Activists from United States, Brazil confirmed for Ecosocialism 2025

July 31, 2025
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Featured speakers at Ecosocialism 2025 Amanda Shweeta Louis (Malaysia), Merck Maguddayao (The Philippines), Cyn Huang (United States), Rizaldi Ageng Wicaksono (Indonesia) and Aya Clamor (The Philippines).

Organisers are pleased to announce that Ecosocialism 2025 鈥 with the theme 鈥溾 鈥 will for the first time feature in-person speakers from the United States and Latin America.

The sixth annual Ecosocialism will be in Naarm/Melbourne, over September 5鈥7, and is once again organised by 一品探花, , 听补苍诲 .

, a student and labour activist based in Berkeley, California, will attend in-person. Huang is a member of , a Marxist tendency inside the 聽(DSA), with members in trade unions and campuses across the country, as well as three city councillors.

Also addressing the conference from the US (via livestream) will be , a socialist from Hong Kong, now based in Los Angeles. Li is a member of 听补苍诲 , and has been active in higher education rank-and-file union work, international solidarity, anti-war campaigns and Chinatown tenant organising.

They will be joined by , a leader of Brazil鈥檚 largest radical left party, the . Dutra is a member of the PSOL national executive and is secretary for social movements. He is a national leader of the , a revolutionary socialist current within PSOL.

, a writer, researcher and National Council Member of the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM) in The Philippines, is also confirmed to speak. Clamor has been involved in youth organising, political education and grassroots campaigns.

The three will be joining Merck Maguddayao, also from the PLM, as well as Amanda Shweeta Louis and Gandipan Nantha Gopalan from the Socialist Party of Malaysia, Mahendra Kusuma Wardhana and Rizaldi Ageng Wicaksono from the Socialist Union (Indonesia), N Sai Balaji from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Ammar Ali Jan from the People鈥檚 Rights Party (Pakistan), Youngsu Won from Pnyx 鈥 Korean Institute for Marxist Studies and a labour researcher from Singapore.

To help cover the costs of hosting such a large international attendance, conference organisers have launched a , with a target of $5000. 一品探花 encourages its readers to support the campaign by pitching in, as well as .

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