International

Australia

http://links.org.au  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

http://socialist-alliance.org  Green Left Weekly

Germany

www.en.die-linke.de The English language version of the website of one of the principal left parties (die linke) in Germany.

Mexico

www.jornada.unam.mx In Spanish, this is Mexico's progressive daily newspaper.

Spain

www.podemos.info This Spanish language website serves as a communication link for a vital people's movement, one which has become a leading force on the left in Spain - a source of inspiration internationally. 

English language of international interest

http://en.wikipedia.org An indispensable free online encyclopaedia with in-depth, authoritative, well referenced treatment on just about every topic and issue, scientific, political, geographic, artistic, philosophical, historical... A good starting point for research on any topic likely to be of interest to those concerned about environmental and social justice issues. (Also available in other languages).

https://rebellion.earth Extinction Rebellion is a leading global movement to compel public action on the socio-environmental emergency humanity now faces.

http://climateandcapitalism.com This international journal brings together socialist, Marxist, and ecological perspectives on the socio-environmental crises that define our time. 

www.350.org International political action on combating climate change is led from and reported on this website, established by Bill McKibben.

United States

http://greensocialthought.org We recommend this site for high quality democratic ecosocialist analysis of current environmental and related socio-political issues. These include four to six original submissions each month and a selection of some of the best analytical work from a wide variety of other online sources.    

www.democracynow.org For daily one-hour commercial free internet available in-depth coverage and analysis of the major international news events of the day this source is deservedly gaining a rapidly growing international audience, including listeners and viewers of over 900 stations as well as those who access it via the internet.

www.commondreams.org By placing yourself on the email list of this website, you will daily receive a list of links to their selection of some of the best articles on current issues from the leading progressive journalists, political leaders, social and political thinkers and activists in the USA, UK, and Canada. Frequent contributors include Noam Chomsky,  Bernie Sanders, Ralph Nader, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, among others. An excellent way to keep abreast of news and analysis on environmental and social justice issues. From this website you can also access the scores of journals and sources Common Dreams draws from as well as other media such as the online news channel Democracy Now!.

www.thenextsystem.org Co-founded by Gar Alperovitz and James Gustave Speth in association with a who's who of leaders of the major social movements in the United States, The Next System Project has embraced the challenge of leadership in moving the United States beyond capitalism. A recent listing (March 2017) of their published next system proposals can be found at: http://thenextsystem.org/new-systems-possibilities-and-proposals/?mc_cid=551084d25d&mc_eid=7f995734da

www.gp.org The Green Party of the United States has had electoral success at the state and local level in most states.  Its policy orientation is eco-socialist.

www.rootsaction.org An independent progressive action group, it organizes petitions, write-ins and other actions directed particularly at legislators.

www.truth-out.org This user-friendly website features analysis that aims to broaden the discussion and coverage of otherwise under-reported news.

https://www.counterpunch.org  Similar to Truth-Out, but with a strong literary bent.

https://blackagendareport.com  Leading Afro-American left journal online.

http://worldbeyondwar.org  Action central for the peace movement in the United States, including annual conferences for leaders in the US peace movement.

 

Canada

www.rabble.ca Rabble.ca is an independent media source featuring Canadian news, analysis, blogs, podcasts, discussion, book reviews and video.  Regularly featured are some of Canada's best independent journalists.

www.fairvote.ca Fair Vote Canada is leading the fight in Canada for more democratic electoral systems, addressing a major problem of under-representation of the majority of voters in winner take all systems.

www.greenparty.ca Canada's green party saw its leader, Elizabeth May, again elected to Parliament in the October 2015 Federal Elections.  It remains under-represented in the Canadian Parliament in relation to the percentage of votes received, a continuing impetus to the movement for a more democratic electoral system.

www.quebecsolidaire.net Quebec Solidaire is a left social democratic party supported by about 10% of the electorate in the 2012 and 2014 Quebec elections. 

www.policyalternatives.ca The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is Canada's antidote to the think tanks funded by Canadian finance capitalism.

www.leadnow.ca and www.coc.org are two leading Canadian activist organizations that address a wide range of social and environmental issues. Leadnow has rapidly become an influential force for a more democratic Canada. The older Council of Canadians is arguably the most influential democratic social movement in Canada active on a wide spectrum of issues, with active branches in most of the larger communities.

https://socialistproject.ca  Canadian left journal

Please advise us of any other links you consider indispensable to the green and social justice movements in your country.

Welcome!

Now in our fourteenth year, this website was launched September 1, 2010 in response to the convergence of growing inequality within and between countries and a rapidly developing ecological catastrophe. After several years of further participation in the social justice, democratic and environmental movements of the people and discussions with many of our friends in these movements about draft essays we have posted to this website, we believe we now have a relatively brief, coherent set of eleven arguments that can serve as a basis for further discussion and development by those committed to taking action to reverse the neoliberal tidal wave and move forward to the achievement of an ecologically sustainable global civilization. These were completed by spring 2021. Our further arguments, including updates on our prior posted ones, can be found in the What's New Section which accompanies each page. - C&K McFadden

What's New

Winter 2024

Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden and Scott Cameron McFadden

The Path to an Ecologically Sustainable Future is that of Class Struggle

Summer - Fall 2023

Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden and Scott Cameron McFadden

Achieving an ecological civilization is the challenge before us. A knowledge of applicable empirically validated natural and social science laws is the key that opens the door.

Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden

An alternative to destruction by capitalism: The case for communism

Winter - Spring 2023

Charles Posa McFadden with assistance from Karen Howell McFadden and Scott Cameron McFadden

For a future beyond capitalism

1. A contemporary lens for addressing the existential crises we now face

2. For a future, we must end the systemic causes of destruction and waste

3. Meeting the urgent need for revolutionary political renewal

Fall 2022

C & K McFadden (Sept. 2022): Capitalism is genocide and ecocide

Winter 2022

C McFadden (Feb. 2022) For Canada: On Freedom - A response to the “Freedom” Convoy

C & K McFadden (Feb. 2022) For Canada: A House Divided

C & K McFadden (Jan. 2022): The Need for an Ecosocialist Revolutionary Movement

Fall 2021

C & K McFadden (Sept. 2021) For Canada:  For a future: Organize!

Winter 2020-21

C McFadden (Feb. 2021) How scarcity necessitates a more ecologically sustainable global community and digital technology makes that feasible

C&K McFadden (Dec. 2020) Can Greens avoid the pitfalls of capitalist electoral politics?

Spring 2020

C&K McFadden Canadian electoral politics and the global loss of legitimacy of the neoliberal project

Fall 2019

C&K McFadden Beyond Marx for a 21st Century Revolutionary Perspective

Spring 2019

C&K McFadden To Change the System, We Must Know the System!

Fall 2018 

C&K McFadden, we either escape the internal logic of capitalism or descend with it into barbarism

C&K McFadden, We Need an Updated Manifesto 

Don Fitz, Revolving Doors

C McFadden, The Greens Have It Right

Don Fitz, Is Nuclear Power a Solution to the Climate Crisis  

CANADA

C&K McFadden (February 2022) A House Divided

C McFadden (February 2022) On Freedom - A response to the “Freedom” Convoy

C&K McFadden (September 2021) For a future: Organize!

David Gehl (2018), Fight Climate Change Not War

C&K McFadden (2018), It is time for Canada to do the right thing by its First Nations

George Hewison (2018)WINNIPEG 1919 & THE COLD WAR

George Hewison (2018)Art Manuel - "Unsettling Canada

NEW BRUNSWICK 

Charles & Karen McFadden, An Historic Turning Point on the Journey to Recovery from Capitalism and its History of Colonialism: Reclaiming Wolastoq Ceremony

Charles McFadden, Decolonizing the U.S. & Canada: The People United for a More Just Sustainable Future


REVIEWS 

Charles McFadden Is Canada a force for good in the world, as many imagine? Review of Tyler Shipley (2020) Canada in the World: Settler capitalism and the colonial imagination

Karen and Charles McFaddenCan emergent early 21st century neo-fascism be defeated without coming to grips with late 20th century restructuring of capitalism into a global system Review of William I Robinson (2014) Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

Karen and Charles McFaddenA Dominant Capitalism or a Sustainable Environment? Why we can't have both. Review of Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster (2011) What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

 

 

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