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Feature: Extinction Rebellion Has a Whole New Strategy. Will It Work?

by Clare Hymer

On New Year’s Eve, Extinction Rebellion hit pause on its tactic of public disruption. But as it prepares for its most ambitious mobilisation yet, will the gamble pay off?

two women in jeans and white tshirts kneel before a tomato soup-covered painting of sunglowers with their left hands glued to the wall

Opinion: Armchair Strategists, the Climate Movement Needs You

by Diyora Shadijanova

Comradely criticism of protest strategy is a healthy part of democratic movement building, complaining from the sidelines is not, writes Diyora Shadijanova

Analysis: The Tories’ Attack on Nature is Radicalising Birdwatchers

by Clare Hymer

Are we going to see AK47-wielding RSPB paramilitaries? Perhaps not, but that doesn’t mean conservationists aren’t getting serious.

Members of animal rebellion are surrounded by police at a protest in London.

Report: Animal Rebellion Activists on Why They’re Emptying Supermarkets of Milk to Save the Climate

by Sophie K Rosa

Animal Rebellion is mid-way through a two-week direct action campaign that claims to have emptied supermarket shelves of milk, in a bid to force the government to support a just transition away from animal agriculture. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Someone holding up a leaflet with the words 'Don't pay energy bills' in front of a background of a demo

Report: Could ‘Don’t Pay’ Pull It Off?

by Sophie K Rosa

A new, viral campaign is encouraging people to cancel their direct debits if the government fails to act on the cost of living crisis. It’s a longshot, but the organisers fancy their chances. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Opinion: Direct Action is Just What the Doctor Ordered

by Moya Lothian-McLean

From anti-raids blockades to arms factory occupations, direct action is on the rise. That can only be a good thing, writes Moya Lothian-McLean.

A protester gives a V finger sign while being handcuffed by workers on a crane

Report: After Years of Campaigning Against an Israeli Weapons Factory, It Was Direct Action That Shut It Down

by Rivkah Brown

On Monday, Elbit Systems announced the sale of its Oldham factory. Over years, local activists had been gradually building momentum for the campaign – until a direct action group turbocharged it. Rivkah Brown reports.

Downstream: Climate Change Is Violent, That’s Why We Need Sabotage. Aaron Bastani Meets Andreas Malm

From food scarcity to extreme weather, climate change will affect the lives of billions of people around the world. But at what point are its future horrors unacceptable? And how should that shape climate politics now? Aaron Bastani speaks to author Andreas Malm about the limits of today’s activism and what is to be done […]

Novara FM: NO ONE WAY WORKS: Political Organisation for the 21st Century

Rodrigo Nunes joins James Butler to throw light on left melancholia and the future of political organisation.

Report: We Are Occupying an Israeli-Owned Arms Factory to Protest Zionist Settler Colonialism

by An activist occupying an arms factory in Leicester

An activist occupying an Israeli-owned arms factory in Leicester speaks to Sophie K Rosa about the importance of direct action in opposing Zionist settler colonialism.

Novara FM: The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm argues in How to Blow Up a Pipeline that the climate movement must act against the infrastructure of death. He joins James Butler to discuss.

International: Locked Down But Not Out: 15,000 Sign Up to Rent Strike Campaign in Spain

by Coordinadora de Vivienda de Madrid

Despite the country having become a pandemic hotspot with over 18,000 deaths, Spanish landlords are continuing to force evictions upon people who are unable to make rental payments, or who are forced to squat by long waiting lists. But tenants' unions and mutual aid groups are fighting back.

5 Reasons I’m Not Joining the ‘Extinction Rebellion’

by Chris Saltmarsh

New environmental group Extinction Rebellion are gaining significant media attention for staging mass acts of non-violent 'civil disobedience’ in opposition to climate change. Climate justice activist Chris Saltmarsh explains why he won't be joining the movement.

Novara Docs: Return to the Commons

On a 14-square mile patch of western France known as Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a world is being constructed, a way of living, formed through common endeavour and a knowledge of and sensitivity to the landscape and its ecosystems. It’s a messy process that was started 10 years ago when climate activists started to squat the area to […]