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  • A manifesto for Energy beyond Neoliberalism

    We’ve written a manifesto titled Energy beyond Neoliberalism: “This is a call for energy democracy. Not energy security or energy separation. A survivable and just energy future means breaking the grip of elite interests on our energy systems, ending dependency, increasing autonomy, building diverse power structures through which we can hold one another to account,…

    A manifesto for Energy beyond Neoliberalism

  • Decolonising Energy: An excerpt from ‘Energy beyond Neoliberalism’

    Back in Spring, the Kilburn Manifesto team asked whether we’d like to submit a chapter on energy to their project. Edited by Soundings founding editors Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey, and Mike Rustin, After Neoliberalism seeks to open up space to debate alternatives to current dominant neoliberal systems. Most of our campaigning on oil focuses on…

    Decolonising Energy: An excerpt from ‘Energy beyond Neoliberalism’

  • 3 Dec 2012 admin

    ‘No more money for arms deals’ – but what about fossil fuels?

    Last week, a cross-party inquiry called for Parliament to review the use of public money to support arms exports. The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on international corporate responsibility said Parliament should debate introducing a ‘prohibition list’ of projects that the Government refuses to underwrite. They suggested arms sales should be at the top of it.…

    ‘No more money for arms deals’ – but what about fossil fuels?

  • 6 Sep 2012 james

    Putting the Oil Road on the map – 5 star review kicks off campaign

    ‘The Oil Road’ opens the lid on the often-shady energy economy, weaving absorbing travel reportage into powerful investigative journalism…If you want to know why oil matters read this book. (Time Out – 5th September 2012) Platform’s campaign to put the Oil Road on the map has been given a fine start with our new travel…

    Putting the Oil Road on the map – 5 star review kicks off campaign

  • 7 Aug 2012 admin

    The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

    The new Paperback edition has a brand new Afterword… “★★★★★…The Oil Road opens the lid on the often-shady energy economy, weaving absorbing travel reportage into powerful investigative journalism…. If you want to know why oil matters, read this book.” – Time Out (book of the week) “An elegantly written travel book…will make you think the next…

    The Oil Road – Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London

  • RBS & ECGD offer billions in public money to expand Caspian fossil fuel infrastructure

    While the Tory government forces through unpopular cutbacks to the NHS, education and pensions, British public institutions plan to invest hundreds of millions – if not billions – of pounds into new fossil fuel infrastructure on the Caspian. Both the British Export Credit Agency (the ECGD – recently rebranded "UK Export Finance") and the Royal…

    RBS & ECGD offer billions in public money to expand Caspian fossil fuel infrastructure