Our 2024 Priorities

We will be expanding our network to reach more working class individuals, movements, trade unions and organisations across the global North and South, which will include those directly engaged in environmental action as well as those involved in other areas such as striving for racial justice and gender equality. In accordance with our availability and resources the WCCA will campaign alongside other groups at the local, national and international levels.

Additionally, we will be expanding our network in the professional climate sector such as with NGOs, charities, think-tanks and academia.

We will amplify the efforts of the working class who are fighting the climate crisis in their own ways, by drawing focus to the specific actions they are taking in their respective locales and how they are trying to implement change at the local, national and international levels.

By engaging with the working class directly we will be able to identify their specific needs in the midst of the climate crisis. For example whether they feel they need improvements to areas such as housing, healthcare, employment opportunities and what exactly they feel these improvements should be.

Informed through direct engagement with the working class, we will work with the UK’s climate sector to help better inform proposed policy solutions and initiatives, as well as strive to increase working class representation in climate roles. (Click here for further information about why this side of our work is only UK-based).

We will draw focus towards how differences between the working and middle class can impact movement building (for example, having different preferences for how information is communicated). In cases where these differences prevent effective mobilisation, we will seek to find a solution(s) that enables both parties to work together constructively and in a comradely manner.