We should be focusing on expanding access to rail & bus services, & ensuring that these forms of transport are affordable and run on clean energy. The last thing we need is a second runway at Gatwick - expected to lead to an extra 100,000 flights a year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/3 We've launched our online reading group series and we'd love to see you there! Over six months, our reading group will focus working class storytelling; how it's been used both as an educational tool as well as a form of resistance & instrument for revolution. www.eventbrite.com/e/wcca-readi...

This is in line with the govt's commitment to climate action, in much the same way me eating a massive fucking cake every day is in line with my commitment to lose weight. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"It is time for the socialist movement to stop anointing kings and shying away from grassroots power... Hand the reins over to the grassroots membership. Put your money where your mouth is, and give us our party." novaramedia.com/2025/09/19/p...

Latest survey of oil & gas workers from @platform1983.bsky.social finds: 🚨 27% of workers are actively looking to leave the sector 🚨 95% say UK govt isn't doing enough to support the transition 🚨 85% support more govt investment in wind manufacturing Read here👉 platformlondon.org/transition

It's our interns 9th birthday today - happy birthday Pico! 🥳❤️🐈

1/3 We had an absolute blast at the Anti-Austerity Conference in Bristol last weekend, hosted by @modernmoneylab.org.uk. Our Co-Director Sasha Josette joined Plaid Cymru Councillor Mark Hooper & Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to discuss the political economy of the UK, & solutions to austerity.

"The govt will ban no-fault evictions & give tenants greater rights to challenge rent increases... Ms Ogunfeibo says landlords are scared of some of the changes due to come into effect" Hope she has space in 1 of her 9 properties to cry me a river www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The most effective message contained factual arguments... & mentioned that over 1/4 of UK hospital doctors come from overseas & about 1 in 5 nurses. It asked people to consider the issue of essential jobs going unfilled in areas such as fuel deliveries." eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

Answering member questions and preparing for collective bargaining The latest episode of Fight Like Hell tackles a range of topics submitted by NALC members and includes an update on the ongoing prep for collective bargaining. Watch the episode here.

"The research has been hailed as a “leap forward” in the legal battle to hold big oil accountable... The emissions from the 14 biggest companies were by themselves enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well this is bleak. Jo Grady: "Both of these institutions should have been on the government's radar, and rather than stepping in, we're seeing that this is how a crisis is managed. This isn't offering stability to students, to staff or to the sector." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"[It] also raises the question of who decides to use it – especially in the Arctic & Antarctic, where governance is not straightforward. If a country were to deploy geoengineering against the wishes of others, it could increase geopolitical tensions in polar regions." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BDS victory! The Scottish Parliament becomes the first in the world to endorse BDS against genocidal Israel. BDS calls for escalated civil society pressure on all states to impose legal and targeted sanctions against apartheid Israel similar to those that helped abolish apartheid in South Africa.

💥 "We need really powerful storytellers - and there's no better storytellers than people from communities" 💥 Green Party Leader Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaking at today's Workers Planet event in Brighton, on the interaectional climate justice panel.

In a new paper we show how misinformation derails support for public action on climate change by casting doubt on the scientific consensus (which undermines public opinion). Disinformers attack expert consensus because they know it works. Free: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Middle class and upper middle-class speakers of English want to retain their power. They want to retain their privileges. It is very important for them to maintain the fiction that everyone who pronounces “something” as “somethink” is stupid." mediadiversified.org/2022/01/22/d...

[Sky News, which has spent years inciting hatred against migrants] Wow, how could this possibly happen?

I'm launching my book "Or Something Worse: Why we need to disrupt the climate transition" - if you are in London come along! 🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo... 🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception

Polanski dismissed claims his campaign represented a hostile takeover from new members. It's “laughably absurd. We’ve attracted thousands of new members. That’s not a takeover, that’s success. We’re showing people that a new kind of politics is possible.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Literature reminds us of something deeply important: the humanity we all carry within us, & the humanity which we must preserve in the face of everything. It plays a necessary role by inviting us to reflect – both inwardly & outwardly, in a more critical manner." wccalliance.org/to-the-halls...

"Some students worried about being perceived as complaining or troublesome by seeking support... combined with stereotypes around working-class laziness... these worries may become such that working-class students withdraw completely, even when desperately in need of support."

"Rent extraction also ties economies to endless growth. Rent income floats above actual production, so economies are forced to grow perpetually to sustain it. That pressure feeds ecological breakdown. Instead of stabilising resource use, economies double down on expansion."

📣 New article on the website ✍️ "The working class will continue to face the worst of climate disruption so long as landlords control access to housing. Floods and fires won’t create green landlords, they’ll create higher rents and higher inequality." wccalliance.org/there-are-no...

3/3 Link to the programme with further details: workersplanet.org/programme.html @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

2/3 It's a great line up of speakers including from trade unions, grassroots groups and politics. And of course, a trip to the pub once the day's over :) You can get your ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workers-pl...

1/3 Just over a week to go until Workers Planet - a fringe event at the TUC conference in Brighton (7th Sept). The day will be a deep dive into how unions can lead the fight for climate justice, & action-oriented discussions on workplace organising & environmental justice.

"The most affluent and mobile already produce 10 times more carbon through their domestic travel than the poorest and least mobile... the richest 4% are set to emit 13 times more carbon from their domestic travel than the poorest 14% by 2035." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"We ask you then to let the Empire go its own way; let those who own it fight its battles. It is not yours, you are but its slaves, and surely there is nothing in creation meaner than slaves fighting for the source and basis of their enslavement." www.marxists.org/archive/conn...

It’s real!! Or Something Worse out next month w/ @versobooks.bsky.social Preorders tinyurl.com/cc4ptp4e

2/2 Extreme heat has become a regular feature of life across the world, but the way it is felt depends on who you are and where you live; with working class people being hit the hardest and taking the longest to recover from its impacts - and that's even if they can recover at all.

1/2 New article on the website ✍️ Failure to invest in necessary protections from heat and heatwaves, from enforceable labour standards to climate resilient infrastructure, amounts to institutional abandonment. wccalliance.org/heat-and-ine...

"The rate at which humans are now injecting CO2 into the oceans & atmosphere far surpasses the planet’s ability to keep pace. We're now at the initial stages of a system failure. If we keep at it for much longer, we might see what actual failure really means." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is insanity - exactly why we need to #MakeThemPay. Join us on the streets on the 20th September!

Rich white folk don't want their kids to serve, so America spends billions enlisting working-class POCs instead Feels like giving people military skills and easy access to guns, then trashing them as un-American aliens who should be ejected from this country is a recipe for mayhem, I dunno

1/5 Yet another reason why climate communicators must aim to show how climate breakdown impacts people on a personal level: "Results show that many vulnerable & potentially vulnerable adults do not consider hot weather to be a risk to their health" bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

"We believe that the exploitation of nature is part of the same system that oppresses women - a patriarchal, capitalist, and colonial system... We cannot talk about women's liberation without linking it to the liberation of the land - and vice versa." theecologist.org/2025/jul/28/...

1/3 "The UK has baked in multiple heatwaves this summer, with many people sweltering in dangerously hot homes that were not designed to withstand extreme temperatures... Health risks spike when temperatures inside are above 25C." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

From 2018, but depressingly still relevant regarding academia & Eurocentrism. "There is emerging evidence of the important role of indigenous knowledge for climate change adaptation." People who exist outside of the ivory tower's bubble have always known this...

“We fast for days just to leave something for the children. Sometimes, there’s nothing—only water. At night they cry, saying, ‘Mama, we’re hungry.’ I hold them and say, ‘You’ll eat in heaven.’ Then I cry when they fall asleep.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Can't resist a mini WCCA takeover 🥳- I'll be joining Tim Foxon to discuss what a greener new deal and wellbeing economy could look like in the UK on Saturday morning. modernmoneylab.org.uk/events/brist...

As a caseworker this sort of thing makes me deeply uncomfortable. Not just because it would increase job insecurity but when a constituent takes the step to reach out to their elected rep it is usually their last resort at trying to find a solution to particularly harrowing situations.

"The very people who ensure the rest of the country has food to eat are going hungry... The 2.4 million or so farmworkers who are the backbone of America’s agricultural industry earn among the lowest wages in the country." grist.org/food-and-agr...

"Colonisation is global, & the methods of oppression are the same in Wales, the Basque Country, or Australia... When you take away somebody’s language, you take away their identity, & once you take away their identity, they’re easier to control." jacobin.com/2025/07/knee...

"Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has cost UK taxpayers almost £200bn, according to a report into the policy’s contribution to Britain’s housing crisis." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Oh boy "An analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Does Corbyn understand that the entire point of a left-wing alliance is solidarity between people from *different parts of the left* and that there's not going to be a mass, socialist uprising within the next 4 years? What planet is he on www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

Is there any other way to vote in the Green Party elections? #BackZack