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The COP and Community Struggles in South Africa

LESS editor Svenja Meyerricks spoke to environmental justice activist and community organiser Nomalizo Xhoma in Johannesburg, South Africa, about her work and advocacy for solutions that centre the needs of vulnerable communities where the impact of climate change is acutely felt.When I first met Nomalizo in a German ecovillage we both were visiting, she...

Free States: Contested Territories, New Imaginaries

Territorial struggle and prefigurative politics were evident at the Pollok Free State in the 1990s, opening up new possibilities beyond protest. To mark the occasion of COP26 taking place in Glasgow, Pablo Routledge, Gehan Macleod and David Lees write how a new Govan Declaration of Independence – a Govan Free State at GalGael –...

Dismantling Scotland’s petro-industrial complex: Lessons from Mossmorran

Decarbonise, democratise, decolonise, decommodify. This is the mantra we must adopt in the year of COP26, argues Benjamin Brown. Nowhere is this more true than for Mossmorran, a scar on Scotland’s environmental conscience.“Tae conclude ma tale I’m gey sick o their lees,The truth is they juist dae whitever they please,When it disnae blaw up...

Degrowth and Decolonisation in the Red Zone

Hello world. Welcome to Glasgow. Welcome to Scotland. We are drawing on Glasgow’s radical past to inject hope and urgency into the moribund COP process.YOUR VISION OF our country may be an idealised one of lochs brimming with salmon and glens filled with deer, but in reality we’re a petro-chemical economy being held ransom...

Social Media Worker

graphic showing getting enough out there on various social media platforms

Enough! Scotland are a small collective working with some big themes - like degrowth and decolonisationOverview and RoleOur work needs someone with the know-how to enhance and cultivate our social media presence. We’re looking for a freelancer who can work closely with collective members to create engaging social media content and keep our social...

The Anti-D’oh!

Mapping the emotional systems that could drive us to an ecological civilisation by Pat Kane. This is from #2 of LESS our journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Details of how to get a print copy here.We hear a lot from behavioural science and nudge theory about how susceptible humans...

Between limit and desire: strategic directions in the collapse of industrial civilisation

Hardly anybody has understood that the Covid-19 pandemic is not an isolated and exceptional event, but rather a single moment in a much broader process: ecosocial collapse. By Adrián Almazán and Luis González Reyes, translated by Tom Younger. This is from #2 of LESS, our journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Details...

The Carrying Stream: Towards A Plurality of Possibilities

Characterised as 'peripheral' even within Scotland and caught in a historical matrix of coloniality and 'under-development' - the Highlands and Islands holds an emerging network of possibility. By Ainslie Roddick, Cáit O' Neil McCullagh, Charlotte Mountford, Jo Rodgers, Kirsten Body, Lauren Pyott, Lisa MacDonald, Mairi McFadyen, Philomena de Lima and Raghnaid Sandilands. Artwork by...

LESS #2 – Degrowth in Scotland

LESS is a journal on degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. To pick up your physical copy, head over to one of the distribution points. We will also mail out a limited number of copies to folk further away and publish a digital version - watch this space for details!LESS questions and challenges dominant...

LESS, a journal of degrowth

LESS is a journal of degrowth, radical sufficiency and decolonisation in Scotland. Each issue ideas re-imagining our economy, mixing theory and grounded practice, examples of grassroots organisation and visionary ideas for a viable future. We publish in print and distribute across the UK, articles are also published online here.Issue 2 examines degrowth and climate breakdown...

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