Ian Angus (activist)


Ian Angus is a Canadian ecosocialist activist. Angus joined the New Democratic Party 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 in 1977. He left the RWL in 1980, and has been an independent Marxist writer, educator, and activist since.
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. 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. In addition to authoring several articles in Climate and Capitalism and numerous contributions to Monthly Review, Angus has written articles for New Scientist and International Socialism, and has authored three books, co-authored one.

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