Organisers are pleased to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 — with the theme “Ecosocialism not Barbarism” — will for the first time feature in-person speakers from the United States and Latin America.
The sixth annual Ecosocialism will be in Naarm/Melbourne, over September 5–7, and is once again organised by Green Left, Socialist Alliance, LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal and Resistance Books.
Cyn Huang, a student and labour activist based in Berkeley, California, will attend in-person. Huang is a member of Bread and Roses, a Marxist tendency inside the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), with members in trade unions and campuses across the country, as well as three city councillors.
Also addressing the conference from the US (via livestream) will be Promise Li, a socialist from Hong Kong, now based in Los Angeles. Li is a member of Tempest Collective and Solidarity, and has been active in higher education rank-and-file union work, international solidarity, anti-war campaigns and Chinatown tenant organising.
They will be joined by Israel Dutra, a leader of Brazil’s largest radical left party, the Freedom and Socialist Party (PSOL). Dutra is a member of the PSOL national executive and is secretary for social movements. He is a national leader of the Socialist Left Movement, a revolutionary socialist current within PSOL.
Aya Clamor, a writer, researcher and National Council Member of the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM) in The Philippines, is also confirmed to speak. Clamor has been involved in youth organising, political education and grassroots campaigns.
The three will be joining Merck Maguddayao, also from the PLM, as well as Amanda Shweeta Louis and Gandipan Nantha Gopalan from the Socialist Party of Malaysia, Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana and Rizaldi Ageng Wicaksono from the Socialist Union (Indonesia), N Sai Balaji from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Ammar Ali Jan from the People’s Rights Party (Pakistan), Youngsu Won from Pnyx — Korean Institute for Marxist Studies and a labour researcher from Singapore.
To help cover the costs of hosting such a large international attendance, conference organisers have launched a fundraising campaign, with a target of $5000. Green Left encourages its readers to support the campaign by pitching in, as well as buying your conference ticket today.
[For more information visit Ecosocialism.]