The Society for Peace, Internationalism & Ecology (SPINE) provides a platform for rigorous scholarly research, cultural work, and organizing that stands up for peace, international solidarity, and environmental sustainability. It encourages innovative work that has real use-value for collective struggles and contributes to developing collaborative intellectual, artistic, and activist communities across Turtle Island and around the world. Rather than being restricted to particular fields or limited to those working in academic institutions, SPINE is resolutely transdisciplinary and encourages extra-academic scholarship, as well as contributions from artists and activists.
SPINE does not take a neutral stance on global struggles or pretend to be value-free. Instead, it explicitly upholds and defends the values of international solidarity and environmental justice. It rejects all forms of social chauvinism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other types of oppression, while simultaneously recognizing that they cannot be fully overcome without going to their class and colonial roots. It thereby provides a space for materialist research, cultural production, and organizing that contributes to the goals of substantive social transformation in the direction of a more egalitarian, peaceful, and sustainable world.SPINE hosts an annual conference and supports other activities through the course of the year. Its founding co-sponsors are the Critical Theory Workshop, Iskra Books, and the World Marxist Review.
