Originally published in Tribune Magazine.

The writer Howard Jacobson has denounced a campaign against arms manufacturers and fossil fuel companies sponsoring literary festivals, arguing that writers shouldn’t take political action. But his denunciation ignores that complicity is also a political act.

Guy Gunaratne, one of the organisers in the collective Fossil Free Books behind the campaign responds directly. (Link)

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