International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The politics of degrowth - Technology, ideology, and the fight for eco-socialism

Gareth Dale — 2023-08-17T11:41:56Z

Degrowth identifies and critiques growth as fundamental to the capitalist system. Growth enriches property owners and the wealthy, leaving the rest of humanity behind with devastating environmental consequences.

- IV583 - August 2023 / Ecology and the Environment, Ecosocialism

Global Fever

Gareth Dale — 2020-10-13T11:41:48Z

“For the upcoming movements around COVID and climate, such ‘Leninist' interventions will be indispensable, and those involved will learn much, and gain great inspiration, from this electrifying book.”

The emergence of an ecological Karl Marx: 1818 - 2018

Gareth Dale — 2018-06-02T13:10:01Z

Karl Marx was born in Trier 200 years ago today. [1] The legacy of the political economist is fiercely contested. The Ecologist was among the first magazines to examine his ecological thinking - in an essay published in 1971. Here, Gareth Dale, an editor of the book Green Growth, examines Marx's own claims about nature and society - and our original interpretation of them.

- IV521 - June 2018 / Ecology and the Environment, Marx 200

A World Without Borders

Gareth Dale — 2015-10-01T21:46:22Z

Who now remembers Reem Sahwil? A Palestinian teenager who, in 2011, had arrived in the German coastal city of Rostock from a Lebanese refugee camp, Reem was among a group of school students addressed by Angela Merkel in July this year. She explained to the chancellor that her family was facing deportation.

- Features / Germany, Migration