Ecosocialism Conference 2026 timetable

Location: LSBU Hub, 100-116 London Road, London SE1 6LN
Nearest tube: Elephant and Castle

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9:30 – 10:00

REGISTRATION/WELCOME

10:00 – 11:00

Opening Plenary – The climate fight at the ballot box

Lecture Theatre 1 (Main)
– Mel Mullings (RMT)
– Claire LeJeune (La France Insoumise)
– James O’Nions (Greens Organise)
– Paris Wilder (Ecosocialist Action Network and AntiCapitalist Resistance)

11:05 – 12:35

What should a green transition look like

Lecture Theatre 1 (Main)
– Fred Pearce (author of A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World)
– Martín Lallana (trade-union activist, member of Anticaptialistas and the editorial board of Viento Sur)

Big Tech, AI and the climate crisis

Lecture Theatre 2
– Dan McQuillan (author of Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence)
– Anne Alexander (journalist and researcher (University of Cambridge/Cambridge Digital Humanities) writing The AI Arms Race)

– James Meadway (radical economist)


Standing Against Extraction Fashion: Strategies for Degrowth

Break out space
– Sara Arnold (activist and lecturer, Fashion Act Now)
– Ruth Ogier (War on Want)
– Dr Talia Hussain (independent design researcher and practitioner)
– Dr Neelam Raina (post-conflict reconstruction expert)
– Dr Kirsten Scott (researcher at Istituto Marangoni)

12:35 – 13:35

Lunch

13:35 – 15:00

Fighting the far right and climate change

Lecture Theatre 1 (Main)
– A.J. A Woods (author of The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West)
– Sophia Brown (Greens Organise)

Ecocide and war

Lection Theatre 2 (Breakout)
– Hamza Hamouchene (author of Dismantling Green Colonialism)
– Kimia Talebi (Energy Embargo for Palestine)  

Preparing for a Heat Strike

Exhibition space
Stuart Jordan

15:00 – 15:25

TEA BREAK  

15:25-17:00

Women back to the land

Lecture Theatre 1 (Main)
– Rachael Durrant (The land that holds us | Women Back to the Land Project)

Organising the climate movement

Lecture Theatre 2 (Breakout)
– Tyrone Scott (War on Want)
– Simon Pirani (Fare Free London)
– Sophia Brown (Greens Organise)


17:00-17:30

Closing plenary  
– Michael Lowy
– Paris Wilder

19:00

Post-Conference social, Rockingham Community Centre (anyone with a conference ticket can attend, or you can buy a separate ticket)