Blog & Debate
Welcome to the GJA blog space. Here we host critical debates on the key issues we face, as an organisation, as a movement of workers, and as a society.
A new Hobson’s Choice: Burn the planet or blow up the planet
Photo by Etienne Girardet on Unsplash The military and the monetary Get together whenever they think it’s necessary They are turning our people into mercenaries They are turning our planet into a cemeteryA How is it that, as a society, we have reached a stage where,...
ITUC Briefings
The United Nations climate conference COP28 in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) will start in less than 50 days. The global labour movement is organising to defend workers’ rights at this important event. Workers and their families are experiencing ever-increasing...
GJA asks questions of Labour leadership
Photo by Scott Blake on UnsplashAt the recent Labour Party conference, announcements were made regarding plans for a programme of home building and retrofit, along with further statements around Labour’s financial approach. Consequently, GJA has written to Angela...
Labour must take the climate crisis seriously – and stop Rosebank!
Photo by Alisdare Hickson flickr.com/photos/alisdare/ A statement from Labour Party members and members of unions affiliated to the Labour Party. If you are a Labour member or affiliated trade unionist, please add your name (all signatories personal capacity unless...
We need to demand more than reversing Tory climate U-turns
Protestors at extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One’ demonstration, Summer 2023 ‘We need labour movement solutions and organising that are based in the reality and science of climate change, and the economic injustice of austerity policies.’ Sam Mason By Sam Mason,...
The Climate Contradictions of Gary Smith
Photo by Gavin Allanwood on UnsplashIn agreeing to be interviewed by the Spectator under the title "the folly of Net Zero" GMB General Secretary Gary Smith lets his members down; not least because remarks like these from a leading trade unionist help give Rishi Sunak...
Reviewing The Skills For A Jobs Transition
Photo by Red Zeppelin on UnsplashThis is a new report, issued in July under the banner ‘Future Energy Skills Programme’ and produced by a collection of organisations, led by Centrica and GMB, and also including TUC, Unite, Unison and Prospect, as well as Rolls Royce...
Labour’s Clean Energy Mission: Greenwashing A High Carbon Future
Photo: flickr.com/photos/fotdmike/By Les Levidow GJA is very pleased to reprint this article written by our friend and colleague Les Levidow for the London Green Left Blog. Les expands in significantly more detail on our own recent blogs on the pros and cons of...
Model Motions for Labour Party Conference
Photo: commons.wikimedia.org We are publishing motions from Labour Green New Deal and one drafted by us that is being circulated by the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD). We emailed SERA with a view to publishing any motion they had drafted too, but have not...
Raw power: considering the pros and cons of Labour’s ‘clean energy’ plans
Photo by Ma Ti on UnsplashThe Boris sideshow may reinforce the impression that politics has descended into farce, but even ostensibly more serious issues such as a Labour government’s proposed energy policy draw responses from ‘caving in to Just Stop Oil’ to ‘selling...
That £28 billion. We need a bang, not a whimper
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash This is the way the world ends Not with a bang, with a whimper. TS Elliot. The Hollow Men. Rachel Reeves's logic in rowing back from Labour's £28 billion a year investment plan for green transition is flawed in three vital respects...
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