Stop being dicks and start being revolutionaries On the fascism of violence. So here we go again. We see the pictures of violence in France: men who think another shot of political heroin will get them the revolution. It will not. Having been at this game for 4 decades - I know absolutely the revolutionary class is not young men under 30 - it is women over 50. I am absolutely not saying this to get political brownie points. Everyone who does this business knows this. In the last century it was the women who stuffed the envelopes, did the clearing up, provided the emotional labour - all the stuff that actually makes civil resistance work that never gets onto the front pages. Because it is not sexy. But sexy does not get you the relationship, it just gets you sex. And sex is not the revolution. Relationship is the revolution. Relationships mean assemblies - people - meaning the actual real life people - shop workers, nurses, secretaries, bus drivers - sitting down together and deciding together. Not the government, not the elites, not the rich. And not young men being dicks. And for you rational types - listen up - only 25 per cent of violent revolutions win and of those only 1 in 20 produce a pro social democracy after the 5 years. The other 19 result in social breakdown, civil war, dictatorship or all three. And that means a pile of shit going on - body parts in the streets and people screaming in grief over the people those body parts used to belong to. So read the numbers and don’t play dumb. You put carbon in the air, you warm the climate; you go out and be a violent dick, you get fascism. What makes revolutions is not elitist violence, it's mass participation - 3.5% of the population if you want to know. Violence destroys participation. The point is not that violent revolution is not revolutionary, it is that it is not revolutionary enough. Not even on the foothills of being enough. The real thing as we all get to realise sooner or later, is love - to attend, listen, support, provide. The revolution is love or it is nothing. Without love we all die. We are on humankind's last lap. We have to make our final call. We have to choose as some cool guy said between nonviolence and non existence. And for those men reading this, this message has to come from us. We need to call out this shit, not pretend this is a woman thing. This is what real leadership looks like. To tell the truth because it is the truth - and not give a fuck. Violence is fucked and it has to stop. See you on the streets - AND in the assemblies. I am speaking tonight at 7pm BST with climatologist Ruth Cerezo-Mota. Join us. actionnetwork.org/events/oct…

The MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE of the year on "climate" "This massive lie can best be summed up as 'when it comes to climate change... we have more time.'" And this is why revolution is the only option we have - it is not a matter of politics, it's a matter of physics. Because we are out of time. currentaffairs.org/news/the-…