Ian Angus (activist)

Ian Angus (b. 1945) is a socialist and ecosocialist activist in Canada. Angus joined the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1962 and then the Young Socialists in Ottawa in 1964. He was active in the YS and the League for Socialist Action into the 1970s. Angus participated in the formation of the Canadian Trostkyist party Revolutionary Workers League (fusion of the LSA with the Revolutionary Marxist Group and Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire) in 1977.^[1] He left the RWL in 1980, and has been an independent Marxist writer, educator and activist since.

Career

Angus is the editor of Climate and Capitalism. He founded and edited the Socialist History Project and was an editor of Socialist Voice. He was a founding member and Coordinating Committee Member of Ecosocialist International Network. He was a member of the Canadian Dimension editorial collective and an advisory editor of Socialist Resistance.^[2] In 2007 he was a co-founder of the Ecosocialist International Network; in 2008 he was co-author of the EIN's Belem Ecosocialist Declaration.

Publications

• Author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016)
• Co-author, with Simon Butler, Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis (Haymarket Books, 2011)
• Editor of The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction (Resistance Books, 2009).^[3]
• Author of Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada (Vanguard Publications 1981; Second edition Trafford Publishing, 2004.)

References

1. See biographical information at http://www.climateandcapitalism.com and at http://www.socialisthistory.com
2. Editorial Board
3. New book: The Global Fight for Climate Justice

External links

• Socialist History Project
• Socialist Voice
• Climate and Capitalism
• Ecosocialist International Network
• Canadian Dimension