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Anarchism has become marginal in international degrowth spheres, that are increasingly academic. Adrien Plomteux argues that degrowth would benefit from taking anarchist principles and tactics seriously.

Strategy • 27.03.2026

Exploring the strategic and tactical preferences of the degrowth movement 

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By: Nick Fitzpatrick

Nick Fitzpatrick explores the strategic diversity within the degrowth movement, showing how different conceptualisations of degrowth have marked strategic implications and prompt differing direct action tactics.

Strategy • 20.03.2026

Horizontalism: A degrowth strategy

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By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy

Terry Leahy, Anitra Nelson, and Vincent Liegey outline their understanding of horizontalism and its role in helping realise a degrowth future.

Strategy • 12.03.2026

Dual strategies and the 'Mini effect'

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By: Manuel Casal Lodeiro

What power can minority parties have in partitocratic political systems? Manuel Casal Lodeiro joins the ongoing strategy debate and argues for the significance of radical degrowthist parties.

Strategy • 06.03.2026

What’s wrong with degrowth? Nothing.

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By: Giorgos Kallis

Giorgos Kallis contests recent interventions which lament the current direction of degrowth and its strategies, arguing instead for a community of pluralist yet tense alliances.

Strategy • 03.02.2026

A political strategy for degrowth

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By: Vlad Bunea

Contributing to strategy debates on degrowth.info, Vlad Bunea outlines a vision for degrowth-aligned political parties.

Strategy • 24.11.2025

On degrowth politics and strategy

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By: Jason Hickel

Jason Hickel responds to critics of his interview published in the summer, therefore continuing the debate around "what is degrowth" and around the strategies to achieve degrowth.

Strategy • 10.10.2025

Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth

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By: Donatella Gasparro, Daniele Vico

Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.

Strategy • 30.09.2025

Debating degrowth: A response to Jason Hickel

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By: Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson, Terry Leahy

As a response to Jason Hickel's interview with the Break-Down Journal, the authors share their thoughts on degrowth as a concept and a movement, and the role it plays in a challenging political context.

Strategy • 23.09.2025

Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation

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By: Charles Stevenson

Building on previous strategy debates on degrowth.info, Charles Stevenson argues for degrowthers moving beyond Erik Olin Wright's typology

Strategy • 26.06.2025

"We invent nothing, or only very little." A portrait of Les Soulèvements de la Terre and some reflections

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By: Myriam Best

In this article Myriam Best analyses the ongoing french movement Earth Uprisings which struggles for land and water commons and the dismantlement of the techno-industrial capitalist complex.

Strategy • 12.06.2025

Dynamic Coalitions: Organizational Solidarity in Practice

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By: Ana Inés Heras

Militant-scholar, Ana Inés Heras, writes about collaborative projects between her research team at the Argentinean Council and various self-governed local communities and groups.

Strategy • 12.11.2024

Transformative learning spaces for degrowth: What could a degrowth conference look like?

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By: Amerissa Giannouli

This article summarises a proposal for reworking degrowth conferences that was developed in a workshop held by the Transformative Learning Circle (TLC) of the International Degrowth Network (IDN) at the 2024 International ESEE-Degrowth Conference in Pontevedra

Strategy • 30.07.2024

Degrowth and disagreement: Why engage with our strongest critics?

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By: Oliver Lewis

Oliver Lewis argues that the degrowth movement must not shy away from engaging with its critics

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