Green Bans to Heat Strikes: What is the Future for Climate Organising? Join the discussion with Australian Green Bans veteran Verity Burgmann and author Nicholas Beuret, discussing the 1970s Australian Green Bans movement to look at how unions can use radical action today to organise around the climate emergency. Book Tickets: Reserve your seat here Date: 30 Oct 2025 Time: 6:00pm Location: UNITE London Regional Office33-37 Moreland Street, London, EC1V 8BB
Simon Coop, Unite the Union National Officer for Energy and Utilities
HM CONFERENCE BOOK LAUNCH | 6 NOV | LONDON
Historical Materialism 2025: Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order. Nicholas Beuret will be joined by Rodrigo Nunes, Stefania Barca and James Meadway to discuss Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition Date: Thursday 6 November Location: HM Conference: SOAS, Russell Square, Central London
Rodrigo Nunes – author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation.
Stefania Barca – author of Workers of the Earth: Labour, Ecology and Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change
James Meadway – Economist and host of Macrodose podcast
BOOK LAUNCH | 10 NOV | SHEFFIELD
Come along to the Sheffield launch of Or Something Worse and hear Nicholas Beuret in conversation with Fran Postlethwaite, Lucinda Wakefield and Jamie Sims – organised with The Worker-Climate Project Date: 10 Nov 2025 Book tickets: Reserve tickets for the Sheffield launch and workshop Time: 7:00pm, followed by strategy workshop Location: University of Sheffield, The Diamond, 32 Leavygreave Road Broomhall S3 7RD
Fran Postlethwaite – Better Buses for South Yorkshire
Lucinda Wakefield – Climate Officer Sheffield Trade Council
BOOK LAUNCH | 11 NOV | LEEDS
Come along to the Leeds launch of Or Something Worse at Hyde Park Book Club and hear Nicholas Beuret in conversation with Leeds local author Keir Milburn and Cath Long. Book Tickets: Reserve your seat at the Leeds launch Date: 11 Nov 2025 Time: 7:30pm Location: Hyde Park Book Club: 27-29 Headingley Ln, Headingley, Leeds LS6 1BL
Keir Milburn – co-author of Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future
Cath Long – ecologist, artist and facilitator with three decades’ experience working with community-led and indigenous people-led projects and campaigns in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
BOOK LAUNCH | 12 NOV | SUNDERLAND
Come along to the Sunderland launch of Or Something Worse at Pop Recs and hear Nicholas Beuret in conversation with Auburn Langley. Date: 12 Nov 2025 Book Tickets: Reserve your seat the Sunderland launch Time: 7:00pm (doors open at 6pm) Location: Pop Recs: 172-175 High Street West • Sunderland • SR1 1UP •
Auburn Langley is the Director of Sunderland Lit & Phil, and a community activist and facilitator. When not talking about history, philosophy, or political activism, Auburn is writing a political education text-based game set in Sunderland, a fantasy novel based on Celtic Mythology…and is likely buried beneath a stack of books she intends to read.
BOOK LAUNCH | 17 NOV | EDINBURGH
Join the Edinburgh launch of Or Something Worse at Lighthouse Bookstore and hear Nicholas Beuret in conversation with Kate Whitaker and Nik Matheou. Join in person or on-line. Book Tickets:Reserve your seat at the Edinburgh launch Date: 17 Nov 2025 Time: 19:00 – 20:00 Location: Lighthouse: 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9DB
Kate Whitaker, Head of Movement Building, Friends of the Earth Scotland. Kate supports local groups, communities and activists working towards climate and environmental justice across Scotland. Previously, she worked on network development for Young FoE Europe co-ordinating international exchange projects, campaigns and trainings.
Nik Matheou, UCU member and global economic and social historian, specialising in medieval Afro-Eurasia.
BOOK LAUNCH | 19 NOV | GLASGOW
Join the Glasgow launch of Or Something Worse at Lighthouse Bookstore and hear Nicholas Beuret in conversation with Scottish activists and trade unionists. Date: 19 Nov 2025 Book Tickets:Reserve your seat at the Glasgow launch Time: 6:30pm Location: Unison Offices, 84 Bell Street Glasgow G1 1LQ
Join us at Glasgow Unison Offices on 19 Nov with Nicholas Beuert – author of Or Something Worse in conversation with speakers from Unison, Living Rent and Fuel Poverty Action to discuss how we can disrupt the climate transition.
