Climáximo attended the Second Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting, which took place from November 8th to 11th in Belém do Pará, Brazil.
During the four days, hundreds of activists, militants, indigenous people, and community representatives gathered to discuss ecosocialism not only as our vision for a better post-capitalist world, but also as a strategy to confront extractivism, plunder, and the attacks of war that governments and corporations declare on the peoples of the world and the planet.
On the first day, we analysed the current situation, pointing out the increase in the murder of leaders in Brazil, as well as the lack of progress made by the Lula government in defending indigenous peoples and their territories. Alongside this, comrades from Colombia highlighted the failure of progressivism to put the brakes on climate collapse – evident in the new oil exploration projects in the Amazon approved by Lula.
On the second day, we witnessed the launch of the Pueblos Contra el Extractivismo platform, in the context of increasingly aggressive extractivism (particularly in the Global South) linked to growing militarisation and digitalisation. In addition, the escalation of imperialist aggression by the United States against Latin America and other peoples was highlighted.
On the third day, we heard from comrades from Togo on the extractivism panel reporting on the advance of oil and gas exploration on the African continent. On the indigenous peoples panel, we reaffirmed our refusal to participate in COP30 and in institutional processes that have only worsened the situation of peoples. In the afternoon, comrades from the @fueramekorot campaign shared their struggle in Argentina against Mekorot, the Israeli water company that is complicit in both apartheid in Palestine and the privatisation of water, a common good, in Argentine territory.
On the last day, we participated in the panel “Dialogues between Latin America and Europe: internationalist and intercontinental ecosocialist strategy”. There, we reaffirmed the fight against the fossil fuel industry as the backbone of what should be an intercontinental ecosocialist strategy.
The following steps were agreed upon:
- the VII International Ecosocialist Meetings in 2026 in Belgium
- the Ecosocialist Seminar in Brazil, within the framework of the International Anti-Fascist Meeting
- the III Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting in 2027 in Colombia
Climáximo is an internationalist collective and we deeply believe that only with common strategies and global solidarity can we overcome the climate crisis. The Meeting in Belém allowed us to strengthen ties with collectives and processes from other latitudes, contributing to greater rapprochement and a step forward in the common construction of ecosocialism as a vision and strategy to stop barbarism.
Long live the peoples of the world, united in solidarity and in the struggle against imperialism, extractivism and capitalism!
