Chris Saltmarsh

After years of defending basic policy positions, this year a renaissance of ideas, ambition and strategy is bursting up from Labour’s grassroots.

An action camp hosted by Reclaim the Power will build solidarity between climate and migrant justice movements. We need this in the fight against eco-fascism.

Protestor support group Green and Black Cross has publicly criticised Extinction Rebellion's record on safety, security and policing.

Public ownership is not just necessary to stop climate change but increasingly inevitable.

We must think beyond market mechanisms to fund an internationalist Green New Deal which repairs loss and damage globally.

Extinction Rebellion's semi-naked stunt in the House of Commons exemplifies their alienating approach. They need to get serious.

The future will surely be ours if we all come together to demand a Green New Deal.

People & Planet research shows University of Sheffield has not made good on its promise to divest from all fossil fuels. We can't let them get away with it.

Our response to climate breakdown should inspire hope and optimism.

The fracking industry was doomed to fail from the start and now activists are putting the final nail in its coffin.

Radical action on climate change should be the many versus the few, not the young versus the old.

Standard Chartered's sponsorship of Liverpool FC is a cynical attempt to buy a social license to profit from fossil fuel finance.

The Labour party in government should nationalise banks that continue to invest in fossil fuels.

Some banks are beginning to exclude certain fossil fuels, but its too little and too slow. But it's clear what banks must do and the path they should take to get there.

Will the Barclays Bank revised energy policy constitute ambitious action on climate change - or business-as-usual?

Indigenous Environmental Network's lawsuit blocked construction of Keystone XL.

HSBC claims to exclude coal but they've left the door open on extraction in Vietnam.

Banks like Barclays won't drop their investments in fracking and other fossil fuels if we ask nicely.

The jailing of anti-fracking protestors demonstrates a deep alliance between the state, finance and capital

The banks' support for fossil fuel extraction and climate breakdown could instigate the next crash with unprecedented costs for innocent people ten years on from the 2008 financial crisis, argues CHRIS SALTMARSH

Banks are just as much to blame for the climate crisis as fossil fuel companies and corrupt governments. Campaigning for fossil free finance must be the climate movement's next step, writes CHRIS SALTMARSH