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Welcome to Rip-Off Britain.
A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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A country remade by privatisation.
Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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Deadline extended
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🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
Find out more and apply 👇
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January 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Deadline extended
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
🗓️Applications close 10 AM (GMT) Monday 2 February.
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According to SIPRI, NATO’s five per cent target means increasing UK military and security spending by more than £130 billion per year from 2035.
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
January 15, 2026 at 10:28 AM
According to SIPRI, NATO’s five per cent target means increasing UK military and security spending by more than £130 billion per year from 2035.
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
The benefits of this will flow to the private shareholders of arms companies.
Watch our latest video 👇
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Europe has prioritised an arbitrary military spending target set by the US over climate investment.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Europe has prioritised an arbitrary military spending target set by the US over climate investment.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
This brought no leverage in the face of violations of international law but risks our collective safety amid the climate crisis.
Watch our video on Europe’s military industrial turn.
🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
Find out more and apply 👇
Find out more and apply 👇
January 13, 2026 at 2:45 PM
🚨Common Wealth is hiring a Production Officer.
Find out more and apply 👇
Find out more and apply 👇
“The public have rightly had enough. They want the water industry to be a functioning and affordable essential service.
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
January 13, 2026 at 12:02 PM
“The public have rightly had enough. They want the water industry to be a functioning and affordable essential service.
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
Water could be restored to public ownership at minimal cost ”.
Mathew Lawrence in @BigIssue.
www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/thames-water-nationalised-debt-water-bills/
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“Returning Venezuelan oil production to 1990s peak levels would result in five hundred million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions... higher than the emissions of France, or the UK”.
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
Trump’s Illegal Invasion of Venezuela Forebodes an Environmental Disaster
Rebuilding Venezuelan oil production would produce new annual emissions higher than the carbon footprints of France, the UK, or Thailand
substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
“Returning Venezuelan oil production to 1990s peak levels would result in five hundred million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions... higher than the emissions of France, or the UK”.
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
New analysis from our Co-Director Patrick Bigger.
substack.com/@climatecomm...
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago. We continue to live with their consequences.
🧵 Here’s how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
“[O]ver the 400 years since the first English ships arrived in Barbados, empire engineered a system of wealth extraction that shapes the tourism economies of today.”
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the region’s tourist industry
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
“[O]ver the 400 years since the first English ships arrived in Barbados, empire engineered a system of wealth extraction that shapes the tourism economies of today.”
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
In our latest Centre for Democratising Work interview, Amelia Horgan spoke to @brunoleipold.com about his book, CITIZEN MARX, and Marx and republicanism.
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In our latest Centre for Democratising Work interview, Amelia Horgan spoke to @brunoleipold.com about his book, CITIZEN MARX, and Marx and republicanism.
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
Read here: www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...
“The vast scale of US global military infrastructure continues to block the effort required to mitigate the climate crisis”.
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Critical minerals should not be stockpiled for military use
The US is funnelling materials such as cobalt and graphite into national defence rather than new climate technologies
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“The vast scale of US global military infrastructure continues to block the effort required to mitigate the climate crisis”.
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com about how the Pentagon has stockpiled critical minerals needed for the energy transition.
www.ft.com/content/42ab...
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NEW: Read @stephensemler.bsky.social on how the expansion of the US warfare state has made the working class less secure.
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
Working Class Security
Expanding the US warfare state has made the working class less secure. Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is a better electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
NEW: Read @stephensemler.bsky.social on how the expansion of the US warfare state has made the working class less secure.
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
Prioritising everyday security over military expansion is the right electoral strategy for progressives.
transitionsecurity.org/working-clas...
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The Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile “could be used instead to produce 80.2 gigawatt hours of battery capacity — more than double the existing energy storage capacity in the US”.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
Critical minerals should not be stockpiled for military use
The US is funnelling materials such as cobalt and graphite into national defence rather than new climate technologies
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile “could be used instead to produce 80.2 gigawatt hours of battery capacity — more than double the existing energy storage capacity in the US”.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
Our research manager Lorah Steichen wrote for the @financialtimes.com.
“We all live in a world forged by empire. The question for all of us is – how do we remake it?”.
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the region’s tourist industry
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“We all live in a world forged by empire. The question for all of us is – how do we remake it?”.
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Eleanor Shearer in the Guardian on the launch of our reparations project.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago.
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
Visualising Extractive Capitalism
From the formation of the plantation slave economy to the modern-day climate crisis, we map how empire and extractive capitalism shaped Barbados, Britain and the wider world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Slavery & colonialism aren’t things that happened far away & long ago.
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
We continue to live with their consequences.
Our new project visualises extractive capitalism in the Caribbean.
🧵 This is how empire shapes Barbados, Britain & the world.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
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🚨NEW ESSAY🚨: Read Rebekah Diski on trade union politics in an era of rearmament, genocide and climate breakdown.
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...
Bread and Butter Is Not Enough
Trade unions are grappling with an era of rearmament and climate breakdown. Amid these crises, a renewed labour internationalism is needed.
transitionsecurity.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
🚨NEW ESSAY🚨: Read Rebekah Diski on trade union politics in an era of rearmament, genocide and climate breakdown.
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...
transitionsecurity.org/bread-and-bu...
“The decarbonization project is a matter of investment and divestment.”
For a successful transition, these decisions must prioritize systemic social outcomes and avoid disruptions — regardless of whether doing so will generate profit.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
For a successful transition, these decisions must prioritize systemic social outcomes and avoid disruptions — regardless of whether doing so will generate profit.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
December 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“The decarbonization project is a matter of investment and divestment.”
For a successful transition, these decisions must prioritize systemic social outcomes and avoid disruptions — regardless of whether doing so will generate profit.
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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
For a successful transition, these decisions must prioritize systemic social outcomes and avoid disruptions — regardless of whether doing so will generate profit.
👇
https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission
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NEW: The Pentagon’s Cold War-era stockpiling threatens the supply of minerals needed for the energy transition.
Our analysis shows the Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile would be enough to more than double existing energy storage capacity in the US.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
Our analysis shows the Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile would be enough to more than double existing energy storage capacity in the US.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
Mining for War: Assessing the Pentagon’s Mineral Stockpile
How can the Pentagon's energy transition mineral stockpiles be repurposed toward the green transition?
transitionsecurity.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
NEW: The Pentagon’s Cold War-era stockpiling threatens the supply of minerals needed for the energy transition.
Our analysis shows the Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile would be enough to more than double existing energy storage capacity in the US.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
Our analysis shows the Pentagon’s planned cobalt stockpile would be enough to more than double existing energy storage capacity in the US.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
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These are war crimes committed in our name.
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
These are war crimes committed in our name.
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NEW: The Pentagon has brought back Cold War-era stockpiling, taking vital resources from the energy transition.
Our analysis shows that the Pentagon’s planned cobalt and graphite stockpile is large enough to produce 100,000 electric buses.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
Our analysis shows that the Pentagon’s planned cobalt and graphite stockpile is large enough to produce 100,000 electric buses.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
Mining for War: Assessing the Pentagon’s Mineral Stockpile
How can the Pentagon's energy transition mineral stockpiles be repurposed toward the green transition?
transitionsecurity.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NEW: The Pentagon has brought back Cold War-era stockpiling, taking vital resources from the energy transition.
Our analysis shows that the Pentagon’s planned cobalt and graphite stockpile is large enough to produce 100,000 electric buses.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
Our analysis shows that the Pentagon’s planned cobalt and graphite stockpile is large enough to produce 100,000 electric buses.
transitionsecurity.org/mining-for-war/
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The arms race is undermining the green transition as critical minerals are diverted for the military.
Our briefing on the Pentagon’s return to stockpiling from Lorah Steichen in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/critical-minerals-military-us-pentagon-climate-crisis
Our briefing on the Pentagon’s return to stockpiling from Lorah Steichen in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/critical-minerals-military-us-pentagon-climate-crisis
Global race to secure critical minerals for weapons threatens climate, warns report
Study reveals US earmarked billions to stockpile critical minerals for military use, including precision-guided weaponry and AI-driven warfare
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The arms race is undermining the green transition as critical minerals are diverted for the military.
Our briefing on the Pentagon’s return to stockpiling from Lorah Steichen in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/critical-minerals-military-us-pentagon-climate-crisis
Our briefing on the Pentagon’s return to stockpiling from Lorah Steichen in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/critical-minerals-military-us-pentagon-climate-crisis
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As Mark Carney continues his oil pipeline / tanker / LNG / Bill c-5 spree—
It's worth reading this dispatch from @forensicarchi.bsky.social 's Omar Ferwati & Nessie Nankivell, documenting Indigenous resistance to the "Ring of Fire" in Northern Ontario.
www.break-down.org/resistance-o...
It's worth reading this dispatch from @forensicarchi.bsky.social 's Omar Ferwati & Nessie Nankivell, documenting Indigenous resistance to the "Ring of Fire" in Northern Ontario.
www.break-down.org/resistance-o...
DISPATCH: Resistance on the Attawapiskat
In northern Ontario, a region rich in mineral deposits has become a frontline in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty.
www.break-down.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
As Mark Carney continues his oil pipeline / tanker / LNG / Bill c-5 spree—
It's worth reading this dispatch from @forensicarchi.bsky.social 's Omar Ferwati & Nessie Nankivell, documenting Indigenous resistance to the "Ring of Fire" in Northern Ontario.
www.break-down.org/resistance-o...
It's worth reading this dispatch from @forensicarchi.bsky.social 's Omar Ferwati & Nessie Nankivell, documenting Indigenous resistance to the "Ring of Fire" in Northern Ontario.
www.break-down.org/resistance-o...
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In northern Ontario, a region rich in mineral deposits has become a frontline in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty.
OMAR FERWATI and NESSIE NANKIVELL tell a story of resistance from Canada’s Ring of Fire, in ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇
OMAR FERWATI and NESSIE NANKIVELL tell a story of resistance from Canada’s Ring of Fire, in ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇
DISPATCH: Resistance on the Attawapiskat
In northern Ontario, a region rich in mineral deposits has become a frontline in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty.
www.break-down.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
In northern Ontario, a region rich in mineral deposits has become a frontline in the fight for Indigenous sovereignty.
OMAR FERWATI and NESSIE NANKIVELL tell a story of resistance from Canada’s Ring of Fire, in ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇
OMAR FERWATI and NESSIE NANKIVELL tell a story of resistance from Canada’s Ring of Fire, in ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS 👇
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NEW ESSAY: Read @rajpatel.org on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment.
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
Polycrisis: A Breviary
Today’s world is beset by several overlapping crises. Movements on the frontline are mapping out strategies for survival.
transitionsecurity.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NEW ESSAY: Read @rajpatel.org on the overlapping global crises of war, ecology and economy, and how frontline movements are confronting this moment.
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
transitionsecurity.org/polycrisis-a...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
GET 4 PRINT ISSUES FOR THE PRICE OF 2! 💥
Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
www.break-down.org/offer/
Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
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Doing a cheeky lil special @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Subscribe before next Friday and not only will you get our next two print issues, but ALSO our first two free.
Support independent climate journalism!! Get lovely informative mags and our eternal gratitude!
that is all.
Subscribe before next Friday and not only will you get our next two print issues, but ALSO our first two free.
Support independent climate journalism!! Get lovely informative mags and our eternal gratitude!
that is all.
GET 4 PRINT ISSUES FOR THE PRICE OF 2! 💥
Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
www.break-down.org/offer/
Subscribe before 12th Dec to receive our next two print issues (Spring ’26 + Autumn ’26) PLUS our past two issues for free 👇
www.break-down.org/offer/
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Doing a cheeky lil special @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Subscribe before next Friday and not only will you get our next two print issues, but ALSO our first two free.
Support independent climate journalism!! Get lovely informative mags and our eternal gratitude!
that is all.
Subscribe before next Friday and not only will you get our next two print issues, but ALSO our first two free.
Support independent climate journalism!! Get lovely informative mags and our eternal gratitude!
that is all.