Past Events

Striking for the climate? Free Our Unions public meeting

A public meeting organised and hosted by Free Our Unions campaign, with guest speakers form a range of organisations including Earth Strike UK. Our window to stop and reverse worsening climate catastrophe is narrowing. To defeat climate change, we need to radical action from governments, and, ultimately, a change in [...]

Rio Tinto: we are watching you!

Trafalgar Square Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom

Protest at Rio Tinto HQ Rio Tinto is a multinational metals and mining corporation, the largest by market capitalisation in the world. It is a world leader in the production of aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Rio Tinto has an appalling record: According to the Carbon Majors [...]

Earth Strike: Empower the Unions – online rally

Free and active unions have a vital part to play in the just transition to a zero-carbon future. The anti-union and anti-strike legislation designed to suppress union activity is a direct obstacle to a greener world. Earth Strike UK: Empower the Unions is a new initiative by Earth Strike UK, [...]

Empower the Unions – Open Meeting!

Earth Strike UK: Empower the Unions is a new initiative by Earth Strike UK, supported by the Free Our Unions campaign. Empower the Unions aims to unite environmental activists and trade unionists to resist legislation that restricts our rights to organise and strike and empower unions to take the action [...]

Earth Strike: COP26 Organising Meeting

Earth Strike UK invites you to take part in our fortnightly organising meetings, preparing for the COP26 summit. The summit will be taking place between 1st - 12th November 2021, and will be attended by world leaders to address the threat of climate change. We know that politicians cannot be [...]

An introduction to Earth Strike UK

Would you like to know more about Earth Strike UK and maybe even get involved?... Join our online workshop An Introduction to Earth Strike UK. We will be talking about how capitalism is driving the climate crisis, how we can use strikes and industrial action to stop it, and what [...]

An Introduction to Earth Strike UK

Would you like to know more about Earth Strike UK and maybe even get involved?... Join our online talk An Introduction to Earth Strike UK. We will be talking about how capitalism is driving the climate crisis, how we can use strikes and industrial action to stop it, and what [...]

Why the fight against climate change needs free trade unions

In October 2021, Earth Strike: Empower the Unions collaborated with Free Our Unions to launch a statement calling for joint struggle between the labour and climate movements against anti-strike laws which constrain workers’ ability to fight for radical action on the environment. This online meeting brings together labour and environmental activists [...]

Kavala oil workers solidarity demo

Potters Fields Park Potters Fields Park, London, United Kingdom

Join us in London on the 26th of May for a demonstration in solidarity with the workers at Kavala Oil in Greece, who have all been laid off on mass by their employer, a London based oil and gas company called Energean. In just over a year Energean has: Announced [...]

An Introduction to Earth Strike UK

The climate crisis is being driven by capitalism... the endless pursuit of profit at the expense of the environment and our wellbeing. We must use our collective power as workers to stop this crisis and secure a just future for us all. But how do we do that? Come and [...]

Resist all anti-union laws!

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Stratergy 1 Victoria Street, London, United Kingdom

On 10 October the Free Our Unions campaign and Earth Strike: Empower the Unions are holding an assembly and protest at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in London to oppose the threat of new anti-trade union laws that Liz Truss, in the context of the strike [...]

Bristol Earth Strike Meeting

Bristol Bristol

After a long hiatus... Bristol Earth Strike is back! We invite activists new and old to join us at our first meeting on Sunday 8th Jan at St Werbughs Community Centre from 3pm to discuss the state of the environmental movement and how we can take action. Earth Strike is [...]

Talk: Earth Strike! For Climate Justice! Dublin

Teachers Club 36 Parnell Square W, Rotunda, Dublin, Ireland

Earth Strike UK in conjunction with the Ireland IWW, will be hosting a talk on Friday 18th October @ 7pm at the Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square W, Rotunda, Dublin 1, D01 T6V6. Earth Strike is a grassroots movement made up of trade unionists, climate activists, youth and community organisers, [...]

Earth Strike! For Climate Justice! Online talk

Earth Strike is a grassroots movement made up of trade unionists, climate activists, youth and community organisers, committed to challenge the root causes of the climate crisis and to fight for a better future for the global working class. To achieve climate justice we must disrupt and end the capitalist [...]

Public Talk Birmingham: Earth Strike! For Climate Justice!

The Warehouse 54-57 Allison St, Digbeth, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Earth Strike is a grassroots movement made up of trade unionists, climate activists, youth and community organisers, committed to challenge the root causes of the climate crisis and to fight for a better future for the global working class. To achieve climate justice we must disrupt and end the capitalist [...]

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Earth Strike Public Talk – Bristol

IWW Office 1st Floor, The Exchange, Bristol

The climate and ecological crisis is dire. To have any hope of avoiding total catastrophe me must end the capitalism. How can we do this? A Global General Strike! In this talk we will present our strategy for avoiding total catastrophe, and discuss why strike action and ultimately a general [...]

Earth Strike at Belfast Radical Bookfair

Peter Froggatt Centre Queens University Belfast, Belfast

Come and see us at Belfast Radical Bookfair on Saturday November 30th at the Peter Froggatt Centre, Queens University Belfast. We will be doing a talk at 12:15 and will have a stall all day. As well as us there will be stalls and talks from a range of other [...]

Earth Strike public talk – Glasgow

Romano Lav 43 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow

The climate and ecological crisis is dire. To have any hope of avoiding total catastrophe me must end the capitalism. How can we do this? A Global General Strike! In this talk we will present our strategy for avoiding total catastrophe, and discuss why strike action and ultimately a general [...]

Earth Strike public talk – Edinburgh

Kurdish Community Centre 12 Dumbryden Road, Edinburgh

The climate and ecological crisis is dire. To have any hope of avoiding total catastrophe me must end the capitalism. How can we do this? A Global General Strike! In this talk we will present our strategy for avoiding total catastrophe, and discuss why strike action and ultimately a general [...]

Earth Strike public talk – Huddersfield

Brian Jackson House Brian Jackson House, Huddersfield

The climate and ecological crisis is dire. To have any hope of avoiding total catastrophe me must end the capitalism. How can we do this? A Global General Strike! In this talk we will present our strategy for avoiding total catastrophe, and discuss why strike action and ultimately a general [...]

Earth Strike public talk – online

The climate and ecological crisis is dire. To have any hope of avoiding total catastrophe me must end the capitalism. How can we do this? A Global General Strike! In this talk we will present our strategy for avoiding total catastrophe, and discuss why strike action and ultimately a general [...]

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