Ecosocialism Conference 2024

Name: Ecosocialism Conference 2024
Start: 2024-12-07T10:30:00+00:00
Location: Bedford Square

Schedule

Sat Dec 07 2024 at 10:30 am

UTC+00:00

Location

Bedford Square | London, EN

Join us at Ecosocialism Conference 2024 (London and online)
Building the ideas and action for Ecosocialism.
2024 has witnessed a further acceleration in the environmental crisis. The environment humanity shares continues to be under attack on land, sea, and air by a global capitalist economy that requires constant accumulation and growth, irrespective of the cost to the natural world.
We need to remove those in power that are recklessly plundering our natural environment just as much as they exploit us for profit.
We have to challenge the conspiracy theories of the far right and their climate change denial.
This is why we urgently need a mass movement around the climate, in our workplaces, communities, towns and cities, uniting people across the world to end the ecocide on the planet being caused by capitalism.
We also need to fight for a vision of the future where we can provide for all humans in a sustainable way. A post-scarcity world where we can meet human needs for everyone within planetary limits.
Last year’s Ecosocialist Conference in London had 150 people attending. This year we want to make it bigger and better and are inviting you to take part, to be part of organising this movement. We are organising another conference with some amazing speakers on important topics to educate and inform and help us begin to organise.
But we don’t just want conference attendees, we need a movement and organisation if we are going to win. If you would like to be involved we are holding a fortnightly online organising committee to plan the conference and also what comes afterwards.
Speakers include
• John McDonnell MP
• Hamza Hamouchene (co-author of Dismantling Green Colonialism)
• Clara Paillard (Unite Grassroot Climate Justice Caucus)
• Asad Rehman (War on Want)
• Minhaj ul Arifeen (Working Class Climate Alliance)
• Stefania Barca (author of Workers of the Earth)
• Bob Williams-Findlay, disability rights activist, author of Disability Praxis,
• Simon Hannah (author of Reclaiming The Future: A Beginners Guide to Planning the Economy),
• Eric Meier, co-founder of the International Network of Democratic Economic Planners.
More to be announced
The main themes of the conference are: The Ecosocialist Future (socialist planning, post capitalism, radical abundance); Dismantling Green Colonialism; Fighting the Far Right; Refugees/Climate refugees and solidarity; Workers led green transitions (GKN) problems as well as potential successes; Campaigns stalls and speakers on how we can build the broadest movement possible to challenge capitalism.