Booklaunch: 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴: 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome Ståle Holgersen to Toronto for the launch of his new book "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World." If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response. Today’s economic and ecological crises are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning system but integral to its operation. It is naive to see these upheavals as opportunities for reform or revolution. They are the bedrock of the status quo. Fortunately, the vicious circle sustaining capitalism is not founded on an iron law. Our historical mission in the face of the climate crisis is to create a historical exception to the rule. It is time for ecosocialism against crisis. Capitalism produces crises and crises reproduce capitalism. We need an ecosocialist way out. "Against the Crisis" is a powerful intervention in favour of an ecosocialist exit from modern capitalism’s rotating door of crisis and calamity. Ståle Holgersen is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a member of two research collectives: the Zetkin Collective (ecosocialist group working on political ecologies of the far right) published White Skin, Black Fuel on Verso in 2021 and Fundament (a housing research collective) published Kris i Bostadsfrågan on Daidalos in 2023. 0:00 Introductions with Vinnie 5:15 Ståle Holgersen 47:00 Q+A Recorded on 11 April 2025 in Toronto.