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Capitalism’s inherent barbarism is on full display — from the genocide in Gaza and the rise of the far-right, to growing militarism and the climate crisis. There is no way out without radically changing the way society is organised.
Ecosocialism 2025: Ecosocialism Not Barbarism conference will bring together activists from across the globe to share experiences in resisting capitalism’s drive to barbarism and building the mass movements we need to win a better world.
Organised by LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Green Left, Socialist Alliance and Resistance Books, it will take place in Naarm/Melbourne between September 5-7 at Balam Balam Place, Brunswick.
Among the international speakers are:
- Adam Hanieh, a scholar of Middle East political economy whose research focuses on the dynamics of capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East
- Amanda Shweeta Louis and Gandipan Nantha Gopalan from the Socialist Party of Malaysia
- Merck Maguddayao, Reihana Mohideen and Aya Clamor from the Party of the Labouring Masses (The Philippines)
- Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana, Neysia Novaristia and Rizaldi Ageng Wicaksono from the Socialist Union (Indonesia)
- N Sai Balaji from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
- Ammar Ali Jan from the People’s Rights Party (Pakistan)
- Youngsu Won from Pnyx — Korean Institute for Marxist Studies
- Cyn Huang from the Bread & Roses caucus inside the Democratic Socialists of America
- Dr Arama Rata, a Māori researcher, writer, and organiser
- Jess Spear from the Global Ecosocialist Network and an activist with People Before Profit (Ireland)
- Israel Dutra from Brazil’s largest radical left party, the Freedom and Socialist Party (PSOL)
- Nilüfer Koç, spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)
- Denys Pilash, an activist with the Ukrainian democratic socialist organisation Social Movement (Sotsialniy Rukh), and
- Promise Li, a socialist from Hong Kong and now based in Los Angeles, where he is a member of Tempest Collective and Solidarity
There are also a huge range of local speakers include:
- Lidia Thorpe, Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung activist and Independent Senator for Victoria
- Sue Bolton, Merri-bek councillor
- Amin G Abbas, an organiser with Free Palestine Melbourne, Melbourne for Palestine and Palestine National Day teams
- Jiselle Hanna, newly elected secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Victorian branch
- Sam Wainwright, Socialist Alliance national co-convenor
- Pip Hinman, Green Left co-editor
- Seona Cho, Naarm-based Korean socialist
- Cyndi Makabory, a West Papuan activist based in Naarm/Melbourne
- Celeste Liddle, an Arrernte woman, union organiser, freelance writer and activist
- Yousef Alreemawi, a multi-talented, award-winning Palestinian-Australian musician, thinker, and storyteller.
- Dr Jordy Silverstein, a historian and writer and a member of the Loud Jew Collective
- Janet Parker, a founding member of Jews for Palestine WA
- Maz Misiewicz, a campaigner with Disrupt Burrup Hub
- Carlos Eduardo Morreo, a writer, editor, and organiser living in Naarm/Melbourne and the Executive Officer of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies
- Damoon Jehani, a researcher on Iranian Kurdish politics and documentary filmmaker
- Ling Tang, an activist-artist-academic
And many more.
The conference will feature close to 30 panels, covering topics ranging from Palestine, the struggle of peace and justice in South Asia, and the role of art in changing society, through to resisting US President Donald Trump and the far-right billionaire class, the fight for trans rights, and organising workers in the 21st-century economy.
Other panel discussions will focus on First Nations’ struggles for sovereignty, the people’s power movement that toppled South Korea’s far-right president, the case against AUKUS and militarism, current debates on imperialism and women’s liberation today.
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