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.
Farage and Reform risk ruining Port Talbot and Wales
Tata Steel works at Port Talbot by Phil BeardReform Party will put up to 10,000 energy jobs at risk at Wales From Energy Revolutions by David TokeNigel Farage’s fantasy promise to bring back steel blast furnaces and coal mining to South Wales is a cover up for his...
People need and deserve more than gesture politics
Photo by Eelco Böhtlingk on Unsplash At the Greener Jobs Alliance, a lot of the work we do with local authorities on issues like green skills, retrofit and insulation, and air quality in the workplace, rests upon our good relations with Labour-controlled councils who...
Averting Catastrophe: Crisis, Class and Climate Change
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash By Feyzi Ismail Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet. By Matthew Huber. London: Verso, 2022. 320 pp., £16.99 (paper). ISBN: 9781788733885. Last year, the five...
Support the Heathrow security strikers!
Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 tube station sign: Creative Commons By Sacha Ismail, Safe Landing https://www.safe-landing.org On 7 June, Unite the Union announced that its members working in security at Heathrow Airport would strike for 31 days over the summer as part of...
What a Just Transition in the North Sea looks like
New Jobs for Old! Photo: Creative Commons New oil and gas exploration is incompatible with stopping climate breakdown. The trade union movement will not defend its members jobs - or their future - by digging in on energy sources that will doom us unless we doom them....
Climate & Ecology Bill: Uniting Solutions
Photo: Zero Hour The first page of the Greener Jobs Alliance website makes clear what’s needed to face the challenges posed by ever increasing harm to the climate - uniting campaigns and bringing together the solutions. I work with the campaign group, Zero Hour, on...
National Conservatism’s climate deniers
Photo: Markus Spiske on Unsplash By Philip Pearson The Tories National Conservatism gathering in London (May 15 2023), with its shivering echoes of National Socialism, brings together a high-level platform of global warming deniers and sceptics drawn from the heart of...
New TUC video: plan for heatwaves, cut energy bills, & take climate action!
The weather’s turning warmer – have you got a heatwave plan at work? The new TUC video and leaflet shows how union reps and activists can plan for heatwaves and cold snaps, save their workplace money on energy bills, and take climate action at work. Watch the video...
Why the Climate Struggle is a Class Struggle
Photo: Mick Holder, NUJ LFB This excerpt from GJA Newsletter editor Paul Atkin's speech at the Trade Union Hub of the XR Big One protest on Saturday has been put around by XR Trade Unionists. The relevant part of the full speech is here. Why organise in the trade...
IPCC Report AR6 – some afterthoughts
Photo by John Blower flickr.com/photos/10332960@N03/ When we at GJA decided to produce our recent three-part summary of the latest IPCC report, the purpose was to break down an extremely lengthy and often impenetrable text into points that could be used for making...
A Brief Guide to the IPCC Synthesis Report, part C
Photo by Gene Gallin on Unsplash This piece provides a summary of the latest IPCC synthesis report based on their sixth Assessment Report (AR6), part C, which deals with the ‘Urgency of Near-Term Integrated Action’. In other words, what we need to do by 2030 to have...
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