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System Change not Climate Change
$20.00 incl GSTA revolutionary response to environmental crisis
Edited by Martin Empson
Contents
* Introduction by Martin Empson
* Hopelessly Devoted to Fossil Fuels, Amy Leather
* Marxism and the Anthropocene, Camilla Royle
* The Discovery and Rediscovery of Metabolic Rift, Ian Angus
* Karl Marx’s Idea of Ecosocialism in the 21st Century, Kohei Saito
* Natural Capital: A Neoliberal Response to Species Extinction, Ian Rappel
* Food, Agriculture and Climate Change, Martin Empson
* Capitalism and the Biodiversity Crisis, Sarah Ensor
* Why Capitalism Loves Plastic, Amy Leather
* Canada’s Tar Sands, Indigenous Sovereignty and a Just Transition for Workers, Carolyn Egan & Michelle Robidoux
* Up Against the Clock: Climate, Social Movements and Marxism, Suzanne Jeffery
* Can We Build a Sustainable Society? Martin Empson -
Zombie Capitalism
$30.00 incl GSTGlobal Crisis and the Relevance of Marx
By Chris Harman
We’ve been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of SeptemberOctober 2008, leading one apologist for the system, Willem Buiter, to write of “the end of capitalism as we knew it.”
As the crisis unfolded, the world witnessed the way in which the runaway speculation of the “shadow” banking system wreaked havoc on world markets, leaving real human devastation in its wake. Faced with the financial crisis, some economic commentators began to talk of “zombie banks”financial institutions that were in an “undead state” and incapable of fulfilling any positive function but a threat to everything else. What they do not realize is that twenty-first century capitalism as a whole is a zombie system, seemingly dead when it comes to achieving human goals.
First published 2009.
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The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx
$22.00 incl GSTBy Alex Callinicos
Karl Marx is one of the few people who have fundamentally changed the way we see the world. His ideas have always been controversial, misunderstood, attacked and even dismissed.
The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx rescues the revolutionary tradition of Marx and demonstrates conclusively the relevance of his ideas for everyone who wants to end poverty, oppression, climate change and war and see humanity progress.
New edition with a new Introduction and an updated guide to further reading.
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The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After
$28.00 incl GSTBy Chris Harman
The year 1968 was a watershed. Millions of workers in France struck in protest at police violence, the black ghettos in the United States rose in protest at the assassination of Martin Luther King, and it was the year of the Prague Spring when students and workers rose against Stalinism, only to be crushed by Russian Tanks. Substantially revised and updated to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the revolt, this work analyses the period and draws lessons from the events of 1968 that will still have relevance today.
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Out Of StockLenin for today
$28.00 incl GSTLenin For Today
By John MolyneuxA hundred years after the Russian Rolution Lenin remains a world historical figure of immense stature – but also a hightly contested one. In Lenin for Today John Molyneux rejects the conventional view that Lenin had a dictatorial attitude to working people and thus paved the way for Stalinism.
Instead, as global capitalism staggers from crisis to crisis and careers towards climate catastrophe, he argues that Lenin’s main ideas – on international workers’ revolution, opposing imperialism and war, overthrowing the state, the need for party organisation and the fight against oppression – remain vital and releveant today.
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Out Of StockState Capitalism in Russia
$25.00 incl GSTBy Tony Cliff
With a new introduction by Alex Callinicos
Now back in print, Tony Cliff’s pathbreaking analysis of Stalinism in Russia as presiding over a state capitalist economy. Still essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the fate of the Russian Revolution and why the struggle for genuine socialism since the 1930s has had to raise the banner “Neither Washington nor Moscow but International Socialism”.