THE TROUBLE.
Who We Are Manifesto
THE TROUBLE.
 
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Environmentalists Need Unions, Unions Need Environmentalists: A Review of “Climate Change as Class War”
Andrew Ahern
Environmentalists Need Unions, Unions Need Environmentalists: A Review of “Climate Change as Class War”
Andrew Ahern

Climate Change as Class War is a good argument for the climate movement to center production and class dynamics, but author Matt Huber’s strategy analysis is often overshadowed by his poor framing and contempt for some groups. “Going to war” with your colleagues and comrades will not help us solve climate change.

Andrew Ahern
Let the Subaltern Speak: Why Climate Assemblies Might Breathe Life into Indian Climate Politics
Aditya Valiathan Pillai
Let the Subaltern Speak: Why Climate Assemblies Might Breathe Life into Indian Climate Politics
Aditya Valiathan Pillai

New participatory institutions would make lived realities more difficult for political elites to ignore.

Aditya Valiathan Pillai
All Politics Are Municipal: A Review of “From Urbanization to Cities”
Andrew Ahern
All Politics Are Municipal: A Review of “From Urbanization to Cities”
Andrew Ahern

Green New Deal advocates are wise to target federal investment on the climate crisis. But a municipal focus has its own much needed place, centering renewed citizenship, direct democracy, and ecological values. Murray Bookchin can help us create more democratic, ecological societies in the local places where we live, work, and play.

Andrew Ahern
 
 
 

Editors’ Picks

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Public Power for a Desperate City: Planting Ecosocialism in the Ruins of New York

How I learned to organize in an age of perpetual disasters.

An Abolition Politics for the Climate Crisis: Out of the Woods’ Hope Against Hope

State-centered climate solutions risk putting us on the path to ecofascism. The Out of the Woods collective provides an alternative framework: Disaster communism.

Just Transition: Learning From the Tactics of Past Labor Movements

It is time to take a lesson from the early pioneers of the just transition and recognize the power that organized labor can wield to fight for environmental, economic and social justice.

We Need Ecosocialism to Stop the Next Pandemic

Our future is not just one of more ferocious storms and drier summers, but more virulent, deadly epidemics.

Destructive Creation: A Review

Mining lessons for a Green New Deal from history is a thorny business. A new book on the institutional history of WWII economic mobilization shows us how.

 

INterviews

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Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way
Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way

A review of Less is More and interview with Jason Hickel.

“Public Transit is a Right, Not a Commodity”: An Interview with Jovanka Beckles
“Public Transit is a Right, Not a Commodity”: An Interview with Jovanka Beckles

The longtime Richmond, California-based activist discusses her campaign for AC Transit Board of Directors, the urgency of implementing a Green New Deal at the local level, and public transit as an avenue for achieving environmental and racial equity.

“Why is it our responsibility to sustain unsustainable ways of life?” The Navajo and Allies Speak Out
“Why is it our responsibility to sustain unsustainable ways of life?” The Navajo and Allies Speak Out

Unpacking resistance to climate change, colonialism, and COVID-19 on the Navajo reservation.

Unpacking Class-Struggle Social Democracy: An Interview with Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht
Unpacking Class-Struggle Social Democracy: An Interview with Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht

The Trouble sat down with Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht of Jacobin to discuss their book Bigger Than Bernie, the Green New Deal, and lessons mined from the second Sanders campaign.

 
 
 

Anti-Racism, Climate, and Popular Ecology:
a Potent Alliance in France

 
 
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Land Use and the Climate Left

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Thrown Together: The New Politics of the Land
Thrown Together: The New Politics of the Land

Social, political and racial divisions are always deeply connected to decisions about how we carve up and treat the land.

It Begins With the Land
It Begins With the Land

Land use has been a tool of oppression, but it can also be a tool of our liberation.

Embracing Eminent Domain for the Sake of the Planet
Embracing Eminent Domain for the Sake of the Planet

Proponents of the GND must think outside the box. Harnessing the power of eminent domain to keep fossil fuels in the ground is exactly the kind of transformative and creative strategy we need to embrace in order to do so.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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