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.
Fossil Fuels & the Far Right: A primer on how racism & climate denialism go hand in hand
Photo: DANGER by Alisdare Hickson https://www.flickr.com/photos/alisdare/That COP30 taking place in Belém, Brazil, later this year, a city that is the gateway to the Amazon river, is highly significant. Can the symbolic setting precipitate a fundamental change to...
A Brief Guide to the IPCC Synthesis Report, Part B
Photo by Adrian Balasoiu on Unsplash Summarising Part A of the report was straightforward as it comprised a factual assessment of where we are now. By contrast, Part B covers Long Term responses and uses sophisticated modelling to project future scenarios based on...
A brief guide to the IPCC Synthesis Report, Part A
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash This piece provides a summary of the latest IPCC synthesis report based on their sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Given that even the relatively short ‘summary for policy makers’ is not an easy read, here we attempt to draw out the...
ULEZ and Just Transition Debate
Photo: Possible This Blog contains a number of statements and briefings on the Ultra Low Emissions Zone extension. Editor’s view (pers cap) Health impacts of Polluted Air in Outer London - Imperial College Mum’s for Lungs view Trade Union Clean Air Network (TUCAN)...
Bomb train: Where Tory Rail “Modernisation” ends up.
Photo: flickr.com/photos/rogerblackwell/ By Paul Atkin This report from "Democracy Now" on the rail disaster in Ohio last week, in which a 150 car freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and a "controlled burn" by the company released "a fireball and mushroom...
Deep sea mining imperils ‘our greatest ally’, the Ocean
By Philip Pearson Mining companies are negotiating controversial permits from the UN’s International Seabed Authority (ISA) to strip mine metallic nodules on the deep Ocean floor for the copper, cobalt and nickel they contain. Marine scientists, governments and...
GMB needs to embrace the Green New Deal
Recently, the GMB’s General Secretary caused outcry by declaring support for fracking and calling Green New Deal activists bourgeois. For those outside of GMB this statement may seem surprising but to understand where such statements come from you need to look at...
WANTED: a debate on climate policy in the Trade Union movement
Photo: Tim Dennell www.flickr.com/photos/shefftim/On 8th October, our colleagues in Campaign Against Climate Change held a day’s conference titled ‘Urgent action, long term solutions: cost of living, climate and industrial action'. One of the sessions, for which I...
Climate Motions for debate at Labour Party Conference
Photo:Peg Hunter www.flickr.com/photos/43005015@N06/ Many Constituency Labour Parties will already have submitted a motion to Party Conference. Those that have not have until 15 September to do so. Here are two draft motions, one being circulated for CLPs to consider,...
Mick Lynch on the Rail Strikes and Climate Crisis
In this clip from Double Down News Mick Lynch explains what's at stake for the climate in the current wave of rail strikes. The full interview can be seen here. RMT picket lines and rallies for this and every week's strikes can be accessed here.
TSSA calls for public transport fares to be slashed – let’s all do the same!
Just the ticket? Photo: Sasha Atkin-WastiBy Paul Atkin TSSA calls for public transport fares to be slashed - let's all do the same! In a sharply worded blog on the TSSA web site, General Secretary Manuel Cortes notes that we have to deal with two crises...
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