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Jacobin | June 2026 Two of Britain’s most powerful unions oppose soft-left MP Ed Miliband’s bid to become chancellor. They fear the green transition could cost jobs in the oil industry, one of the few sectors where workers have consistently secured above-inflation pay raises. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is on his way out of…

The Ecologist 24th June Faced with escalating costs and impacts, and trapped by the punitive logic of austerity, Britain is turning to private finance to pay for its climate security. Welcome to the future of private flood defences. Already, at “just” 1.4C of climate change, half of the world’s children are exposed to at least…

Freedom News Blog, 28 May Truncheons and voluntary price caps are only appearing now because people have refused to pay what supermarkets demand Last year Iceland, one of Britain’s big budget supermarket chains, reported underlying profits of £317.6 million off the back of £4 billion in sales. Its CEO, Tarsem Dhaliwal, took home a tidy…

The Jacobin, 24 May 2026 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s dying government is planning to nationalize British Steel, but things are not quite what they seem. His proposals may lead to thousands of job losses and cash handouts to corporations. Just days after Britain’s right-wing party Reform won a huge number of local government seats…

The Jacobin, 20 April Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence. If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions. Critics of generative AI have for the most part been obsessed with a single question: What if the several hundred billion–dollar…

The Ecologist, 7 April ‘This war isn’t just about control over oil. It’s about control over the future.’ Oil wars aren’t always, or even usually, about actually seizing oil fields. They are about control: ideally control leading to healthy profit margins and secure investment environments.  Trump declared “my favourite thing is to take the oil…

Freedom News Blog, March 23rd Food, fuel and pharmaceuticals will all be affected by the blockade By now you’re probably sick of hearing how much oil and gas comes through the blockaded Straights of Hormuz. Close to 34% of traded oil, 19% liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, and 16% of the trade in refined petroleum products…

The Conversation, 12 March, with David Harvie and Matilda Fitzmaurice Climate change and related disasters are driving millions from their homes. Now, a new UN initiative aims to put these very refugees to work offsetting the emissions of the world’s biggest producers. Facing a US$7 billion (£5 billion) funding shortfall, the UN’s refugees agency has launched its…

Nicholas Beuret & David Harvie20 January 2026 – Jacobin The UN is putting refugees to work in poorly paid green jobs to generate carbon credits for billion-dollar firms. It’s one of the most cynical instances of a corporate greenwashing agenda that has done little to address climate change. At the start of 2026, the White…

published DOPE Issue 32 Just in the last 24 hours of writing this article storms have smashed both New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, while in Jamaica, government officials warned that as Hurricane Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm, many impacted communities ‘will not survive the flooding’, and that no community in…

The Jacobin A decade ago, Western governments pitched the green transition as a solution to reindustrialization and economic decline. The failure of these policies to produce well-paying jobs has triggered a right-wing backlash in both the UK and the US. In just over a year, the British right-wing political party Reform, led by Nigel Farage,…

The rolling mills are still working, but the furnaces are long cold. Of the 4,000 people previously employed at the steel mill in Port Talbot, Wales, only half still work there. Despite union protests and local rallies, one year ago on September 30 2024, the plant’s last coal-burning blast furnace was shut down. This ended…

Edited excerpt published with The Ecologist Members of the Oklahoma National Guard’s wildland firefighting program work to prevent the spread of a fire at Camp Navajo, Arizona, August 16, 2025. Image: The National Guard / Creative Commons 4.0.  ‘The choice is clear. Either we suffer their squeeze, or come together to fight for a real transition, one…

Published on the Autonomy blog What is the transition economy? The green transition has been presented as a win for both workers and the environment: this is the promise that underpins its tenuous legitimacy as public policy. In its most radical incarnation, that of the Green New Deal, the transition to a low-carbon economy would…

Authors: Nicolas Beuret and Peter Bloom Published: June 2025, The Ecologist To assume ‘green capitalism’ is more progressive than its fossil opposition would be a critical mistake. Authoritarian populists from Trump to Modi are gaining ground globally, often with a fervent embrace of fossil fuels and anti-environmental rhetoric.  There is a clear ideological component to this insipid ‘fossil fascism’….