⏱️ 1 week to go... ⏱️ We'll be speaking at a webinar on 1pm CEST 29th July hosted by the European Work Time Network, about the hidden labour of free time and the class politics of working time reduction. All are welcome! my.weezevent.com/free-time-is...

1/2 The expansion of imperialism. How is this being funded? By using the £400 million that was planned to be given (as grants) to Global South countries to tackle climate change. These will now be given as loans. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Andy Burnham says £2 bus fare cap in England being paid for by 're-prioritising' money

Speaking on a visit to Bath, the new PM also says there is currently "no commitment" to increasing the tax-free personal allowance threshold.

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Almost a year after this article was written and things haven't gotten better. They've gotten much worse. "As temperatures rise, so will the urgency to challenge a system that deems some people unworthy of safety." wccalliance.org/heat-and-ine...

Heat and Inequality: No Shade for the Poor - The Working Class Climate Alliance

Photo credit: Felix Marquez/AP Photo 5th August 2025 Extreme heat has become a regular feature of life in many parts of the planet, but the way it is felt depends on who you are and where you live. Pe...

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"Not only do working class people often feel disconnected from climate messaging, they also feel disconnected from the very messengers themselves. Countering this requires handing working class communities real power over the decisions that shape their lives,and the platform to speak for themselves"

The Working Class Climate Alliance@wccalliance.bsky.social · last mo.

How can climate campaigners effectively respond to the growing wave of resistance to environmental policies, while building genuine alliances with the working class? We've created a climate communications toolkit as a way to help. Check it out 👇🍃 wccalliance.org/climate-comm...

How can climate campaigners effectively respond to the growing wave of resistance to environmental policies, while building genuine alliances with the working class? We've created a climate communications toolkit as a way to help. Check it out 👇🍃 wccalliance.org/climate-comm...

Climate in Common: A Communications Toolkit for Working Class Engagement - The Working Class Climate Alliance

24th June 2026 How can climate campaigners effectively respond to the growing wave of resistance to environmental policies, while building genuine alliances with the working class? Opponents of climat...

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How do you navigate hating people who [gestures at world] enabled all of this while realising any post-this [gestures at world] means re-integrating enough of them to move forward?

Richard Delevan@richard.wickedproblems.earth · 2mo ago

Understanding the psychology of defectors is the most understudied bit of politics and has never been more important. Thinking about it is a co-benefit of bogeying a bunch of Graham Greene, Mick Herron, and Le Carré. This is a good piece. sojo.net/sojoshare/OD...

El Niño has officially begun. This could end up as a so-called "super" El Niño, and even be among the strongest ever recorded. It could bring another record-hot year, most likely 2027, disrupting weather, food supplies & economies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

El Niño has begun, scientists say, and could bring record heat

An El Niño event has officially started, say US scientists, raising fears of extreme weather and higher temperatures.

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1/2 Looking forward to speaking at the upcoming RACE Summit in London on Tues 30th June. I'll be joining a panel discussion exploring how to communicate working-class narratives within the wider environmental & political landscape. Get your ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-race-s...

Let's be honest, everything is sh*t right now. Join us for a wellness workshop on Monday June 22nd 2pm-3.45pm BST (over zoom). It'll be a space to air our grievances and learn coping strategies to help ground and calm us and improve our individual wellbeing. www.eventbrite.com/e/everything...

Everything is Sh*t - A Wellness Workshop

Join us for a wellness workshop during difficult times:

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In our latest article, Kevin Picado discusses how the plastic crisis isn't a waste management problem but an overproduction problem, rooted in the petrochemical industry's structural dependence on fossil fuels. Framing it as the former lets the industry off the hook. wccalliance.org/the-real-iss...

1/4 There is no maximum legal working temperature in the UK, and this needs to change. The Working Class Climate Alliance, alongside other climate justice groups and trade union branches are a part of the Heat Strike campaign. heatstrike.uk

BREAKING: First Minister John Swinney will bring a motion on Scottish independence to a Holyrood vote on Tuesday, he has confirmed. www.thenational.scot/news/2612828...

First Minister announces date for Holyrood Scottish independence vote

FIRST Minister John Swinney will bring a motion on Scottish independence to a Holyrood vote on Tuesday, he has said.

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1/2 This is an excellent article about the disproportionate influence of Global North academics and journals have over just transition discourse, pulling it towards technocratic framings and away from structural change and Global South perspectives. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Who shapes the just transition? Examining intellectual hegemony in climate research

Who shapes the just transition? Examining intellectual hegemony in climate research, Mbeva, Kennedy, Okereke, Chukwumerije, Makomere, Reuben

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In the last 30 years, more than 99% of media stories that mention ‘hate marches’ have been published since 7 October 2023 and have focused on anti-racist protesters. Bias much? www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Des Freedman | ‘Hate Marches’

Two marches will assemble in central London tomorrow. One is championing the rights of Palestinians and commemorating 78...

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“The freedom of privileged class women of all races required the subordination of working-class women… There was no way for women with class privilege who wanted economic power & status while holding on to their feminist credentials to confront the issue of class.” - bell hooks

"Women were encouraged to see these economic gains as beneficial to everyone, rather than acknowledging the continued subjugation of black and working class women,whose exploitation was necessary for the economic gains of others: in order for some women to be able to leave the home and go to work.."

Emma River-Roberts@emma-river-roberts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's great to see a greater focus on class in climate spaces than before. What I don't see so much, are discussions about what it 'is'. I've written for @wccalliance.bsky.social emphasising the need to understand it as a social, cultural, & economic phenomena. wccalliance.org/so-what-is-s...

Great day at the Sociological Association of Ireland Conference. As expected given contemporary global discourse, there were numerous talks on race, migration, and far right. Yet, class was rarely mentioned despite being a central feature in much of the above. Unimportant or uninteresting? Curious.

It's great to see a greater focus on class in climate spaces than before. What I don't see so much, are discussions about what it 'is'. I've written for @wccalliance.bsky.social emphasising the need to understand it as a social, cultural, & economic phenomena. wccalliance.org/so-what-is-s...

So What Is Social Class, Exactly? - The Working Class Climate Alliance

Photo Credit: Jimmy Sime 6th May 2026 I am asked a lot to explain what social class is which is completely understandable, given that I was the person to found the Working Class Climate Alliance back ...

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"The process of relocating people from New Orleans [with a population of 360,000] should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by Gulf of Mexico before end of this century, authors say

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1/3 Last week we co-hosted a screening of Earth's Greatest Enemy with Degrowth London, a documentary about the U.S. military's role as the world's largest institutional polluter. It was wonderful to see so many new faces at the event. The documentary was eye opening - a must watch.

2/2 There is no such thing as a 'green' landlord. Read the article in full here 👇 wccalliance.org/there-are-no...

There Are No Green Landlords - The Working Class Climate Alliance

Photo Credit: Kunal Chaudhary 28th August 2025 Rent is a social relation where a small class of owners extracts wealth from a bigger, non-owning class without producing anything in return. Landlords m...

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1/2 "Being a landlord isn't inherently unethical." Actually, yes it is. Rent extraction ties economies to endless growth. Rent income floats above actual production, so economies are forced to grow endlessly to sustain it. That pressure feeds ecological breakdown. inews.co.uk/opinion/hate...

I hated landlords until I became one

Landlords provide a necessary service - that doesn't make us bad people

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Last month I chaired a panel at the Climate and Nature Education Festival (is climate change a working class issue?) I've written some reflections & to share the great points raised by Tahir Latif, Catherine Porritt & Suzanne Jeffrey. Spoiler - of course it is! wccalliance.org/is-climate-c...

Is Climate Change a Working Issue? Reflections From the Climate and Nature Education Festival - The Working Class Climate Alliance

16th April 2026 Last month I chaired a panel at the Climate and Nature Education Festival, a one-day event bringing together educators, activists, politicians, business leaders, governors, parents, an...

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BREAKING🚨| IMF warn the UK will be hit the hardest of the G7 economies by the Iran war. Politicians like Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage who initially backed this war, have to answer one question - what the hell were you thinking?

1/4 While taking a lovely walk on the Sussex downs over the weekend, I thought about the Right to Roam - the public's right to access certain land and wander in the countryside, and that we have the working class to thank for being able to do so.

Reform's Zia Yusuf said that the call for reparations was “insulting”. I assume he's also referring to the 1837 Slave Compensation Act that repaid slave owners £20 million, with taxpayers footing the bill until 2015. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform UK would stop visas for people from countries seeking slavery reparations

The ‘bank is closed and the door is locked’, says Zia Yusuf as calls grow for compensation to remedy historical wrongs

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My little Buddy enjoying the sun on his banana bed

I reviewed Matt Goodwin’s new book for the New Statesman. Spoiler: it’s worse than you could ever imagine

The New Statesman@newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Matt Goodwin’s intellectual suicide In his new book, Reform’s in-house academic set out to articulate his ideas. He produced trash By John Merrick

1/2 This is as disturbing as it is depressing. Out of 3,800 PhD researchers, 71% felt it was acceptable to use them to support their studies. In a survey of 1,041 UK undergraduates published in February 2025, 88% admitted to using AI for assessments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI and the PhD student: friend or foe?

Graduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search — but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build.

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