Movement-level strategies from the bottom and to the left: climate jobs campaign

That the climate justice movement ecosystem needs, simultaneously, a mass movement and a transformative ambition is trivial at this point of the climate emergency combined with the outright authoritarian turn of governments. So someone(s) will have to build exactly that. Yet, repeating this trivial observation without a strategic intervention (intellectualism or theoretical hygiene) and without a clear grasp of the movement ecosystem (reducing it to an amorphous “diversity” where every approach is accepted equally) doesn’t change our reality.

This is propositional session, at the starting point of which lie a deep sense of frustration, anxiety and responsibility. We will first discuss what movement-level strategy means, using the tools introduced in the recently published book “All In: a revolutionary theory to stop climate collapse”. These campaigns, originally launched in the early 2010s, were developed various countries with varying degrees of success and different kinds of failures.

This lecture will be give by Sinan Eden, co-author of All In.

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