8 to 11 November 2025, in Pará – Brazil
The environmental, social and economic imbalances caused by the current mode of production and reproduction of life under modern capitalist society have reached alarming proportions. The real planetary boundaries, which refer to the fundamental conditions for sustaining life on Earth, make it clear that we have reached risk thresholds for the survival of humanity itself. This scenario includes serious climate disruptions, which, in Latin America and the Caribbean alone, have already increased the risk of extreme weather events and food insecurity by 74%.
Moreover, the commodification of nature and the expansion over territories intensify rural violence and degrade water sources and forests. Living conditions are increasingly precarious, and the lack of access to basic sanitation and decent housing continues to perpetuate violence and social inequality.
The socio-environmental collapse we are facing is disheartening, and the failure of green capitalism and its promises of ‘sustainable development’ reveals that truly dismantling this system — and this way of existing in the world — is the only way forward. The fight for climate, environmental, and social justice calls on us to act, in recognition of our historical responsibility to future generations.
Across the globe, we have witnessed a growing wave of anti-systemic struggles, including emerging mobilizations even in countries at the core of capitalism. At the same time, workers, youth, women, LGBTQ+ communities, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant people, peasants, academics, scientists, and grassroots territorial groups are showing that the diverse working class is resisting and fighting back, denouncing the failure of this system. These struggles unmask the obscene capital accumulation and the upholding of privileges by a minority that exploits and destroys our common goods, fueling socio-environmental injustice on a planetary scale.
The rise of a neo-fascist, fossil-fueled far-right is a serious aggravating factor that highlights the need to expand and strengthen our political action. We urgently need systemic change with concrete deadlines, grounded in the reality of the climate crisis. That’s why we call for a complete
end to the fossil economy in the Global North by 2030. We fight for climate justice, rejecting capital’s false energy transitions that only continue to create and expand sacrifice zones in the territories of the capitalist periphery. Our task now is to organize — as a Latin American and international movement — to radicalize democracy and defend the right to live in a world free of war.
That’s why we must join forces to shift the balance of power in the face of efforts to impose a regressive model of society—one steeped in racism, misogyny, xenophobia, LGBTQphobia, and countless other forms of oppression. This return to the past is all too familiar to us. We know what its consequences are, but we also know that we can face it and destroy it. Simply accepting survival in the face of the challenge at hand is not an option.
We have the tools, the commitment, and the readiness to build a real alternative to the hegemonic forms of capitalism today – neoliberal, colonial, neo-extractive, racist, and patriarchal – aimed at restoring natural ecosystems and establishing a balanced relationship with nature, of which we are interdependent. This alternative strives for socio-environmental inclusion and equality, as well as promoting coexistence among species, the maintenance of life on the planet, and the end of all forms of oppression.
We believe that the necessary changes won’t come from a single centralized space or a small group of people, but from the united efforts spread across all corners of our territories. Real transformation begins in the collective and in local actions that connect and strengthen each other. Mobilization must be collaborative, inclusive, and structural, because no alternatives are possible without the active, conscious participation of all sectors of society.
For this purpose, we call for a shift from mere denunciations and defensive struggles to the active construction of a global strategy that can confront and dismantle the very foundations and structures that sustain the commodification and capitalist destruction. It is urgent to move towards a societal model not ruled by the greed of corporations and interest groups, but one built on an ecosocialist and ecofeminist vision, striving for a just, diverse society in equilibrium with natural ecosystems.
Therefore, we, workers and activists from various ecosocial movements, grassroots organizations, trade unionists, Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, political militants, environmentalists, and intellectuals from around the world, committed to socio-environmental justice and, above all, to ‘Ecosocialism,’ invite you to join in the construction of the 2nd Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Encounter, to take place in November 2025, in Brazil.
This initiative continues the work of the 1st Latin American Ecosocialist Encounter held in Buenos Aires in May 2024, and will feature panels, workshops, and plenaries to collectively build a path towards an agenda and an ecopolitical program for the fight for ‘Ecosocialism,’ at both the continental and global levels.
In this sense, we call on ecosocialist militants to organize self-managed Ecosocialist Pre-Encounters over the coming months, leading up to our ‘2nd Ecosocialist Encounter’ (2nd LACEE), in their own territories, regions, cities, and countries, wherever ecosocialist initiatives with local political capacity to host them already exist.
Together, let’s build this urgent and necessary civilizational political alternative:
Ecosocialism