Just Stop Oil stands with those making a defiant stand against a harmful government, and against a system that exploits people for their labour as it does the living world for its finite resources.
That includes supporting the railway workers of the RMT union in their planned strike action. We will not deal with the cost of living crisis by forcing ordinary people to work in poverty while companies make record profits. It’s economic illiteracy.
But we also call on the trade union movement to ‘look up’ and recognise what societal collapse will mean for members and their futures if we allow the current carbon economy to continue. According to UN secretary-general António Guterres, there must be no new fossil fuels if we are to avoid an “abyss”. But when confronted with a future without fossil fuels, people respond: “Do you realise how many jobs are in fossil fuels?”
