By Stuart Jordan
Workers’ Climate Action seeks to build a working-class movement to fight for a “just transition” to an ecologically sustainable society. We see the rule of the boss in the workplace as the key obstacle to building this society.
Under capitalism, the majority of people are excluded from economic decision-making. At best, through fighting trade unionism, workers have managed to secure some partial victories over how things are produced (in terms of health and safety regulations, shorter working week etc.). But we are very far from making mass democratic decisions about what we produce and having complete control over how we produce it.
Keep reading →
Categories: 1
Nadine Houghton, organiser for Battersea & Wandsworth Trade Union Council and supporter of WCA reports on a recent debate on nuclear power, organised by BWTUC’s Red/Green Alliance.
Keep reading →
Categories: Articles
For WCA, “green jobs” does not just mean jobs in renewable energy or other “green” industries. It means any job organised on the basis of putting human and environmental needs before the needs of profit; all jobs should become “green jobs”. Public transport is one sector which working-class environmental campaigners advocate is massively expanded; a key part of that is making solidarity with the current struggles of transport workers.
Keep reading →
Categories: Get involved!
Daniel Rawnsley, a WCA activist centrally involved in the Vestas campaign over the summer, reports from the recent climate protests in Copenhagen.
Workers Climate Action activists at the Copenhagen climate summit (7-18 December) marched in to the entrance hall of the 18th-century Odd Fellow palace, where the multinational wind turbine manufacturer Vestas was holding a drinks party, with banners and a megaphone. We remained there for around half an hour, chanting slogans and handing out leaflets to partygoers.
Keep reading →
Categories: 1
Several Workers’ Climate Action supporters are currently in Denmark, making trouble for capitalist politicians and bosses (including Vestas bosses) through actions like this.
Read on for the text of a bulletin distributed at the actions in Copenhagen, and throughout Denmark, by WCA supporters.
Keep reading →
Categories: 1
As we were preparing for today’s eviction of our campaign centre for green job creation, we heard about BAE’s announcement that it intends to lay off another 642 workers across the country, including 125 from the 385 at Cowes: that’s 2,300 announced job losses this year. And, of course, a further unacceptable cull to the numbers of skilled, unionised, and relatively well-paid jobs on the island. It has been leaked to us that this number will rise to 250.
Keep reading →
Categories: 1
Read a new contribution to the debate ‘Where next for Climate Camp?’ here.
Categories: Articles
Tagged: climate camp, workers' climate action
ON 10-11 OCTOBER activists gathered at University College London to discuss the politics and direction of Workers’ Climate Action. Some had been involved in the network since the beginning, but many were new to WCA.
Keep reading →
Categories: 1
Tagged: WCA, workers' climate action
On October 17, Climate Campers will rally at Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station (which is owned by e.on) near Nottingham for “the Great Climate Swoop”. As part of the action, WCA supporters are approaching Ratcliffe workers to discuss ways of linking the struggle against e.on’s exploitation of the planet to the struggle against e.on’s exploitation of workers.
Keep reading →
Categories: 1
