Leftists Need Holidays, Too -- All Power to the Imagination!
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- Published on Tuesday, 25 December 2018 18:00
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How shall we celebrate?
DECEMBER 25, 2018 Dear SCNCC member or friend,As we prepare to ring in the New Year, we encourage you to take a look at our most recent articles, beginning with Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith's inspiring piece on creating our own holidays of resistance to oppression and celebrations of our struggle for a better world. Contrary to Mrs. Thatcher, there are many alternatives.
Herman Daly, John Bellamy Foster, Kerryn Higgs, Giorgios Kallis, Alex Khasnabish, Ashish Kothari, Simon Mair, Mary Mellor, and Vishwas Satgar, and
You might think that a video portraying migration from Central America as a side effect of climate change would evoke knee-jerk approval from SCNCC, but SCNCC's Sandra Lindberg explains why even a "favorable" storyline can be misleading. It runs out that the Financial Times is not yet ready to deal with the legacy of imperialism.
As Marxists, we don't believe in crystal balls, but we confidently predict that 2019 will be a tumultuous year in U.S. and world politics. For the ecosocialist movement, 2019 may be the most significant year yet. Ted Franklin's article argues that climate activists must get to work on the struggle to define the Green New Deal, a concept that has suddenly gone viral. Will the Ecoleft gain enough strength to define the Green New Deal in proto-socialist terms or will it become watered down into an empty slogan that provides Democrats with a fig leaf while they barely budge from the "all-of-the-above" hypocrisy of the Obama years.
The report on the COP24 from Poland and William Robinson's speech on the Global Police State remind us that the task of creating a majoritarian movement that can fight capitalism on many fronts is urgent. Maybe the Green New Deal will be the key that unlocks the door.
Warm greetings for the New Year!
The Crew at System Change Not Climate Change
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