Vishwas Satgar is Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the editor of the Democratic Marxism series, Principal Investigator for Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene and a veteran activist. He has worked extensively on post-apartheid cooperative development in township communities and has co-founded the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and Climate Justice Charter Movement. He is the author of A Love Letter to the Many - Arguments for Transformative Left Politics in South Africa.

Introduction

Part I: Beyond the Planterary Polycrisis

1. The Planetary Polycrisis of Socio-ecological Reproduction and the Challenge of Commons Ontology

2. The Rise of Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below

3. Cooperatives and Transformative Change

Part II: Worker Cooperatives and Solidarity Economies as Counterhegemonic Regimes of Socio-ecological Reproduction

5. Integrating Socio-Ecological Reproduction: ULCCS in Kerala, Chilavert in Argentina and Uniforja in Brazil

6. Recalibrating Relations with Nature: Cecosesola in Venezuela, Heiveld in South Africa and Trentino in Italy

6. Engaging Political Power and Creating Solidarities: Mondragón in Spain, State-Civil Society Synergies in Kerala and the Solidarity Economy Forum in Brazil

Conclusion: Transformative Alternatives in the Age of Planetary Crisis