Trump is trying to force the UK government to accept chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated beef because of the collapsed tech/AI deal. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

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This is grim. Within the gift bags attendees at the Oscars receive, this year they received a year-long subscription to a private disaster recovery service called Bright Harbor, which has grown popular in the wake of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles last January. grist.org/economics/wh...

"When Israeli firms operate abroad, they do so with the backing of a state that treats agribusiness as part of its diplomatic and strategic toolkit. Export credit guarantees and security cooperation smooth the path for agricultural contracts." wccalliance.org/apartheid-ag...

About 65% of registered voters in the US understand that global heating is affecting the cost of living. Climate-silence advocates like Matt Yglesias are telling Democrats to commit political malpractice for their fracking-powered data-center billionaire pals.

☕ 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

Bobby Sand's A Day in my Life "I wish it were possible to ensure those in charge of formulating British policy in Ireland would read these pages. They might begin to understand the deep injuries which British policy has inflicted upon this nation, & seek to heal these deep wounds" - Seán MacBride

I hope we don't end up sanctifying LUSH for their solidarity with Gaza, because they have a history of denying their own staff basic employment rights and deploying union busting tactics. LUSH is not an ethical company. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Community Christmas dinner at the Henry Barron centre in Gipton for people in the community who are lonely or just need a little extra help

A reminder that 90% of Ireland's so-called 'forests' are industrial plantations, virtually empty of nature. It doesn't have to be like this: with a bit of thought, we could satisfy our timber needs AND have huge tracts of natural forest ecosystems, bursting with life.

I think The Express needs to find their Xmas spirit. We're paying £476m for a regime that tear gasses babies & destroys shelters in freezing conditions. We should divert that money to a functioning and fair migration system. Tune in to @boldpolitics.bsky.social at 3pm tomorrow.

"[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."

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...

Me and @runestahl.bsky.social are hiring a future PhD fellow to study climate and class www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

One of the 1st political events seared into my young brain was a nightly litany of IRA hunger strikers dying & dead. An early lesson in state brutality. I'd thought we had grown more civilised since. But it would seem not. Now, we seem willing to kill people who have *been convicted of no crime*.

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...

The prison which reportedly denied an ambulance to hunger striker Qesser Zurhah, HMP Bronzefield, is fully privatised (Sodexo runs prison & medical) & has had a string of scandals including 2 recent deaths & an earlier baby death metro.co.uk/2025/08/04/t... & www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

🌿 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...

"2026 is set to be among the four hottest years dating back to 1850... As well as the unrelenting burning of fossil fuels and the fallout from rampant wildfires, scientists fear the Earth’s natural “carbon sinks” may be beginning to fail." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and finally address Appalachia’s devastating black lung crisis—has been under continued assault by coal bosses and the Trump admin. Now, it looks like it’s off the table entirely. New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

💥 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

Badenoch: "Our sickness benefit system wasn't designed to handle the age of diagnosis which we now live in" Logic suggests funding the NHS. More healthy people = more workers. Instead, she indicated the Tories would reduce which conditions entitled people to help. Makes sense.

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

Mr Buddy's got his serious eyebrows on tonight

"If you're under 19, or if you're 19 or older but in the first year of your apprenticeship, you will be paid at least the apprentice rate, external of £7.55 per hour. This will go up to £8 in April 2026." How the hell can anyone possibly survive on that in the UK? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. As the university trades its teaching mission for 'AI-tech integration,' it doesn’t just risk irrelevance, it risks becoming mechanically soulless." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Join TULE in our first 2026 event🎉! @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social will join us to discuss his new book "Or Something Worse: why we need to disrupt the climate transition" on January 14, 2026 at 9am EST, 3pm CET! Register here: bit.ly/3Mb1FUe

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...

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.

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...

Across the country, Starbucks workers are on an Unfair Labor Practice strike for a fair first contract, and I know which side I’m on. Baristas make Starbucks an extraordinarily wealthy company. They are entitled to their fair share of that wealth and to benefits and fair treatment on the job.

Millions of toxic beads have escaped into the sea from Eastbourne sewage works. Southern Water have confirmed that some of the money to pay for the clean up will come from customers bills. Are water companies ever going to be held responsible for their actions? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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

3/3 Despite this, fossil fuel use continues to rise and is projected to reach an all time high.

2/3 2.6°C would likely trigger major tipping points that would cause the collapse of key Atlantic Ocean circulation, loss of coral reefs, long-term deterioration of ice sheets & the conversion of the Amazon rainforest to a savannah, a place where more than 30 million people live.

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

1/3 Hundreds of people stormed through security lines at the COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil, reflecting deep-rooted anger at the sidelining of Indigenous groups from talks that directly affect their lands and livelihoods.

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!

📣 Reading group session is happening tomorrow 12th over zoom 3pm-4.30pm GMT - all are welcome! We'll be reading the Little Red Songbook by Industrial Workers of the World to discuss how trade unionists have used storytelling to build collective power & solidarity. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3yuz33wx

Eight people died in 2023 because of flooding caused by Storm Babet in the UK. "Because the agencies haven't put in flood defences which were recommended 20 years ago, other people could die in the future, especially the elderly & vulnerable." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My little peanut likes to pretend that she's a big lion too 🦁

"More than 1 million evacuated in the Philippines as Typhoon Fung-wong draws near... It is the 21st significant storm to hit the Philippines this year, straining disaster response efforts across the country." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

1/2 "A small group of authors, primarily from the Global North, dominates the field & largely promotes technology-focused framing. These findings point to intellectual hegemony in global just transition scholarship, shaping its discourse & potentially marginalising broader perspectives"

1/4 Rosebank is a defining test of this government’s credibility on climate change. They must reject this disaster project. We have joined 250+ organisations calling on Keir Starmer to reject the controversial Rosebank oil field. @stopcambo.bsky.social www.stopcambo.org.uk/updates/zack...

Reform doesn't give a shit about you or your family - "Lancashire’s Reform-run council has plans to save £4m a year by closing 5 council-run care homes & 5 day centres... The Reform-voting son of another resident said any move would “kill” his mother." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Crimes Against Animals & Nature: During Israel’s Genocide-Ecocide on Gaza Dr. Rimona Afana 27th November 6 pm (GMT) @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Peter Froggatt Centre, room 02/017 & online Free & all welcome Join here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8152577973... Meeting ID:815 2577 9735, Passcode:46512

Think one of the most important&transformative shift towards all kinds of justice and habitable planet would be collaboration&solidarity between working classes and the poor between Global North and the Global South for nature&environment&themselves &their societies, against the ruling class&wealthy