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The Britishvolt gigafactory collapse

From Ecosocialist Discussion The recent collapse of Britishvolt’s £3.8 billion lithium-ion electric car (EV) battery gigigafactory in Blyth in Northumberland…

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Public Power Now!- an assessment

By Red-Green Labour’s Sean Thompson Labour for a Green New Deal has been campaigning since 2019 for the Labour Party…

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8 billion people – the defining issue of the 21st century

In this article from his Ecosocialist Discussion website, Alan Thornett tackles the controversial question of population and argues that the…

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Labour for a Green New Deal’s new campaign – Public Power Now!

Sean Thompson reports. Since Labour’s Annual Conference last September, Labour for a Green New Deal (LGND) has been rather quiet,…

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‘Gaslighting’ Europe on fossil fuels

From Social Europe FAYE HOLDER 22nd December 2022 Documents from the International Gas Union have revealed the strategy of disinformation…

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‘How are we going to live?’ Families dispossessed of their land to make way for Total’s Congo offsetting project

From Unearthed Pulchérie Amboula’s life has revolved around the land she farms on the Batéké plateaux, a vast, undulating savannah…

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Planning and The Climate

An interesting article from Michael Roberts’ blog Planning and the climate The only way humanity has a chance of avoiding a…

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Appeal to Labour Party Members: Help Turn Back This Tide of Greenwash

From Labour Hub By Simon Pirani Here is a letter that I sent yesterday to Maggie Ferncombe, the Chair of…

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We need mass public pressure for Government funding for the retrofit crisis in the West Midlands

From Birmingham Against The Cuts We need mass public pressure for Government funding for the retrofit crisis in the West…

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COP27 was a spectacular failure – boycotting future COP conferences , however, would only compound the problem

From Ecosocialist Discussion (This article complements my article that assessed the first week of COP27 which can be found at https://www.ecosocialistdiscussion.com/2022/11/15/after-the-first-week-in-sharm-el-sheikh-cop27-is-at-the-brink/ )…