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December 18, 2024

Why a just transition away from military production is essential

Building on the Lucas Plan, a new industrial strategy could repurpose the productive capacity of the military towards green manufacturing.
Khem Rogaly
August 28, 2024

The Rentier City — a Q&A with Isaac Rose

The author of The Rentier City speaks to GND Media about climate change, capitalism and why the Left should get to grips with the UK planning system.
Isaac Rose
July 8, 2024

How a fight against oil drilling in Surrey made legal history

UK oil and gas projects must now take into account 'downstream' emissions.
Sarah Finch
June 10, 2024

The labour movement has neglected conservation — we need a biodiversity job guarantee

Such a scheme could help remedy both ecological collapse and the problem of meaningless work, while also reconnecting humanity and non-human nature.
Andrew Ahern
May 29, 2024

Fossil fuel companies have no place in sport

Fossil fuel companies have hijacked sport — we must end their sponsorship once and for all.
Michael Hardy
April 17, 2024

Angry flowers don’t win either

Reflections on 'If We Burn'.
Adam Williams
April 9, 2024

Councils need an uplift to tackle the climate crisis

There’s an alternative future within reach where councils build housing, create green jobs and provide publicly-owned buses and trams. But we won’t get there with one arm tied behind our backs.
Minesh Parekh
April 3, 2024

The tropical bird that shows the climate crisis is coming for Manchester

It has been described as "the 21st-century equivalent of a canary in a coal mine".
Jennifer Sizeland
March 25, 2024

Food waste is destroying our environment

Ecologically, the current food system is a disaster. We must fix it through legislation, incentives and public education.
Lennon Mudzengerere
March 8, 2024

The absentee carnivores of the Himalayas

A group of scientists have produced a groundbreaking study on the impact the climate crisis and human disturbance are having on the habitats of apex predators in the Greater Himalayas.
Pragathi Ravi
February 24, 2024

Ecosocialism or barbarism

In 2024, socialism without ecology, biodiversity and the climate at its core is not a socialism that has any relevance for the people who are about to go through one of the greatest struggles in human history.
Adam Williams
February 19, 2024

Fossil fuel companies won’t drive the green transition — so the state must

BP's latest profits demonstrate that fossil fuel companies are structurally incapable of leading the clean energy transition. Only a state-led programme of transformative investment can deliver it.
Joseph Evans
November 10, 2023

The climate movement needs to join the fight against borders

Resisting borders is a key part of ending the climate crisis.
No Borders in Climate Justice
October 12, 2023

Labour’s Green No Deal

What remains of Labour’s 2019 Green New Deal?
Alex Champion
September 12, 2023

Loss and damage is real and it’s happening now

Even though developing countries’ contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is very low, they suffer the impacts of climate change the most.
Hyacinthe Niyitegeka
August 7, 2023

Happy flowers don't win

Forget the smiles and laughter. Angry people don’t laugh.
Adam Williams
June 30, 2023

Reflecting on the Big One

Billed as a more inclusive, non-disruptive event, it may not have been insurgent but it did feel valuable.
Joel Stone
June 1, 2023

Mainstream environmental activism is alienating the working class

Activists should throw less orange paint and focus more on building alliances with working class communities.
Emma River-Roberts
May 26, 2023

In search of a Left UKIP

What does a Green surge at the local elections mean for Labour? Is a Left UKIP possible?
Alex Champion
April 27, 2023

Reflecting on the High Seas Treaty

While the treaty undoubtedly makes some progress, a number of challenges remain.
Chris Armstrong
March 24, 2023

Despair is for the fortunate

Grief alone can never be a driver of climate action. We must let hope try.
Andrew Glassford
January 26, 2023

Tyre Extinguishers Q&A

The clandestine climate activist group famous for covertly deflating the tyres of SUVs answered our questions about their tactics.
Anonymous
January 10, 2023

Support the strikes

Key workers deserve better pay and conditions — and we need a strong trade union movement for a just transition.
Editorial
December 8, 2022

What does COP27 mean for climate justice?

Victories like the loss and damage fund are a spark of hope, lit by the power of movements.
Amiteshwar Singh
October 29, 2022

The climate crisis is a health crisis

No matter how good our medicine is, if we don’t tackle the systems which make people sick, we cannot heal them.
Rob Abrams, Abi Deivanayagam, Sara el-Solh, Rhiannon Osborne, Amiteshwar Singh
October 8, 2022

Hands off our green space

A report from the frontlines of the battle to save Ryebank Fields.
Lilly Hill
September 26, 2022

Joe Biden's climate bill is a far cry from the Green New Deal

The Inflation Reduction Act will merely shore up the bottom line of capitalists. We need something that will revitalise American society.
David Griscom
August 30, 2022

Project Bill 6054: Guatemala's controversial conservation law

The sweeping new bill to centralise the country's conservation projects under a 'super ministry' is unconstitutional and could create huge uncertainty if passed, critics say.
María Sagastume and Jorge Rodríguez
August 13, 2022

We must resist geoengineering

Far from being a neutral scientific proposal, geoengineering is deeply tied to imperial geopolitics and militarism.
George Buskell
July 9, 2022

Don’t sing to your enemies 

In this opinion piece, Adam Williams reflects on Working Class Voices — a podcast series he hosted on how working class people view the climate movement.
Adam Williams
June 1, 2022

Towards a decolonial global Green New Deal

We must avoid repeating the same patterns of colonial exploitation and extraction that led to the climate crisis in the first place.
Andrea Gillespie
May 19, 2022

Climate activists can seek power and strength in communities

Acting locally allows us to build resilience, show solidarity and reconnect with the environment.
Emma de Saram
May 3, 2022

Community wealth building and climate breakdown: how left Labour councillors fight back in power

Labour councillors and Labour-held councils must show local communities that municipal socialism can create prosperity while tackling the climate crisis.
Aden Harris
April 9, 2022

War, ecocide and eco-socialist transition

War’s destruction of human and non-human life destroys the social and ecological conditions we need to build a better world.
Kai Heron
April 2, 2022

Europe will only be green when it overthrows its oligarchy

The European Commission's 'Green Deal' is woefully inadequate. We need Europeans on the streets, citizens' assemblies, workers reskilled and MeRA25 in parliaments.
Dušan Pajović
March 26, 2022

Time for rich countries to pay climate reparations

A recent super typhoon in the Philippines underlines the need for the Global North to help the Global South address unfair climate damages.
Harpreet Kaur Paul
March 19, 2022

India can't defeat climate change without tackling social injustice

Building a just and climate-resilient future for India requires reforms which address pre-existing inequalities based on caste, class and gender.
Pooja Kishinani
March 14, 2022

Why the world needs eco-socialism

A just transition means rejecting the failed electoralist strategies of social democracy and instead building a radical movement of movements.
Max Ajl
August 12, 2024

The problem with Marx and the middle class

Despite claiming to stand in alliance with the world’s working class, swathes of middle class activists are perpetuating classism by excluding, discounting and devaluing working class perspectives.
Emma River-Roberts

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