Climate struggle on a radicalized track
Andreas Malms new book How to Blow up a Pipeline. Learning to fight in a World on Fire has got a great deal of attention. The focus has been on Malms critique of parts of the climate movement that a priori and in any given situation advocates civil disobedience. Malm highlights the role of sabotage as one of several tactical methods in the struggle against the fossil capital.
Lars Henriksson scrutinizes Malms book and sketches possible paths forward.
It isn’t nice to block the doorway
It isn’t nice to go to jail
There are nicer ways to do it
But the nice ways always fail
Malvina Reynolds
What should we do when airy political promises amount to little more than excuses for business as usual and when the friendly climate protests have not prevented the world from heading towards a burning inferno? Submissively accept doom or take the climate struggle to a new level? Fortsätt läsa