Movement Power

Writers and comedians urge Sir Kerr Starmer to halt Palestine Action terrorism proscription on free speech grounds.

The German climate protest group Letzte Generation is now history. But what will succeed it?

The Humane League UK (THL UK) will shut down KFC drive-thrus across the country this summer.

The climate activist movements that follow Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil must face complex questions of power, decision making and culture head on.

A review of All Hands on Deck: Climate Activism and the Way Ahead by Jan Goodey.

Just Stop Oil announced today that it will cease direct action, with a final demonstration taking place next month.

A review of Scientists On Survival: Personal Stories Of Climate Action.

A provocative new manifesto calls for a global movement for 'rupture' to prevent the descent into climate chaos.

A secure plant-based global food system will stave off the worst-case scenarios of climate breakdown.

The Extinction Rebellion founders’ reliance on the momentum model was a crucial factor in the project’s early innovations and successes.

A review of 'We Need To Talk About Climate: How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis' by Graham Smith.

How do we manage democracy within our movements?

A response to Roger Hallam’s revolutionary turn.

'Anyone looking to change the world in 2025 could learn a lot from Extinction Rebellion’s rise.'

State oppression will not stop climate activism, but will instead ensure climate breakdown leads to revolution.

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

Extinction Rebellion had a secret sauce: and we should all be using it now.

Can Climate Camp Scotland’s ‘non accountable’ direct action be the future as our rights to protest are taken away.

Introducing a new series exploring a hybrid model of activism and campaigning from The Ecologist online.

Environmentalism from below: Ashley Dawson in conversation.

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

We can learn from systems theory and the 'shock doctrine' to formulate an effective and ethical response to climate crises.

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.