tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255563122024-03-13T09:18:34.498+00:00Another Green World'How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.' Penny Kemp and Derek WallDerek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.comBlogger4005125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-84853992608892658522021-11-28T15:10:00.002+00:002021-11-28T15:10:50.262+00:00Imperialism Is the Arsonist: Marxism’s Contribution to Ecological Literatures and StrugglesDerek Wall’s article entitled Imperialism Is the Arsonist: Marxism’s Contribution to Ecological Literatures and Struggles, argues that Marxist thinkers, movements, and revolutions are not insensitive to the concept of ecology, but, on the contrary, defends the existence of their contributions encompassing a long period of time, and asks: at what point do all these contributions stand in the Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-45145035596487646482020-04-04T10:09:00.003+00:002020-04-05T11:16:39.680+00:00When Keir Starmer was a Marxist.
Canvassing in
Brighton back in 2017 to support Green Party MP Caroline Lucas’s re-election
efforts, I knocked on a door and came across a fellow ex-member of Socialist
Self-Management. The numbers involved in the group and in the production of its
glossy magazine Socialist Alternatives,
I guess, never amounted to more than thirty. We exchanged memories of former
associates, and Keir Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-87658648406248243582018-06-18T21:22:00.001+00:002018-06-18T21:22:13.008+00:00Vote No Heathrow
Just had this via Roger Hallam of Vote No Heathrow, please spread the word.
Things are rapidly taking off for the campaign now the hunger strikers are entering their 9th day and we get coverage from national press and TV. But we only have a little over a week to build up pressure on MPs to vote against the senseless expansion of Heathrow. Could you help out? These are some of the ways you Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-3087214763924945582018-06-13T20:36:00.000+00:002018-06-13T20:42:46.326+00:00Doug Ford Jr has a message for Elizabeth May, Caroline Lucas and all the Greens!
Sat at a computer in the library, I am aware that
the woman looking at the screen next to me is becoming increasingly
agitated. She gasps and swears, as her
annoyance grows; other library users are becoming alarmed. I glance at her monitor, she is searching for
news stories on the recent election in Ontario, Canada and is obviously upset
by what she finds. Last week, Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-71234683644994914252018-06-10T14:07:00.000+00:002018-06-10T14:17:34.242+00:00Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
Hasana Sharp's book 'Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization', examines the 17th century Dutch-Jewish philosopher's contribution to animal rights, ecology and practical politics. Spinoza argued that human beings are part of nature, rejecting supernatural explanations, to point out that we are ruled by the same nature as everything else in the universe. In turn, by identifyingDerek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-41749028331880093102018-05-13T16:55:00.000+00:002018-05-13T17:00:05.677+00:00Elinor Ostrom’s pragmatism:4:30pm, May 29th, 2018 Bush House North East Wing, Kings College, University of London
‘He was,
indeed, in the habit of always comparing what he heard or read with an already
familiar canon, and felt his admiration quicken if he could detect no
difference. This state of mind is by no means to be ignored, for applied,
to political conversations, to the reading of newspapers, it forms public
opinion and thereby makes possible the greatest events in history.’ (Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-51534608191104029822018-03-13T20:20:00.004+00:002018-03-13T22:05:12.153+00:00Solidarity statement with Afrin from Hugo Blanco
Afrin by Hugo Blanco
At the same time as we write and read this, they have cut off
the electricity and water in Afrin, Rojava, the area and territory of the
Kurdistan Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism. At this same time
the Sultan Fascist Erdogan intends to complete the genocide in Afrin. He
started bombing on January 20, facing the heroic resistance of women and men in
Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-41940556455711894192018-03-04T18:20:00.001+00:002018-03-04T18:34:02.804+00:00The System
Image via https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/capability-systems-centre/research-themes/complexity-measures-systems-engineering
We need to move beyond 'my party is good' and 'your party is evil'. Instead we need to think about systems. The proposal that Caroline Lucas is good and Jeremy Corbyn less so or vice versa, seems unproductive. The notion that we have an elite with noxious Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-59646035125601144942018-01-29T22:13:00.002+00:002018-01-29T22:15:18.657+00:00Statement from Jeremy Corbyn on #Afrin
(Photo from Newroz, a year or two ago!)
Statement from Jeremy Corbyn on Afrin
On Saturday's #DefendAfrin demonstration in London, Dan Carden MP read this statement from Jeremy Corbyn:
"I send my solidarity to the Kurdish people of Syria and all over the world. What is urgently needed is a ceasefire, de-escalation and a negotiated political solution - not further escalationsDerek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-84091057986221606282018-01-25T21:27:00.003+00:002018-01-25T21:27:49.768+00:00The Afrin Resistance will prevail!
TO OUR PEOPLES AND THE PUBLIC OPINION
The AKP-MHP fascist rule, in collaboration with the anti-human gangs has launched an occupation attack against Afrin. They want to totally strip Afrin, an oasis of democracy for Syria and the Middle East, of the Kurdish population and replace them with these gangs. The AKP-MHP fascist rule has once again demonstrated Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-80969771418165240492018-01-16T23:05:00.002+00:002018-01-16T23:07:47.425+00:00Emergency Demonstration: Against Turkish attacks on Afrin! Friday 19th January
The Turkish armed forces are preparing to invade Afrin, a Kurdish canton in Syria.
We call everyone to join us and protest outside the Turkish Embassy in London . Date : 19/01/2018 Time: 12:00 Address: Turkish Embassy 43 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London SW1X 8PA Closest station: Hyde Park Corner Kurdish People Assembly Roj Women Assembly Democratic Union Party (PYD)-UK
BBC Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-84958355228804405282018-01-14T19:02:00.001+00:002018-01-14T19:34:28.199+00:00White Pendragons, Fabian Society and Conspiracy
image via http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-supporters-sadiq-khan_uk_5a59e1ace4b03c418965d116
A meeting of the Fabian Society addressed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan was heckled by a dozen or so member of the White Pendragons, a right wing group. They shouted pro Brexit slogans, brandished US flags and advocated for Donald Trump. So far so straightforward, a Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-11061569440790110052018-01-10T20:47:00.000+00:002018-01-10T20:47:18.413+00:00Critical humanitarian situation in Mindanao – Urgent appeal for financial aid
The most important initiative of solidarity taken by our association, ESSF, during 2017 concerned the island of Mindanao, in the south of the Philippines, reports Pierre Rousset. Then it was a question of responding to the humanitarian consequences of the “Battle of Marawi” between government forces and jihadist movements – more than 600,000 people (mostly Muslim) had to flee the Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-54519274116767237302018-01-07T12:49:00.000+00:002018-01-07T12:49:06.204+00:00Book Event: 19th February, Manchester, Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals.Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-20835088804770037622018-01-04T21:08:00.001+00:002018-01-04T21:09:08.378+00:00RIP Alan Roberts pioneer of Marxism and Ecology
Alan Roberts 1925-1917
Very sad that Alan Roberts died, he was a massive influence on my politics, I found a copy of his book The Self-Managing Environment in Chippenham Library in 1980.
He clearly lead a long healthy and militant life. A working class revolutionary and scientist, he was an associate of the amazing Nick Origlass.
Intellectual work isn't simply a mirror but about Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-20121436756070073032018-01-02T13:59:00.001+00:002018-01-02T14:00:12.669+00:00Hugo Blanco says 'Send Fujimori back to prison'
Taking advantage of the holiday season, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuzinski (PPK) freed former dictator Alberto Fujimori, imprisoned for multiple murder. Christmas Eve is called " the night of peace, night of love" but the Christmas gift of PPK to the Peruvian people was to free the symbol of war and hatred against our people .
From that moment, in Cusco, where I was, in Lima and in Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-48740063016067610792017-12-31T09:41:00.001+00:002017-12-31T09:41:46.166+00:00Hugo Blanco 'Retorno a la cárcel de Fujimori'
Retorno a la cárcel de Fujimori
(This is on the protests against the pardoning of former Peruvian President Fujimori by Hugo Blanco, the BBC and most media outlets in the UK don't put this on the front page, will get a translation when I have a moment. Fujimori's security apparatus put Hugo Blanco on their death list but he escaped before they could kill him)
Aprovechando la Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-25232981222277377772017-12-28T17:57:00.001+00:002017-12-28T18:07:10.029+00:00Spartacus
I have decided to blog about political films. Replacing vague ideas with clear images, so to speak. I spend too much time writing books and in an age of activism I am aware that the screen is more powerful than the word.
A classic to start off with is Spartacus (1960), its political virtues are legion. Spartacus the leader of a slave rebellion was famously Karl Marx's Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-40511567783006281782017-12-26T16:33:00.001+00:002017-12-26T16:33:19.138+00:00Britain's Gulag
Review: Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya by Caroline Elkins. Bodley Head: London (2014).
This is a devastating read. We tend to think we are the good guys and girls but the historian Caroline Elkins catalogues in great and well referenced detail a tale of rape, degradation and humilation at the end of Britain's African empire.
During the 1950s Kenya's KikuyuDerek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-44923815285541605092017-12-23T11:38:00.002+00:002017-12-23T18:21:53.287+00:00It was if he had been killed by ISIS all over again
My
friend Mehmet Aksoy was killed by Isis in Raqqa, Syria on 26th September
this year. He had been working as a journalist and communications officer
for the Peoples Defence Force (YPG). He was not a fighter but there
instead to tell a story about how the Kurds and their allies were working to
defeat the so called Islamic State and to promote the alternative of a
Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-7987947413477066922017-11-15T20:58:00.001+00:002017-11-16T00:01:10.324+00:00Ecosocialist International, Cumbe of Veroes, Bolivarian Republic of Venezeuela
THE FIRST ECOSOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL
WEAVING OURSELVES TO MOTHER EARTH
OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 3, 2017
CUMBE OF VEROES, BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA
It has been one year since “The Calling of the Spirits” in Monte Carmelo, Lara, when with spirited minds and seeds in our hearts, we launched a convocation titled “The Cry of Mother Earth.” Those who responded to this cry are now Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-11619551442259729082017-09-27T21:33:00.003+00:002017-09-27T22:45:23.014+00:00WE SALUTE OUR FRIEND MEHMET AKSOY
PEACE IN KURDISTANWE SALUTE OUR FRIEND MEHMET AKSOY
It is with deep sadness and horror that we learn of the death of Mehmet Aksoy who has been killed in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) on 26 September 2017.A dynamic Kurdish activist and talented young film maker, Mehmet died while working in Raqqa where he had journeyed in order to record the experiences of the Kurdish fighters Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-3551789241157783552017-09-19T15:56:00.000+00:002017-09-19T15:56:08.427+00:00THE RENT TRAP
THE RENT TRAP BY ROSIE WALKER AND SAMIR JERAJ. PLUTO PRESS. 2016
Samir is a friend and Pluto Press regularly publish my books, so I must admit a conflict of interest, nonetheless with this warning I hope my brief review will be useful.
It is generally acknowledged that the UK housing market is broken. More and more, especially young people are either homeless or suffering from Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-551134783389234002017-09-07T18:35:00.002+00:002017-09-07T18:35:13.062+00:00How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
My wife, noting my interest in but poor understanding of mathematics, borrowed How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, for me from Bracknell Library. It is in the genre of light physics and mathematics, I have also recent enjoyed Simon Singh's The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (which incidentally is very good).
The conceit of the quantum physics book of Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25556312.post-70960839380958827972017-09-06T20:16:00.003+00:002017-09-06T20:16:36.199+00:00Statement condemning the international arms fair in London
Image from Red Pepper http://www.redpepper.org.uk/arms-fair-protesters-put-weapons-industry-on-trial/
Peace in Kurdistan condemns the Defence and Security Equipment International arms fair being held at the ExCel Centre in London’s Docklands from 11th to 14 September 2017. It is the world’s biggest arms fair and will host guests from among the world’s most oppressive regimes, Derek Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05462511891409913195noreply@blogger.com0