How Chinese and African organisers came together to protest an oil pipeline
Report on Chinese diaspora communities resisting EACOP.
Climate failure sparks SNP crisis
Pete Cannell looks at how the gulf between the SNP’s rhetoric and climate policies that relied on partnership with the oil and gas industry sparked a crisis.
Interview with Energy Embargo for Palestine
rs21 interviews the activist group Energy Embargo for Palestine
Oily Money Out – a leap forward for British environmentalism
The international climate movement bamboozled London’s fossil fuel conference. rs21 members report.
Will a green transition benefit Africa?
What if climate adaptation continues to mirror logics of fossil capital?
Sunak fiddles while Rhodes burns
Pete Cannell and Brian Parkin take a critical look at Sunak’s recent oil and gas announcement. This piece was originally published on the SCOT.E3 blog. On Monday Rishi Sunak flew to Aberdeenshire by private jet to announce that at least one hundred new North Sea drilling licences will be granted in the autumn. A policy described […]
A fuel’s paradise: capitalism, energy crises and the markets
Fossil fuel companies and national governments are driving the climate catastrophe that threatens us all.
Can ‘green laws’ stop climate change?
As environmental campaigners turn to the law to stop climate change, barrister David Renton argues legal challenges and ‘green laws’ alone cannot guarantee the massive change we need.
Let them burn oil – Sunak and energy bills
Rishi Sunak’s latest U-turn in response to the cost of living crisis shows the Tories scrambling for a response.
Activists occupy the British Museum
This weekend, climate and anti-colonial activists occupied the British Museum in opposition to its oil sponsorships.
The Cost of Living Crisis
Map of protests, information about the cost of living crisis, and political commentary.
The cost-of-living crisis
With high inflation and a sharp rise in energy prices on the way, Ian Allinson argues that the cost-of-living crisis will shape British politics over the coming months.
From Nero to Net Zero
Boris Johnson’s classical references are a window onto how he will deal with climate breakdown, writes Gareth Dale.
We only want the earth: a new pamphlet from rs21
rs21 has published a new pamphlet by Gus Woody ‘We only want the earth: Anti-capitalism against the climate crisis’
Lessons from the IPCC report for socialists
Gus Woody looks at the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and discusses just how thoroughly it vindicates the basic principles revolutionary socialists have been arguing for years.
Stop Cambo
Pete Cannell, an activist in Scottish environmental group Scot.E3, looks at the political significance of the growing campaign to prevent the development of new oil and gas fields in the North Sea
Flooding in Germany is a man-made disaster
Trade unionist and climate organiser Mark Bergfeld discusses the economics and politics of the floods in Germany since mid-July which have killed over 180 people.
Review | The world turned upside down
In Leo Zeilig’s recent novel, the global elite are targeted for murder amid a growing social upheaval that sweeps the central character around the world. Andrew Stone reviews this focused and ‘righteously angry’ book.
The Great British fob off
The recent announcement of a new public sector body called ‘Great British Railways’ to co-ordinate all rail services has been hailed by many as a victory, but these plans in fact set the stage for increases in fares and job cuts for rail workers.
Review | Fight the Fire
Jonathan Neale’s new book calls for a global mass movement to confront the capitalist forces driving climate breakdown, linking analysis with real world action and what must be done to fight climate disaster.
Lighting a spark: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Blow Up a Pipeline gives a balanced assessment of the conditions which make strategic direct action necessary in a warming world.
How Facebook tried to censor Indigenous struggle
The social media platform banned over 200 accounts immediately before a day of online action.
Cumbria: protests build before coal mine decision
ining developers are trying to force a new coal mine on Cumbria. Campaigners are fighting back
Post-war to post-industrial Scotland
Successive British governments have restructured the Scottish economy in damaging ways. Now we need a radical plan for a de-carbonised and independent Scotland.
Not an atom of truth
It is a dangerous fantasy to think that nuclear energy can be part of a ‘green’ recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic or any form of solution to the climate catastrophe.
Overdue! A just transition for Scotland
As convergent crises confront the North Sea oil and gas industry with its rapid demise, the need for a just transition for Scottish workers is more urgent than ever.
Film review: The Plan that Came from the Bottom Up
Steve Sprung’s retelling of the story of the Lucas Plan provides an inspiring lesson in how workers might build a sustainable future for all, writes Zareen Taj.
London and Edinburgh stand with the Wet’suwet’en
On 1 March, there were demonstrations in London and Edinburgh standing up in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en and their allies, demanding that the Canadian government end this cycle of colonial violence.
North Sea oil: devastating new report
The UK’s North Sea oil tax regime spearheaded a wave of privatisation across Britain and the rest of the world, argues Juan Carlos Boué in a new report published today.
Borders and the climate emergency
Ida Picard analyses the function that borders play in extinction capitalism and argues that we must be uncompromising in calling for all borders to go.