Left Green Perspectives [complete back issue list]

[Note: Left Green Perspectives was published between 1986 and 1998. The monetary figures listed with each issue represent the cover price at the time of publication; print editions are no longer available.]

Issue #1 (January 1986) $.50:

“The Greening of Politics: Toward a New Kind of Political Practice,” by Murray Bookchin; “Radical Ecologist Fundis vs. Reformist Realos in the German Green Party,” by Howard Hawkins

Issue #2 (February 1986) $.50:

“Municipalization: Community Ownership of the Economy,” by Murray Bookchin Issue #3 (June 1986) $.75: “Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Unresolvable Conflict?” by Janet Biehl

Issue #4-5 (Summer 1987) $1.00:

“Social Ecology versus ‘Deep Ecology’: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement,” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #6 (May 1988) $.75:

“The Crisis in the Ecology Movement,” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #7 (June 1988) $.75:

“The Politics of Myth,” by Janet Biehl; “Who Are the Left Greens?”

Issue #8 (July 1988) $.75:

“The Population Myth,” part 1 by Murray Bookchin

Issue #9 (August 1988) $.75:

An Interview with Jutta Ditfurth; review of Werner Hülsberg’s The German Greens: A Social and Political Profile, by Phil Hill

Issue #10 (Sept. 1988) $.75:

“Yes!–Whither Earth First!?” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #11 (October 1988) $.75:

“What Is Social Ecofeminism?” by Janet Biehl

Issue #12 (November 1988) $.75:

“On Strategic Nonviolence: Peace or Social Revolution–Which Way the Greens?” by Gary Sisco

Issue #13 (December 1988) $.75:

Ideological Conflict in the German Greens: “Yuppie Ho!” by Rainer Trampert and Thomas Ebermann (excerpts); “The Utne Reader–Some Unfinished Business,” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #14 (January 1989) $.75:

Policy Statements: “Capitalism,” “Consensus,” and “Theistic Spirituality,” by Murray Bookchin and Janet Biehl; Letter from Kym Lambert, with reply by Biehl

Issue #15 (April 1989) $.75:

“The Population Myth,” part 2 by Murray Bookchin; letter from Chaz Bufe, with reply by Biehl

Issues #16-17 (June 1989 and August 1989) $.75 each:

“Women and the Democratic Tradition,” parts 1 and 2 by Janet Biehl; letter from Lawrence Thompson, with reply by Biehl

Issue #18 (November 1989) $.75:

“Radical Politics in an Era of Advanced Capitalism.” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #19 (February 1990) $.75:

“Western European Greens: Movement or Parliamentary Party?” by Janet Biehl; “East German Greens Update”; “The Shrinkoids” by Dick McCormack

Issue #20 (November 1990) $.75:

“The Meaning of Confederalism,” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #21 (December 1990) , $.75:

“Voices of the German Left: On Parliamentarism, Party Formation, and the State”; interview with Jutta Ditfurth of the German Greens; “Comments on the Radical Left” by Georg Fülberth, Thomas Ebermann, I, and Peter Waller

Issue #22 (May 1991) $.75:

“The Left That Was: A Personal Reflection” by Murray Bookchin; “Nationalists of All Countries, Unite!” by Bernd Siegler

Issue #23 (June 1991) $.75:

“A Critique of the Draft Program of the Left Green Network,” by Murray Bookchin and Janet Biehl; “Farewell to the German Greens,” by Janet Biehl

Issue #24 (October 1991) $.75:

“Libertarian Municipalism: An Overview,” by Murray Bookchin; Letter from Richard Evanoff, with reply by Janet Biehl; “British Green Party Cofounder Icke Goes New Age,” by Wendy M. Grossman

Issue #25 (January 1992) $.75:

European Reports: “Russian Eco-Anarchism: An Interview with Sergey Fomichov”; “Greens Fade in Slow Motion,” by Tim Andrewes (U.K.); “Italian Experiments in Communal Democracy and Confederalism, with Communes and Federalism,” by Bruno Vettore; “Radical Ecology after the German
Greens: An Interview with Jutta Ditfurth”

Issue #26 (May 1992) $.75:

“New Right Ideology as a Challenge for the Left”; “Pogroms Begin in the Mind,” by Wolfgang Haug

Issue #27 (August 1992) $.75:

“Ecofascism: Neither Left nor Up Front but Far Right”; “Should We Work in Coalition with ‘Right-to-Lifers’ and Racists?” by the Cologne Anti-EC Group; “Massacre the Poor!” by Thomas Ebermann; letter from Mike McConkey, with reply by Bookchin and Biehl

Issue #28 (1993) $.75:

“Social Ecology: International Reports”: Reports on social ecology activities in Greece, Italy, Germany, United States, Uruguay, Quebec, and Russia; Continuation of McConkey debate in letters section

Issue #29 (Mar. 1994) $1.00 :

“History, Civilization and Progress: Outline for a Criticism of Modern Relativism,” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #30 (July 1994) $1.50:

“Matriliny and Mother Goddess Religion,” by Brian Morris; “When Socialists Discovered They Were Liberals . . .” by Robert Keller

Issue #31 (October 1994) $1.00:

“What Is Communalism? The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism,” by Murray Bookchin

Issue #32 (December 1994) $1.50:

“Inside Russia Today: An Interview with Vadim Damier” by Wolfgang Haug

Issue #33 (October 1995) $1.00:

“When Realism Becomes Capitulation: Theses on Social Ecology in a Period of Reaction,” by Murray Bookchin; “Theses on Social Ecology and Deep Ecology,” by Janet Biehl

Issue #34 (December 1995) $1.00:

“Is Russia on the Road to Dictatorship?” by Markus Mathyl

Issue #35 (January 1996) $1.00:

“From Green Messiah to New Age Nazi,” by Matthew Kalman and John Murray; “Jungian Mysteries,” a review of Richard Noll’s The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement, by Janet Biehl

Issue #36 (February 1996) $1.00:

“Terror Reigns in Manhattan,” by Michael D. Weiss; review of Kirkpatrick Sale’s Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution, by Janet Biehl

Issue #37 (April 1996) $1.00:

“Militia Fever,” by Janet Biehl

Issue #38 (April 1998) $.75:

“The Unity of Ideals and Practice,” by Murray Bookchin; International Call for an International/Interpolis Conference on The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism, An Anarchist Agenda for the 21st Century, Lisbon, Portugal, August 26-28, 1998; “Disney Fears Local Democracy,” by Janet Biehl