The Working Class Climate Alliance
@wccalliance.bsky.social
The Working Class Climate Alliance (WCCA) is a working class-led campaigning and advocacy organisation.
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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...
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...
A Human Right to Energy?
“Do I drink lithium? Do I eat copper? // Protect the territory”. Protest poster against extractivism in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Photo Credit: Marina Otero 2nd December 2025 A rights-based appr…
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December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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...
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
Register here: tinyurl.com/nhjudx76
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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
Register here: tinyurl.com/nhjudx76
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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...
"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...
Wealth taxes don’t go far enough: let’s transform our economy with public money
Wealth taxes are crucial to build an economy that works for people and planet. However, they are just one piece of the puzzle: there is also a need to make use of public money beyond taxes to rise to ...
www.greenhousethinktank.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
"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...
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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...
Read the article in full: wccalliance.org/the-material...
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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.
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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...
Read the article in full: wccalliance.org/the-material...
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
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...
Read the article in full: wccalliance.org/the-material...
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
Read the article in full: wccalliance.org/the-material...
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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...
For opposing genocide in campus, Saoirse faces the possibility of expulsion from the uni.
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Stop QUB from expelling a student activist
The right to free speech is one of the most important rights we have in our society. Saoirse Wagner, for opposing genocide in campus, faces the possibility of expulsion. Her removal by Queen’s would n...
my.uplift.ie
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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...
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
Read the full release here: 👇
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
#COP30
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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
Read the full release here: 👇
kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
#COP30
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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...
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...
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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...
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
Where is the political will to do anything about it?
#COP30
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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
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.
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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.
📣 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
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3yuz33wx
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
📣 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
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3yuz33wx
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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!
It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!
An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class : Gibbs, Ewan: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Buy An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class by Gibbs, Ewan (ISBN: 9781804296493) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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!
It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!
"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...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
More than 1 million evacuated in the Philippines as Typhoon Fung-wong draws near
At least two people found dead as super-typhoon heads for Philippines, days after Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 224
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"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...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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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"
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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...
@stopcambo.bsky.social
www.stopcambo.org.uk/updates/zack...
Zack Polanski joins 250 orgs calling on Keir Starmer to Reject Rosebank
Over 250 organisations - including RSPB, Amnesty International UK and Friends of the Earth Scotland - have warned the Prime Minister against caving in to Big Oil.
www.stopcambo.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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...
@stopcambo.bsky.social
www.stopcambo.org.uk/updates/zack...
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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
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
November 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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
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
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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
At the start of 2025 @wccalliance.bsky.social collaborated with the Class Work Project to co-edit a special, Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen journal. Featuring working class writers from across the Global North & Global South 🍃
You can read & download it for free here: tinyurl.com/33fazexv
You can read & download it for free here: tinyurl.com/33fazexv
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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
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At the start of 2025 @wccalliance.bsky.social collaborated with the Class Work Project to co-edit a special, Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen journal. Featuring working class writers from across the Global North & Global South 🍃
You can read & download it for free here: tinyurl.com/33fazexv
You can read & download it for free here: tinyurl.com/33fazexv
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 AM
At the start of 2025 @wccalliance.bsky.social collaborated with the Class Work Project to co-edit a special, Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen journal. Featuring working class writers from across the Global North & Global South 🍃
You can read & download it for free here: tinyurl.com/33fazexv
You can read & download it for free here: tinyurl.com/33fazexv
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"The global economy now depends on two complementary engines.[T]hey sustain a cycle of accumulation that worsen inequality between regions and between classes. Until this dual structure is broken,[..] the South[..remain..] to dependence,[&prosperity of..]North will rest on the exhaustion of others."
New article from our Staff Writer @kevinini.bsky.social👇
What is the knowledge economy, & how does it uphold unequal North-South relations?
"Capitalism renews itself by finding new frontiers to privatise. Where nature once provided the frontier, knowledge now does"
wccalliance.org/the-material...
What is the knowledge economy, & how does it uphold unequal North-South relations?
"Capitalism renews itself by finding new frontiers to privatise. Where nature once provided the frontier, knowledge now does"
wccalliance.org/the-material...
The Material Basis of the Knowledge Economy
Cobalt miners at the Shabara mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo Credit: Junior Kannah 29th October 2025 Capitalism has never operated evenly across space. It has always organi…
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October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"The global economy now depends on two complementary engines.[T]hey sustain a cycle of accumulation that worsen inequality between regions and between classes. Until this dual structure is broken,[..] the South[..remain..] to dependence,[&prosperity of..]North will rest on the exhaustion of others."
New article from our Staff Writer @kevinini.bsky.social👇
What is the knowledge economy, & how does it uphold unequal North-South relations?
"Capitalism renews itself by finding new frontiers to privatise. Where nature once provided the frontier, knowledge now does"
wccalliance.org/the-material...
What is the knowledge economy, & how does it uphold unequal North-South relations?
"Capitalism renews itself by finding new frontiers to privatise. Where nature once provided the frontier, knowledge now does"
wccalliance.org/the-material...
The Material Basis of the Knowledge Economy
Cobalt miners at the Shabara mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo Credit: Junior Kannah 29th October 2025 Capitalism has never operated evenly across space. It has always organi…
wccalliance.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
New article from our Staff Writer @kevinini.bsky.social👇
What is the knowledge economy, & how does it uphold unequal North-South relations?
"Capitalism renews itself by finding new frontiers to privatise. Where nature once provided the frontier, knowledge now does"
wccalliance.org/the-material...
What is the knowledge economy, & how does it uphold unequal North-South relations?
"Capitalism renews itself by finding new frontiers to privatise. Where nature once provided the frontier, knowledge now does"
wccalliance.org/the-material...
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Those with the fewest resources will always bare the brunt of climate breakdown.
In the parish of St. Elizabeth there's no infrastructure that can withstand a category 5 hurricane. Some people have only just restored their homes destroyed by the last one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
In the parish of St. Elizabeth there's no infrastructure that can withstand a category 5 hurricane. Some people have only just restored their homes destroyed by the last one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Jamaicans take shelter as Hurricane Melissa bears down as category 5 storm
Landfall expected in coming hours amid warnings of catastrophic flooding, and landslides
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Those with the fewest resources will always bare the brunt of climate breakdown.
In the parish of St. Elizabeth there's no infrastructure that can withstand a category 5 hurricane. Some people have only just restored their homes destroyed by the last one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
In the parish of St. Elizabeth there's no infrastructure that can withstand a category 5 hurricane. Some people have only just restored their homes destroyed by the last one.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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💥 Join @wccalliance.bsky.social on Wednesday 12th November 3pm-4.30pm GMT for the second session of our monthly reading group series!
We'll be reading from the Little Red Songbook by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to discuss storytelling and trade union organising. 👇
tinyurl.com/3yuz33wx
We'll be reading from the Little Red Songbook by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to discuss storytelling and trade union organising. 👇
tinyurl.com/3yuz33wx
October 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
💥 Join @wccalliance.bsky.social on Wednesday 12th November 3pm-4.30pm GMT for the second session of our monthly reading group series!
We'll be reading from the Little Red Songbook by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to discuss storytelling and trade union organising. 👇
tinyurl.com/3yuz33wx
We'll be reading from the Little Red Songbook by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to discuss storytelling and trade union organising. 👇
tinyurl.com/3yuz33wx
A short, but very important piece from @divideclass.bsky.social
"Any review into inequality is not doing its job if it only explores the lives of the poorest and fails to examine how those with privilege and power contribute to this status quo."
www.classdivide.co.uk/news/its-not...
"Any review into inequality is not doing its job if it only explores the lives of the poorest and fails to examine how those with privilege and power contribute to this status quo."
www.classdivide.co.uk/news/its-not...
It’s Not Our Families, It’s Our City: Why the New Inequality Review Must Examine the System — Class Divide
Our campaign secured a city-wide review of the shocking outcomes for children in East Brighton. But for this review to succeed, it must examine the systems of power that create inequality, not just th...
www.classdivide.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A short, but very important piece from @divideclass.bsky.social
"Any review into inequality is not doing its job if it only explores the lives of the poorest and fails to examine how those with privilege and power contribute to this status quo."
www.classdivide.co.uk/news/its-not...
"Any review into inequality is not doing its job if it only explores the lives of the poorest and fails to examine how those with privilege and power contribute to this status quo."
www.classdivide.co.uk/news/its-not...
We popped into Lush and look what we saw! 👀
Buying the Ray of Hope shampoo bar and It's Getting Hot in Here directly supports the Climate Justice Coalition
@climatejusticeuk.bsky.social (75% of the sales price is donated to the CJC).
PS - they smell great too ❤️
www.lush.com/uk/en/c/clim...
Buying the Ray of Hope shampoo bar and It's Getting Hot in Here directly supports the Climate Justice Coalition
@climatejusticeuk.bsky.social (75% of the sales price is donated to the CJC).
PS - they smell great too ❤️
www.lush.com/uk/en/c/clim...
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We popped into Lush and look what we saw! 👀
Buying the Ray of Hope shampoo bar and It's Getting Hot in Here directly supports the Climate Justice Coalition
@climatejusticeuk.bsky.social (75% of the sales price is donated to the CJC).
PS - they smell great too ❤️
www.lush.com/uk/en/c/clim...
Buying the Ray of Hope shampoo bar and It's Getting Hot in Here directly supports the Climate Justice Coalition
@climatejusticeuk.bsky.social (75% of the sales price is donated to the CJC).
PS - they smell great too ❤️
www.lush.com/uk/en/c/clim...