Archives for Social Movements
Student campaigners call for Barclays to be kicked off campuses for good
Student campaigners have called for five UK universities to refuse the return of Barclays branches to campuses. The students argue that the bank is fueling the climate crisis due to…
Trinity College Cambridge commits to divest from fossil fuels
Image credit: Rafa Esteve - Creative Commons Trinity College, Cambridge has announced it intends to terminate all direct and indirect investments in the fossil fuel industry. The move comes after…
From South Wales to Philadelphia: sowing the seeds of revolutionary change
The future for Britain looks bleak, and opportunities for positive transformation appear blocked. My argument is that base building, by which I mean militant and practical community action, provides a…
The green movement should support the HS2 protestors
Three weeks after contractors discovered a network of tunnels beneath the HS2 works in Euston, the evictions of the remaining protestors have begun. HS2 and high-speed rail in general have…
Zero Covid and zero emissions: The ecology of the pandemic
The stark reality of the climate crisis never fails to shake me no matter how many times it is laid out. When listening to Professor Julia Steinburger at Zero Covid’s…
85th university in the UK has divested from fossil fuels
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has today become the 85th university in the UK to publicly commit to divest from fossil fuels. Making the commitment, LTSM Director David Lalloo…
Patients across UK unite to demand a New Deal for the NHS
“First we clapped, now we act” enthuse the activists behind Just Treatment. The grassroots campaign aims to win mass support for its crowdsourced demands to rebuild a stronger National Health…
Building a movement for climate justice requires recognising all our struggles are interconnected
This article is part of a series – The Decade We Must Win – examining the successes and failures of social movements and the left since the financial crash, and exploring how…
Who’s missing from the climate movement?
We all know who Greta Thunberg is, but do you know who Vanessa Nakate is? Last January, Nakate, founder of Fridays For Future Uganda, was famously cut out of a…
Lessons from the school strikes: Where the climate justice movement goes next
This article is part of a series - The Decade We Must Win - examining the successes and failures of social movements and the left since the financial crash, and…