“It may be worth remembering ourselves that in this [interwar] period the threat to liberal institutions came exclusively from the political right, for btw 1945 & 1989 it was assumed, almost as a matter of course, that it came essentially from communism” (112).

Dylan Riley

“Yet the stagnation doesn’t actually show that decarbonisation is impossible, rather that it will be difficult to do so by capitalist means.”

👍 “Deutsche Bank reckons getting inflation back to target will require unemployment breaching 5.5 per cent. Laurence Ball at Johns Hopkins University argues a more realistic estimate is upwards of 7 per cent.” on.ft.com/3Nox0iU

Simon Schaupp reviews 'Climate Change as Class War. Building Socialism on a Warming Planet' by Matt Huber, calling the book 'a milestone of socialist thought... and essential reading for academics as well as environmentalist and socialist activists': mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/a…

I wrote something for the The Conversation about my research on decarbonisation and economic stagnation.

theconversation.com/what-long-term…

Gestern sprach Matt Huber in Berlin darüber, wieso wir den Kampf um die Zukunft des Klimas verlieren, warum wir das fossile Kapital direkt konfrontieren müssen und wieso die arbeitende Klasse dabei eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Danke an alle, die dabei waren!

Consequently 85% of the membership of the German Communist Party at the time were unemployed.

1932-33, unemployment in Germany was “no less than 44%…” 😳

Matt Huber tonight in Berlin on climate change and class struggle for Jacobin Magazin.

Provocative, nuanced and refreshingly self-aware. Would have loved to see an exchange on the degrowth perspective with Matthias Schmelzer

New IEA report cautions against piecemeal decarb of power, gas, and heat according to individual market incentives, instead calls for government planning of all together. Sure sounds what industrial unions have argued, eg 'plan not ban.' Clean Energy Jobs Coalition

This is not how we win.

Tonight in Berlin

Hanging w/ comrades.

“If there was ever a time for fire in the belly and a radical politics of hope, it is now.”

As we grieve and honor the legacy of Mike Davis, we've made his classic book, City of Quartz, free to download.