International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Climate struggle on a radicalized track

Lars Henriksson — 2021-10-22T10:56:35Z

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.

- Reviews section / Ecology and the Environment, Reviews

The Triple Crisis – A Conversion Strategy From the Shop Floor

Lars Henriksson — 2020-04-13T08:14:15Z

“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change,” Milton Friedman, main torchbearer of neoliberalism, once claimed. The ongoing crisis is no exception. Working people will face a cannonade of attacks, over wages and working conditions, equality and democracy, as well as over environment and climate issues. But the double crisis of the epidemic and economic also opens the possibility of winning support for climate conversion. Market forces, which seemed so sacrosanct and inviolable, have failed.

- IV543 - April 2020 / Sweden, Covid-19 Pandemic

Jobs, Ecology, and Survival

Lars Henriksson — 2015-03-13T10:58:38Z

This article is based on the paper given by the author at Historical Materialism 2014 in London as part of a stream on Ecology.

- IV482 - March 2015 / Ecology and the Environment

Convert the ailing car industry!

Lars Henriksson — 2009-11-30T00:12:18Z

With the economic recession and environmental crisis alternative plans for socially useful, sustainable production have never been more relevant. When the financial shit hit the fan last year the overproduction in the auto industry became visible.

- IV418 - November 2009 / Ecology and the Environment, Economy, Trade unions/workplace organizing