There is an urgent problem to solve. Our progressive societies and political organisations are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They've been there for some time and are imploding in uncertainty. Everyone - organisers and otherwise - is increasingly aware of two sets of information. The first is that the capitalist system is the fundamental cause of the climate crisis and has no prospect of resolving it. The logical consequence is that the task of progressive movements is to dismantle capitalism. The second piece of information is the threat of uncontrolled warming cascading into climate chaos. In other words: urgency. These two sets of information are extremely heavy. That's why progressive movements need a framework that is politically honest, analytically rigorous and emotionally connected. This framework must push society towards the greatest transformation that has ever taken place in history.

In this seminar, we will talk about this theory and strategy for change with Mariana Rodrigues and Sinan Eden, activists in the Climáximo movement and authors of the recently published book All in: A revolutionary theory to stop climate collapse. We'll talk about the book as a proposed strategy and organisational tool for the movement; their conceptualisation of the “climate justice movement” as “anti-capitalism with a deadline”; the “movement-as-party” organisational model; and the other interconnected issues that arise from this perspective: globalisation, ecofeminism, working class struggles, transformative strategies, movement capacities and the ecology of social movements.
 

Bio notes

Mariana Rodrigues is a Gen Z born in Portugal. She is an organiser and trainer of social movements, with experience in international networks, a strong taste for team building and revolutionary intersectional approaches. She is optimistic and frustrated with the state of the world, a master of improvisation, and much more of a doer than a writer.

Sinan Eden is a millennial born in Turkey. He has lived in Portugal since 2011 and has a PhD in Mathematics. He is an organiser and trainer, with a strong taste for theory and dialectics. He hasn’t reading as much as he'd like and has probably been to too many meetings.