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Second Ecosocialist Encounter

Ecosocialism or extinction: Defending life, building free territories and ecosocialism from and for the peoples

Statement from the Second Ecosocialist Meeting, held in Belém, Brazil, November 2025.
The Aramco oil refinery in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. COP30 offered no fossil-fuel phase-out; oil-producing nations blocked binding language, and the final deal focused on voluntary road maps instead.

COP 30: Entrenching the crisis of climate politics

Brian Ashley — The gap between official international climate policy and the lived reality of a warming world has never been wider. In Belém, that gap became a chasm.
People's Summit

Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30

Statement from the Peoples’ Summit, gathered in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon, from November 12-16.
book cover Fiery Red

For an ecommunist alternative to degrowth and ‘luxury’ communism

Esteban Mercatante explains how capitalism is at the root of a “multidimensional” ecological crisis, and the need for an ecommunist strategy that takes us beyond the degrowth/ecomodernism divide.
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Oil jabber heard in Dubai: Top ten reasons to dismiss the Conference of Polluters 28

Patrick Bond & Desmond D’Sa — The crucial point for the host-country president and his supporters in Western, BRICS+ and OPEC countries was to not concede the need to “phase out“ gas, oil and coal.

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