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The WCCA has been awarded £15,000 by The Movements Trust over three years! We have been selected as one of six organisations and grassroots groups to form the first cohort of The Movements Trust’s new multi-year funding programme. The programme was set up to demonstrate the impact of multi-year funding, which the Trust identified as…

An update about a change in the operations of the Working Class Climate Alliance.

We are excited to announce the launch of our reading group series, where we will explore the histories, strategies, and cultural practices that have shaped working-class struggles across time. Each theme will comprise of six sessions in total (one each month) – with the last one being a panel discussion where we will invite speakers…

We are excited to announce the launch of Workers and Community United: Environmental Action From Below, a campaigning partnership between the Working Class Climate Alliance and the trade union UNISON (Environment Agency Yorkshire and North East branch). The continued threat of climate change and support for far right parties requires the creation of new political…

Did you know that there is no legal maximum working temperature in the UK? The WCCA has joined Heat Strike, a campaign led by trade unions and climate justice groups which aims to protect people from the impacts of extreme heat, and is campaigning for a maximum legal working temperature. The campaign has three main…

The Just Transition themed edition of Lumpen journal that we co-edited with the Class Work Project has now been published and is available to purchase! This edition features writers from across the Global North and Global South, including several of our very own members. Despite working class people being the central focus of the just…

Working class writers rise up! We are collaborating with the amazing Class Work Project, a working class-led co-operative, to co-edit the upcoming issue of Lumpen centred around the Just Transition – and we are looking for writers! All published writers will be paid – if you would like to submit a piece for consideration (800-2,400…

The WCCA has joined the Climate Justice Coalition, a coalition of groups and individuals committed to building solidarity and power for climate justice in Britain and worldwide. The Climate Justice Coalition is comprised of a diverse network including trade unions, faith groups, youth groups, migrant justice networks and environmental groups. They organised the We Make…

We have joined The Climate Coalition, network that brings together charities and grassroots organisations to become a collective voice for change, and previously led a campaign that led to the UK becoming the first major economy to set a legally-binding net zero target. The Coalition is involved in many areas such as public affairs, government relations…

We have joined the Everyone’s Environment programme, an initiative by the London-based think-tank New Philanthropy Capital (NPC). This programme is a collaboration of over 50 social and environmental charities including Greenpeace, Mind, the British Heart Foundation and the Joseph Roundtree Foundation, to accelerate action on the social impacts of the climate crisis. We will be taking part in the upcoming ‘people living…

The WCCA is delighted to have joined WEAll (The Wellbeing Economy Alliance), an international collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and people working towards a Wellbeing Economy on a healthy planet. WEAll defines the Wellbeing Economy as: “Not simply a different economic system, it involves a shift in how we seek to live together from seeing ourselves…