Bolivia

A new booklet has recently been published, entitled "Space for Movement? Reflections from Bolivia on climate justice, social movements and the state". Collectively written from an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian position, it will hopefully add to our understandings of the struggle for climate justice and the conflict this will create with capitalism and the state.

"In the wake of the failed COP-15 in Copenhagen last December, Bolivia’s first indigenous president called for a World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (CMPCC). Was this the necessary space for social movements to respond where governments and the UN have failed? Was it an attempt to co-opt radical demands? Following the event in Cochabamba, April 2010, this booklet reflects on the lessons from Bolivia and the role of movements in the fight for climate justice".

Ponencia presentada en las Jornadas Internacionales de Problemas Latinoamericanos “Los movimientos sociales en América Latina. Pasado, presente y perspectivas”, realizado en la ciudad de Mar Del Plata (Argentina), los días 25, 26 y 27 de septiembre de 2008.