{"id":1594,"date":"2023-01-09T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T13:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2023-01-13T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:01:51","slug":"the-other-davos-swiss-counter-summit-to-the-world-economic-forum-watch-on-youtube-13-14-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecosocialist.scot\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"“The Other Davos” – Swiss counter summit to the World Economic Forum, watch on YouTube 13\/14 January"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “World Economic Forum” of big business interests kicks off in Davos, Switzerland on 16 January 2023.\u00a0 For a number of years, ecosocialist.scot’s friends and allies in the Swiss “Movement for Socialism<\/a>” have organised a counter-summit called “The Other Davos” that focusses on the economic and ecological crises as they affect working class people around the world and presenting ecosocialist alternatives to the global establishment.<\/p>\n

The motto of The Other Davos 2023 is “In solidarity against inflation, climate catastrophe & war”<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Guests include Ukrainian-born sociologist Yuliya Yurchenko, Ukrainian activist Tasha Lomonosova (Sotsialnyi Rukh) and Lausanne-based Ukrainian socialist Hanna Perekhoda (solidarit\u00e9S); Russian journalist Ilya Matveev (Posle Magazine); economic geographer Christian Zeller (author of Revolution for the Climate); Simon Pirani (author of Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption”); the Iranian journalist Mina Khani; activists from RWE & Co. Simon Hannah (Anticapitalist Resistance), Charlotte Powell (rs21) and Taisie Tsikas (rs21) from Great Britain; the Italian trade unionist Eliana Como (Sinistra Anticapitalista); Christoph W\u00e4lz (Trade Union for Education and Science, Berlin); the anti-racist activists Simin Jawabreh and Mark Akkerman; as well as the journalists Anna Jikhareva (WOZ), Nelli T\u00fcgel and Jan Ole Arps (ak – analyse&kritik).<\/p>\n

The event takes place in Zurich and starts on Friday 13 January at 6pm British time, and runs until 7pm on Saturday 14 January<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Some of the sessions will be livestreamed on YouTube<\/strong> and many presenters will be speaking in English, one of three official languages of The Other Davos (the others being German and French).<\/p>\n

The full programme is available here:<\/p>\n

The Other Davos 2023 > sozialismus.ch<\/a><\/p>\n

But you can join the YouTube livestreams as follows:<\/p>\n

Friday 13 January at 6pm-8.30pm (British time)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Plenary session:“Perspectives of Solidarity in a burning World”<\/strong>
\nWe 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.<\/p>\n