Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion won't happen again. But the movement built a foundation that a new revolutionary movement can usefully deploy.

The 'movement power' method promises to deliver active popular support for sweeping social change. Here's how it works.

The movement power model of civil resistance can only succeed when its strategy informs and magnifies its tactics - its front line actions.

A mass movement can mobilise around strategic campaigns with instrumental demands - and around prefigurative campaigns with symbolic demands.

A successful campaign needs unity in its aims and actions, but plurality and autonomy for its activists.

Significant work is needed to involve Black and Asian communities in environmental demonstrations, a new study says.

The movement power approach to building mass movements has many benefits - but also some problems. So how to proceed?

The hybrid model of mass organising is based on both the structure and momentum traditions. So what is the history of successful protest, and how can it inform our work today?

The hybrid organising model is formed from the DNA of its two parents – the structure and momentum traditions – which will ensure the success of its offspring.

A mass movement for climate action can be deployed though a cycle of momentum, organisational theorists explain.

How the Dutch climate movement is leading Europe's fight against fossil subsidies.

How do we seed mass social movements that can avert cataclysmic climate breakdown?

Should climate protesters picket an MP at home?

The Pirate Party in Sweden codified activist organisational strategy and led the way to Extinction Rebellion's success.

Rosebank oil field could be the key climate issue of 2024 – and the catalyst for an unprecedented coalition.

We need a mass movement to ensure a just transition and prevent climate breakdown. But such contestations can go very wrong.

Extinction Rebellion exploded onto the climate scene with a news article in The Ecologist. Five years later, the founders review its presentation of the science.

We need to build alliance in the very heart of economic and political power in order to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Extinction Rebellion has a whole new strategy. Will it work?

Climate activists are facing significant prison sentences. This is what it is like. And this is why we do it.

Extinction Rebellion activists smash Barclays Bank glass in Scotland in protest at the COP27 talks in Egypt, reducing air miles.

Activists are facing repression and the fossil economy is fighting to grow - there is no point crying over spilt soup.

Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living.

Just Stop Oil has followed Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion in taking climate action to the streets - but will its strategy cut through to the public?