As capitalism鈥檚 inherent barbarism is being exposed to the world via the West鈥檚 enabling of genocide in Gaza, organisers of the Ecosocialism 2025 conference are confident its program will attract significant interest among those seeking to change the world.
Ecosocialism 2025, hosted by 91自拍论坛 and Socialist Alliance, will take place in Naarm/Melbourne over September 5鈥7. Its theme, 鈥淓cosocialism not barbarism鈥, articulates the alternative we need to build.
Amid an unprecedented rise in聽 in the West, as the elites seek to enrich themselves from an arms race instead of taking real action to address runaway climate change, Ecosocialism 2025 will host activists from the Indo-Pacific, as well as local activists, in discussions about building mass movements of resistance.
Keynote speaker Adam Hanieh is a scholar of Middle East political economy, who recently published聽. His work unravels the dynamics of capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East.
Other featured speakers include: Ammar Ali Jan, general secretary of the Haqooq-e-Khalq party in Pakistan; Jess Spear, ecosocialist activist for People before Profit (Ireland); N Sai Balaji, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation; Merck Maguddayao, Party of the Labouring Masses (Philippines); Youngsu Won, coordinator of the International Forum (South Korea); Amanda Shweeta Louis, chairperson of the youth wing of the Socialist Party of Malaysia; and Sue Bolton, Socialist Alliance鈥檚 fourth term Merri-bek councillor, who聽recently achieved 8%聽of the vote聽in the contested seat of Wills.
The conference will take place聽at the 聽community space in Brunswick, on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.
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