Ecosocialist Alliance Set to Continue – Invitation to Open Meeting
The Ecosocialist Alliance, organised in the UK for COP26 by Green Left, Left Unity and Anti-Capitalist Resistance, has decided to continue as a campaigning group. This is an invitation to an open Zoom meeting on 26 January for all who take an ecosocialist view. Messages are being sent to those groups and individuals who supported the Ecosocialist Alliance COP26 statement.
Our collaboration for COP26 was more successful than we could have hoped for, with 27 groups and over 60 individuals worldwide, supporting our statement. How can we build on this for the future? How can we operate on a local, national and international basis? As expected, COP26 itself delivered little, despite the urgency of the climate crisis.
The meeting will explore ideas for growing the alliance and think about how we can work together in preparation for COP27, and perhaps other campaigns. We also need to decide what kind of structure the alliance will have, and some ideas that we have for that, but in the main we want to listen to others and an open discussion session will be the centrepiece of the gathering.
Our original idea, which remains unchanged, was to join together, to amplify our collective voice, to demand real ecosocialist solutions to the climate crisis and the gross inequality caused by the dominant world economic system, capitalism. Only by moving away from this destructive system, of endless growth and accumulation, can a rational, fair and ecological solution be achieved. Capitalists and compliant governments cannot do this, only the people of the world can.
We do not doubt the enormity of this challenge, but equality, we can’t afford to do nothing given the seriousness of the situation. Come and join with us. Ecosocialism not Extinction!
The meeting is on 26 January 2022, 7pm to 8.30pm (GMT). To get details of how to access the meeting please email eco-socialist-action@protonmail.com.
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