"...Kerala in India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia. Some areas, like the low-lying delta of the Pearl River in China, correspond to the areas of fastest development (in this case Guangdong industrial region from Shenzhen to Guangzhou), and some of the sharpest class contradictions. So the world epicenters of environmental and class struggle may overlap. There are all sorts of signs -- as in the water, hydrocarbon, and coca wars in Bolivia, which helped bring a socialist and indigenous-based political movement to power -- that the material bases of social struggle is being transformed, raising issues that are more all-encompassing.
Even in the center of the system (the internal proletariat), there are a lot of ongoing struggles by environmentalists, and particularly the youth-based climate justice movement. Although there is no sign of a revolt from below from workers at present, and *even though the labor movement seems to be entirely dormant in the United States in particular*<http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkstp.nr0.htm>in the context of worsening economic (and environmental) conditions, there is hope that community-based, labor-environmental struggles will generate a new context for change. It is to be hoped that something like an environmental proletariat will eventually emerge in the center too. If one reads classic works like Engels's *The Condition of the Working Class in England *<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/index.htm>one gets the sense in which environmental struggles were crucial to the making of the English working class in the classical era, in ways that belie a narrow productivist vision.." http://www.countercurrents.org/foster010310.htm 01 March, 2010 *Mrzine.monthlyreview.org*<http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/foster240210.html> *Interview by Aleix Bombila, for En Lucha (Spain), of John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, and author of Marx's Ecology and The Ecological Revolution* -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
