IIRE

"Climate change considerably increases the risks of catastrophes, affecting more particularly the workers and the poor, in particular in the developing countries. In the face of this threat, we must prepare to intervene with the social movements on two different terrains: the terrain of demands, consisting of placing states and governments before their responsibilities; and the terrain of direct, popular and interdependent aid, taken in charge by the local populations and their organizations with the assistance of networks of activists on a world level. The experience gained in natural disasters shows in fact that these popular aid initiatives are faster, more directly directed towards the poor and their real needs and are less expensive. Moreover, they favour the development of a different kind of social relations and of contestation of the established order."

(Extract from the Fourth International XVI World Congress Resolution: "Capitalist climate change and our tasks", 2010)

Lecturers:

• Pierre Rousset - editor of Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
• Richard S. Solis - Philipino social activist
• Bangladeshi and pakistani social activists to be confirmed