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Political education for eco-socialist liberation 🌱 🔗 www.climatevanguard.org

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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📄 NEW TOOLKIT: This toolkit is a guide on how to conduct conjunctural analysis in political organisations, a necessary foundation for establishing strategies to meaningfully intervene in the present in order to shape the future. 👉 Read here: www.climatevanguard.org/publications...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
📄 NEW BRIEF: In the final part of our 3-part series on eco-socialist transition, we explore eco-socialist strategy, defining what it is, how to practise it, and how we can strengthen our struggle now. www.climatevanguard.org/publications...
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Eco-Socialist Strategy — Climate Vanguard
Strategy is how we build power to bring about the change that we seek in the world. In this brief, we explore eco-socialist strategy, defining what it is, how to practice it, and how we can strengthen...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📹 Our new YouTube video – Anti-Communist Myth-Busting with Jason Hickel – is live 👇 youtu.be/70rq3Mq1Wt8?... @jasonhickel.bsky.social
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Anti-Communist Myth-Busting with Jason Hickel
YouTube video by Climate Vanguard
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
📄 NEW BRIEF: Together with Energy Embargo for Palestine, we argue that resisting rearmament is the strategic priority for the British left. 👉 Read here: www.climatevanguard.org/publications...
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Resisting Rearmament: A Unified Path Forwards for the British Left — Climate Vanguard
Resisting rearmament is the strategic priority for the British left. Diverting public spending from the military to an eco-socialist transition programme would provide material gains for the British working class, weaken imperialism, isolate the far right, and protect the planetary conditions for a
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📕 Out now on our Substack: climatevanguard.substack.com/p/lenins-leg...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The US is attempting regime change in Venezuela to crush the Bolivarian process, which has used Venezuela’s resources for sovereign development, including the largest proven oil reserves in the world.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Reform UK is now Britain's largest party. In our most recent brief, we investigate the class character of Reform UK, including the class forces funding it, the class location of its leadership, and the class composition of its base. Check it out here: www.climatevanguard.org/publications...
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The Class Character of Reform UK — Climate Vanguard
In this brief, we analyse the class character of Reform UK, including the class forces funding the party, the class location of its leadership, and the class composition of its base. Studying Reform’s...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This is capitalism working exactly as it should: stealing from the poor and giving to the rich. Only eco-socialism can put an end to this insanity.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
📹 Our first ever YouTube video – Eco-Socialism Explained with Max Ajl and Tings Chak – is live 👇 youtu.be/dzQ2_Z2e_04?...
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Eco-Socialism Explained with Max Ajl and Tings Chak
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
📹 Our first ever YouTube video – Eco-Socialism Explained with Max Ajl and Tings Chak – will launch this Friday! We hope you enjoy this sneak peek 👀
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
☄️ APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN for Comet, a 4.5-month training programme for youth organisers in Britain who are seeking to understand the world and how to change it. 🔗 Click the link for more information on the programme and how to apply: www.climatevanguard.org/comet
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Comet — Climate Vanguard
Training Programme for Liberatory Organinsing
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📄 NEW BRIEF: Analysing the class character of Reform UK. 👉 Read here: www.climatevanguard.org/publications...
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The Class Character of Reform UK — Climate Vanguard
In this brief, we analyse the class character of Reform UK, including the class forces funding the party, the class location of its leadership, and the class composition of its base. Studying Reform’s...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) just ended extreme poverty in Kerala. Meanwhile, in the US — the richest country in human history — 40% of people are poor or low income.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚩 The Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) By re-inventing itself as a “party where ordinary people feel at home,” the PTB has become one of the most successful socialist organisations in all of Europe 🧵
This slide has a background picture of the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB). There is text on top, some of which is bolded or highlighted in red. The text reads: 

The Workers’ Party of Belgium 

Parties of the People pt. 2/6
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The Global North is responsible for 86% of emissions in excess of the 'safe' planetary boundary. Hurricane Melissa is the outcome of atmospheric colonisation, a form of imperialist appropriation that imposes permanent de-development on the South.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
☄️ We’re excited to share that we will be running Comet again next year. Comet is a 4.5-month training programme for youth organisers in Britain who are seeking to understand the world and how to change it. Applications open on December 1st. More info: drive.google.com/file/d/1p8P9...
A purple red textured background with white bold text reading: Training Programme for Liberatory Organising. Below is a red line drawing of a Comet with bold yellow text reading: Comet.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📃 NEW: Debt, a tight job market, poor wages, and left-leaning politics. In our latest brief, we analyse the extent to which downwardly mobile graduates in Britain can be cohered into a bloc for eco-socialism. Read here: www.climatevanguard.org/publications...
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The ‘Downwardly Mobile Graduate’ in the Struggle for Eco-Socialism — Climate Vanguard
Who are the agents of eco-socialist transition? In this brief, we investigate the extent to which the downwardly mobile graduate in Britain can be a core part of a social bloc for eco-socialism.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"We are anti-imperialists because we are Marxists, because we are revolutionaries, because we oppose capitalism with socialism" - José Carlos Mariátegui
Photo of Mariátegui in 1929.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Not good. Carbon sinks appear to be failing, driving a record CO2 emissions increase in 2024. Capital continues to apply unbearable pressure on our planetary life support systems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Real efforts to transform Your Party into a democratic instrument for anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, eco-socialist struggle - a very promising sign from the grassroots Left. prometheusjournal.org/2025/10/13/f...
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For a member led, Socialist party | Prometheus
In an unprecedented display of unity, seven groups have declared an agreed programme in the fight for a socialist and member led Your Party
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Mamdani’s liberal capitulation is a clear lesson of what happens when left organisations do not maintain power over their elected members. Without mechanisms of accountability, they will inevitably cave to the pressures of the status quo.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Breaking: Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Maria Machado, a US-Israeli asset calling for the overthrow of her own government. This is the imperialist definition of “peace.”
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Bourgeois politics is just a bunch of right-wing parties calling each other socialist or communist.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Imperialism is the root cause of so-called “illegal” immigration. Let’s look at some case studies 🧵
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Case Studies of Imperialist Destruction 

Imperialism and Immigration pt. 2/2
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We produce enough food to meet the needs of 11 billion people. But each year, 733 million people go hungry. Capitalism creates artificial scarcity.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The far right is obsessed with so-called “illegal” immigration. But at the same time, it remains deeply committed to the system driving it: imperialism. 🧵
This slide has a background image of a few people trying to cross the Southwestern border in the US. They’re met with barbed wire and armed border agents. The text on the slide reads: 

Imperialism is the root cause of ‘illegal immigration’

Imperialism and Immigration pt. 1/2
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Shipping companies continue to fuel Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. Here's a closer look at the most complicit firms 🧵
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Who’s still fueling genocide?
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Since 1990, the British public has paid almost £200 billion to the shareholders who own privatised industries. Common Wealth exposes the utter insanity of this ruling class theft.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🌏 War destroys communities and the planet. We need a new system that centres social needs and ecological health. 🧵
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Environmentalists Unite: War Fuels the Climate Crisis! 

An open letter by CODEPINK
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
✊ Last weekend, at the People's Conference for Palestine, we joined hundreds of other organisations, like the Palestinian Youth Movement, YCFA, and @codepink.bsky.social to discuss how Gaza is the compass of our movement for collective liberation.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Fueled by the hyper-imperialist strategies of the US, the risk of nuclear war is increasing. In the 2nd part of this 2-part series, we investigate the catastrophic impacts of a thermonuclear exchange. 🧵
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This is what a nuclear world war looks like. 

Nuclear War Pt. 2/2
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“China has not fired a single bullet in international warfare in over 40 years, while during this time the US has invaded, bombed or carried out regime-change operations in over a dozen Global South countries.” open.substack.com/pub/jasonhic...
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The real reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and undermined Western corporate profits.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
From 1971 to 2021, unilateral sanctions killed 564,000 people per year. This is 5x greater than the number of battle-related casualties in the same period. 🧵
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Colombia has severed diplomatic relations with Israel. It has also begun a phase out of fossil fuel production. This is, as President Petro calls it, a "politics of life." jacobin.com/2025/08/colo...
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Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
Colombia’s energy transition is not just playing out in policy papers — it’s unfolding in oil fields, coal towns, and courtrooms. Jacobin spoke with engineers, unionists, and President Petro himself a...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
☢️ In part 1 of our 2-part series on nuclear war, we explore how the US plans to use nuclear weapons as part of its quest for eternal unipolarity. 🧵
The US is planning a nuclear war.

Nuclear War Pt. 1/2
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Young people are getting crushed by late-stage capitalism. In the UK, people under 30 spend more than 30% of their income on rent. The share of young people living with their parents has increased by a third over the last 20 years 👇
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
On this day in 1953, the CIA and MI6 staged a coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically-elected leader of Iran. 🧵
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
A whole generation has become anti-Zionist.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The reason the US supports Israel is *not* because of the Zionist lobby. The US supports Israel because it is an outpost of Western imperialism.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Summer is a time for political education. Here are some of our book recommendations 🧵
Climate Vanguard's Summer Reads
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
❓ You’ve likely heard the terms “US hegemony,” “unipolarity,” and “global superpower” — but what do they actually mean? ☠️ How did the US gain its position as the most powerful country in the world, and how does it maintains its dominance? 🧵
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
An effective left party must (1) unite a people's bloc (2) provide strategic direction (3) endure in a protracted struggle for state and popular power. More in our brief: www.climatevanguard.org/publications...
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The Eco-Socialist Party — Climate Vanguard
In the process of building mass social power for eco-socialist transition, the question of political organisation is central. In this brief, we identify the party as a key instrument for building such...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🇨🇳 Let's take a look at China’s poverty alleviation efforts, which have been characterised by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as “the greatest anti-poverty achievement in history.” 🧵
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🇵🇸🔗 The US state is abducting and deporting students for resisting genocide. As contradictions sharpen, the ruling class exposes their morally bankrupt self-interest to preserve the status quo at all costs.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
✊ In our contribution to the ongoing series 'What Is The Party?' by @prometheusjournal.bsky.social, we propose key functions and activities of a revolutionary party that are necessary to advance our collective struggle for eco-socialism today. prometheusjournal.org/2025/04/09/t...
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The Party Is What the Party Does | Prometheus
Climate Vanguard present their perspective on the mass left party and its functions and how it can intervene and agitate for eco-socialism.
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Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social present their perspective on the mass left party and its functions and how it can intervene and agitate for eco-socialism. prometheusjournal.org/2025/04/09/t...
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Since the Paris Agreement, Morgan Stanley has invested $183.5 billion into fossil fuels. Now, the bank “expects a 3C world” and projects profit opportunities in air conditioning. This is disaster capitalism.
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔥 Last night, Max Ajl joined us for the second training of Comet on imperialism. 🌍 We discussed ecologically unequal exchange, dedevelopment, delinking, anti-imperialist organising within the imperial core, and much more!
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🛢️🔥 Has anyone else noticed that the climate criminals have gone full villain mode recently?!?
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Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
☄️ Last night, we had the first training of Comet on revolutionary philosophy! ✊ Alyson Escalante joined us to speak about dialectical and historical materialism and their relevance to our movements, drawing on her experiences in tenants, workplace, and antifascist organising.
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