Making transition work for workers

To transition jobs, we need to transition lives and communities by reducing dependencies and re-centrering class knowledge.

A few years ago, during the Bolsonaro government in Brazil, I emphasised how critical it was for ecosocialists to support the strikes and struggles by fossil fuel workers, especially at Petrobras. Sometimes, when working towards just transition, people forget that our objective is to phase out fossil fuels, not the working class responsible for expandin…