When/Where
Friday, 13th January 2023
19:00-21:30
Saturday, 14th January 2023
10:30-20:00
Volkshaus Zurich
Stauffacherstrasse 60, 8004 Zürich
Solidarity Party
On Saturday, from 21:00: Food and drinks at Provitreff, Sihlquai 240, 8005 Zürich
Childcare
Am Samstag 10:30 Uhr im Foyer des Volkshaus und ab 11:00 Uhr in der Spielbaracke auf dem Kanzleiareal.
Livestream
The following events at the Other Davos 2023 will be available via livestream on YouTube:
– Plenary Session: Perspectives of Solidarity in a burning World
– The Iranian Revolution and International Solidarity
– Resistance Against War and Neoliberalism in Ukraine
– Plenary Session: For an Internationalist Antifascism!
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In Solidarity Against Inflation, Climate-Disaster and War
The pandemic has not yet been overcome and the world is already being shaken by a host of new crises, which combine to create a complicated situation for the ruling classes and the emancipatory movements. These are combining to create a complicated situation for the ruling classes and emancipatory movements. The developments are so dynamic that even the World Economic Forum (WEF), which will take place in Davos from 16-20 January 2023, has so far held back with releasing a motto or any announcements on topics to be discussed. The business elites warn: The world is at a critical turning point at which the sheer number of ongoing crises requires courageous collective action. On this we can agree, although our understanding of collective action is rather different from that of the rich and powerful of this world. In 2023, they will be meeting in the Swiss mountains to discuss how they can save the profits of the capitalists for as long as possible – at the expense of the poor and the climate.
With the Other Davos that will take place in Zurich from 13-14 January 2023, we pursue another agenda. The situation of multiple of crises in which we find ourselves in Europe can only be answered with solidarity. In view of the dramatically rising energy and food prices and the growing poverty, it is important and necessary that campaigns for affordable prices are taking place in many places in Europe. However, the ecological dimensions of the crisis are completely ignored in many of these. We must drastically reduce our consumption of energy, raw materials and CO2 emissions. How can we at the same time achieve a good life for all people? The climate, energy and food price crises require an perspective of international solidarity. While we in the rich North are afraid of a cold winter, many people in the Global South lack the most basic necessities.
Russia and Iran are just two examples of dictatorial regimes whose income is largely based on the export of oil and gas. Practising solidarity with the Ukrainian and Iranian resistance therefore also means implementing the phase-out of fossil fuels as quickly and comprehensively as possible.
That is why the motto of the Other Davos 2023 is “In solidarity against inflation, climate catastrophe & war“. Guests include the Ukrainian sociologist Yuliya Yurchenko, the Ukrainian activist Tasha Lomonosova (Sotsialnyi Rukh) and the Lausanne-based Ukrainian activist Socialist Hanna Perekhoda (solidaritéS), Russian journalist Ilya Matveev (Posle Magazine), economic geographist Christian Zeller (author of “Revolution for Climate Change”), Simon Pirani (author of “Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption”), Iranian activist Niloofar Rasooli, trade unionists from the UK, Italy and Germany, as well as journalists from the weekly newspaper WOZ.
The conference is organised by the Movement for Socialism (BFS/MPS) and will take place at the Volkshaus Zurich. We are wearing Masks (FFP2). The discussions will be translated into German, English and French and partly streamed live. All information on the programme, organisation and streams can be found at sozialismus.ch
Workshops and Plenary Sessions
Friday Evening (19:00-21:30)
Plenary Session: Perspectives of Solidarity in a burning World
We are currently experiencing a dramatic escalation of the contradictions of capitalist society. War, ecological crisis, inflation and poverty are raising the stakes of the challenges the left is facing. Our answers must inevitably question capitalist power and property relations.
With:
Yuliya Yurchenko, lecturer in political economy at the University of Greenwich (UK) and activist of the Ukrainian socia- list organisation Sotsialnyi Rukh (SR),
Ilya Matveev, exiled social activist and political scientist (originally from St. Petersburg), contributor to the anti-war magazine Posle,
Charlotte Powell, activist with a London Tenants’ Union (LRU) and Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century (rs21),
Simon Pirani, author of Burning Up: a global history of fossil fuel consumption, Honorary Professor at Durham University,
Jonna Klick, commons Institute, author of keimform.de,
and activists from the Movement for Socialism (BFS).
Saturday Morning (10:30 – 13:00):
Workshop: The Iranian Revolution and International Solidarity
With:
Niloofar Rasooli, historian and journalist focusing on conflicts and women’s history in Iran,
and an other Iranian activists.
Saturday Morning (10:30 – 13:00):
Workshop: Russian Imperialism and Putin’s Future
With:
Ilya Matveev, exiled socialist activist and political scientist (originally from St. Petersburg), contributor to the anti-war magazine Posle,
and Anna Jikhareva, reporter for the weekly newspaper WOZ.
Saturday Morning (10:30 – 13:00):
Workshop: Tackle the Energy-Crisis with Ecologically and with Solidarity!
With:
Christian Zeller, professor of economic geography in Salzburg and author of “Revolution für das Klima. Why we need an eco-socialist revolution”
and Lorenz Keysser, sustainability researcher at the University of Lausanne and activist of Degrowth Switzerland.
Saturday Morning (10:30 – 13:00):
Workshop: Abolish! For a World without Police and Militarized Border Regimes!
With:
Mark Akkerman, active with abolishfrontex/ stopthewaronmigrants.
Mittagspause
Saturday Afternoon (14:30 – 17:00)
Workshop: Resistance Against War and Neoliberalism in Ukraine
With:
Yuliya Yurchenko, lecturer in political economy at the University of Greenwich (UK), author of the book “Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketisation to Armed Conflict”,
Tasha Lomonosova, activist of the Ukrainian socialist rganization Sotsialnyi Rukh (SR); fled from Kyiv to Berlin in March 2022,
and Hanna Perekhoda, from Donetsk, political scientist at the University of Lausanne, activist of solidaritéS and the Ukraine-Switzerland Committee.
Saturday Afternoon (14:30 – 17:00)
Workshop: Defensive Trade Union Policies and the Struggles Against the Energy Crisis
With:
Simon Hannah, trade unionist with Unison (public service) and activist with Anti-Capitalist Resistance (ACR) in England,
Charlotte Powell, activist of the Tenants’ Union in London (LRU) and Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century (rs21),
Taisie Tsikas, active in the Don’t Pay campaign against energy price rises in England, the Unite trade union and Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century (rs21),
and Christoph Wälz, socialist activist, teacher and member of the GEW (Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft) in Berlin.
Saturday Afternoon (14:30 – 17:00)
Workshop: Socialize Energy Infrastructure!
With:
Simon Pirani, author of “Burning Up: a global history of fossil fuel consumption”, Honorary Professor University of Durham,
and Jonna Klick, commons Institute, author of keimform.de.
Saturday Afternoon (14:30 – 17:00)
Workshop: The Extreme Right and Antifascist Resistance in Europe
With
Tatjana Söding, Human Ecologist and activist of the Zetkin Collective (research group on right-wing extremism and climate justice) in Sweden and Germany,
and Eliana Como trade unionist (CGIL) and member of Sinistra Anticapitalista.
Saturday Evening (18:00 – 21:00)
Plenary Session: For an Internationalist Antifascism!
With
Mark Akkerman, active with abolishfrontex/ stopthewaronmigrants,
Niloofar Rasooli, historian and journalist focusing on conflicts and women’s history in Iran,
Tatjana Söding, activist of the Zetkin collective (research group on right-wing extremism and climate justice),
Michael Heldt, activist of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) in Germany,
and activists of the Movement for Socialism (BFS).