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Andreas Malm: "Targeting SUVs or private jets can help struggles »

Andreas Malm — 2023-05-21T09:01:23Z

Mobilization against megabasins, pension reform... For Andreas Malm, author and climate activist, it is necessary to rethink the tactics of struggles, even if it means integrating sabotage.

- Features / France, Ecology and the Environment, Features, Climate, Protest movements

“Total, BP or Shell will not voluntarily give up their profits. We have to become stronger than them...”

Andreas Malm — 2022-09-12T09:12:13Z

“As left-wing activists in the climate movement, we sometimes feel stuck by what can be seen as a lack of strategic perspectives within the movement. How can we radicalize the climate movement and why does the movement need a strategic debate in your opinion?”

- IV572 - September 2022 / Youth camp, Belgium, Sweden, Fourth International, Climate

A Lesson in How Not to Mitigate Climate Change

Andreas Malm — 2018-12-29T09:56:17Z

Capitalist climate governance has always relied on pseudo-reforms that leave the richest free to accumulate capital, while dumping taxes on working people to nudge them in the 'right direction'. But as the protests of the gilets jaunes show, many working people no longer accept the moralising terms of capitalist approaches to climate change. In this article, Andreas Malm argues that if we really want to save this Planet, we must pursue a different kind of climate politics, one that could learn a great deal from the methods and tactics of the gilets jaunes.

- Features / France, Ecology and the Environment, Climate