Maria Alejandra Escalante

Tierra & Libertad / Arte, cuerpo & baile / @NGCB_Climate advisor at @GreengrantsFund / Climate Justice at @fridafund / Board @ThisIsRecrear and @cjrFUND

[Post Growth Institute @postgrowth]

Philanthropic business-as-usual must be composted.

Trimita Chakma, Post Growth Fellow, show us how to shift from charity to reparation.

The guidebook introduces a “sunset gift-making” pilot that moved thousands of dollars and five principles: https://t.co/qUx1BMtHpY

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton

Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Link below!

[Bertha ZuCa @BerthaZuniga1]

👏🏽 Se declara culpables al exalcalde y exvicealcalde de San Francisco de Ojuera, Raúl Pineda y Plutarco Mejía por violación al derecho de Consulta Previa, Libre e Informada del pueblo Lenca para beneficiar a un grupo de oligarcas de apellido Atala Zablah. #JusticiaParaBerta

[JPS @Peasant_Journal]

🚨 Only 5 days left! Applications for the Africa Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism (Cape Town, South Africa) are closing soon. Submit your application now—don’t miss this opportunity!

[JPS @Peasant_Journal]

Call for Applications - Asia regional Writeshop in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar Activism 2025 1-12 July, Beijing. For PhD students and early career researchers based in, or are originally from, Southeast Asia, South Asia and China.
https://t.co/b4HXm1HwXC

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Social democracy is not a viable alternative to capitalism. It is a tempting prospect, but ultimately suffers from violent contradictions that cannot be sustained.

Social democracy tries to establish a compromise between (a) capitalism, and (b) socialist demands for fair wages, good public services, and environmental protections. But the latter represents a real problem for capital. It increases input prices, and increases workers’ bargaining power, and makes capital accumulation very difficult to achieve.

One way to resolve this tension is to abandon capital accumulation and transition to a post-capitalist economy where production is democratically organized around human well-being and ecology (in other words, socialism).

But social democracy, which is ultimately committed to capitalism, takes a different approach. It resolves the tension through imperialism. Social democratic states appropriate cheap labour and nature from the global South, from an external “outside”, thus allowing them to offer good wages and public services at home while also maintaining the conditions for capital accumulation.

Even states that may seem neutral or benevolent, like some of the Scandinavian countries, benefit from a massive net-appropriation of labour and resources from the global South through dynamics of unequal exchange, which enables them to sustain the social democratic compromise.

Crucially, while this option is available to states in the imperial core, it is generally not available to states in the periphery. In the periphery, when capitalists face progressive demands from unions and environmental defenders, they don’t have the option of conceding and then relying on imperialist appropriation to maintain accumulation. There is no “outside” for them. Their only option is to crush the progressive demands. Indeed they often do this with the direct support of the core states.

This is why so many capitalist states in the South are characterized by violence and repression. It is not because they are somehow intrinsically given to violence… it is because capitalism *requires* violence. By contrast, the core states can have nice human rights at home because they externalize the violence that capitalism requires.

Social democracy offers only the illusion of a solution. An illusion for some, that is. The Congolese coltan miners and Bangladeshi sweatshop workers that supply Western multinational firms are of course under no such illusion.

The only real solution is to overcome capitalism and achieve a post-capitalist economy. It is 100% possible to have a functioning economy that ensures human well-being and ecological stability *without* needing imperialism. But it requires abandoning capital accumulation.

[COPINH @COPINHHONDURAS]

¡Victoria Popular! ⚖️✊

📌Magistrados de la Corte Suprema de Justicia confirman la condena a Sergio Rodríguez como autor del asesinato de Berta Cáceres. ¡30 años de prisión!

👉🏾Desde el COPINH, refrendamos nuestro compromiso con la justicia en Honduras y la reivindicación de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas por los que luchó Berta Cáceres. No bajaremos la guardia hasta que todos los responsables de su asesinato, incluyendo la familia Atala, enfrenten las consecuencias de sus crímenes.

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

What are the ways forward for climate action under Trump?

National policy is foreclosed. But a lot can happen at the state and local level. @aldatweets and I argue that we must embrace green economic populism, tackling the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis together 🧵

[Alyssa Battistoni @alybatt]

This year I finally finished my book, Free Gifts, which will be out in August with @PrincetonUPress https://t.co/nsS7c4qJRW

[TarEEK! LaSCARE 🦇🎃 @tarequelaskar]

I am once again asking everyone to read:

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

BREAKING 🇰🇷 The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions will begin an indefinite general strike tomorrow, demanding the immediate resignation of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

[NDN Collective @ndncollective]

As Indigenous Peoples, we reject colonial holidays rooted in the genocidal erasure of our existence. We demand #LANDBACK to reclaim sovereignty, repair ties with Mother Earth, and protect Indigenous ways of life—honoring them for generations to come.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance https://t.co/WAwOe3w0G8

[Bertha ZuCa @BerthaZuniga1]

💗Esta sentencia reafirma la verdad de mi mamá y el pueblo #Lenca y es resultado de la luchas de tantas personas y organizaciones con las que nos sentimos muy agradecidas. ¡La lucha continúa hasta que caigan los autores intelectuales del crimen!
✊¡Berta Vive, la lucha sigue!

[Teresa Anderson @1TeresaAnderson]

My @ActionAid reaction to climate finance text at #COP29: 👇

"This text is not worth the paper it's written on. Almost nothing of what frontline countries have been fighting for is in here.
1/4

[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

📢As #COP29 runs seriously into overtime, the 🌏Global #ClimateJustice movement ⚖️ continues to push ✊ for a New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) the delivers at least US$ 1.3 trillion a year for #ClimateAction 🚫🏭🔥 in the #GlobalSouth! #NoDealIsBetterThanABadDeal

[Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj]

Breaking: #COP29 formally adopts dangerous rules on #CarbonMarkets while developed countries effectively abandon global efforts to prevent a total climate collapse. Quotes from Global South: https://t.co/CbB6JwysuM #FalseSolutions @FoEint @GFC_forests Media: [email protected]

[Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @LossandDamage]

1/3. “Right now we have US$ 250 billion on the table, but it's all about mobilising and not about actually providing. We know from our experience of the US$ 100 billion [goal set in 2009] that mobilising is close to meaningless.” @brandoncwu of @ActionAidUSA on the current negotiating text for the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) at #COP29.

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

The thing about a political strategy that focuses on winning affluent voters is that under capitalism there are simply more working class people than there are capitalists or professional managers

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

Precisely. Some claim things cannot get worse. They absolutely can.

Look to any country where the prisons are bursting with political prisoners. There is no shame in voting against even worse.

Fascists triumph when we lose our capacity to think strategically.