The Vestas workers' struggle
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For a full list of all stories on this website about Vestas, click here. Key articles below:
The environment
Wrong on “NIMBYS”
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Contrary to Martin Thomas’ view (Solidarity 274), Cumbria’s anti-nuclear lobby cannot simply be dismissed as parochial NIMBYs.
Workers can counter climate change
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The widening gap between the risks of ecological degradation and the politics needed to prevent massive damaging social and environmental impacts is well illustrated by recent climate announcements.
Not in our backyard?
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On 30 January, Cumbria county council voted against allowing further surveys to see if an underground dump for spent nuclear fuel can be safely built in its area.
Climate talks fail, alternative needed
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The irony should not be lost. The irony of holding the latest round of climate talks in the desert in Qatar, which has the highest per capita emissions of any state as well as an appalling record on workers’ rights.
Taranto clean up: steelworkers let down by bosses and bureaucrats
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On Tuesday 25 September 4000 workers of the IlVA steelworks went on strike in the Italian port city of Taranto.
Fracking: good, bad and/or ugly?
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Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a technique for getting methane gas out of shale rocks.
Sharp on technology, soft on capitalism
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Mark Lynas has written a provocative book that deserves to be read and discussed.
Liverpool AWL: Socialism and Ecology
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Date:
2 December, 2010 - 19:30 - 21:00
Location:
Training Room, Liverpool Guild of Students, 160 Mount Pleasant, L3 5TR
Description:
How do we understand climate change and the wider ecological crisis that now threatens the homes and food of millions?
With guest Speaker Robin Sivapalan, Workers' Climate Action activist and key organiser of solidarity with workers' occupation of the Vestas wind turbine blade factory on the Isle of Wight
Search 'ideas for freedom liverpool' for Facebook event.
AWL Essex public meeting: Climate change as a class issue - exploring socialist ecology
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Date:
3 November, 2010 - 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Top Bar (by the Blues Café)
Description:
Can revolutionary, working-class socialism develop answers to capitalist climate crises?
With a speaker from the Workers' Climate Action campaign.