Interview With Derek Wall

The Socialist Unity Blog has an interview with Derek Wall, one of the two principal speakers for the Green Party:

Derek Wall: Ecosocialism is by no means a losing ticket, a socialism that respects the planet and has a libertarian edge, gets a lot of support ... EP Thompson was the leading figure in the peace movement in the 1980s, and I would see Hugo Chavez as an ecosocialist, albeit one glued at present to the contradictions of a petroeconomy ... The creation of an Ecosocialist International Network seems a good institutional basis for making European Green Parties more radical ... we agreed in Paris to work to ‘make greens redder and reds greener’ ... For example, the Fourth International will be holding a weekend meeting in Amsterdam in February on climate change which will be addressed by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy.