Really pleased to be part of this issue, chatting about tenant organising & environmental campaigning

A new special issue of Soundings explores rising authoritarian political culture in Britain. I edited it with my colleagues, Dave Featherstone and Jenny Morrison. Read our introduction on the Starmer government's embrace of repressive crackdowns 🔽

📣 Opportunity: Oral History PhD Research Project w/t Imperial War Museums & University of Strathclyde. An #oralhistory of women paramilitaries during ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland and Britain. For more information visit: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #Postgraduate #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles

Looking forward to this! Hope to see people there :)

Just when we all needed it - we've programmed a week of events all about building a more just world through empathy, community action and social justice. Next up is @hazelsheffield.bsky.social and @rosiehampton.bsky.social discussing Frontierlands on Thursday at 7pm.

Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵

Great to be back on the Skotia discussing the prospects of an SNP majority gov in May w/ Reform in second; the CCC report on Scotland’s draft climate change plan; and what lessons the Gorton & Denton result has for Scotland Listen below!

It's finally out, thanks to @minorcomps. Amongst many great contributions, I have a chapter in here entitled "Differentiated Spatialities of Subsumption and the Social Factory as Phantom Thesis." Eds., Anthony Iles & Mattin. Buy if you can to support radical independent publishing. 👇

Depressing news This piece by Hailey Maxwell on the People's Palace is great - "The managed decline and privatisation of cultural and civic heritage is entangled with the wilful disintegration of communal ways of living more generally." www.thedrouth.org/on-peoples-p...

Thursday, 19 March - Frontierlands with @hazelsheffield.bsky.social & @rosiehampton.bsky.social Communities on Britain’s margins are boldly rewriting the future, reclaiming and reimagining neglected land offering lessons to bring into our own! lighthousebookshop.com/events/front...

Absolutely *cannot* wait for this wicked pairing and the discussion it promises, join us!

In March I’ll be hosting a discussion with @hazelsheffield.bsky.social about her new book Frontierlands at @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh Join us for what I’m sure will be a great discussion! lighthousebookshop.com/events/front...

Lots of new radical history tours open for booking over the next few months including Queer Glasgow, radical West End and Migrants Made Glasgow. Free tickets always available if cost is a barrier, just drop us a line. See you in the streets! radicalglasgowtours.com

Ash Regan is trying to push a dangerous bill through parliament in a few weeks time that would introduce the Nordic Model to Scotland. For sex workers’ safety and rights, it CANNOT go through. Takes 2 mins to use this tool to tell your MSPs just that scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow

Tonight! I’ll be talking about my article ‘Where is the left?’ & all things radical spaces and political organising 7pm at the Third Eye Bar, inside the CCA - hope to see you there!

I really enjoyed reading this. The loss of left-wing physical spaces is certainly felt. I was speaking to someone at Sheffield Transformed, who mentioned that the area once had two other radical spaces, 'all gone now.' It's also about what these spaces mean in building inclusive, radical cultures.

A brilliant article about the disappearance of left-wing spaces, how the online left isn’t representative of left-wing organising in general (despite Ash Sarkar’s claims), and how we can build a movement based on solidarity and the nurturing of diversity. I liked this quote a lot 👇

I wrote ‘Where is the Left?’ for the New Internationalist and have been really heartened by how much it’s resonated with people organising across a wide range of groups and in such a vast array of different places You can read the article here newint.org/protest/2025...

Great list of resources and engagement in this thread, thank you v much to Shannon for resharing (and a reminder to myself I should come on here more!!)

Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton (@rosiehampton.bsky.social)

Really looking forward to chatting about my latest NI article, ‘Where is the Left?’ at the December News Club next Wednesday!

SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share www.change.org/p/save-geogr...

My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, will be published by Verso next year. It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!

We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛 Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.

Still some spaces left for this talk tomorrow. Please share.

Just Transition Conditionalities - Building a Toolkit for Scotland can be downloaded here. It outlines proposals for how transition policy should be structured to protect workers, create jobs and benefit communities and the public. www.justtransition.scot/publication/...

With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh. We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.

A new article from me about writing groups, class, culture and radical adult education in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s Glasgow: scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...

The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown. I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.

lovely to get my print copy of the latest @newint.bsky.social, which features my article ‘where is the left?’ for their long read section it discusses left wing spaces, whilst offering a critique of recent accounts (such as minority rule) that suggest the left has got ‘worse’ at solidarity

"Almost all of those surveyed want more public investment in domestic wind manufacturing, as well as in UK ports so they are fit for energy projects." Must-read op-ed from @rosiehampton.bsky.social reflecting on their recent survey of UK oil & gas workers. www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...

*New research article* Gabe Eckhouse and I for Geoforum on how since the 1970s North Sea oil and then fracking have been imagined as British and American national energy sources through imperial oil booms reinforcing old oil powers after the rise of anti-colonial nationalism. Read it here⬇️

Absolutely loved this. So rare to get this level of analysis that's specific to Scotland and its dysfunctional unhappy status quo, its industrial strategy caught between inaction and apathy. A great listen.

Bathgate no more. Lindwood no more. Grangemouth no more. Now, Larbert no more? After the news of Alexander Dennis' closure, @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @ewangibbs.bsky.social ponder whether Scotland is witnessing another unjust transition. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/MwMNRCJ

Enjoyed chatting to environmental campaigner and trade unionist @rosiehampton.bsky.social about Scotland's unjust transition, the multinationals who dominate our economy and how we build an energy system that works for workers and citizens. You can listen here ⬇️

Really enjoyed this conversation about (un)just transitions, public ownership & where do we go from here You can listen at the link below!

💥BOOK EVENT💥 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Glasgow Launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍Aye Aye Books www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/fr...

From Grangemouth to Aberdeen, in Scotland we are already seeing what a transition led by corporate greed will look like, with job losses, fuel poverty and emergency food bank use on the rise. This cannot continue. We need public investment to support workers into good, secure, unionised jobs.

Great to be out with trade unions and climate groups standing shoulder to shoulder outside UK Parliament today, calling on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to commit £1.9bn a year in transition funding for North Sea workers. No more empty promises, time for real action for workers and their communities.

RALLY: DEMAND A WORKERS' TRANSITION ✊ We’re joining forces with climate activists and trade unionists to demand a workers’ transition is funded at the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review. Rachel Reeves: support North Sea oil and gas workers!

Picked this up yesterday at the May Day rally. Great stuff from all the authors, including @rosiehampton.bsky.social and @gavinbrewis.bsky.social writing on the Just Transition and on Ned Culture, respectively

Delighted to have a chapter in ‘Keep Left: Red Paper on Scotland 2025’, out today with @luathpress.bsky.social I wrote about Scotland’s energy transition and what’s needed for the left to reclaim it from being dictated by the whims of industry bosses & private capital

Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...

Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.

I’m so pleased to see this important, moving, incisive and harrowing collection of papers published. It was an honour to act as editor.

I’m really pleased to say my thesis, “Infrastructures of solidarity: the spatial politics of the left in 1980s Scotland”, is now online theses.gla.ac.uk/84892/ if you’re interested in solidarity & unemployed workers’ centres, bookshops and women’s centres - look no further !

Our latest research looks at employment practice in the offshore wind sector, and takes a closer look at the ScotWind developers. The Scottish Government didn't ask these companies to commit to Fair Work so we did - not one completed our survey.

Wrote this for @heraldscotland.bsky.social about how both governments have utterly failed to deliver a just transition for Grangemouth workers t.co/Utwa0MkFYB

Publication day! A social & architectural history of post-war Scottish new towns: planning & buildings plus community, family, gender, work, education, home. The ebook is FREE via bit.ly/4hLkxn9. Print copy (more attractive!) via www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-... - do ask libraries to purchase