India’s satirically-titled Cockroach Janata (People’s) Party (CJP) campaign, a youth movement demanding transparency and accountability, forced Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) education minister Dharmendra Pradhan to resign on July 25.
This ministerial resignation is the Asian Gen Z movements’ latest blow against government corruption and repressive far-right politics.
Modi and the BJP are the leading force for the far right in Asia and, perhaps worldwide, the most closely allied to fascist organising.
The BJP is part of the Hindutva (Hindu chauvinist) Sangh Parivar group of organisations, formed by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh paramilitary movement. These organisations use mob violence alongside the power and wealth of their members in the upper reaches of the country’s hierarchy.
Green Left’s articles and interviews with activists provide an opening for understanding what has generated Asia’s Gen Z movements — from Nepal to the Philippines to Indonesia.
For Australian activists, developing a deeper grasp of these movements’ dynamics and sense of solidarity with them is vital. We can also play a role in linking them to international struggles more broadly and the fight for an ecosocialist future.
They are our allies against Australia’s capitalist imperialism, which is a power holding back liberation across our region.
GL is proud to sponsor Ecosocialism 2026 conference, which starts in the evening of September 11 and continues through the weekend of September 12 and 13, in Magan-djin/Brisbane at the Albion Peace Centre. The conference is themed “Resistance, Decolonialisation, Liberation” and its agenda is available online.
Ecosocialism 2026 will feature speakers from India (N Sai Balaji), Malaysia (Kirisna Veni Singham), Pakistan (Ayesha Ahmad), the Philippines (Khyl Ramos) and Singapore (Rocky and Yong Feng). Together, they will provide great insights into Asia’s new left.
Brazilian political economist and ecosocialist activist Sabrina Fernandes is the conference’s special guest speaker. Western Sahara independence representative Kamal Fadel is also attending.
Joining the conference online are: Mariana Riscali from Brazil’s Socialist Left Movement (MES), on opposing Trump’s push for a new colonialism in Latin America; Canadian ecosocialist author of Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, Ian Angus; Democratic Socialists of America National Political Committee member Ella Teevan; and development academic and Cuban solidarity activist Helen Yaffe.
First Nations justice fighters Nerelle Nicol and Sam Watson will speak on sovereignty and solidarity, while Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, president of the Australia Nuclear Free Alliance, will head the panel against AUKUS and Australian imperialism, alongside Abigail Boyd, NSW Greens Member of the Legislative Council, and Sam Wainwright, Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and Senate candidate.
Palestinian-Australian Remah Naji and Haidar Eid, based in South Africa, will join Janet Parker, a founding member of Jews for Palestine WA, and Socialist Alliance Brisbane branch convenor Alex Bainbridge, to speak on the fight for Palestine against the Zionist project for an Israeli Jewish ethno-nationalist state and how to overcome the repression of the solidarity movement here.
Activists will also present on trans rights campaigning, opposing the Iran war, solidarity with West Papua and Rojava, prison abolition, women’s liberation, organising workers and the fight against tech company dominance and environmental destruction through AI and data centres. Markela Panegyres and James Hillier/Nordacious are among the artists discussing “cultural intifada” and exhibiting at the conference.
The Ecosocialism 2026 speakers’ line-up is exceptional, but the conference in Magan-djin/Brisbane will be better still if you are there!
Visit the website and book your tickets. You can also help make the conference a success by donating to our crowdfund to bring First Nations and international guests to the conference.
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