Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵
Great to be back on the Skotia discussing the prospects of an SNP majority gov in May w/ Reform in second; the CCC report on Scotland’s draft climate change plan; and what lessons the Gorton & Denton result has for Scotland
Listen below!
It's finally out, thanks to @minorcomps. Amongst many great contributions, I have a chapter in here entitled "Differentiated Spatialities of Subsumption and the Social Factory as Phantom Thesis." Eds., Anthony Iles & Mattin. Buy if you can to support radical independent publishing. 👇
Depressing news
This piece by Hailey Maxwell on the People's Palace is great - "The managed decline and privatisation of cultural and civic heritage is entangled with the wilful disintegration of communal ways of living more generally."
www.thedrouth.org/on-peoples-p...
Thursday, 19 March - Frontierlands with @hazelsheffield.bsky.social & @rosiehampton.bsky.social
Communities on Britain’s margins are boldly rewriting the future, reclaiming and reimagining neglected land offering lessons to bring into our own!
lighthousebookshop.com/events/front...
Absolutely *cannot* wait for this wicked pairing and the discussion it promises, join us!
In March I’ll be hosting a discussion with @hazelsheffield.bsky.social about her new book Frontierlands at @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh
Join us for what I’m sure will be a great discussion!
lighthousebookshop.com/events/front...
Lots of new radical history tours open for booking over the next few months including Queer Glasgow, radical West End and Migrants Made Glasgow. Free tickets always available if cost is a barrier, just drop us a line. See you in the streets! radicalglasgowtours.com
Ash Regan is trying to push a dangerous bill through parliament in a few weeks time that would introduce the Nordic Model to Scotland. For sex workers’ safety and rights, it CANNOT go through. Takes 2 mins to use this tool to tell your MSPs just that scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow
Tonight! I’ll be talking about my article ‘Where is the left?’ & all things radical spaces and political organising
7pm at the Third Eye Bar, inside the CCA - hope to see you there!
really really interesting thread, thanks so much and v glad you enjoyed the piece!
think the NGO/charities filling the gaps is so pertinent - my PhD research focussed on the 80s but I’m really keen to look at that transition into the 3rd sector from the 90s onwards, v connected
I really enjoyed reading this.
The loss of left-wing physical spaces is certainly felt. I was speaking to someone at Sheffield Transformed, who mentioned that the area once had two other radical spaces, 'all gone now.'
It's also about what these spaces mean in building inclusive, radical cultures.
Thank you so much!! ♥️
A brilliant article about the disappearance of left-wing spaces, how the online left isn’t representative of left-wing organising in general (despite Ash Sarkar’s claims), and how we can build a movement based on solidarity and the nurturing of diversity.
I liked this quote a lot 👇
New Year’s resolution is to be better at posting here but in the meantime I’m slightly more active on my research instagram @ rosielevinehampton
I wrote ‘Where is the Left?’ for the New Internationalist and have been really heartened by how much it’s resonated with people organising across a wide range of groups and in such a vast array of different places
You can read the article here newint.org/protest/2025...
Thanks so much both for sharing and engaging with the piece! 🙂
Great list of resources and engagement in this thread, thank you v much to Shannon for resharing (and a reminder to myself I should come on here more!!)
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton (@rosiehampton.bsky.social)
Really looking forward to chatting about my latest NI article, ‘Where is the Left?’ at the December News Club next Wednesday!
A link to a petition to save Geography, its staff, department and degree programmes at Leicester University, UK
SAVE GEOGRAPHY at Leicester University (UK) - We call on the University of Leicester to urgently reconsider the proposal to dissolve Geography. This is direct attack on the discipline of Geography at Leicester with likely loss of Geography staff. Please sign + share
www.change.org/p/save-geogr...
My new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, will be published by Verso next year.
It's now listed, which makes it feel that bit more official!
We’re deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Elspeth King — a dear friend and great supporter of Alasdair Gray. 💛
Link in bio to read Gray’s piece on King for Workers City.
Still some spaces left for this talk tomorrow.
Please share.
Just Transition Conditionalities - Building a Toolkit for Scotland can be downloaded here. It outlines proposals for how transition policy should be structured to protect workers, create jobs and benefit communities and the public. www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
With @riyokoshibe.bsky.social at the Just Transition Commission’s summit in Edinburgh.
We have been sharing our report on workers’ perspectives on the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery and Riyoko’s work on the conditions which should be attached to transition public funding.
A new article from me about writing groups, class, culture and radical adult education in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s Glasgow: scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
The Workers' Stories Project published 55 stories from Scottish workers during the COVID-19 lockdown.
I've co-authored a new journal article on the project and working-class narratives of the pandemic with three other members of the project team Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert and Suki Sangha.
lovely to get my print copy of the latest
@newint.bsky.social, which features my article ‘where is the left?’ for their long read section
it discusses left wing spaces, whilst offering a critique of recent accounts (such as minority rule) that suggest the left has got ‘worse’ at solidarity
"Almost all of those surveyed want more public investment in domestic wind manufacturing, as well as in UK ports so they are fit for energy projects."
Must-read op-ed from @rosiehampton.bsky.social reflecting on their recent survey of UK oil & gas workers.
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2547...
