as one aspect of broader social struggles.

Colin Drumm

Colin Drumm on a call to doing political economy that takes the class dimensions of both generational struggles and monetary policy seriously.

Alana Lentin, Selim Nadi

Alana Lentin discusses her debt to Stuart Hall, the colonial constitution of racism, and fracturings of anti-racist solidarity.

Joe Kennedy

In this extract from the new edition of ‘Games Without Frontiers’, Joe Kennedy discusses and analyses his life playing football.

Joe Kennedy

Recent years have seen the emergence of a tactocratic attitude towards football – how much does this aid the commodification of the game through seeking to marginalise contingency?

Steve Davies

The history of coal mining in Britain, focusing on the South Wales and Durham coalfields, their insertion into imperialism, the gendered regimes of production, and class struggle.