Building workers' action to stop climate change

Capital’s exploitation and degradation of nature goes hand-in-hand with its exploitation of labour.

The working class is the agent with the capability and interest in transforming society: through immediate reforms as well as in the battle for democratic, rational control of the economy and society as a whole.

The gravity of current and imminent change crises makes the necessity of independent working-class politics more urgent.

We argue for a socialist environmentalist transitional programme to be fought for within workplaces, and more widely in the labour movement and the environmental movement.

This is most urgent in workplaces and industries with high emissions and key roles in the fossil economy, such as transport and energy. Beyond these sectors, widespread workplace environmental action is important for a society-wide transition, for sparking and spreading class struggle, and for stoking working-class environmentalism.

How do we build workers' climate action? This meeting will discuss the issues.