Join @wccalliance.bsky.social for our monthly reading group session on Monday 23rd February 6pm-7.30pm GMT (over zoom) about working class storytelling and climate justice. We'll be reading from the Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen Journal. www.eventbrite.com/e/working-cl...

By 2050 1 in 4 UK properties will be at risk from flooding. Currently, a third of railways are at risk of flooding. In less than 25 years this will rise to more than half of the rail network being at risk, according to the government's own figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate change is getting personally expensive in the North... Insurance payouts due to storms and flooding are exploding. UK payouts for 2025 totalled £1.6bn, up from £1.3bn in 2024, and double the average payout from 2017-2021

We'll be running this workshop in-person at the Malet Place Engineering Building on 17 February 2026, 2-4.30pm, as part of UCL's 28 Days of Sustainability programme. Please note this is for UCL students and staff only. Book your spot here: 👇 www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/...

'Or something worse: why we need to disrupt the climate transition' @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social Wednesday 25th Februrary Queen's University Belfast Free and open to all

Join us for our monthly reading group session on Monday February 23rd, 6pm-7.30pm GMT (over zoom). For this session we'll focus on storytelling & climate justice, by reading from the Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen Journal. Register your spot 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...

I'm doing a book talk in Belfast 25th Feb at Queen's University - if you're in town come say hi! 7pm Canada Room/Lanyon Building Hosted by the Centre for Sustainability,Equality& Climate Action Free to register! www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-xd...

We may not all agree on how to address the problems we face. But do know this: we can only address them if we face them together. We're one of 100s of orgs representing over 7 million people, building towards a major demonstration in London on Sat, 28 March, starting at 12pm. Will you join us?

Neocolonialism in subtle forms also: "For both companies the mechanism of impact is the same: to convert technical capacity into a policy package, and normalise a governance regime that privileges commercial extraction and private investment over locally governed, commons-based alternatives."

The Citizens' Cultural Plan is the first of its kind, with recommendations from public spaces to creative education proposed through a citizens assembly. Read about our involvement and next steps to test the ideas with support from @esmeefairbairn.bsky.social gulbenkian.pt/uk-branch/ne...

How have Israeli companies transformed water into an instrument of settler rule & profit? We took a deep dive into two Israeli companies, laying out their roles in the occupation of Palestine & ongoing genocide, & how they profit from it on a global scale 👇 wccalliance.org/making-apart...

💪🏼Protest the Old Kent Road AAP 💪🏽Don't let the council cleanse the community! 💪🏿Outside Council Assembly Wednesday 18 March, 6:30pm Southwark Council Offices 160 Tooley Street London SE1 2TZ

Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the new issue on work 🛠 If you were thinking about contributing, the deadline is February 21st ⏰ As inspiration, we have published a flashback to Lumpen 13 with a testimonial on shit jobs by Some Migrant. theclassworkproject.com/talking-abou...

Why are certain forms of knowledge held in higher regard than others? How can we ensure that all forms of knowledge are valued equally? Join us on Feb 16th 2pm-3.30pm GMT (over zoom) for our bi-annual workshop on democratising environmental decision-making. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whose-envi...

America, land of the free.

Amsterdam become's world's first capital city to ban meat advertising - "It shows politicians are taking climate goals seriously," says Reint Jan Renes, at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences #climatecrisis www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/g...

A new UN report states that the world has entered the era of Global Water Bankruptcy, a persistent post-crisis condition of a human–water system in which long-term water use has exceeded renewable inflows and safe depletion limits, causing irreversible or effectively irreversible degradation.

Zack Polanski has said that Britain should expel US forces from the UK if the country seizes Greenland - a proposal 55% of Britons support Support: 55% Oppose: 22% yougov.co.uk/topics/trave...

This is something important! Something "we" have known. And here it is researched & articulated.

‘99th Day: A Warning About Technology’ Gerry McGovern Tuesday 10th February, 6pm Canada Room, Lanyon Building Queen’s University Belfast/Ollscoil na Banríona Béal Feirste The event is free and open to all but registration necessary: www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-ld...

The UK government has finally admitted that It would take resources of 1.6 Earths to sustain the world’s current levels of consumption The rate of extinction is 10s to 100s of times higher than the average over the past 10 mil years. A 6th mass extinction may be underway www.gov.uk/government/p...

From the Bog to the Cloud by Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie, book launch 12th Feb, 7pm The A Centre, 6 Wellington Street Belfast

When I think of excellent candidates for a board of peace, a psychopathic war criminal is always the first to come to mind. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

Settler Violence as Settler-Colonialism in Palestine Dr Mais Qandeel (University of Galway) Wednesday 28th January 7pm, Peter Froggatt Centre, room 02/017 Queen's University Belfast Free and all welcome but registration required: www.ticketsource.co.uk/qubseca/t-jx...

"The Associated Press this week reported a stunning fact: Of the 13,000 homes destroyed a year ago in the extraordinary wildfires in and around Los Angeles, fewer than a dozen have been rebuilt." grist.org/housing/la-h...

“According to the report, the strongest indicator of where new facilities are proposed is race: 30% of the proposed facilities are in poorer communities, while more than half are planned for communities that have more Black and Brown people than the average American community nationwide.”

“90% of new petrochemical facilities proposed for Texas are in counties with higher demographic vulnerability in the form of higher percentages of people of color, or higher percentages of people in poverty (or both) than other areas of the state or the nation.”

💥 Join us for our first reading group session of the year on Jan 15th (Thursday), 6pm-7.30pm GMT over zoom. We'll be reading from Brian Friel's Translations, set in Donegal, Ireland, and discussing storytelling and linguistic imperialism. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...

89% of people worldwide want stronger climate action. Yet politicians consistently believe the opposite. They mistake the loudest objections for the majority, and it’s one of the biggest reasons climate policy keeps stalling.

We achieved a lot to be proud of in 2025. Now with a membership base of working class people spanning 26 countries globally, and campaigns with trade unions and communities well under way, we start the new year stronger than ever. Read our annual report here: 👇 wccalliance.org/wp-content/u...

What brings you hope? An article that caught my eye is that Storks will be re-introduced into a London park this year, for the first time in 600 years! Beavers will also be released there in 2027. I'd love to hear any positive news you've come across 🍃 tinyurl.com/msh8tcmy

☕ Fancy buying us a coffee this holiday season to support our campaign? buymeacoffee.com/wcca Based in Leeds East, our campaign w/ a UNISON trade union branch aims to 🌟 Decrease support for the far right 🌟 Increase political participation 🌟 Improve access to green space 🌟 Strengthen community ties

"[The projects] tightly controlled “agricultural villages,” built on the ruins of ethnically cleansed Indigenous settlements and partially modelled on Israeli cooperative settlements, or moshavs. These villages were then used to force displaced people to grow beans and coffee for the global market."

Call for Abstracts🪧🪧🪧 Global Student Movements Against Coloniality: Entangled Praxis of Hope, Resistance & Solidarity This is for an edited book project we’ll propose under the “Decolonial Entanglements” series (Routledge). Deadline: 27 February 2026 🔗 www.southsouthmovement.org/global-stude...

New article on the website ✍ Israeli agribusiness - what began as a tool of settler colonialism in Palestine, now circulates worldwide as a development template, financed by international capital & imposed on rural economies worldwide. Read it here: wccalliance.org/apartheid-ag...

It was a pleasure to join Sarah Mukherjee, Nadia Shaikh and Ciara Dwyer for a special episode of The ENDS Report podcast 'Access Denied' which examines how working-class people are represented in the UK environment sector. You can listen to it at this link 👇 podfollow.com/ends/episode...

🌿 Climate spaces only work when everyone feels they belong in them. I spoke to @carboncopyeco.bsky.social for their latest podcast ep, along with Mya-Rose Craig (AKA Birdgirl), to explore what it takes to make climate and nature engagement inclusive. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/12Q0...

💥 Happening tomorrow - there's still some spaces left! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...

The wealthiest 0.001% of the population (fewer than 60,000 multi-millionaires), control three times more wealth than half of humanity combined. wir2026.wid.world

New article on the website ✍️ A rights-based approach to energy can extend access, but also risks legitimising an extractivist status quo - Staff Writer Kevin Picado writes about the energy transition, & the need for ground-up approaches to rights & access. wccalliance.org/a-human-righ...

Join us for our next reading group session (over zoom) on December 11th, 6pm-7.30pm GMT! We'll be reading Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism, a text that dismantles colonial ideology and exposes the moral emptiness of European claims to civilisation. Register here: tinyurl.com/nhjudx76

Great piece from @sheridanvk.bsky.social "How can we meet the scale of what’s necessary? By harnessing the power of our public money, and understanding that a “budget deficit” from the government is simply how we increase our collective wealth." www.greenhousethinktank.org/wealth-taxes...

This piece captured so much of essentials that do not get attention at all even among the discourses and talking points it should belong, that must re-shear again.

Our Staff Writer Kevin Picado writes about the extraction of knowledge from the Global South, and how understanding this connection is essential for any project of ecological and social justice 🍃 Read the article in full: wccalliance.org/the-material...

Our Staff Writer Kevin Picado writes about the extraction of knowledge from the Global South, and how understanding this connection is essential for any project of ecological and social justice 🍃 Read the article in full: wccalliance.org/the-material...

Please sign this petition to end the unnecessary misconduct investigation by Queen's University Belfast into Saoirse Wagner, and protect the right to free speech on campus. For opposing genocide in campus, Saoirse faces the possibility of expulsion from the uni. my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

Analysis by Kick Big Polluters Out has revealed that more than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists - 1 in every 25 people, have been granted access to the COP30 climate talks in Belém. Read the full release here: 👇 kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick... #COP30

From the Amazon to the world! On Saturday 15 November, the climate justice movement will mobilise across the world for the Global Day of Action during COP30. We’re coordinating events across Great Britain – find and join one near you this weekend 👉 climatejustice.uk/cop30/global...

1/3 In 1995, the first COP gathering was held in Berlin. Thirty years later we are on track to reach 2.6°C. Where is the political will to do anything about it? #COP30