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Florence factory workers light the way for green industrial struggle
Comrades from a British solidarity network highlight how an automotive factory occupation in Italy shows how worker-led militancy can challenge both job losses and environmental destruction

TUC Congress in Brighton this year debated four separate motions on the climate crisis. All of the motions call for a just transition to make sure that workers in the energy, transport and manufacturing industries are not simply thrown on the dole.

Appeals to the new Labour government were aplenty, but what was absent from every motion was the need for industrial militancy to ensure that a just transition leading to a decarbonised economy does not result in working-class communities being decimated by long-term unemployment.

Some in our movement describe this as pie in the sky, but workers have taken the lead in defending the environment in the past, and it is essential that they do so again.

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