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We are delivering a NEW WORKSHOP for youth organisations and movements!
It focuses on revolutionary strategy: the HOW of transition from capitalism as imperialism to eco-socialism. (1/5)
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@richfelgate
@JustStop_Oil
@bectu
The role of the police has always been the criminalization of poverty and suppression of resistance. They are the handmaidens of the ruling class. True colors for all to see.
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An incomplete 🧵 on extreme weather events in 2022. Reminder: This is at 1.2C heating. We are on track for 1.5C by 2030, 2C by 2050, over 3C by 2100, and 10C long-term. Oh yeah - and 96% of oil and gas companies are EXPANDING operations.
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We have a plan ⚒️ Here's how the fossil fuel industry can be nationalised and dismantled in the UK (1/15) 🧵
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Entire countries are running out of water. It’s 2023. But don’t worry, we’re going to be net zero in 2050!
Above all else, we need an emergency politics of speed. Don’t see how that’s possible without a wartime climate state.
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@ClimateHuman
We know of one planet that sustains human life. And we’re destroying it to make rich people even richer. It’s maddening. Time for the people to pull the emergency brake.
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Decommodifying the means of survival is a climate policy 🧵 (1/7)
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@JustStop_Oil
Institutionally “racist, misogynistic, and homophobic” police handcuff a doctor to prevent the slightest hint of disrespect for the billionaire king coronated in a cost of living emergency. Try to defend it. You can’t.
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Democratising the means of production is a climate policy 🧵 (1/7)
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Reports of a “heat apocalypse” in Western France. 25,000 people have abandoned their homes. This is at 1.2 C global heating. Likely we briefly cross 1.5 C in the next 5 years. Heading towards 3.2 C by 2100. This is an existential emergency.
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@JustStop_Oil
Folks in comments, the fossil fuel industry is making record profits while your energy bills soar and the planet overheats. Maybe don’t do their bidding.
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@KwasiKwarteng
The function of an economy is to deliver human wellbeing while remaining within ecological limits.
This criminal repeal of decades old labour rights does just the opposite. It enables the economy to grind peoples' democratic freedom and hope of a dignified live to a halt.
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This was no natural disaster. Colonialism was the powder keg and the spark of this climate massacre 🧵 (1/10)
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🚨BREAKING: Our research reveals that the UK fossil fuel industry has to be nationalized and dismantled within 9 years to avoid runaway climate breakdown. Nationalization would cost £296 billion.
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Here’s why the fossil fuel industry will never transition to renewables 🔋
Hint: it’s capitalism
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📄 NEW: An accessible introduction to imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.
✊ A strong analysis of these systems is essential for developing revolutionary organising strategies.
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Flooding in Pakistan will cost $10+ billion. The entire country is $50 billion in debt. The fossil fuel industry has made $100 billion in 6 months.
Cancel the debt, expropriate fossil capital, and issue reparations. This is the course of justice.
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Shell made a record $11.5 billion this quarter from destroying the one planet habitable to life. Absurdity doesn’t come close to describing it. They’re destroying everything and making billions. Billions. It’s planetary theft.
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The EU announced today that fossil gas is “green” energy. In other news, the European ruling class waved its magic wand and decreed a planet killing substance milk & honey.
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The *climate crisis is decidedly not 'solved'* and never will be without abolishing capitalism as imperialism. Palestinian liberation and collective socio-ecological liberation are inextricably intertwined.
Comrade Greta radicalised because it's all that makes sense.
She solved the climate crisis, so now it's time for the middle east, naturally.
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If capitalism is causing climate and ecological breakdown (and yes it is), then the number one thing you can do is to join a movement.
Build, organize, radicalize, escalate. That’s how you win system change.
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Good morning.
Remember: “We live in capitalism. Its power can seem inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
Organize, radicalize, escalate, fight. Everything to lose, everything to save.
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@ClimateHuman
We’re looking at 20% of the planet becoming too hot to sustain human life. Billions of climate migrants. 56 C + heatwaves. And irreversible mass extinction. It’s climate revolution or bust.
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@JustStop_Oil
40 C heat. Record drought. Water shortages. Crop failure. Fruit and vegetable supply chain collapse. And it will all get so much worse until we end fossil fuels. Solidarity with
@JustStop_Oil
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@Wimbledon
Our climate system is flickering as we speak. Everything is on the line.
@JustStop_Oil
are the epitome of brave, principled action
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The fact that we have to go out on the streets and politely ask our leaders to not kill us - and then have that "demand" continuously thwarted - is the ultimate indictment of a system whose only goal is profit. Nothing else.
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G7 leaders are wining and dining in a cozy Bavarian castle as the world barrels towards irreversible environmental breakdown.
Oh and did we mention that in between dinner and dessert they overturned their commitment to stop financing fossil fuels?
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February 15th: 13 million people in the Horn of Africa face severe hunger due to worst drought in 40 years
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A smaller amount of money is required to stabilize the one planet that sustains life. (15/15)
Read the full report:
#EndFossil
#EmergencyResponse
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The results are in. 2022 accounts:
🔥 Exxon: $56 billion
🔥 Shell: $39.9 billion
🔥 Chevron: $36.5 billion
🔥 Total: $36.2 billion
🔥 BP: $27.7 billion
$196 billion in extinction profits.
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We propose that legislation be called the Fossil Capital Abolition Act. This Act would establish the Fossil Abolition Agency (FAA), which would be similar to the Boards that were established to manage nationalised industries after WWII. (4/15)
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@ClimateHuman
Less work. Better quality of life. More time for political organizing. Greater appetite for ecosocialism.
A shortened work week is a massive threat to capital.
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@GeorgeMonbiot
The normalization of catastrophe is a morbid symptom of deep societal decay. We need to wake up. 40 C is no beach day. It’s a killer event. And unless we treat it as such we will slip deeper and deeper towards irreversible breakdown.
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March 9th: First ever state of emergency declared in Australia due to biblical flooding
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The FAA would assume immediate ownership of all fossil assets and begin a rapid fossil phase out according to declining annual production quotas. FAA personnel would include scientists, engineers, and fossil fuel workers with expert industry knowledge. (5/15)
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For obvious reasons, we argue that fossil fuel shareholders should receive zero compensation. Only pension funds investing in fossil fuels should be compensated. In the UK, this would lower the bill to ~£128 billion. (8/15)
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@patagonia
Cool. But buying more Patagonia is not going to "save the planet." Only a rapid exit from capitalism will do that.
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✊Today (and everyday), let us struggle together for the collective liberation from patriarchal-capitalist oppression and exploitation.💜🌱
(1/10)
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Two legal pathways exist to nationalising the UK fossil fuel industry: legislation and central bank quantitative easing (QE). Let's begin with legislation. (2/15)
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We imagine that the FAA would sit within a reimagined Energy Department, responsible for coordinating the zero-carbon energy transformation. The Energy Department would also include a workers-led Just Transition Agency. (6/15)
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Full market value compensation of oil and gas companies operating in the UK would be £296 billion. But there is nothing in UK law that mandates full compensation. (7/15)
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All past nationalisations in the UK have been done through an Act of Parliament. This includes the fossil fuel industry, which was nationalised after WWII through the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 and Gas Act 1948. (3/15)
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April 14th: 341 people dead and over 40,000 affected due to "unprecedented" flooding in Durban, South Africa (half of annual rainfall in 48 hours)
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"Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution. We call it life"
Fossil fuel propaganda is chilling.
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April - May: Spring heatwave in South Asia. Temps reach 49C in India and 51C in Pakistan, leading to crop failure, water shortages, and power outages
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The Amazon is on life-support and reactionaries have attempted a coup to reinstate its executioner. We are witnessing the horrific rise of ecological fascism. Solidarity to Lula and the people of Brazil.
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Your latest reminder that fighting Earth breakdown is not a hobby but a survival instinct. We are in grave danger. And the window to prevent “total collapse” is shutting. Resist.
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It demands an emergency response. First step is to nationalize and dismantle the fossil fuel industry in the Global North. Only radical transformation that stops the harm, uproots the drivers, and builds towards post-capitalism will save us.
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June 17th: Yellowstone National Park closes for the first time in 34 years due to flooding and mudslides. Receives 3 months rain in a few days
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May 21st: Heatwave of "extraordinary intensity" batters Spain. Temps hit 40.3C - all time May record
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June 15th: More than 125 million people in the U.S. (over 1/3rd of the population) put under heat alerts
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The Hansen paper is horrifying. GHG forcing is already equivalent to doubled atmospheric CO2, which would lead to 4C heating - likelier 5C+. When factoring in slow feedbacks (ice sheet changes), 10C is in the pipeline.
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June 24th: River Po experiences worst drought in 70 years, accounts for 1/3d of agricultural production
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May 22nd: Millions stranded and dozens dead in NE Bangladesh due to worst floods in two decades
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@ClimateHuman
They’ve known since the 1950s. They lied. Today they’re investing $1.5 trillion in new fossil fuels while our life support systems come undone. They’re going to burn their way to the end if we don’t stop them.
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"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, the torment of labour, slavery, ignorance, brutalization and moral degradation at the opposite pole”
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Although the Bank of England has autonomy over monetary policy (the domain of QE), the Bank of England Act 1998 stipulates that The Treasury can take control to uphold the "public interest" during "extreme economic circumstances." Climate breakdown checks the box. (12/15)
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@JustStop_Oil
Terrifying. A street demonstration is a basic civil liberty. This country is in an authoritarian free fall.
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In 30 years time when 1 billion people face heat beyond the threshold of human survivability we’ll look back at this corporate banter as the ultimate expression of evil.
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📄 NEW: An exploration of the role of youth in liberatory struggle.
🌱 As young people around the world take a stand against settler-colonial genocide, a collective revolutionary youth subject is emerging.
👉
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June 19th: 59 dead and millions of homes underwater in NE India and Bangladesh - "My mother has never seen such floods in her life"
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But what if there isn't enough support for a Fossil Capital Abolition Act? Imagine:
The year is 2025 - Labour is elected on a policy to stop new fossil licenses. But the PM wants to go further with nationalisation and dismantling. Unfortunately, the votes don't exist. (9/15)
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"Sacrificing life on Earth for profit since 1959"
The honest corporate slogan of the fossil fuel industry.
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Total cost then comes to £628 billion for the legislation pathway and £796 billion for the QE pathway. Comparatively, the Bank of England has spent over £895 billion on QE to stabilize the financial sector. (14/15)
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In this circumstance, the PM can order The Treasury to direct the Bank of England to buy shares ("fossil equity") in all fossil fuel companies operating in the UK through QE - bringing the industry under public control. (10/15)
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Saying you’re passionate about “the environment” is like saying you’re passionate about survival. It’s not a passion. Or a hobby. It’s a mad dash to prevent early death.
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Nothing to see here. Just the non-linear collapse of our climatic life support system. I’m sure the market will sort it out.
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Once purchased, fossil equity (and ownership rights) would be transferred to the FAA, which can be created without Parliamentary approval. From then on, the dismantling can begin. (11/15)
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Marxism has been the strategic tool for national liberation struggles around the world. It provides movements with the appropriate framework to analyse their local context and set out a pathway to win self-determination. (1/7)
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June - November: Flooding in Nigeria, Niger and Chad - hundreds killed, 1.5 million people displaced, more than 500,000 hectares of farmland damaged
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8 months ago, we warned that solar geoengineering would become the desired emergency response of the ruling classes. It now appears that our prediction is becoming reality. A 🧵 on the definitive
#climate
issue of the 2020s (1/19)
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June 28th: Worst heatwave since 1875 (when records began) in Tokyo, 4 straight days of 35C+ weather
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The Global North is responsible for 92% of climate breakdown. Yet 91% of climate-related fatalities occur in the Global South. By 2030, climate breakdown could kill 231,000 people per year in low-income countries. 🧵 (1/8)
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Progressive think tanks love talking about neoliberalism. But they are often mute about capitalism itself. The issue is that focusing on neoliberalism as unethical capitalism presupposes a return to an “ethical capitalism” - often of a Keynesian stripe.
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The nature of this pathway - actually buying shares - mandates full compensation of £296 billion. Both pathways also entail corporate debt acquisition worth £500 billion. But this can be paid off over the long-term. (13/15)
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(10/10)
To learn more, read our brief, 'Defining Imperialism, Colonialism, and Neo-Colonialism,' available here:
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July 18th: "Heat apocalypse" in Western France, 25,000 forced to flee
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August 19th: Water levels are so low in the Elbe River that a "hunger stone" from 1616 is revealed with the message - "If you see me, then weep"
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💭 “If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?” (1/2)
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August 5th: More than 100 municipalities in France run out of drinking water
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September 16th: Marche Region in Italy receives 6 months rain in 3 hours - "...like an apocalypse"
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July 19th: 40.3C in the UK - hottest day on record beats previous record of 38.7C set only 3 years ago in 2019
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“Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race pulling the emergency brake”
- Walter Benjamin
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July 5th: Sydney flooded, third extreme flooding event in 18th months in New South Wales
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@GeorgeMonbiot
@DebtforClimate
The Global North is responsible for 92% of climate breakdown. It siphons over $10 trillion each year in unequal exchange. And it has indebted the Global South for centuries, especially under neoliberal adjustment. A debt jubilee is the first step to climate reparations.
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July 10th: Thousands of firefighters deployed to combat wildfires in Portugal, temps reach 46C, 96% of country in extreme or severe drought
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