A Green New Deal for the UK
The Labour Party's John McDonnell on how a "Green Industrial Revolution" can advance a radical program against climate change, bring energy workers and the rest of the working class to our side, and win socialism in our time.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Rebecca Long Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary, view houses with solar panels on Mereside Grove in Worsley on May 16, 2019 in Salford, England.Anthony Devlin / Getty
Jeremy Corbyn, my friend for over forty years and the next Prime Minister of the UK, pledged last year a “GI Bill” for energy workers.
Speaking at a conference I organized on alternative models of ownership, Jeremy said that:
Just as the US GI Bill gave education, housing and income support to every unemployed veteran returning from the Second World War, the next Labour Government will guarantee that all energy workers are offered retraining, a new job on equivalent terms and conditions covered by collective agreements, and fully supported in their housing and income needs through transition.
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