114. 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 TROUBLEand 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