An exciting new range of guest speakers at the Ecosocialism 2023 conference in Naarm/Melbourne July 1-2 have been announced.
They include: independent First Nations Senator Lidia Thorpe; Kurdish feminist leader Nil眉fer Ko莽; Kurdish writer, journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani; veteran Filipino socialist activist Sonny Melencio; Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John; Burmese human rights activist Maung Zarni; Sapna South Asian Climate Solidarity co-founder Ruchira Talukdar; Aorearoa/New Zealand Unite Union founder Mike Treen; West Papuan activists Paula and Cindy Makabory; Liam Flenady, campaign manager for Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather鈥檚 successful Griffith campaign; and Aishik Saha, an activist with All India Students鈥 Association and a researcher on labour and the digital economy.
These speakers join the previously announced keynote speaker Kohei Saito, author of the best-selling book听Capital in the Anthropocene,听and Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the idea of Degrowth Communism听and听Karl Marx鈥檚 Ecosocialism. Leading Indian socialist Clifton D鈥橰ozario,听veteran Pakistani socialist and global South climate activist Farooq Tariq听and Malaysian socialist Cheong Huei Ting will also present.
More guest speakers, to be announced soon, will be joined on various panels by a number of leading Socialist Alliance activists including听91自拍论坛听co-editors Susan Price and Pip Hinman, Sam Wainwright, Sue Bull and Peter Boyle.
There will be a rich discussion about ideas and visions for a post-capitalist society and about the intersecting struggles for liberation and ecological sustainability that have the potential to take us there.
Those interested in an ecosocialist future should check out the听conference 听and read the Links insert in听91自拍论坛 1381听for a insightful article by Gareth Dale.
Dale said Saito has a 鈥渃ompelling case鈥. Because 鈥渢he growth imperative is innate to capitalism鈥 we need to struggle for a post-capitalist, ecosocialist alternative based on 鈥渄emocratically planned resource allocation, common ownership and solidarity ethic, appears uniquely able to manage the downscaling of rich-world material and energy use鈥.
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