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Jul 2022

1h 26m

Climate Change as Class War: Building So...

REVOLUTIONARY LEFT RADIO

About this episode

Matt Huber is a professor of geography at Syracuse University. His new book, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, is out from Verso Books in 2022.

Professor Huber joins Breht to discuss the politics of climate change and how to build an effective socialist movement, rooted in the working class and militant labor unions, to confront the challenges of the climate crisis.

Get Climate Change as Class War here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3973-climate-change-as-class-war

Follow Prof. Huber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthuber78

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