Socialism From Below

The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is a current of revolutionary socialist organisations, based in different countries, which share a political outlook and seek to help each other by exchanging experience and practical support.

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Online conference: The Revolutionary Alternative to Capitalism’s Climate Disaster

Tuesday 19th October 2021

The conference is on Sunday 14th November.

Speakers so far include:

· Sabrina Fernandez (Brazil) · Alex Callinicos (Britain) · Özdeş Özbay (Turkey) · John Molyneux (Ireland) · Gyekye Tanoh (Ghana) · Michelle Robidoux (Canada) · Amy Leather (Britain) · Erima Dall (Australia) · Martin Empson (Britain)

Sessions include: The Limits of COP26 and Capitalist Solutions · Marxism, Class and Ecology · Stopping Environmental Destruction – Fighting for System Change

This November the UN COP26 climate conference will be in Glasgow. It will take place during a year of climate disaster and marks a quarter century of failure by mainstream politics to deal with the environmental crisis.

The free-market, neo-liberal solutions on offer at COP26 and its predecessor conferences will do nothing for ordinary people facing unprecedented disaster. Instead the powerful economies of the Global North will use COP26 to push their own agenda – solutions that enrich the 1% while failing the ...

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