Extinction Rebellion

Content by or about Extinction Rebellion (XR) a non-violent direct action environmental group founded in the UK in 2018.

XR Scotland "Climate Struggle = Class Struggle" banner, City of London 14 October 2019

Book cover: Dialectical_Butterflies.

Dialectical Butterflies by Dave and Stuart Wise

Ecocide, Extinction Rebellion, Greenwash amd Rewildind the Commons - an Illustrated Derive. No.2 in the WisEbook Series. BPC Publications Marck…

Early 20th century painting on a square canvas of a black and white swan (each on a background of the opposite colour to its own feathers) touching each other's beaks

"When you start from fear, you lose the ability to think critically" - Heather from Keduzi interview

Heather is a Colombian-USer who spent 17 years in England before moving to Colombia…

XR "conscientious protector" patch taken at XR road occupation in Dalston Feb 2019

Driving Me Fekkin' Wild: Down and dirty with Extinction Rebellion - David Wise

A dense, meandering, wide-ranging theoretical-cum-practical critique of XR whilst literally stuck in…

A picture of the Extinction Rebellion symbol turning into the symbol of EarthFirst! alongside the text "REBEL, REBEL!"

To our friends from XR

Article about Extinction Rebellion published by EarthFirst! gathering collective, based in the UK, on the 28th of July 2022.

Save the Planet - Destroy Capitalism!

In July hundreds of lives were lost in heat domes over western Canada and the US, and floods in Germany and China. Wildfires raged out of control…

Turning the Planet into an Uninhabitable Hell

While capitalism’s latest child, Covid-19, rains death down on us, capitalism’s destruction of the planet is actually taking us down a path…

Destroying Our Planet... Sustainably

As this article goes to press (December 2019), the bush fires that have been raging for weeks through six Australian states, from Queensland to…

Can Capitalist Reform Save The Environment?

The Stockholm Resilience Centre has recently identified a number of key issues which are becoming catastrophic for life on Earth. Climate change…

Extinction Rebellion: Not the Struggle we Need, Pt. 2

The second part of our critique of Extinction Rebellion, focussing on how their organisational form…

What You Need to Know About the Upcoming Climate Strikes: A Discussion

Starting Friday, September 20th, a wide collection of groups, many formed within the last year, will…

“Capitalism is Dead” (George Monbiot) but Only the World Working Class Can Bury It

It did not take the fatal consequences of recent record temperatures in Western Europe, or the…

XR Protesters with placard 'Tell the Truth'

Has XR the successful strategy to save the planet?

Extinction Rebellion has one very clear tactic: Nonviolent mass-participation civil disobedience. They state that this is proven to be the most…