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The neoliberal era has failed to prevent and solve the many crises we have been facing in the last 40 years. The latest one brought by the coronavirus, revealed for many countries the dismantling of the healthcare system and other crucial public services resulting in a devastating health and economic crisis.

While we hear more and more calls to bring back state intervention, often only to mitigate the effects of years of privatization, we are currently witnessing at the global level the continuation and increase in marketization and financiarisation of many key sectors.

The energy sector is a good example but often overlooked of the failure of privatization and liberalization altogether.The recent energy crisis and the hikes in gas and electricity prices in Europe is an acute symptom of this failure, putting the majority of the burden over the shoulder of the working class and the most vulnerable of our societies.

COP 26 has been another striking recent example that the push for market solutions is a definitive recipe for failure both in terms of emissions reductions and the development of renewable energy as well as organizing any kind of real Just and fair transition.

It is in this context of urgency and need of providing concrete and fact based solutions, that the TUED network has been developing a concrete program.

The Programme is the result of a year of work by the Trade Union Task Force for a Public Energy Future consisting of more than 30 unions from nearly 20 countries around the world.

Anchoring the programme is a major report that explains the failure of private markets to deliver on climate targets. The report details how major companies in the power sector — reclaimed to public ownership, governed democratically, and operating under a new “pro-public” mandate — can advance energy conservation and efficiency, and work in partnership with other public entities at national and global levels to carry out the energy transition we need while meeting the needs of users, workers and communities.

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Organized by: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung

Special guests: Daniel Chavez, Katie Swan, Nessim Achouche, Sam Mason

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This session aims to challenge us to rethink the relation we have with non-human nature, among which non-human animals. We will encourage the participants to share their priorities when thinking about the ecosocialist struggle, why, and promote group dinamics to increase awareness on the interdependence of all the non-human related topics.
 By learning with each other points of view, we want to reflect on what we have learned and what do we need to change in our thought padrons and strategies to achieve an Ecosocialist relationship with non human nature.

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Answering to: Where to? + Who will?

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Organized by: PATAV and XR Great Lakes Region

Special guests: Constança Carvalho, Elijah Dero, Precious Kalombwana, Shamim Wasii Nyanda

In this session we will talk about the youth movement and the political scenario after the climate mobilizations that took place all over the world. We want to talk about what to do with the outrageous insignificant institutional response that the youth climate mobilizations of 2019 received; and we want to understand how the organizers feel about this.

We also aim to understand how to overcome the political frustrations in order to create ecosocialist demands.In this interactive session, we want to discover tools to make ecosocialist demands the framework of the climate struggle.

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Answering: Who?

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Organized by: Bloco de Esquerda, Greve Climática Estudantil and Kibengo Youth Care Activists

Special guests: Andreia Galvão, Ayisha Siddiqa, Bianca Castro, Dana, Gil Janer, Mourana Monteiro, Laura Muñoz

Ecosocialism needs to be feminist. But how can we achieve this and what does this mean to the question of who will be the agents of the revolution we need?

To change in a way that truly liberates us from capitalist exploitation and oppression, we need to revolutionize our understanding and relationship with labour in our society. In this session, we will discuss who is currently doing the work required to fulfil our needs related to subsistence and care, and how this reproductive class relates to the more traditional sense of working class.

Then, we will talk about how the ecofeminists can organize towards the ecosocialist revolution: what works and what doesn’t? What else should we try?

Join us in thinking about an ecofeminist working class, one that can truly encompass the marginalized majority of labour on earth, and which gives priority to the kind of work needed to resist and survive in a burning world and to build a different society centered on life and care.

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Answering: Who? How?

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Organized by: Anticapitalistas, Climáximo, ODG, Ecologistas en Acción

Special guests: Alice Gato, Inês Teles, Joana Bregolat, Sara Bourehiyi

We know that to build the biggest social movement in contemporary history we need everyone. The aim of this session is to come to some conclusions as to why inclusivity of different communities such as communities from the Global South, BIPOC, … is not only important, but crucial to a real ecosocialist climate struggle. The goal of this session is to listen to concrete activist experiences and to ask the question of how we can create bridges that outlive the capitalist system. In this interactive session we will look into the tools for building trust, networking and decolonizing our activism transparently.

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Responding: Who? How?

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Organized by: Bloco de Esquerda, XR Gambia and XR Uganda

Special guests: Alhassan Sasey, Andreia Galvão, Ayisha Siddiqa, Josh, Marcelo Rocha, Mduduzi Shabalala, Pascal
Mirundi, Samuel Odhiambo, Stephanie Toledo

The ecosocial crisis has and will have a direct and profound in the working and living conditions of the working class. We are in a ecosocial crossroads, changes are not an option but a fact, and now we have the challenge to dispute the direction of these changes: a direction lead by the green capitalism or ecofascism that will plunder, impoverish and abandon the working class and territories; or a direction represented by an ecosocialist alternative that will be built from and for the working people and the territories.

The unions work hand by hand with many working people, in concrete day-to-day struggles. These struggles as well as changing the working and living conditions of the working class, they also change the working people ourselves ideologically and in terms of self-consciousness and empowerment. This places us in front of the commitment to confront the hegemonic discourse of green capitalism and that of pedagogy and ideological struggle in favor of an ecosocialist alternative. But at the same time, it places us in a position of great potential.

This will not be a challenge without contradictions. Facing the ecosocial crisis will need a degrowth and a deep transformation in many productive sectors, a radical transformation of the productive and reproductive matrix of our societies and the global system. Unions (specially in the Global North) have historically linked our struggle to demands of the world of the employment linked to a welfare system associated with the hegemonic productive and reproductive system of the capitalism. A system that is ecologically unsustainable, and that is based on the exploitation and colonial plunder of bodies and territories crossed by different types of violence. A system we want to change. This will lead to the destruction of thousands of jobs (paradoxically, especially in unionized sectors), so we will have to face the contradiction between defending the working class interests and material living condition (immediate interests) and promoting the ecologically necessary transformation by creating disaffection to the current system (strategical interests). The energy transition, the transport transition, soil, agriculture, forestry, construction, all will require the creation of an enormous amount of jobs and public investment, which need to be planned as a social and political plan by and for the working class. Probably we need to rethink our historical claims. How can we face this contradiction? How do we face this challenge?

Furthermore, speaking of transforming the productive and reproductive matrix, should we think about articulating struggles beyond the sphere of employment? How to give value to works, activities and jobs that are essential for the maintenance of life and that are now undervalued? Which kind of alliances do we need to do so?

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Answering: Who?

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Organized by: Global Climate Jobs, LAB Sindikatua, ESK Sindikatua and STEILAS

Special guests: Iñigo Antepara, Endika Pérez, Iratxe Delgado, Jonathan Neale, Leonor Canadas

“System change, not climate change” is not a request we make to the current institutions. It is our responsibility to make it happen. To achieve this requires that we be coordinated globally and regionally, that we define strategies and act together, and create spaces where we can build peoples’ power and grow the movement. The Glasgow Agreement, a space for strategy and coordination for the climate justice movement, is currently experimenting with different tactics on how we can change the system.

In this session we will dive into different tactics of global actions used around the world – from caravans to global civil disobedience action weeks. We will analyse together what impact can they achieve in society and inside the movement, at local level and global level. We will also debate what can be the right and wrong context to use each of them. We aim to come together with answers for: I) in what different ways can we create coordinated disruption; ii) for each different situation, what tactics could be the most impactful.

Join us!

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Answering: How?

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Organized by: Climáximo and MOCICC Peru

Special guests: António Zambrano, Mariana Rodrigues

Ecosocialists and ecofeminists talk about what is wrong with the world of capitalism, and about the different world we want to build. But, just as important, we talk concretely about struggles to change the world in the here and now, because we are part of those struggles. We will have speakers from the Global South and the Global North will talk, from trade unions and from social movements. But there will be just as much space for everyone to discuss in breakout groups what they have learned from their own struggles, the good, the bad and the exciting.

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Answering: How?

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Special guests: Dani Marie, Jonathan Neale, Josua Mata, Nancy Lindisfarne, Rima Majed, Tabitha Spence.