Jan Myrdal's big prize – the Lenin Award for 2025 goes to Andreas Malm with the following justification:
“The human ecologist, Marxist and activist Andreas Malm has, with his life at stake in the era of racism, imperialist wars, Palestinian genocide and climate disasters, with his burning intellectual courage and uncompromising integrity, become an absolutely decisive Swedish voice in the world. For more than 20 years, he has in an increasing and to an equal degree in theory and practice through internationally groundbreaking research on global warming and the role of fossil fuels in this apocalyptic doom saga of capitalism and through his own personal involvement in climate and solidarity movements all over the world, inspired activists as well as the world’s leading academics, researchers and free intellectuals, and no other Swede can with the same self-evident certainty accept a prize in both Jan Myrdal’s and Lenin’s names.”
