🗣️ Leadership in End Times
How do we manage democracy within our movements?
🌈 Reasons To Be Cheerful
State oppression will not stop climate activism, but will instead ensure climate breakdown leads to revolution.
👮 They Came For Us and Soon They Will Come For You
A Letter to the British Left on why we must unite against the encroaching fascism of collapse.
🎓The Information Illusion
We don’t need more information about how fucked we are. We know that. We need to know how to act together.
Here’s Why the Greens Flopped in the EU Election
The Greens are down from 4th to 6th place in the EU elections in a time of climate collapse. Here are three reasons why:
💭The Macro Illusion of Owen Jones
The top-down view of Left intellectuals isn’t the way to effectively change the world.
📖The Intellectual Left Are Fucking Bollocks On “What to Do”
The Left are trapped in intellectual delusions and dated mobilisation plans. I can turn that around.
🗣️It’s Time For Prophetic Leadership – Interview
Good leadership is crucial for social movement success. Right now, that means those leaders must be willing to go to jail.
A Million Pounds in a Week
An interesting episode at the end of the world and the beginning of the next one
At the start of last week I was having one of my periodic bouts of anger and rage. The sort of thing we don’t like to admit to but I am sure
The Moral Depravity of Virtue Signalling Solidarity – Novara Media
Let’s be clear. Showing “solidarity” in 2023 is not signing a letter, making a statement, not just going on a march, and certainly not doing another nice detached intellectual interview about obscene injustice. At the present moment doing these things is no longer just bad taste,
The Death of the Queen
Last night I met with other strategists to consider the response of our various civil resistance networks to the day’s news. I have the greatest of respect for my friends in that meeting but we allowed ourselves to be reduced to working out how her death can be
34th Most Influential Person in British Progressive Politics
I know it is outrageously self-promoting to do a blog post to say the New Statesman has put me as the 34th most influential person in progressive politics in the UK (or something like that)…
But I do, I hope, have a serious general point to make. Since I
Just Stop Purity Politics
“A bunch of anarchists hold a two-hour meeting with ten people. They decide it’s counter-revolutionary to give people less than 15 minutes each to speak”
— Joke from 1980’s peace movement
You can have too much of a good thing. Believe me! And this
Getting Tired of Reformists
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon
On XR Global Support: Admissions, Defamation, Disinformation and the Need for Reform
XR “Global Support” (GS) recently published a second official statement about me on rebellion.global with all the formal branding, making a good show online of wishing to represent the voice of the Extinction Rebellion international.
I am pleased however that GS is admitting to not being the