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Free time isn’t free: the class politics of work time reduction
Why is reducing working hours important to working class wellbeing, and what challenges emerge in trying to get there? We spoke on this topic at a webinar hosted by the European Work-Time network.
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Climate communications toolkit
Ten practical tools for campaigners, communicators, policy makers and trade union organisers to help build lasting relationships with working class communities, as well as counter far right and anti-climate narratives.
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Be more inclusive
We appeared on Carbon Copy’s podcast alongside Mya-Rose Craig of Black2Nature to discuss making climate and nature engagement more inclusive to working class and other under-represented voices.
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Does the environment sector have a problem with class?
We joined the ENDS Report’s Access Denied podcast to discuss class in the UK environment sector and why working class people are under-represented across it.
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Roundtable summary: rebuilding support for climate action in London
Alongside policy makers, researchers, activists and people working in civil society, we met with Mete Coban, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, and the London School of Economics as part of a roundtable series on climate policy in the capital.
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Fertile Ground: mapping Europe’s new economy field
We contributed to this mapping of organisations across Europe working to transform economic systems, published by Partners for a New Economy and Metabolic, with recommendations about where support is needed.
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The Anti-Austerity Conference: a Greener New Deal
We joined a panel at Modern Money Lab’s Anti-Austerity Conference in Bristol about what a Greener New Deal and a wellbeing economy could look like in the UK.
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The Anti-Austerity Conference: the political economy of the UK
We sat on a panel at Modern Money Lab’s Anti-Austerity Conference, about the political economy of the UK and the damage done by decades of austerity.
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Beyond the Greenlash: rethinking public engagement for 2025
We were consulted for this think-piece on climate communication strategy, examining why climate has slipped behind the cost of living and health, and how anti-green rhetoric has been weaponised against net zero.
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Accelerating social change in response to the climate and ecological crisis
We spoke at this London event bringing together academics, activists and campaigners, and contributed to the resulting policy brief and its recommendations for policy makers, researchers and civil society.
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Understanding Reform UK and their approach to climate change
We were consulted for this NEON report on Reform UK, looking at who votes for the far right party and why, the tactics it uses on climate change, and how prepared the climate movement is to respond.
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The Sustainability Class vs working class environmentalism
We joined a webinar about Aaron Vansintjan and Vijay Kolinjivadi’s book The Sustainability Class, to discuss rejecting lifestyle environmentalism and replacing it with a working class environmentalism.
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Bridging the gap between climate policy and social justice
We spoke at this European Trade Union Institute webinar on the jobs versus climate dilemma, and the role of trade unions and collective bargaining in delivering a just transition.
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Lumpen journal: just transition special edition
In January 2025 we published a one-off, Just Transition themed edition of the Lumpen Journal in collaboration with the Class Work Project.
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The new parliament’s climate story
We featured in a Climate Outreach webinar about what the new Labour government’s climate story should be and how communities should be involved in it.
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Who’s afraid of the working class? The left’s failure to address class politics (part two)
The second of our two-part panel discussion, about how working class people are organising and mobilising for progressive change amongst themselves.
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The degrowth debate: emancipation or hegemony for the UK’s working class?
An edited transcript of our talk at the Alliance of Working Class Academics conference in Glasgow, asking whether degrowth offers emancipation or hegemony for the UK’s working class.
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You can’t save the planet without the working class
We spoke to Green New Deal Media about why the climate movement is missing out on working class solidarity, and how community organising can be the foundation for the movement.
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Who’s afraid of the working class? The left’s failure to address class politics (part one)
We hosted the first of a two-part panel discussion on the left’s exclusion of working class perspectives, and the class struggle that plays out between the working and middle classes.
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Degrowth desires
We spoke with the authors of this magazine as part of their investigation into desire as a central component to creating a degrowth vision that suits a diverse population.
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Working Class Voices: being working class in the climate movement
We recorded an episode of Green New Deal Media’s Working Class Voices podcast, covering Just Stop Oil, the Labour Party, and what being working class in the climate movement is actually like.
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Climate and class
Recorded before our launch, this panel with the Working Class Economists Group covers the strained relations between the working and middle class within environmentalism and how they hold back movement building.