A Global Forum that did look up

The days 10 Y 11 This socio-environmental event was held in September, organized by the International Socialist League. With bimodal participation (face-to-face and virtual) of hundreds of participants in countries of the 5 continents, the presentations and debates of high-level panels were followed. Wide geographical representation and topics of full political validity. Paraphrasing the title of Di Caprio's film, we say that, in this Global Forum, yes we look up.

Writes: Mariano Rosa, Ecosocialist coordinator of the Network of Argentina.

The Forum exceeded all our expectations. From the first minute, with a kickoff panel that featured representations from Pakistan, Lebanon and Brazil, to the end with Central America at the center of the debate and the strategic solution to the crisis of civilization, attendees received and interacted with a true world report of the socio-environmental panorama. There were testimonies of direct intervention in mobilization processes, there were theoretical and political definitions, there were alternative proposals and there were, especially, background matches on key issues:

• Pakistan and its reality of humanitarian catastrophe, and the international campaign promoted by the LIS in support of the activity of "La Lucha", your national section.
• The Libano, and the role of governments, regime and native bourgeoisie in the poor transportation and waste infrastructure in the country, which has huge environmental consequences..
• Brazil, with the reality of the deforestation disaster in the Amazon, green lung of the planet. And the continuities between Lula-Dilma and Bolsonaro.
• The very rich debate on the ecological balance of Stalinism in Eastern Europe and the deepening with restored capitalism, in addition to very interesting exhibitions of referents of the region.
• There was an in-depth approach to extractivism in its various expressions, and the socio-environmental agenda in Argentina. Also from Curitiba, the experience of popular veganism was incorporated.
• From Australia to South Asia, with an ecosocialist perspective in the background and the controversies against the false ideologies spread by the factories of capitalism, as well as the contribution of thesis on the democratic planning of the economy appealing to advanced tools of cybernetics, another instance was developed in the Forum.
• Africa with a dramatic and objective X-ray, of the balance of colonialism of looting and depredation, especially impacted, for the very informed and solid explanations of the Kenyan participants.
• Finally, Central America, has extraordinary biodiversity attacked by corporations and local governments, threatened by the imperialist looting matrix, was the closing theme with contributions from Panama and Nicaragua, as well as a more global perspective from Marxism for an alternative to overcome the ecocidal disaster of the system.

Definitely: two day exchange, learning, theoretical flight and accumulation of militant experience in the territory.

Strategic Coincidences and Challenges

There was a very strong general agreement, around locating the logic of the world capitalist system as the central cause, of the planetary ecological disaster. profit as axis, the economic crisis of more than a decade as a trigger for mechanisms of greater exploitation, oppressions and commodification of nature, were essential consensus data among the papers in general. In this sense, the contributions of professors Renán Vega Cantor and Fernando Benjumea from Colombia, they clarified. The experiences contributed by the Pakistani comrades were important, Lebanese and Brazilian, as well as the information about Africa from the exhibitors of that panel. There was a novel approach from the Spanish-speaking Collective CibCom, around the use of technology in socialist economic planning, with democracy from below. Also the explanation about the false equivalence between Stalinism and socialism in relation to environmental policy, the rescue of the first years of experience in the Russian revolution under Lenin and Trotsky, developed by Alejandro Bodart of the LIS Executive Committee. In my case, I had to present arguments to unmask the false solutions of green capitalism, in its most hegemonic versions and that of the Green New Deal, coming from the USA. As well, point out in part the tasks that we have set in the phase that we have to go through, of heightened sensitivity to climate and ecosystem collapse. Capitalism in its current nature, counterrevolutionary and ecocidal, It leads us to a point of no return in the plane of the destruction of the planet and its scope is international.. Clearly, the challenge ahead, is to strengthen the international organization to respond to the task of saving the planet from disaster at the hands of these sorcerer's apprentices who are the members of the most dangerous minority in history: he 1 % capitalist who in his quest for profit leaves nothing in his path.

Look up: activate ecosocialism and revolution

The good news, is that there is an exponential growth, enormous socio-environmental and planetary awareness in the world, especially in youth, but that is permeating middle sectors, popular and even, incipiently working class (there have been strikes challenging laws enabling pollution industries or there is a growing awareness in the teaching and health worker sectors). Thus, Based on this good news, the challenges we have are:

1. Explain and become specialists in disseminating our proposals for ecological socialism, of revolutionary environmentalism or ecosocialism, as the most practical and realistic way to ensure social rights, real mass political democracy and ecosystem rescue of the planet. We have a transition program to reorganize the matrix of production and consumption on a global scale.
2. This pedagogical task, fight of ideas, we have to spread it like a positive pandemic in places of study, work and especially, in the struggles that take place for causes in defense of common goods and nature. the battle of ideas, is essential and for that political preparation.
3. And the third challenge and strategic task, urgent, it is to consciously activate political militancy of revolutionary ecology connected with a joint program for social transformation: of the economy, of relationships between people, of the political system, of everything. It is not environmentalism separated from a more comprehensive road map that locates the struggle for power to transform everything, but a militant political action, building a must-have tool for all this: militant international organization, with their national organizations as tentacles of the urgent revolution, unpostponable. The International Socialist League is the contribution we make to this decisive international task – capital is internationalist, the ecocidal counterrevolution, is international-, our response has to be on that scale now, yes, urgent. And each party or national organization of the ISL has its share in the international division of revolutionary and ecosocialist labor., win over hundreds and thousands of new activists for this realistic cause of removing from power the sorcerer's apprentices who, for now, mandan. There is no time for indifference. There's no room to wait: it is now and it is a fight of many and many. With wide open eyes, looking up.