The impact of the Leap Manifesto at the party convention opens major opportunities to deepen the debate on climate justice and to build an ecosocialist left in and around the NDP.
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Climate justice movement shakes
Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against humanity’s future.
Most vulnerable nations form climate action coalition
‘Vulnerable 20’ communique: “Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. Overcoming it is a matter of survival for people on all continents and vulnerable communities everywhere.”
Manifesto: Act to Stop Climate Crimes!
A call for mass action in Paris to declare our determination to stop crimate climes and keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Rural activists in Latin America call for socialism
Final declaration of the 6th Congress of countryside organizations affiliated with La Via Campesina, held April 10-16, 2015, in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Declaration of the International Forum for Agroecology
Real solutions will not come from the industrial model. Agroecology is a key form of resistance to an economic system that puts profit before life.
Declaration of South African Food Sovereignty Campaign
Break the power of food corporations. Establish a constitutional right to food. Build food sovereignty from below, based on small scale farming and agroecology, not industrial agriculture
Philippines socialists: Capitalism cannot be sustainable
‘Capitalism, a global system that puts profits before people, has brought us to the brink of a climate-induced catastrophe that can destroy humanity.’
The Freetown Declaration on land grabbing in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has experienced a mass influx of foreign investors acquiring large tracts of arable and forest land for agriculture and mining
European Left congress calls for ecosocialism
“Ecosocialism, meaning socioecological transformation, is a new synthesis to face the challenge of both social and environmental crisis, which have the same roots”
Protect food security, end biofuel subsidies and support
Artificial demand for biofuels is undermining the right to food, causing significant increases in food insecurity, malnutrition, and land-grabbing. European and North American governments must end policies that undermine food by promoting biofuels
A declaration on climate justice
“We demand a world where our children and future generations are assured of fair and just opportunities for social stability, employment, a healthy planet and prosperity.”
A framework for uniting ecosocialists in action
An appropriate and principled framework for bringing all varieties of ecosocialists together in action against capitalist ecocide and for a just world.
US Greens propose steps to economic and ecological sanity
A deep green program for saving the world and building better lives: Reduce working hours and ensure that everyone has enough work while no one is overworked, while building safer and healthier communities.
International manifesto of the women of Via Campesina
We are fighting for our rights, against neo-liberalism and patriarchy, for food sovereignty with gender justice
Quito declaration on ecosocialism and 'buen vivir'
On June 10-12, Ecuador’s National Institute of Advanced Studies (IAEN, Spanish acronym) held an international symposium on Crisis of civilization, ecosocialism and ‘buen vivir’ . (“Buen Vivir” is usually translated as “living well,” but its meaning is closer to “living appropriately.”) Over three days, the participants debated among themselves and discussed issues with the organizers and government representatives, […]
Québec ecosocialists adopt basis for unity and action
Update on the Réseau écosocialiste, and a translation of its founding statement. “Ecosocialism advocates the distribution of wealth, ecological and democratic planning, and popular sovereignty.”
To reclaim our future, we must change the present! A program for changing the system, not the climate
“We will not allow the capitalist system to burn us all. We will take action and address the root causes of climate change by changing the system.”
Call for a global campaign to demand climate justice
World Social Forum participants urge broad unity in a global campaign to stave off catastrophic climate change
UK Greens shift left
Convention approves changes to focus on social and environmental justice