Booklaunch: Against the Crisis

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.

The Leo Panitch School is pleased to be co-hosting the Toronto stop on Ståle’s book tour with the Trade Unions and Labour Environmentalism Study Network (TULE). This event is supported by the Centre for Social Justice. The Leo Panitch School is a political education initiative founded in 2023 by members of the Socialist Project.