Sessions recorded at Ecosocialism 2025: Ecosocialism not barbarism, held in Naarm/Melbourne.

Ecosocialism 2025 brought together activists from across the Indo-Pacific to share experiences in how we can resist Capitalism's drive to barbarism and build the mass movements that we need.

Speakers included:

  • Adam Hanieh – Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter and co-author of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine
  • Amanda Shweeta Louis – Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)
  • Amin G Abbas – Free Palestine Melbourne, Melbourne for Palestine and Palestine National Day
  • Ammar Ali Jan – general secretary of the Haqooq-e-Khalq (Peoples Rights) Party and a member of the Council of Advisors of the Progressive International
  • Arama Rata – Māori researcher, writer, and organiser whose work centres on Indigenous solidarities and Internationalism; anti-colonial methodologies; and liberatory pedagogies
  • Celeste Liddle – Arrernte woman, union organiser, freelance writer and activist
  • Cyn Huang – Bread and Roses caucus inside the Democratic Socialists of America
  • Damoon Jehani – researcher on Iranian Kurdish politics and documentary filmmaker
  • Janet Parker – Jews for Palestine WA and member of Socialist Alliance
  • Merck Maguddayao – Partido Lakas Ng Masa (Philippines party of the Labouring Masses (PLM), Philippines
  • Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana – Perserikatan Sosialis/Socialist Union, Indonesia
  • Nilüfer Koç – spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)
  • N Sai Balaji – Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
  • Raelene Cooper – Mardudhunera woman, former Chair of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, founder of Save our Songlines
  • Reihana Mohideen – Party of the Laboring Masses, Philippines
  • Senator Lidia Thorpe – Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung activist and Independent Senator for Victoria
  • Sue Bolton – veteran socialist activist, member of Socialist Alliance National Executive, and councillor on Merri-bek City Council
  • Youngsu Won – director of Pnyx — Korean Institute for Marxist Studies.

Panels included:

  • Always was, always will be! First Nations fight back for sovereignty
  • Crisis in the Middle East: A Kurdish perspective
  • Palestine: The moral issue of our time
  • Pushing back against Trump and the far-right billionaire class
  • Rebuilding socialist politics in Southeast Asia
  • The struggle for democracy in Asia.

Check out the highlight videos below, or see more highlights of Ecosocialism 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020.

Highlight Videos