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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #114,
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Riexinger, et al. A Left
Green New Deal.
Two Books for Making
Active Trouble for Change:
The Art of Activism.
Beautiful Trouble
A Left Green New Deal: An Internationalist Blueprint.
Edited by Bernd Riexinger, Lia Becker, Katharina Dahme and Christina Kaindl. Monthly Review P, 2022.
100pp.
With the cascading effects of multiple ongoing health and
economic crises, conditions are ripe for the emergence of a global progressive
social project capable of moving us beyond business-as-usual and eradicating
the fundamental causes of misery: namely, a global Green New Deal. But simply
creating new “green jobs” within the current capitalist system is not nearly
enough. If we are to take on climate
change, it is imperative that we first of all engage in “system change,” a
process rooted in socialism. Shifting beyond the American notion of the Green New Deal and
adding vital internationalist dimension, A Left Green New Deal provides
just such a blueprint for this worldwide undertaking.
Written by Bernd Riexinger and his team in the German DIE LINKE
[the left] Party, A Left Green New Deal unveils
the powerful opponents of a genuine, left-wing Green New Deal—corporations, the
wealthy, the ultra-rich and their political allies. But it also discloses the
creation of a potent new counterforce, embodied in a left-wing mobilization
strategy developed by DIE LINKE. This organizing model is based in “connective
party politics”— transformative organizing practices that reach across class
lines within and beyond the party. This essential book provides both a Left
Green New Deal platform and the inspiration necessary to lay a path towards an
alternate future.
Two Books on Making Active Trouble for Change
Steve
Duncombe and Steve Lambert. The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible. Causing GOOD TROUBLE and learning from seasoned activists and artists around the
world. “A thrilling invitation [to] fight the power.”—Douglas
Rushkoff
Beautiful Trouble: A TOOLBOX FOR REVOLUTION. Assembled by ANDREW BOYD with DAVE OSWALD MITCHELL.
“A crash course in the
emerging field of carnivalesque realpolitik, both elegant and incendiary.” —Naomi Klein
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