tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277528672024-03-14T01:36:26.394+00:00BlueGreenEarth / ESEIThe BlueGreenEarth / An Talmh Glas collective set up the <a href="http://www.bluegreenearth.com">bluegreenearth</a> website 6 weeks before 9/11 to discuss social ecology, via anarchism and the left. In late 2005 we set up a new venture, the <a href="http://www.europeansocialecologyinstitute.org">European Social Ecology Institute</a>. This blog hopes to take up some of the issues raised by these sites.Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-32608695915693012642018-09-14T10:04:00.000+01:002018-09-14T10:04:10.226+01:00Let's just position the current non-issue in the LP properly, shall we?
let's just position the current non-issue in the LP properly, shall we?
The Finchley Factor
Geoffrey Wheatcroft
London Review of Books
Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East, by Azriel Bermant
Cambridge, 274 pp, £22.99, September 2017, ISBN 978 1 316 60630 8
A short book could be written about British prime ministers and Zionism. It might begin in 1840,eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-33376176336879907072018-03-31T13:06:00.000+01:002018-03-31T13:06:30.437+01:00TLE: Why the Cambridge Analytica scandal could be much more serious than you think:
Why the Cambridge Analytica scandal could be much more serious than you think:
Guest ContributorMarch 27, 2018By Roger Cottrell, PhDAt 8.00 pm on March 23, 2018, 18 officers of the Information Commission Office led by Elisabeth Denham raided the headquarters of Cambridge Analytica in Mayfair, London, having secured a warrant to do so from a Judge in less than 48 hours.This may seem like eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-45928182385740866712017-12-28T15:23:00.000+00:002017-12-28T15:23:12.486+00:00How Not to Do Trade DealsIn my opinion one of, if not the, most important article I read this year:
How Not to Do Trade Deals
Swati Dhingra and Nikhil DattaAbout half of Britain’s trade and investment is with the EU, and currently, as members, we implement almost the same standards for products and services. One of the few concrete things stated in the government’s white paper on Brexit was its intention to establish eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-89573300360461638992017-09-28T12:12:00.007+01:002017-09-28T12:12:51.065+01:00BREKSHAT
BREKSHAT
Against
all advice and common senseOur deposit left on the floor
where
milk bottles were deliveredBy our own backdoor
We
voted BrekshitNow we're BrekshittingIf we stay on this
pathWe've Brekshat
We
may have shat on our own mat
But
we got our cunt tree back
Look
it's failing! We did the right thing to leave!Not that they were
grieving
From
Charles de Gaulle eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-52988918880849828492017-08-06T17:35:00.002+01:002017-08-06T17:35:49.643+01:00The Brexit Coup
The Brexit Coup
The Bad Boys of Brexit, by Arron Banks; What Next?, by Daniel Hannan; All Out War, by Tim Shipman
review by Tim Barton
Back
in the Eighties the beginnings of an ideologically 'American' coup
began to roll out across the British economy. Channelling Ayn Rand and
Nietzsche as much as Maggie's much vaunted but misrepresented Adam
Smith, a neo-liberal agenda began to eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-5255555808180685332017-06-15T13:16:00.001+01:002017-06-15T13:16:36.546+01:00Revolution in Rojava & The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan
Revolution in Rojava, by Knapp, Flach, & Ayboga
£16.99, published by Pluto
The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan, by Abdullah Öcalan
£12.99, published by Pluto
review by Tim Barton
Welcome to two new books on, arguably, the most important radical movement in Eurasia since the Spanish Anarchists. Like them, it seems likely that Rojava will be 'shot by both sides', but, also like themeureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-68059410830789636822017-06-10T11:23:00.001+01:002017-06-10T11:23:44.998+01:00James Meek follows Cadbury to Poland [LRB]
Somerdale to Skarbimierz
James Meek follows Cadbury to Poland
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n08/james-meek/somerdale-to-skarbimierz
How to explain
Poland’s swing against the European Union? How to explain the election
of the Catholic fundamentalist, authoritarian, populist, Eurosceptic Law
and Justice Party to rule a booming country that has benefited from
more than €130 eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-73145902503832232972017-05-25T11:18:00.002+01:002017-05-25T11:18:49.300+01:00Did big data tip it for Brexit? [Cadwalladr]
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again, is our electoral process still fit for purpose?by Carole Cadwalladr This article is the subject of eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-82935555551627299802017-03-05T14:00:00.000+00:002017-03-05T14:29:03.939+00:00Book review - School Wars: The Battle for Britain's Education
School Wars: The Battle for Britain's Education
by
Melissa Benn
Biteback
Publishing
review
by Tim Barton
published in Hastings Independent, issue #71, 03.03.17
Sick
of privatisation for profit? Sick of government cash incentives for
private businesses whilst starving state run ones of cash? Sick of
them then claiming the 'failing' ones are 'failing' because state run
organisationseureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-90937341440027881012016-12-21T13:40:00.000+00:002016-12-21T13:40:04.372+00:00Review - Cut Out: Living Without Welfare
Cut
Out: Living Without Welfare
by
Jeremy Seabrook
Pluto
Press, RRP £12.99, available at Bookbuster for £10.99
review
by Tim Barton
The
stories in this book could wring tears from a stone.
Seabrook,
a journalist well known to readers of New Statesman and The Guardian,
has assembled here a collection of first-hand experiences from a wide
range of welfare recipients. The full eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-38933662178481443272016-05-07T11:29:00.001+01:002016-05-07T11:29:08.728+01:00The Revolution Will Be Digitized, by John Doe
The Revolution Will Be DigitizedJohn Doehttps://panamapapers.icij.org/20160506-john-doe-statement.htmlIncome inequality is one of the defining issues of our time. It affects all of us, the world over. The debate over its sudden acceleration has raged for years, with politicians, academics and activists alike helpless to stop its steady growth despite countless speeches, statistical analyses, a eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-53980304454900749312015-08-24T14:42:00.000+01:002015-08-24T14:42:20.373+01:00Review: Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
Review: Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
24 August 2015 at 14:39
Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union ActivistsDave Smith and Phil ChamberlainPublished by New Internationalist£9.99 pbk at Bookbusterreview by Tim Barton
From
the founding of National Propaganda, the precursor to the Economic
League, in 1919, through '50s America's eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-60847398166527293172015-08-10T16:18:00.003+01:002015-08-10T16:18:24.056+01:00Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance, by Joris Leverink
Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance, by Joris Leverink
10 August 2015 at 16:08
Murray Bookchin and the Kurdish resistance
by Joris Leverink on August 9, 2015
Bookchin’s
municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike,
have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy.
http://roarmag.org/2015/08/bookchin-kurdish-struggle-ocalan-rojava/
The eureopeansocialecologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02859798524913247837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-1149940129256433792015-03-03T10:33:00.001+00:002015-03-03T10:34:22.244+00:00Review - 'The Next Revolution', Murray Bookchin
The
Next Revolution
Murray
Bookchin
Verso
review
by Tim Barton
Murray
Bookchin began his working life as a communist union activist in
American auto-plants. His family were Russian emigres. As he worked
toward a communist utopia he bagan, as so many of us do, the
realities of domination and hierarchy. He began to see the position
of individuals in a soviet-style society as untenable. Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-82714595326369690602013-10-05T12:56:00.005+01:002013-10-05T12:56:59.864+01:00Humanity Imperiled: Path to Disaster - Noam Chomsky
Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
Noam ChomskyTomDispatch.com, June 4, 2013
http://chomsky.info/articles/20130604.htm
What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you're an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what's happening here or, for that matter, imagine you're an Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-36872357105042507622013-08-14T12:15:00.002+01:002013-08-14T12:15:28.232+01:00Some thoughts on social media and organisation (revolutionarysocialism)
Some thoughts on social media and organisation
http://revolutionarysocialism.tumblr.com/post/58184628246/some-thoughts-on-social-media-and-organisationRevolutionary socialists need to deepen their understanding of social media and how these technologies relate to problems of organisation, argues Mark BergfeldThere are different and competing interpretations of activists’ use of social mediaTim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-57178535322068051672013-08-13T12:09:00.002+01:002013-08-13T12:09:27.769+01:00Rant set off by another greed-headed rail fare rise... ;-)Rail fares 'to rise by 4.1%' in England as unions protest
[...again...]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23677173
Rant set off by another greed-headed rail fare rise... ;-)
so, how do we discourage [non-local] car use, with alternatives too expensive?i've been in hastings 14 years. when i came it was £3000 to get an annual commuter pass to the Smoke on the railways. Now it's more like £6000. Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-15884169267101097952013-07-03T11:33:00.004+01:002013-07-03T11:33:45.221+01:00Organized Labour in the Gezi Process (Bullet)
Organized Labour in the Gezi Process
Reflections on a Popular Uprising andWeakened Organized Labour
Baris Karaagac and Gaye Yilmaz
The recent wave of resistance that spread from a
park in one of the historic neighbourhoods of Istanbul, Turkey has
evoked significant enthusiasm in and support from various movements and
segments of populations in several countries. Although the park, Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-4384161044493066792013-06-29T14:16:00.000+01:002013-06-29T14:16:07.843+01:00How Much Change on Climate Change? (Bullet)How Much Change on Climate Change?The B u l l e tSocialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 844June 29, 2013http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/844.php
Chris WilliamsThe vast majority of people own no significant amount of stocks or other financial assets. Every single person breathes air. Every single person depends on the growing of food and the nutrition it provides to stay alive. We Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-89355047001717387072013-06-16T12:40:00.000+01:002013-06-16T12:40:01.423+01:00Local, self-sufficient, optimistic: are Transition Towns the way forward? (Guardian)
Local, self-sufficient, optimistic: are Transition Towns the way forward?
Locally grown food, community-owned power stations, local currencies … can small-scale actions make a difference? Yes, according to the Transition network – in fact, it's our only hope John-Paul Flintoff The Guardian, Saturday 15 June 2013 'There is no cavalry comingTim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-48325450945806378452013-04-01T00:31:00.001+01:002013-04-01T00:31:48.812+01:00It's growth that's killing us BY MURRAY BOOKCHINDEATH OF A SMALL PLANETIt's growth that's killing usBY MURRAY BOOKCHINhttp://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/planet/planet.htmlWe
tend to think of environmental catastrophes -such as the recent Exxon
Valdez oil-spill disaster in the Bay of Alaska-as "accidents": isolated
phenomena that erupt without notice or warning. But when does the word
accident become inappropriate? When Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-33660206845282387852013-04-01T00:21:00.000+01:002013-04-01T00:21:40.811+01:00Reducing production: How should socialists relate to struggles against capitalist growth By Don Fitz
sustainability,
after decades of human assault on the environment, means, in my
opinion, reduction overall, not 'growth'. a peaceful resolution requires
considerable contraction of western economies, lowered goals for china
and india, and a rise in development in some under-developed countries.
these
differences would be aimed at a shared point of genuine sustainability.
capitalism, Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-78388312106632258352013-03-31T16:58:00.002+01:002013-03-31T16:58:53.765+01:00Can civilization survive ecological collapse? (Michael Thomas)if we narrow our definition of 'civilisation' to the dominance-hierarchy of capitalism, whether free-market, corporatist or statist, then the answer is clearly 'No'. and nor should it. unfortunately, it is the societal model [or set of models] that is driving and accelerating strain in our ecological limits. piece-meal reform, far better than crashing systems, requires time we don't have [i thinkTim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-16230418400146107612012-10-08T18:57:00.003+01:002012-10-08T18:59:15.298+01:00Blue Green Earth Books
I am now running a bookstall in Eastbourne's street market on Wednesdays and negotiating on a retail unit in Hastings.https://www.facebook.com/groups/114121698738650/https://twitter.com/BlueGreenEarthBTim
Tim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27752867.post-81451560977489087792012-10-08T18:50:00.001+01:002012-10-08T18:50:21.302+01:00Occupy your Neighborhood, by Dan Chodorkoff
Occupy your Neighborhood,
by Dan Chodorkoff
By Dan
Chodorkoff On October 8, 2012 · Leave
a Comment
A new essay from Dan Chodorkoff, co-founder of the ISE:
Summer fades to Fall and more than one year has passed since
Occupy Wall
Street entered the public arena. Occupy’s message
highlighted capitalism’s inherent injustices, and resonated with a
broad cross section of theTim Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11342818092694076878noreply@blogger.com0