By Luciana Bohne, with Rebecca Chan and 3 others. With what words to mourn Dennis Etler, who died so suddenly and unexpectedly on 3 June 2021? As his moderators on the page, Xi Jinping–China’s Exceptional President, we are at a loss to express our sadness at the passing of the founder. We, therefore,…
Marxism and the Origins of the Ecological Critique
John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a non-mechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. John Bellamy Foster’s book The Return…
All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
Alexander Norton interviews Scottish writer Keith Lamb, who has lived and taught in China for two decades. Keith Lamb is a University of Oxford graduate with a MSc degree in Contemporary Chinese studies and works as a translator of academic texts. His primary research interests are China’s international relations. He…
Ecological civilisation & the materialist concept of history
“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature….Human beings can be distinguished from animals by consciousness, by religion or…
RIP comrade Dennis Etler
In Remembrance of Prof. Dennis Etler who died of heart attack on June 3rd 2021 It is with true sadness that we have learned of the unexpected passing of our friend and comrade, Dennis Etler. The following was posted Jerry Brown on the Facebook account of the Xi Jinping – China’s…
UPDATE ON CHINA ENVIRONMENT NEWS (CEN) ACCESSIBILITY
In the past week Facebook has blocked and removed many posts by the Group Admins – some without explanation and now for being “spam”. It appears that today Facebook is blocking any repost from, or link to, VK as “spam”. Please note that we have 3 locations for accessing CEN….
Intense restoration of nature needed to address climate, biodiversity and food insecurity crises: UN
Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade—an area about the size of China. Countries also need to add similar commitments for oceans, according to…
WHO asks for re-checks of Italian research on possible new Covid-19 virus origin
Antibodies to Covid-19 detected in blood collected in Italy in October 2019 during a lung cancer screening trial Samples from a study suggesting that COVID-19 was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been re-tested at the World Health Organization’s request, a Reuters report quoted two scientists leading the research…
Biden’s China obsession could be the undoing of America
Collaboration with China has been good for the US and its people in the past, and should be again It’s hard to tell if US President Joe Biden’s position on China is his true conviction or he’s just going along with the heavy anti-China sentiment in Washington, but his China…