Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
As we work together to re-discover and build new empowering political systems of collective decision making, and life-giving economic systems that can meet our real needs, how do we ensure that they stay true to …
Anitra Nelson
(This article includes revised and direct extracts from Anitra Nelson’s book Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy, Pluto Press, London, January 2022.)
Beyond Money: A Postcapitalist Strategy urges twenty-first century social and environmental movements to seriously consider a …
Helena Paul
A profound contradiction between our dominant economic system and Earth’s life support structure continue to endanger human existence, as neoliberalism, the economic system we live by, demands endless growth and consumption of resources in order to continue to …
Clem McCartney
I suppose that there are not many followers of Radical Ecological Democracy (RED) who do not get a certain satisfaction from deconstructing our current social systems and demonstrating that they are not fit for purpose in responding to …
Uygar Özesmi
The contemporary world economy is based on large-scale production, competition, growth, consumption and profit maximization, increasingly the cause of rampant economic inequality all over the world, and extreme disharmony with nature. To reach its objective of selling the …
Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace …
Carlos Tornel[i]
“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
Kenneth Boulding
In the book The Case for Degrowth, Giorgios Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa …
Ted Trainer
The first part of this article discussed how the consumer capitalist society is so far beyond sustainable levels of production and consumption that the resulting global problems cannot be solved unless there is huge reduction in those levels, …
Ted Trainer
This is the first of two articles outlining “The Simpler Way” perspective on the global predicament and the way out of it. Many analysts now see that consumer-capitalism must be replaced, and most alternative thinking in this context …
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
History tells us that every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had colonized other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue …
Christine Dann
“le seul réalisme c’est de vivre heureux ici et maintenant sans attendre des lendemains qui chantent ou déchantent même si vous ne votez pas” (“the only realistic thing to do is to live happily in the here and …
