Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

13 Global struggles for climate justice and the ALBA-TCP Council of Social Movements

An activist perspective

Alice Cutler and Yasmine Brien

 

Here, what is at issue is whether we are going to live or we are going to die, here we are debating if we are going to save lives or we are going to kill. And, clearly, the differences are in relation to temperatures … if they rise by two degrees centigrade then islands of the world, the snows of the Andean mountains, and the rest of the world, will be wiped out. It's very serious, and our peoples are not going to accept it. Sooner or later they are going to judge.

(Morales, 2009)¹

From armed uprisings to neighbourhood assemblies, mass land occupations and burning blockades, social movements have played ...