September 10-11: Global Socio-evironmental Forum

Organizations from the 5 continents as promoters. Almost 30 countries committed to the initiative. Territorial resistance, protest and proposals. A festival of green internationalism, in an anti-capitalist key and an eco-socialist register. A window of opportunity. A meeting point against indifference. The future in our consciences and commitments. Global invitation by the International Socialist League.

Its a time of crisis, war, revolutions, pandemics and ecocide. Fires and drought in Western Europe’s main rivers of. The Amazon is experiencing its worst phase of deforestation. In South Asia the levels of air and water pollution are desperate. There are catastrophes regarding the burning of wetlands in Argentina and other parts of South America. There are offensives on lithium, the mountain range, the watercourses. The common goods protected by communities in Central America are the target of imperialist infrastructure projects. In Africa and other parts of the world, global warming leaves no country exempt from the abrupt alterations of a crazy climate. Capital makes the planet unviable, the civilization of uncertain prospects. But the panorama also offers good news: the green rebellions of sensitive, conscious and committed youth are growing. A vanguard generation that activates the contagion of more extended sectors of the peoples of the whole world. Little by little, even contingents of the strategic working class of the country and the city, are assuming their condition of key, determining subject. This being the case, we have a challenge: to be the organized nightmare of those above, that dangerous and polluting minority.

No margin for indifference: activate ecosocialism

Uniting rebellions across borders. That is a first step. But, in addition, disputing the transition with the technocrats of green capitalism and the prophets of “it can’t be done,” of “individual responsibility”. Plotting the coordinates of an alternative program. Laying the foundations for a comprehensive reorganization of all the rules of production, consumption and life. No more commodified nature. No more ecosystems violated by the profitability of 1%.

For an anti-capitalist and ecosocialist social articulation of the exploited and oppressed. For a green internationalism. It is about activating awareness, commitment. Knowing that thigs depend on our generation, of what we are capable of, of our collective will. Because it makes sense. Because it is not written that it is not possible. Because we are the emergency brake of the catastrophe. All are invited to the Global Socio-environmental Forum of the International Socialist League. Militants of the essential revolution. We meet on September 10 and 11.

All the workshops

Saturday September 10:

PANEL 1- Territorial resistance: productive matrix, struggles and proposed alternative. The cases of Lebanon and Pakistan. Speakers: Rafic Daw (Beirut, Lebanon), Khkula Bacha, Peshawor University student and organizer of the KPK Revolutionary Students Front (Pakistan) and Mauricio Matos, Ecosocialist Struggle Collective and Luta Socialista (Belen-Para-Amazonia, Brazil).

Times: 7am Central America; 8am Mexico-Peru-Colombia-Chicago; 9am New York-Venezuela-Chile-Paraguay; 10am Argentina-Brazil-Uruguay; 2pm London-Algeria; 3pm Europe; 4pm Russia-Belarus-Ukraine-Kenya-Turkey-Lebanon; 6pm Pakistan; 11pm Australia.

PANEL 2- The footsteps of the former USSR. Socio-environmental assessment of bureaucratized socialism and capitalist restoration in Eastern Europe. Speakers: Alejandro Bodart, ISL Executive Committee (Argentina); Oleg Vernyk – president of the “Zahist Pratsi” Independent Trade Union (Kyiv, Ukraine), Dmitry Zaidov, activist of the “For Clean Air” environmental organization and member of the Ukrainian Socialist League, and Manuel Romero García, Colectivo Cibercom (Spanish State).

Times: 10am Central America; 11am Mexico-Peru-Colombia-Chicago; 12pm New York-Venezuela-Chile-Paraguay; 1pm Argentina-Brazil-Uruguay; 5pm London-Algeria; 6pm Europe; 7pm Russia-Belarus-Ukraine-Kenya-Turkey-Lebanon; 9pm Pakistan; 2am Australia.

PANEL 3- There is life beyond extractivism. Plunder, commodification of nature and protests in Brazil and Argentina. Speakers: Renán Vega Cantor, university professor, Marxist historian (Colombia); João Ambrosi (Curitiba-Brazil) and Jesi Gentile from the Ecosocialist Network – MST and member of the No More False Solutions Coordination (Argentina).

Times: 1pm Central America; 2pm Mexico-Peru-Colombia-Chicago; 3pm New York-Venezuela-Chile-Paraguay; 4pm Argentina-Brazil-Uruguay; 8pm London-Algeria; 9pm Europe; 10pm Russia-Belarus-Ukraine-Kenya-Turkey-Lebanon; 12am Pakistan; 5am Australia.

Sunday September 11

PANEL 4- There is no Planet B. Crisis of civilization, transition in dispute and socialist ecology. Speakers: Mariano Rosa, Coordinator of the Ecosocialist Network, MST (Argentina), Omer Abdullah, organizer of the North Punjab Revolutionary Students Front (Bagh Kashmir, Pakistan), James Plested, Red Flag editor, Socialist Alternative member and environmental expert (Australia), and Renato Flores, Colectivo Cibercom (Spanish State).

PANEL 5- Socio-environmental radiography of Africa. Imperialism and proposals from below. Speakers: Leah Kimani, Joyce Wambui, Osaka Honyango, Socialist Revolutionary League (Nairobi, Kenya)

PANEL 6- Central America and Colombia from the communities. Corporations, common goods and anti-capitalist program. Speakers: Ligia Arreaga, human rights and environmental activist (Panama); Francisca “Chica” Ramírez, leader of the Peasant Anticanalero Movement (Nicaragua) and Fernando Benjumea, professor at the National University in Medellin (Colombia).
Times: 1pm Central America; 2pm Mexico-Peru-Colombia-Chicago; 3pm New York-Venezuela-Chile-Paraguay; 4pm Argentina-Brazil-Uruguay; 8pm London-Algeria; 9pm Europe; 10pm Russia-Belarus-Ukraine-Kenya-Turkey-Lebanon; 12am Pakistan; 5am Australia.