Ian Angus (activist) explained

Ian Angus (born 1945) is a Canadian ecosocialist activist, blues music radio host, and telecommunications analyst.

Angus is editor of the journal Climate & Capitalism,^[1] a frequent contributor to Monthly Review,^[2] and a founding executive member of the Global Ecosocialist Network.^[3]

From 1994 to 2007, he hosted blues music programs on CKLN-FM and CIUT-FM in Toronto. From 1997 to 2007 he was chair of the Nominating Panel for the Maple Blues Awards,^[4] Canada’s national blues awards program.

From 1980 until 2007, he was president of Angus TeleManagement Group,^[5] a consulting and education company specializing in telecommunications. He and his partner Lis Angus co-edited the monthly journal Telemanagement and the weekly newsletter Telecom Update. In 2005 they were inducted into Canada's Telecommunications Hall of Fame in the Advocates and Academics category.

Publications

• Author of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism^[6] (Monthly Review Press, 2017)
• Author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System^[7] (Monthly Review Press, 2016)
• Co-author, with Simon Butler, Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis^[8] (Haymarket Books, 2011)
• Editor of The Global Fight for Climate Justice: Anticapitalist Responses to Global Warming and Environmental Destruction (Resistance Books, 2009)^[9]
• Author of Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada ^[10] (Vanguard Publications 1981; Second edition Trafford Publishing, 2004)

External links

• Climate and Capitalism
• Global Ecosocialist Network

Notes and References

1. Web site: Climate & Capitalism An ecosocialist journal edited by Ian Angus . 2022-07-29 . Climate & Capitalism . en-US.
2. Web site: Monthly Review Ian Angus . 2022-07-29 . Monthly Review . en-US.
3. Web site: 2019-12-18 . Global Ecosocialist Network . 2022-07-29 . Global Ecosocialist Network . en-GB.
4. Web site: Maple Blues Awards . 2022-07-29 . www.mapleblues.ca.
5. Web site: Organisation profile: Angus TeleManagement Group, Inc. . 2022-07-29 . www.elsnet.org.
6. Web site: Angus . Ian . Monthly Review A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism . 2022-07-29 . Monthly Review . 14 June 2017 . en-US.
7. Web site: Angus . Ian . Monthly Review Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System . 2022-07-29 . Monthly Review . 31 May 2016 . en-US.
8. Web site: Hartmann . Betsy . Kovel . Joel . Too Many People? . 2022-07-29 . haymarketbooks.org.
9. http://socialistresistance.org/?p=544 New book: The Global Fight for Climate Justice
10. Book: Angus, Ian . Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada . 2004 . Trafford . 1412038081 .