Reply To: 20th September

The only other names that struck a bell was Margaret Atwood and Vandana Shiva.

But, of course, just how many of the signatories and those generally in the eco movement have actually heard of us?

This is what we have to address…our political anonymity within perhaps the most prominent social movement of the present time.

How successful they will be involving the wider labour movement is going to be a challenge.  Embarking on a series of one-day strikes may resonate in some parts of the world, and fall very flat in others.

In the end, it is a very limited application of the general strike, more a token gesture and certainly not as a weapon of liberation but merely a lever to pressure government policy.

But surely our role is to ask…Why stop short?

No, i’m not advocating the use of the General Strike for establish socialism We have the vote for that.

But it is a hopeful sign that people are organizing outside the constraints of the conventional political parties, who are all rushing to be on the band-wagon…Ministers declaring climate emergencies…

I think we can go further and convince environmentalists to declare class war against the whole capitalist system, not just a few target fossil fuel corporations…and this is the message we need to get across. If we are not present, and I mean visibly in attendance, there will be no-one to hear and listen to such ideas.