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Bolivian voters elect MAS government, reject coup * Monetary reform in Cuba * Pakistan Democratic Movement * Nigeria at the brink * Corbyn reflects

Fascism pushed back in Greece and Nigeria * Workers rumble in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Germany

No light reading this week. The Isles, Canada, Mideast, Asia, Africa, Latin America - and a call for eco-socialism

Rebel interviews Ian Angus — editor of the journal Climate & Capitalism, and author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth, about the pressing need to develop the politics of ecosocialism in the world today.

Reader Comments: Youth Climate Strike, Impeachment, Ilhan Omar, AIPAC; Chicago's Black Youth; Bernie Sanders; Southwest Airlines; Amazon; Venezuela; Iran; Military Budget; Russia; Socialism; Women; Ecosocialism; Green New Deal; Sex Trade.....

We must focus on forcing the dissolution of the military-industrial complex — a goal which is simultaneously a requirement for preventing catastrophic climate change and removing a major barrier to an ecosocialist path and the end of capitalism on our planet.

Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx's critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.