Here, LARRY LOHMANN introduces the work of The Cornerhouse, and reflects on the question of alliances for climate campaigners. He suggests that we should take seriously the concept of ‘carbon fetishism’.

“You cannot possibly begin to understand the climate predicament without understanding the socio-ecological dynamic of capitalism.”

“In the early 1990s, as a wave of pogrom-like riots and attacks on asylum seekers swept through the country, the radical left found that with this analysis it was not in a position to do anything against it. Racist and fascist ideas seemed to be held by a large part of the population.”

In the run-up to the G20 protests, parts of the corporate media ran a sustained campaign of scare stories about ‘violent anarchists’. How has your relationship with the media been? Did you try to get a more serious anarchist perspective out?

This year there’s the NATO summit, the G8 in Italy, Cop-15 etc. Do you think this could be the return of the anti-globalisation movement? Could, or should, it take the same form that it did in the late 90’s and how do you think the current financial situation affects this?

At the camp you joked about the police presence being nothing compared to your previous experiences. How did you find the Climate Camp this summer?

How old were you in ’68 and what were you doing at the time?

In September 2007, you proclaimed “the spacehijackers own a tank and plan to use it”. What was the target?

Last September, some 300 people gathered a few miles from Gatwick airport for the No Borders camp. What was the idea behind the camp? What were its aims?

The Camp for Climate Action spearheads a radical movement against the “causes of climate change”. What are those causes?