SSFS7 – Reader

Confronting the Triple Trap: The Pandemic, Economic Downturn, and Climate Crisis in India and China (Workshops 8-9 July 2020)

8 July (Wednesday): India

Confronting the Triple Trap in India (HK 11:30 – 13:00)

• Anuradha Chenoy – Bypassing the Dollar

• Chenoy Anuradha_SSFS7_Triple Trap in India 20200708

Reinventing Gandhian Ideas and Practice of Consensual Democracy, Satyagraha, and Village Socialism in Today’s Context: the Case of Village Mendha Lekha, India (HK 14:00 – 16:00)

• Pallavi Varma Patil and Sujit Sinha_The Gandhian Satyagraha of Mendha Lekha (New Version)

Lessons from Kerala (HK 16:30 – 18:00)

• K. K. Krishna Kumar-Education and People’s Participation

• SSFS7 July 8-C MP_Points for panel discussion

• T. Gangadharan_A Brief Introduction to the Local Self Governance,  Kerala

• T. Gangadharan_Covid-19 and LSGs of Kerala

• MP Parameswaran_NEW-WORLD-NEW-KERALA

9 July (Thursday): China

Rural Communities Confronting the Triple Trap in China (HK 09:00 – 11:00)

Finance, Ecology, and Cooperation in Today’s China (HK 14:00 – 16:00)

• Tian Song_A Reverse Understanding of “Development”- Three Interpretations of Ecological Civilization 

E-Lecture – The Hinge of History—On French Film Les Misérables (2019) and Today’s Reality 历史的铰链——由法国电影《悲惨世界》看今日现实 (HK 19:00 – 21:00)

MAIN FORUM (10-12 July)

Climate Change, Global Crises, and Community Regeneration

DAY ONE: 10 July (Friday)

The End of Globalization? (I) (HK 09:30 – 12:00)

• Ana Esther Ceceña_13_Sosa_Elizaga_Ch_13

• Ana Esther Ceceña_On Knots and Challenges in Processes of Emancipation

• Ana Esther Cecena – Ceceña Hong Kong

• Ana Esther Ceceña_PPT_Bifurcations and the Limits of the System

• Ana Esther Ceceña_Speech_Bifurcations and the Limits of the System

• Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury – This Year of Living Dangerously | Inter Press Service

• Mushakoji Kinhide_Conflict and Cooperation

• Mushakoji Kinhide_One Belt One Road and Free and Open Pacific Indian Oceans

• Mushakoji Kinhide_Peoples Aainst a New Cold War

• Mushakoji Kinhide_RCE chubu SS

• Mushakoji Kinhid _RCE Chubu Webinar Series SS Report

• Immanuel Wallerstein – The World is Out of Joint FINALWM

The End of Globalization? (II) (HK 15:00 – 17:30)

• Dimitris Konstantakopoulos – Corona-Crisis and Two Models of Capitalism

• Dimitris Konstantakopoulos – La crise grecque – Première «bataille» d’une «guerre» pour l’Europe – un texte de 2010 

• Dimitris Konstantakopoulos – The Empire strikes back. Netanyahu, Trump and the Neocons

• Dimitris Konstantakopoulos – Τhe structural, fundamental factors pushing Western Capitalism into producing Totalitarianism and War. The role of Trump and the Neocons

• Dimitris Konstantakopoulos – The Yellow Vests – a leftist movement which does not want to be called leftist!

• Dimitri Konstantakopoulos – 3ème Assemblée des Assemblées Gilets Jaunes

• Ernesto Revello_Tax Avoidance as Key Element of Growing Inequality and Poverty.

• Fatima HARRAK_Oriental Globalization

• Melani Budianta – SSFS7 10 July B-Kampung Commoning

• MUTO Ichiyo_Corona global crisis and the nation state

China-USA in the New Cold War (HK 20:30 – 23:00)

• Anuradha Chenoy – Bypassing the Dollar

• China-and-US-in-New-Cold-War-second-round-dialogue-20200710_ENG

• Michael Hudson_2020_How an “Act of God” Pandemic is Destroying the West

• Michael Hudson – Monetary imperialism in the 21st century

• Samir Amin_China 2013

• Wen Tiejun_20200710 New Cold War Unfolding Crisis and Ecological Civilization

DAY TWO: 11 July (Saturday)

Climate Justice and Social Transformation (I) (HK 09:00 –11:30)

• Gustave Massiah_Initiating a new phase of alterglobalization

• Gustave Massiah_Jai Jagat social movement leadership

• Gustave Massiah_Planetize the movement

• Gustave Massiah_Revue Les Possibles

• Gilberto López y Rivas_Ethno-Marxism and ethno-national question from Latin America

• Gilberto López y Rivas – Mexico Resistencias indigenas 2020

• John Foran_Work May 2020

• OHASHI Masaaki_Japan’s Energy policy and SDGs implementation for SSFS7 Ohashi 050720

• OHASHI Masaaki_State of National nSDGs Imple. for SSFS7 in HK 050720

Climate Justice and Social Transformation (II) (HK 15:00 – 17:30)

• Gustave Massiah_Transition_SHORT version

• Gustave Massiah_Transition_LONG version

• Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond 2020 African Climate Justice

• Rebecca Johnson_SSFS7 Panel Ecological Justice Social Transformation 

The Future of Humanity and Alternatives to Capitalism (HK 21:00 – 23:30)

• Gustavo Esteva_Alternative Paths of Transformation

• Gustavo Esteva_NEW POLITICAL HORIZONS

• Gustavo Esteva_THE DAY AFTER

• Sam Moyo, Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros__Classical Agrarian Question__AGS 2(1) 2013

• Margo Okazawa-Rey  Nation as Essential Analytical Category

• Palagummi Sainath 2019-The Neoliberal Attack on Rural India

• Zapatista Forum on Defense of the Territory and Mother Earth

• Paris Yeros and Praveen Jha __Late Neocolonialism__AGS 9(1) 2020

DAY THREE: 12 July (Sunday)

Community Regeneration for Alternatives (I) (HK 09:00 –11:30)

• Hernan Vargas_Aportes para el balance y perspectivas del movimiento popular

• Hernan Vargas_ENTRE LA RESOLUCIÓN DEL DÍA A DÍA Y LA

• Hernan Vargas_La vía comunal en Venezuela

• John Restakis_Cooperative Commonwealth & the Partner State

• Claudia Yadira Caballero Borj_A model of equity and sharing based on community money

• Claudia Yadira Caballero Borja_ECOMUN

• Claudia Yadira Caballero Borja_Stop the capitalistic destruction

• Claudia Yadira Caballero y Luis Lopezllera Méndez_Pandemia, pánico, aislamiento… Alternativas

• MST-Land Agrarian Reform and Socialism

Videos

• 3 minutes time, the Middelburg version, 10 years

• 3 minutes time, the Eindhoven version we started this year at the Von Abbee Museum

• 6 minutes read, op-ed, The Communal and the Decolonial

• Fernando Huanacuni Mamani

• Feria Nacional Vida Digna

• TRAILER Monedas comunitarias

Community Regeneration for Alternatives (II) (HK 15:00 – 17:30)

• Cecile Mukarubuga_Community Regeneration for Alternatives

• Janailson ALMEIDA_MST_Solidarity in Actions

• Michael Bauwens_A Commons-Based Peer To Peer Path to Post-Capitalism

• Michael Bauwens and Jose Ramos – Awakening to an Ecology of the Commons

• Mithika Mwenda and Patrick Bond 2020 African Climate Justice

• Patrick Bond_Praxis-sourced commoning

• Patrick Bond – 2020 Luxemburg applied in South Africa

• Patrick Bond and Mary Galvin –  2019 Water, food and climate commoning

• Patrick Bond and Meron Okbandrias – 2020 commoning potentials and limits in South Africa

• T.Ngwane and Patrick Bond – 2020 SA’s shrinking sovereignty, in Vestnik RUDN

• Tord Bjork_Community Regeneration for Alternatives in Sweden

Eco-socialist Alternatives to the Global Crises (HK 21:00 – 23:30)

• Alain Badiou_SSFS7 Dialogue_english

• John FOSTER_COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism

• Isabel MONAL_Cuban Foundational Marxist Thought

16 July (Thursday) 

Confronting the Triple Trap in Mexico: The Pandemic, Economic Downturn, and Climate Crisis

Co-organized with Barter Community Mixiuhca and Ecomun Network, Mexico (HK 08:30 – 11:00)

The Mekong River Region – Co-organized with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (HK 15:00 – 17:00) 

Co-organized with ALBA Movimientos, Chapter VenezuelaConfronting the Triple Trap in Venezuela: The Pandemic, Economic Downturn, and Climate Crisis (HK 21:00 – 23:30)

Moderator: Hernan VARGAS (ALBA Movimientos, Chapter Venezuela)

17 July (Friday) : E-Lectures

Globalization and its Paradox: The Mapping of Covid-19’s Global Transmission (HK 09:00 – 10:30) 

Speaker: Eka SWADIANSA (Office of Strategic Architecture / OSA, Indonesia)

• Eka Swadiansa_E-Lecture_Covid-19

Speaker: Rebecca JOHNSON (Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, UK)(HK 16:00 – 17:30)

• SSFS7 Rebecca Johnson Lecture on national security discourses 17July 2020-FINAL

Human Dimensions：A Gaze into the World from Documentaries (HK 19:30 – 21:30) 

Speaker: DAI Jinhua (Peking University, China)人类之维——从纪录片凝视世界

Speaker: Joao Pedro STEDILE (HK 22:00 – 23:30)

• João Pedro STEDILE_Contemporary Challenges for the Working Class and Peasantry in Brazil

• João Pedro Stedile – Reflections on the Tendencies of Capital in Agricultureand Challenges for Peasant Movements in Latin America

• Joao Pedro Stedile_Horacio Martins_Soberanía alimentaria Una necesidad de los Pueblos

• Sergio Sauer_Interview with João Pedro Stédile