Police disrupt student divestment protest at Oxbridge boat race
Image credit: Cambridge Zero Carbon (This image is of the 2018 boat race protest) More than 50 students, representing Oxford Climate Justice Campaign and Cambridge Zero Carbon Society, today attended…
Momentum members join fight against Barclays’ fossil fuel funding
Image Credit: Against the Grain Photography Momentum are treading new ground as they launch a new ‘Bankrupting Climate Change’ campaign against Barclays over their funding of fossil fuel companies. Collaborating…
Two massive victories for the student divestment movement
Image credit: Creative Commons - Kate Ausburn In the past 48 hours, the student divestment movement took another leap forward. Two more institutions joined the more than 1,000 worldwide that…
Building hegemony for climate justice – tales from Sheffield
Image via Chris Saltmarsh Climate change is happening now. It requires urgent action. Increasingly, it is apparent that only socialists have the ideas and the organisation to lead us out…
The fossil fuel industry is terrified of students
Cambridge Zero Carbon The Guardian's report that fossil fuel companies BP and BHP interfered with the University of Cambridge's decision to reject divestment in June 2018 underlines two things we…
Even with Stormont in crisis, we can still fight climate change
Photo credit: Fossil Free Northern Ireland Northern Ireland’s climate activists have suffered a lost decade. After the passing of the UK Climate Change Act in 2008, the other devolved…
Queen’s University Belfast set to divest from fossil fuels
Photo credit: flickr user Gerry Machen Creative Commons license: Queen's University Belfast last week announced their intent to end all investments in fossil fuels by 2025. The announcement on…
Why I shut down a coal mine to expose the ties between politicians and fossil fuels
Photo: End Coal Now Last Monday, me and a group of 20 others shut down a coal mine. Waking at 5 am, laden with D-Locks, arm tubes and some pretty tasty…
“The Frack Stopped Here”: Lancashire Council rejects fracking
Let's hope @Cuadrillauk frack right off now. #dontmesswithnannas #dontfracklancs #fracking — Henry Chown (@HenryChown) June 29, 2015 Lancashire Council have just rejected an application from Cuadrilla to frack for gas…
Partial progress as Edinburgh divests from coal and tar sands
Edinburgh students occupied the finance department for 10 days in May. Photo: Ric Lander Nearly a month ago, on Wednesday 27 May, Edinburgh University released a statement signalling its…