Organisers: Transnational Institute, Alternative Information Development Centre, NOOR, Asia-Europe People’s Forum & Global Network of Movement Lawyers
Join our eight-week teach-in series to go beyond the headlines and uncover the deeper forces shaping our world. Leading thinkers and activists from across the globe will analyze the challenges we face and explore the strategies needed to resist injustice and build a just, sustainable future.
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We are in a fractured world – and we need to understand it to change it. Neoliberalism is cracking apart, age-old alliances are being abandoned, fascist leaders are coming to power, repression of activists is escalating, and marginalised communities are being targeted with ever more brutal force. Social justice movements face a new reality and need new strategies, tactics, and a renewed internationalism to resist. Fractures may cause chaos and division, but they also open up new possibilities—especially if we work strategically, concertedly, and globally.
This eight-week teach-in series will take a step back from the frenzy of news and dig beneath the surface to the long-term global trends that underpin this moment. It will bring together leading progressive and critical thinkers and activists from around the world to reflect on key global dynamics, the challenges and opportunities they pose for all those committed to social and environmental justice, and the tactics and strategies we need to move forward.
Programme
30 April:What will the new world order look like?
What is the future for US imperialism? What are China’s global aspirations? Can the global South be a collective agent for progressive change?
7 May: Is the ‘liberal’ post-WWII international order dying?
What was the promise and reality of the liberal order? Did it deserve to die? What is the future for international law and multilateralism? What will replace it? What should we demand in its place?
14 May: Do we still live in a neoliberal world?
How are the dynamics of capital and class changing? How is Big Tech reshaping capitalism? How does muscular state capitalism and trade wars reshape neoliberalism? How should we articulate public democratic economic alternatives? Can we re-create a democratic state, which has been so delegitimised by corporate take-over, cronyism and corruption?
21 May: Why is the far-right on the rise?
What is the agenda of the far-right? How has the far-right secured the support of anti-elite anger – and appeased by the traditional right? Where did the left go wrong? How can we survive authoritarian rule and best resist misogyny and racism? Where are the fractures in the Right that need to be broken open?
28 May: Are we headed to World War III?
How did global rearmament become hegemonic? What are the intentions of global powers? How do we stop the arms race? How will tech change warfare? How can we rebuild the global peace movement?
4 June: Amidst these global fractures, can we save our planet?
Why has the existential threat of climate crisis been cast aside by so many centrist and far-right political leaders? Why is climate denialism on the rise? What are the paths today towards ecological and climate justice?
11 June: How do we win?
What will social movements look like in the newly emerging era? What does global resistance look like? How do we build a new common sense in an age of internet eco-chambers? What can we learn from recent and past uprisings and movements to sustain them and take power?
18 June: How do we build liberated futures?
What are our imagined liberated futures? How can we build these within and beyond a fractured world? What are the alternatives that social movements are investing time, energy, resources and solidarity into building and sustaining?
