Historical agency for system change at a time of exacerbating social, political and climate crises
As globalized capitalism is pushing us off the cliff to civilizational collapse through climate crisis, wars, increased cost of living and austerity, ever-increasing precarious and deregulated working conditions for wage and non-wage labor, the crisis of care, neocolonial extractive projects and the rise of authoritarian regimes, social movements around the world are looking for ways to organize and mobilize the grave-diggers of capitalism.
This task requires that we have a relatively clear understanding of who those grave-diggers would be: who is the historical subject for system change?
This webinar is about class struggle. It is about how the antagonism between capital and labor play out in today’s world.
13 March - 20:00 UTC - Online
Speakers
Sergio was born in Romania and migrated to Germany in 2012. In the past he was a social worker with houseless people and social consultant for eastern european migrants for different organisations. Trained as a filmmaker, he spent 2 years trying to make a documentary about the “civic reawakening” in Romania and the protest waves it brought with it. This put him on a path to co-steer the development of an online open-source participative knowledge production platform on activism in Romania which will be launched later this year. Nonetheless, his biggest focus since 2020 has been his work as an organizer with the anarcho syndicalist Free Workers Union, where he focuses mostly on organising Romanian migrant workers on construction sites, factories and in the agricultural field.
Irina Velicu is a researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her work has been focused on environmental movements in Eastern Europe, commons and political aesthetics.
Leonor Canadas is a climate justice activist in Climáximo, based in Lisbon. She took part in the coordination of the portuguese Climate Jobs Campaign, and in the Global Climate Jobs Network. She participated in the writing of two of the campaign’s reports. She has a masters in Organic Farming and Food Systems, and is specially interested in Agroecology and Agroforestry.
Moderator: Sinan Eden is the co-author of the book All In. He is an organizer and trainer, lately mostly active in the climate justice movement.