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Anarchism has become marginal in international degrowth spheres, that are increasingly academic. Adrien Plomteux argues that degrowth would benefit from taking anarchist principles and tactics seriously.
By: Nick Fitzpatrick
Nick Fitzpatrick explores the strategic diversity within the degrowth movement, showing how different conceptualisations of degrowth have marked strategic implications and prompt differing direct action tactics.
By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy
Terry Leahy, Anitra Nelson, and Vincent Liegey outline their understanding of horizontalism and its role in helping realise a degrowth future.
What power can minority parties have in partitocratic political systems? Manuel Casal Lodeiro joins the ongoing strategy debate and argues for the significance of radical degrowthist parties.
By: Giorgos Kallis
Giorgos Kallis contests recent interventions which lament the current direction of degrowth and its strategies, arguing instead for a community of pluralist yet tense alliances.
By: Vlad Bunea
Contributing to strategy debates on degrowth.info, Vlad Bunea outlines a vision for degrowth-aligned political parties.
By: Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel responds to critics of his interview published in the summer, therefore continuing the debate around "what is degrowth" and around the strategies to achieve degrowth.
By: Donatella Gasparro, Daniele Vico
Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.
By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy
As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political context.
Building on previous strategy debates on degrowth.info, Charles Stevenson argues for degrowthers moving beyond Erik Olin Wright's typology
By: Myriam Best
In this article Myriam Best analyses the ongoing french movement Earth Uprisings which struggles for land and water commons and the dismantlement of the techno-industrial capitalist complex.
By: Ana Inés Heras
Militant-scholar, Ana Inés Heras, writes about collaborative projects between her research team at the Argentinean Council and various self-governed local communities and groups.
This article summarises a proposal for reworking degrowth conferences that was developed in a workshop held by the Transformative Learning Circle (TLC) of the International Degrowth Network (IDN) at the 2024 International ESEE-Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra
By: Oliver Lewis
Oliver Lewis argues that the degrowth movement must not shy away from engaging with its critics