At a time when humanity’s very survival is at risk, we need a movement that once again offers a hopeful alternative to the rise of the far right and the failures of neoliberalism. That is why we call on all those who defend human dignity and strive for an alternative to destructive capitalism to join us in Brussels from 15 to 17 May 2026 for the 7th International Ecosocialist Gathering.
More than a century after Rosa Luxemburg posed the alternative “socialism or barbarism?”, the new reality of extractivist capitalism is pushing humanity to the edge of the abyss with a new equation: “Ecosocialism or barbarism?”
Seven of the nine planetary boundaries that condition the existence of our species on Earth have been crossed: climate change, biosphere integrity, land-use change, the freshwater cycle, biogeochemical cycles, new chemical pollutants, and a seventh, ocean acidification, which was exceeded in 2025. In just four years, the Earth has officially crossed four of these nine danger thresholds.
In practical terms, we are already living through the first years of a more dangerous climate. Each year sets a new record for global temperature increase. Each year, climate disasters multiply across the globe. Biodiversity COPs are paralysed, and the destruction and disappearance of species continues.
This downward spiral is not a natural effect of “the Earth,” but the result of an increasingly intensified race for profit, a destructive rush toward “producing ever more,” at the expense of people and nature.
So-called “green capitalism” is a fraud that serves as a pretext for the neocolonial and austerity policies of neoliberal governments, while greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. There is no dignified way forward without breaking with the destructive growth logic inherent in capital. Action cannot be delayed: the runaway train of capitalism must be stopped by ecosocialist revolution.
The neoliberal agenda—imposed in the name of “budgetary discipline” and repayment of public debts contracted with financial markets—is today more than ever synonymous with the destruction of the welfare state, ecological and climatic catastrophe, and the massive transfer of wealth from the Global South to the North and from working people to capitalist classes. This logic prevents any prospect of wealth redistribution, which is essential to carry out the crucial investments needed for social justice and ecological transition.
Floods, droughts, fires, unliveable temperatures… Extreme climate events, increasingly numerous, violent, and deadly, primarily affect the most impoverished populations of the planet, especially those in the Global South—and in particular women*, children, and the elderly, especially racialised and Indigenous people.
Extractivist logic exploits both bodies and territories, threatens workers’ rights, worsens precarious working conditions, and gender-based violence goes hand in hand with the violence of landowners, large corporations, and governments against the populations resisting this logic—among whom Indigenous peoples and women are often on the front lines.
These phenomena, combined with land-use changes driven by dispossession, capital accumulation, and urbanisation for the few, generate forced displacement of peasant and Indigenous communities, pushing millions of people into forced migration for environmental reasons. Governments of wealthy countries support false solutions, greenwashing, and technological escapism, while the far right openly embraces climate denialism.
Organising resistance and converging our struggles
In the face of all this, it is essential to organise resistance and counter-offensives by bringing our struggles together: ecosocialist, territorial, and decolonial struggles; eco-unionist struggles; climate justice movements; ecofeminist and anti-extractivist struggles… We must also share our analyses, research, and experiences in order to build an international ecosocialist and anticapitalist perspective that allows us to regain the initiative in building a more just society where life is placed at the centre.
With this objective, the 2nd Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Encounters took place in Belém (Brazil) from 8 to 11 November 2025, during COP30 and in response to the dead end in which the COPs have found themselves for decades. This gathering was a resounding success thanks to the participants and represented sectors, including Afro-descendant people, Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, activists defending their territories, anti-extractivist coalitions, landless peasants, political activists… Their proposals, their decolonial perspectives from the Global South, and their ecosocialist alternatives rooted in their territories and struggles will be fundamental for the construction of our 7th International Encounters, just as the conclusions and resolutions of previous gatherings will be.
Since 2014, the Ecosocialist Encounters Network has met on two continents and in five different countries. After Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2024, the 7th Encounters will take place in Brussels in 2026 and will bring together organisations, collectives, and trade-union, political, feminist, decolonial, migrant, and research movements from several continents—particularly Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
Faced with the destructive forces of capital, the far right, the policies of generalised rearmament and rising military expenditure—within the European Union and NATO as well as in China, Russia, and elsewhere—faced with the imperialist wars carried out by the United States against peoples around the world, by Russia in Ukraine, and faced with the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Palestine, let us oppose the response of peoples, of those whose work keeps the world running, caring for human beings and ecosystems.
Against barbarism, let us break with capitalism and confront it with internationalist solidarity and an ecosocialist vision of society.
See you in Brussels, 15–17 May 2026!
First signatures
Sébastien Brulez, Gauche anticapitaliste, Belgique.
Pablo laixhay, CADTM Belgique
Vincent Noirhomme, CADTM Belgique
Vanesa Dourado ATTAC-Argentina
Paula Delfino, Marabunta, Argentina
Miguel Urban, ex-diputado Parlamento Europeo, Anticapitalistas, Estado Español
Daniel Tanuro, auteur ecosocialiste, IVe Internationale
Franck Gaudichaud, historien, revue Contretemps web France
Jaime Pastor, redactor de Viento Sur, Estado Español
Joaquin Vega, Izquierda Unida, Andalucia, Estado Español
Charito Wuillemin, militante ecoféministe, membre du collectif Jaguar, Genève, Suisse
Mathieu Menguini, Historien HES-SO, Genève, Suisse
Sebastien Bertrand, Groupe écosyndicaliste du syndicat des services publics, Genève, Suisse
Teo Frei, militant de solidaritéS et de la Jeunesse solidaire, Suisse
Sushovan Dhar, Alternative Viewpoint, India
Olivier Besancenot, NPA-L’Anticapitaliste, France
Flavia Verri, réseau écosocialiste et insoumis, France
Iñaki Barcena Hinojal, Profesor e Investigador Ekopol-UPV-EHU, Miembro del Espacio Ecosocialista de Euskal Herria.
Maxime Perriot, CADTM, Belgique
Iñigo Antepara, del Gune Ekosozialista, Euskal Herria
Francisco Louçã, professor universitário, militante do Bloco de Esquerda, Portugal
Tom Kucharz, investigador independiente y activista de Ecologistas en Acción, Estado Español
Tárzia Medeiros, setor ecossocialista del PSOL y miembra del directivo nacional del PSOL. Brésil
Daniel Albarracín. Profesor de la Universidad de Sevilla. Economista y Sociólogo. Andalucia. Estado Español
Jawad Moustakbal, ATTAC- CADTM, Maroc
Juan Tortosa, Groupe écosocialiste de solidaritéS, Suisse.
Martin Mosquera, Poder Popular Argentina
João Camargo, Climáximo, Portugal/ Belgique
Christine Poupin, porte-parole du NPA l’Anticapitaliste, France
Iratxe Delgado Arribas, Sindicato LAB, Euskal Herria
Maureen Zelaya Paredes. Anticapitalistas y Ecologistas en Acción. Estado Español
Joana Bregolat, Anticapitalistas, Estado Español
Juanjo Álvarez, Anticapitalistas, Estado Español
Manuel Garí, economista, Anticapitalistas, Estado Español
Martin Lallana, responsable de transición ecológica del sindicato LAB, Euskal Herria
Marco Maurizi, filósofo y militante, Roma, Italia
Aitor Murgia, sindicato ELA, Euskal Herria
Ainhara Plazaola, sindicato ELA, Euskal Herria
Antoine Dubiau, auteur de « l’écofascisme », solidaritéS, Suisse
Yayo Herrero, del Foro de Transiciones, Estado Español
José Ignacio García, Parlamentario Andaluz, Portavoz de Adelante Andalucía
Erika González Briz, Coordinadora de Ecologistas en Acción e investigadora de OMAL-Paz con Dignidad. Estado Español
Jorge Riechmann, Ecologistas en Acción y Anticapitalistas, Estado Español
Chrsitophe Aguiton, ATTAC-France
Tristan Higginson, Jeneusse solidaire, Suisse
Aude Spang, Grève féministe Fribourg, Solidarité Palestine-Fribourg, Syndicat Unia Suisse
Michael Löwy, Quatrième Internationale, Paris, France
Françoise Nyffler, Collectif de la Grève féministe, Genève, Suisse
Eric Toussaint, porte parole du CADTM international
Franco Turigliatto, Sinistra Anticapitalista
Paul Murphy TD (Member of Parliament, Ireland, People Before Profit)
Renato Roseno – Deputado Estadual / PSOL (Ceará – Brasil)
Iain Bruce, journalist, Scotland
Júlia Martí Comas, activista ecofeminista, Anticapitalistas, ODG, Estado Español
Annick Coupé, syndicaliste et altermondialiste, France
Javier Aguayo, Groupe écosocialiste de solidaritéS, Suisse
Gabriel Videla, Colectivo Ecologico « Unides por la Laguna de Rocha », geórafo y profesor en UBA y UNTreF, Argentina
Mariana Rodrigues, Climaximo, Portugal
Pedro Soares, Rede Ecosocialista, Portugal
Maria Fernanda Gadea, ATTAC, Estado Español
José Casimiro, Rede Ecosocialista, Portugal
Cristina Semblano, Rede Ecosocialista, Portugal
Peter Saxtrup Nielsen, Socialistisk arbejderpolitk- Dansk sektion af Fjerde Internationale, Dinamarca,
Federico Bertalot, Marabunta, Argentina
Ricardo Salabert, STGSSP-Sindicato dos Trabalhadores des Grandes Superficies, Armazéns e Serviços de Portugal
Jorgelina Matasevici, CsyP, Mabarunta, Argentina
Alice Gato, Climáximo, Portugal
Júlia Câmara, Subverta, Brasil.
Laura Horn
Gabriela Gallardo, Defendbio, Utrecht University
Hamel Puissant, Formation Léon Lesoil, Belgique
Geert Seynaeve, European Society for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, EUSDEM
Nastasja Marchal, Brigades d’Actions paysannes, Belgique
Francisca Fernández Droguett – Iniciativa Ecosocialista , Chile
Alfons Pérez, Observatori del Deute en la Globalització, Catalunya
Pedro Ivo Batista – Presidente da Fundação Rede Sustentabilidade e Presidente da Associação Alternativa Terrazul, CoFundador da Rede Brasileira de Ecossocialistas, Brasil
Nahuel Gravano, Marabunta – Tierra para vivir / Argentina
Mariana Riscali, Fundação Lauro Campos e Marielle Franco, MES-PSOL, Brasil
José Correa Leite, professor universitário e ativista da Assembleia Mundial pela Amazônia, MES-PSOL, Brasil
Cécile Renier, militante du réseau Ades, chercheuse UCLouvain, Belgique
Sébastien Kennes, Acteurs.ices des temps présents, Belgique
Organisations
Gauche anticapitaliste, Belgique
ATTAC – Argentine
Alternative Viewpoint, India
Groupe écosocialiste de solidaritéS, Suisse
solidaritéS, Genève, Suisse
Poder Popular, Argentina
CADTM internacional
Formation Léon Lesoil, Belgique
LAB Sindikatua, Euskal Herria
Pueblos contra el Extractivismo
Marabunta, Argentina.
Anticapitalistas, Estado Español
ELA Sindikatua, Euskal Herria
NPA-l’Anticapitaliste, France
Ecologistas en Acción, Estado Español
ATTAC-France
Sinistra Anticapitalista, Italia
RISE (Ireland)
Ecosocialist Scotland
Gune Ekosozialista Euskal Herria
Sindicato ESK Euskal Herria
Climaximo, Portugal
Subverta, Brasil
Observatori del Deute en la Globalització, Catalunya
Rede Brasileira de Ecossocialistas, Brasil
MES-PSOL (Movimento Esquerda Socialista), Brasil
Insurgência-RD / PSOL (Brasil)
Centelhas, Brasil
To sign the call: https://framaforms.org/signatures-firmas-assinaturas-1763026598