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Oct 12, 2026
Podcast

The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism (Pt. 2): China, India, Palestine, Iran, Yemen (w/ Bikrum Gill)

Bikrum Gill, guest on the podcast discussing his book on the political ecology of colonial capitalism, contrasts China, which resolved its agrarian question to guarantee national sovereignty, with India, which has not.

Oct 11, 2026
Article

Hangzhou’s two transformations: frontier technology and ecological civilisation - Friends of Socialist China

Hangzhou, a 12.7-million-person megacity whose digital economy is 29.5 percent of GDP, hosts DeepSeek and Unitree, yet Zhejiang's data-service electricity use rose 159 percent in 2025, prompting a 1.2 power-usage ceiling on new data centres.

Oct 8, 2026
Article

From coast to coast: China’s national day marked in Canada - Friends of Socialist China

More than 400 guests attended the Chinese Embassy's 77th national day reception in Ottawa, where Senator Victor Oh recounted Uyghur children in Urumqi saying they wanted to be doctors and Rob Oliphant affirmed Canada's One China policy.

Oct 7, 2026
Podcast

The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism (Pt. 1): The Rise of Western Capitalism and Decolonization of the Global South

Bikrum Gill

A discussion of how Western capitalism's rise rested on appropriating Indigenous ecological worlds in the Americas, and how the agrarian question shaped Southern sovereignty and decolonisation.

Oct 7, 2026
Video

Socialist China Conference 2026: AI, technology and the new quality productive forces

Panellists at the Socialist China Conference contrast China's mass-consultation AI strategy and green industrial investment with Washington's oligarch-driven approach, arguing Beijing is building the infrastructure for a new productive paradigm.

Oct 6, 2026
Video

Brazil Election SHOCK: What Bolsonaro 2.0 Means for Latin America, the Amazon & Palestine

Stephanie Weatherbee Brito

Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round lead over Lula forces a runoff, as a guest analyses the hard right's silent campaign, the PT's losses, and the risks of a Trump-aligned presidency for Brazil, the Amazon and Palestine.

Oct 5, 2026
Article

Nepal's Rasuwa flood disaster is an alert to Southasia and the world

Kanak Mani Dixit

The Rasuwa flood in Nepal, triggered by a Himalayan slope collapse, exposes how global warming, black carbon and permafrost thaw are destabilising High Asia, and urges Southasian states to unite on climate action.

Oct 2, 2026
Article

Havana Water Pumping to Become Independent of National Electric System

Wennys Díaz Ballaga

Cuba will dedicate 200 MW of solar generation to Havana's water pumping so the service no longer depends on the national grid, as distributed generation aims to reverse outages from November.

Oct 1, 2026
Article

Marxian Ecology and the Critique of AI Capital

John Bellamy Foster

Applies Marxian ecological theory to critique AI capitalism, arguing that the technology accelerates metabolic rifts and entropic disorder under monopoly-finance capital.

Sep 28, 2026
Podcast

Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology

Henry Hakamäki and Salvatore Engels-Di Mauro

A discussion of Guillaume Suing's book arguing that communism, not capitalism, offers the ecological model, using the Soviet Union's conservation record and its later environmental damage as evidence.

Sep 28, 2026
Article

Degradation by design: Money, finance and the structural drive towards environmental crisis

Jeffrey Althouse

A political ecology of money and finance argues that monetary and financial systems are socio-ecological institutions whose design drives ecological degradation by shaping extraction, value, and who bears environmental costs.

Sep 28, 2026
Article

Chinese Marxism (Part 2): Ecological civilisation

Chen Xueming argues China's socialist system enables ecological civilization, resolving the development-protection dilemma where Western capitalism fails. Xi Jinping identifies harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature as a key feature of modernization.

Sep 25, 2026
Article

Xi meets Trump – two visions collide - Friends of Socialist China

Xi Jinping's September 23-25 state visit to the US, his first since 2015, drew a Morning Star editorial calling it a critical moment; it argues China alone stood up to Trump's tariffs and forced a trade war truce, though breakthroughs are unlikely.

🧵 DigestSep 16, 2026
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Podcast

Big Bend Betrayal: The Federal Assault on Our Public Lands

Big Bend Betrayal: The Federal Assault on Our Public Lands

Colonial Outcasts

A documentary on the US government bulldozing protected Big Bend desert for a border wall, bypassing environmental laws and awarding contracts to a major Trump donor.

A documentary examines the US government's border wall construction through Big Bend's protected desert, framing it as a federal assault on public lands and sacred grounds that normalises privatisation nationwide.

Sep 16, 2026
Article

BBC: retract your false report on China and the Himalayan floods

CODEPINK's petition demands the BBC retract a report claiming China censored Himalayan flood footage, arguing the real story is the climate crisis and militarism's environmental cost.

Sep 16, 2026
Article

Dilemmas Posed by Recent Discovery of Oil in Brazil's Amazon

Vijay Prashad and Miguel Stedile

Petrobras's Morpho well off Amapá confirms oil in the Foz do Amazonas basin, raising questions of Brazilian sovereignty, environmental risk, and whether revenue will fund industrialisation and an energy transition.

Sep 13, 2026
Article

A letter to Western environmentalists: are you following the vanguard or rearguard?

An open letter from a Global South perspective arguing that Western environmentalism has mistaken its rearguard for its vanguard, and that only principled anti-imperialism can address the ecological crisis.

Sep 11, 2026
Article

Sunlight and sovereignty: the Chinese technology behind Africa's solar boom

Carlos Martinez

Africa's solar installations jumped 54 percent in 2025, driven largely by Chinese-built and financed projects, as Beijing's two decades of public investment cut renewable costs and made a continental green transition affordable.

🧵 DigestSep 8, 2026
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Article

Ecology: The Moment of Truth—An Introduction

Land-Sea Ecological Rifts: A Metabolic Analysis of Nutrient Loading

Marx and Engels and 'Small Is Beautiful' & A Response

Ten Questions About Marx—More Than Twenty Years After 'Marx's Ecology'

The Great Financial Crisis—Three Years On

The Ecological Civilization Debate in China: The Role of Ecological Marxism and Constructive PostmodernismÑBeyond the Predicament of Legislation - Monthly Review

John Bellamy Foster; Brett Clark; Richard YorkBrett Clark; Stefano B LongoSamar Bagchi; John Bellamy Foster; Fred MagdoffRoberto AndrésJohn Bellamy Foster; Fred MagdoffZhihe Wang; He Huili; Meijun Fan

Humanity faces irreversible ecological tipping points within a decade under business as usual, yet mainstream economics like the Stern Review accepts catastrophic warming.

Applies Marxist metabolic analysis to demonstrate how capitalist agrifood production disrupts soil nutrient cycles, causing excessive runoff that creates marine dead zones and harmful algal blooms.

A reader argues Marx and Engels were productivist, citing Engels and the Manifesto, while Fred Magdoff responds that Marx's later ecological critique in Capital supersedes earlier views, defending Marx's relevance to ecology.

John Bellamy Foster revisits ten controversial questions about Marx's thought, from his doctoral thesis on Epicurus to his critique of Malthus and Proudhon, reflecting on how his ecological and historical materialist views have evolved since Marx's Ecology.

Three years after the 2008 crash, the global economy remains mired in stagnation and austerity.

China's severe environmental crisis persists despite extensive legislation, with PM 2.5 levels in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai exceeding safety limits by over forty times, and 350,000-500,000 premature deaths yearly from outdoor air pollution.

Sep 7, 2026
Article

Climate Solutions Part 1: Why Capitalism Can’t Solve the Climate Crisis

Finn O

Argues that capitalist structures prevent effective climate action by analyzing the failures of carbon credits, technological innovation, and individualized responsibility.

🧵 DigestSep 2, 2026
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Podcast

Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America w/ Joey Santore

Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America w/ Joey Santore

Joey SantoreJoey Santore

Botanist Joey Santore critiques North American landscapes shaped by suburban sprawl, renter economies, and corporate greed, advocating for native plants, community green spaces, and a deeper human connection to ecology.

Joey Santore discusses conservationism, native plants, and building a closer relationship with the living world, critiquing modern American landscaping for its ecological and spiritual disconnection.

Aug 22, 2026
Article

In a world on fire, the global majority must reclaim the battlefield

The global majority must reclaim energy, food sovereignty, and development from imperialist capitalism to build ecological civilization, rejecting Western green capitalism and degrowth as inadequate solutions.

Aug 19, 2026
Video

Seeds of Tyre: Displaced Women's Ecological Resistance

Hajjeh Zainab Mahdi

Displaced Lebanese women reclaim a bombed-out site near Tyre into a thriving organic farm, using indigenous methods to feed their community and resist Israeli ecocide and genocide.

🧵 DigestAug 17, 2026
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Podcast

Attack on the Black Hills

Attack on the Black Hills

Madonna Thunder Hawk and Lilias JardingMadonna Thunder Hawk and Lilias Jarding

Madonna Thunder Hawk, a great grandmother living on her reservation, and Lilias Jarding, who stopped two dozen uranium corporations with Black Hills Alliance, discuss Craven Canyon's cultural sites and the halted state permit hearing over missing Lakota translators.

Madonna Thunder Hawk, an Oohenumpa Lakota and longtime Indigenous organizer, and Lilias Jarding, Executive Director of the Black Hills Clean Water Alliance, have organized resistance to mining threats since the 1970s; current threats include Craven Canyon, the Dewey-Burdock uranium project.

Aug 16, 2026
Video

Israel Chemicals Limited's Poison Mines in Catalonia

Laith Marouf

Reports from ICL's potash mine in Catalonia, where local activist Anna describes the Zionist company's toxic pollution, forced evacuations, and its role in supplying white phosphorus for genocides in Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.

🧵 DigestAug 13, 2026
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Podcast

Averting Apocalypse: Taking on Climate Collapse in a Hopeful Way

Averting Apocalypse: Taking on Climate Collapse in a Hopeful Way

Michael MezzatestaMichael Mezzatesta

A conversation about facing climate collapse without despair, focusing on how to inspire action by linking ecological crisis, capitalism, and colonialism while promoting a post-capitalist vision.

A discussion on discussing climate catastrophe constructively to spur action, highlighting looming state collapses and wars while urging a hopeful yet realistic approach to avert apocalypse.

Aug 13, 2026
Article

The Green Belt and Road as a Counter-Narrative to Imperial Ecology

Douglas de Castro

The Green BRI challenges Western green colonialism and debt dependence by offering an alternative development paradigm rooted in South-South cooperation, ecological civilization, and contrary to imperial ecology.

Aug 11, 2026
Article

Shenzhen Marks 100 Days to APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting

Park Jee-hoon

On August 10, Shenzhen marked the 100-day countdown to the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. The city is home to over 6,870 species, including 208 nationally protected plants and animals, and its Kunpeng Trail has helped reconnect habitats where leopard cats and Eurasian otters have returned.

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