Archive of The Progress of This Storm

The history of sabotage as a suppressed tool of the labor movement, and what it can bring to a new generation of climate activism. 

Alice Swift on the history of Reclaim the Power and Ende Gelände.

Who are the activists of Extinction Rebellion, and how has their particular set of tactics come to set the limits for climate activism?

Introducing this month's Verso Roundtable, a series of three articles in conversation with Andreas Malm's new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline. 

The latest episode of the podcast Politics Theory Other, with guest Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline.

Featuring Ellen Meiksins Wood, Theodor Adorno, Erik Olin Wright, Nancy Fraser, Benedict Anderson.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an emergency. So is climate disaster. We need a robust government response to both in the form of a Green New Deal and a just transition to a zero-carbon economy.

Don't get tide down in apathy. Dive into our alternative beach reading and spend the summer dreaming about life after capitalism!

The scale of the impending climate crisis is now apparent to more or less everyone. Yet, whilst it's been the left that has taken the lead in reponding to climate change for several generations, it is increasingly the far-right who are developing political responses to catastrophe. This has been reflected in the growing eco-fascist movement, a movement who were parachuted to global prominence on the 15th March this year when one of their number murdered fifty people in two Christchurch mosques. In this article, Eleanor Penny analyses eco-fascism and asks what it will take the left to deal with the scale of the climate crisis.