Articles

These are a selection of articles that I have had published elsewhere, including a number of book reviews.

Why the ‘natural world’ is human-made: A review of Nature's Ghosts by Sophie Yeo
Socialist Worker, October 2024

Colonisation caused collapse on Rapa Nui
Socialist Worker, September 2024

Colonies and the countryside: an interview with Corinne Fowler
Socialist Worker, August 2024

My thoughts on the Crowdstrike fiasco: You can blame capitalism for the IT outage
Socialist Worker, July 2024

Anabaptism Was the Revolutionary Face of Reformation Europe
Jacobin, July 2024

Climate change solutions must resist colonialism
Socialist Worker, June 2024

The German Peasants’ War Was Europe’s Biggest Social Revolt Before the French Revolution
Jacobin, December 2023

Karl Marx’s “degrowth communism”?
Jointly written with Padraic Gibson
International Socialism, Autumn 2023

Can protest movements bring down the system? Review of Vincent Bevins' If We Burn
Socialist Worker, October 2023

Can degrowth save the planet?
Solidarity magazine, Australia, August 2023

Tidal waves of horrors are ruining the oceans
With Sophie Squire
Socialist Worker, June 2023

Review of The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan
SWP Long Reads, April 2023

Class Struggle Against Capitalism Began With Rebellion in the English Countryside
Jacobin, United States, April 2023

Why COP26 won't solve the climate crisis
Solidarity magazine, Australia, October 2021

Beyond our numbers: a socialist argument about population and the environment
Jointly written with Ian Rappel
International Socialism, Autumn 2021

Code Red has been a long time coming, but we can avert climate catastrophe
SWP Long Reads, August 2021

Debating how to save the planet
Comments on books by Bill Gates, Michael E. Mann, Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton and Kate Aronoff
SWP Long Reads, May 2021

Fukushima—a nuclear warning
Socialist Worker, 8 March 2021

Will Biden go Green?
Socialist Review, January 2021

It's now or never for Action on the Climate
Socialist Review, October 2020

Marx, ecology and industrial agriculture
Solidarity magazine, Australia, May-June 2020

Why are we addicted to fossil fuels? Michael Moore's new film doesn't have the answer
Socialist Worker, 6 May 2020

Off the shelf: The Closing Circle
Me on Barry Commoner's ecological classic
Socialist Review, February 2020

A review of Naomi Klein's On Fire
Socialist Worker, 4 December 2019

Are there too many People on the Planet?
Socialist Review, August 2019

Preventing Climate Chaos: Ideas that can win
Socialist Worker Canada, 30 July 2019

Is a Green Future Possible?
An interview with me about the book System Change not Climate Change

Socialist Worker, 29 June 2019

Can eating less meat stop environmental chaos?
Socialist Worker, 9 April 2019

Joseph Arch and the Revolt of the Fields
A piece I wrote marking the centenary of the agricultural trade unionist's death

Socialist Review, February 2019.

The Future's already here. My response to the Oct 2018 IPCC report
Socialist Review, November 2018. Translated into Turkish here.

Marx's Ecological Education
Book review of Kohei Saito's Karl Marx's Ecosocialism
Monthly Review, April 2018

Focus on China: The East is Green?
Socialist Review, February 2018

Russia 1917: New book is a weapon against the right
Review of Dave Sherry's book on the Russian Revolution
Socialist Worker, 2 May 2017

Nature, Labour and the Rise of Capitalism
Monthly Review, April 2017

A Common Treasury for All: Gerrard Winstanley's Vision of Utopia
International Socialism Journal 154, Spring 2017

Marxism and the Earth: A Defence of the Classical Tradition
Book review of Foster and Burkett: Marxism and the Earth
International Socialism Journal 153, Winter 2016/7

Food, Agriculture and Climate Change
International Socialism Journal 152, Autumn 2016

Can we Build a Sustainable Society?
Socialist Review, December 2015

Primitive Communism: Life before Class and Oppression
Socialist Worker, 28 May 2013

Landgrabbers
Socialist Review, July/August 2013

Climate Change: It's Even Worse than we Thought
International Socialism Journal 137, Winter 2012/3

Fiddling While Rome Burns: A Report from Rio
Irish Marxist Review, Volume 1 (No. 3), 2012

Silent Spring
On the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's classic book
Socialist Review, November 2012

Why did the Earth Summit in Rio fail? (Dutch)
Dutch Newspaper Socialisme.nu, July 2012

Extreme Energy
Socialist Review, May 2012

Accumulating Chaos
Socialist Review, December 2009

E is for Ecology
Socialist Review, October 2007

An Inconvenient Truth: A Warning to the World about Climate Change
Socialist Worker, 23 September 2006

The Myths of Nuclear Power
An interview with author and activist Helen Caldicott
Socialist Review, September 2006

Marxism on the Web
An interview with activists behind the Marxist Internet Archive
International Socialism Journal 105, Winter 2004/5

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