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Hugo Blanco
A revolutionary for life
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2018 by Merlin Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-85036-748-5, ISBN: 0-85036-748-4

"Hugo Blanc is Peru's best-known revolutionary. A leader of the indigenous people of the Andes, he was born in 1934 in Cusco, the former Inca capital. He is a lifelong environmental campaigner in defence of the natural riches of the Andean region and beyond. In the 1960s he led a successful armed peasant uprising demanding land rights. He was placed on death row and released only after a huge international campaign supported by Jean Paul ..."






Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals(1st Edition)
Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-9935-5, ISBN: 0-7453-9935-5

"Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her theorising of the commons has been celebrated as groundbreaking and opening the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives, yet, many radicals know little about her. This book redresses this, revealing the indispensability of her work for green politics, left economics and radical democracy. Ostrom has often been viewed as a conservative or managerial thinker; ..."






The Commons in History(Reprint)
Culture, Conflict, and Ecology (History for a Sustainable Future)
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2017 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-53470-3, ISBN: 0-262-53470-3

"An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.The history of the commons -- jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set aside for public use -- provides a useful context for current debates over sustainability and how we can act as "good ancestors." In this book, Derek Wall considers the commons from antiquity to the present day, as an ..."






The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics(Illustrated)
(No-Nonsense Guides)
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2010 by New Internationalist
ISBN-13: 978-1-906523-39-8, ISBN: 1-906523-39-8

"Climate chaos and pollution, deforestation and consumerism: the crisis facing human civilization is clear enough. But the response of politicians to it has been cowardly and inadequate, while environmental activists have tended to favor single-issue campaigns rather than electoral politics.The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics measures the rising tide of eco-activism and awareness and explains why it heralds a new political era worldw ..."






The Rise of the Green Left(Illustrated)
Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement (Hardcover)
by Derek Wall
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2010 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3037-2, ISBN: 0-7453-3037-1

"Drawing on the work of key thinkers such as Joel Kovel and John Bellamy Foster, Derek Wall provides an unique insider view of how ecosocialism has developed and a practical guide to focused ecosocialist action.Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change. From Latin America to Europe, Australia and China a militant movement merging red and green is taking shape. Ecosocialis ..."






Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement(Updated)
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-19064-0, ISBN: 0-415-19064-9

"Earth First! is one of the most controversial and well known green movements in the world and the driving force behind the anti-road campaigns of the 1990s, made famous by sabotage tactics. Detailed accounts of major anti-road campaigns both in the UK and internationally are included, describing confrontations at Twyford, Newbury, Glasgow, the Autobahn in Germany, and information on the international spread of the Earth First! movement, ..."






Green History(1st Edition)
A Reader in Environmental Literature, Philosophy and Politics
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1993 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-07925-9, ISBN: 0-415-07925-X

"Green History traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, green fascism/socialism/anarchism, land reform, peaceful protest, industrialization, ancient ecology, evolution, grassroots activism, philosophical holism, recycling, Taoism, ..."






Climate Strike
The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis (Paperback)
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2021 by The Merlin Press Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-0-85036-764-5, ISBN: 0-85036-764-6

"Climate change is a product of the entire social and economic system within which we exist, in a word, capitalism."






Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals
Cooperative Alternatives Beyond Markets and States
by Derek Wall
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-9936-2, ISBN: 0-7453-9936-3

"Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her theorising of the commons has been celebrated as groundbreaking and opening the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives, yet, many radicals know little about her. This book redresses this, revealing the indispensability of her work for green politics, left economics and radical democracy. Ostrom has often been viewed as a conservative or managerial thinker; ..."






The Rise of the Green Left
Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement
by Derek Wall, Hugo Blanco
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3036-5, ISBN: 0-7453-3036-3

" Climate change and other ecological ills are driving the creation of a grassroots global movement for change. From Latin America to Europe, Australia and China a militant movement merging red and green is taking shape.Ecosocialists argue that capitalism threatens the future of humanity and the rest of nature. From indigenous protest in the Peruvian Amazon to the green transition in Cuba to the creation of red-green parties in Europe, ..."






Babylon and Beyond(1st Edition)
The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements
by Derek Wall
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-2390-9, ISBN: 0-7453-2390-1

""A thoughtful and inspiring guide to capitalism and anti-capitalism. This really is the first book that carefully explains the different varieties of anti-capitalist thought ...I thoroughly recommend that you read Babylon and Beyond." Caroline Lucas, MEP "There are far too many books on anti-capitalism out there already -- but with Babylon and Beyond, Derek Wall has removed the need to read most of them. Just read this one: a succinct, ..."






Economics After Capitalism
A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future
by Derek Wall, David Bollier, Nandor Tanczos
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-3508-7, ISBN: 0-7453-3508-X

"From the time it was uttered by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, “There is no alternative” has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order. The illusion of inevitability has long been a bulwark of late capitalism, leaving us unable to imagine anything beyond its crises and inequalities. But as Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world—and not ju ..."






The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom(1st Edition)
Commons, contestation and craft (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics)
by Derek Wall, University Of London, Uk Wall
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-64174-6, ISBN: 0-415-64174-8

"Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the twenty-first century ― from tackling climate change to maintaining cyberspace. In this book, Derek Wall critically examines Ostrom’s work, while also exploring the following questions: is it possible to combine insights rooted in methodological individualism with a theory that stresses colle ..."






The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics
by Derek Wall, Dinyar Godrej
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2010 by Between The Lines
ISBN-13: 978-1-897071-68-7, ISBN: 1-897071-68-X






Babylon and Beyond
The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements (Hardcover)
by Derek Wall
Hardcover, 236 Pages, Published 2005 by Pluto Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-2391-6, ISBN: 0-7453-2391-X






A Green Manifesto for the 1990's
by Penny Kemp, Derek Wall
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1990 by Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-013272-4, ISBN: 0-14-013272-4






The Global Fight for Climate Justice - Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction
by Ian Angus, Derek Wall, Daniel Tanuro, Img Publications
Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2009 by Img Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-902869-87-5, ISBN: 0-902869-87-6

"As capitalism continues with business as usual, climate change is fast expanding the gap between rich and poor between and within nations, and imposing unparalleled suffering on those least able to protect themselves. In THE GLOBAL FIGHT FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE, anticapitalist activists from five continents offer radical answers to the most important questions of our time: ** Why is capitalism destroying the conditions that make life on Ea ..."






Climate Strike
The Practical Politics Of The Climate Crisis (Left Book Club Edition)
by Derek Wall
ISBN-13: 978-1-912837-66-3, ISBN: 1-912837-66-8






Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement
by Derek Wall
Hardcover, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-42442-5, ISBN: 1-138-42442-0






History for a Sustainable Future Ser.
The Commons in History : Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
by Derek Wall
184 Pages, Published 2014 by Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-32201-0, ISBN: 0-262-32201-3

"William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983). 14. Alfred Cave, The ... Robert Coulter and Steven Tullberg, “Indian Land Rights,” in The Aggressions of Civilization: Federal Indian Policy since the 1880s, ed. Sandra ... Press, 2009), 270. 18. Shawn William Miller, An Environmental History ofLatin Amer- ica 148 Notes to Chapter 3."



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