2025 Messaging

1. Climate Justice and Antifascism go Hand in Hand

THE FAR RIGHT DRIVES CLIMATE INJUSTICES

Far-Right regimes everywhere fetishise fossil fuel extraction to finance their corruption and violent expansion. From Trump’s “Drill Baby Drill” against native communities, Russia’s gas extractivism on indigenous land to finance their war against Ukraine, to the UK’s Nigel Farage’s oil and gas obsession, climate justice means dismantling the far-right.

SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS EVERYWHERE

Fascists stoke fear of climate migration to mobilise, while contributing to climate breakdown and engaging in climate denialism. Now in the form of “It’s Happening but we’re not responsible”, climate denialism from fascists deny the causes of climate migration, while maintaining the threat of climate refugees and push for ever more violent border regimes.

2. Fossil Fuel Companies are Fascist Collaborators

FOSSIL FUELS PROFIT FROM FASCIST REGIMES
Fossil fuel companies and the far right are complicit in each other’s activities and prop each other up. Fossil fuel companies and the financiers around them fund far right regimes and politicians, such as Reform UK, enabling them to take power and destroy marginalised communities. Far-Right politicians then enable fossil fuel companies to wreck the planet and make enormous profits, turning a blind eye to the environmental chaos.

FOSSIL CAPITALISTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FASCIST BOOTLICKERS

Oil and gas companies have financed and collaborated with authoritarian regimes everywhere, such as Shell with the Nigerian military dictatorship to execute the Ogoni nine, Exxon hiring Indonesian military units to murder locals, and FirstQuantum seeking to re-open the Cobre mine in Panama coinciding with Donald Trump threatening to take back control of the Panama Canal.. The fossil fuel industry sacrificing lives and land in the global south for their profits repeats colonial patterns and helped subject countless people to fascist dictatorships.

3. Direct Action Against State Repression

WE SHUT SHIT DOWN: We take mass direct action directly against polluters and companies destroying our planet and enabling and financing fascist regimes. Change will not be handed to us from above - climate justice needs to come from us. We will take matters into our own hands and keep shutting shit down until both fossil extractivism and fascists movements become unviable.

THE STATE IS SHACKLING US: The state and its violent forces such as police, prison and justice systems, are an obstacle to our fight against fascism and climate breakdown - if they are not active collaborators. We need to find our own strength together in our movement to resist fascism everywhere, and develop solidarity from the ground up.

WE LOOK AFTER OURSELVES: Our camps, gatherings and actions build power from below. We learn, train and prepare together to take action - and we learn to live together in a way that imagines the change that is possible in the world: without hierarchies, exploitation, and injustice.

Key Phrases and Slogans

• We are already seeing the effects of the climate crisis here in Scotland. If we want to protect people and communities, we need to stop the far right and their fossil fuel backers.

• This year has seen record heat, floods and wildfires, threatening those worst off the most. Fossil fuel companies finance far right regimes to distract from their responsibility and maintain their profits.

• The far right targets working class communities with false solutions while wrecking communities further, and working for the richest in society.

• We are the investment risk to any fossil fuel company, and any company collaborating with the far right. Be prepared to be shut down by us.

• Climate justice and antifascism will not be handed to us from above. We cannot rely on the state to protect and deliver. It needs to be fought for with our own hands. Change will come from the ground up.

Things to Avoid

• Avoid stirring anti-Immigrant sentiment when talking about climate refugees

• Avoid playing down other forms of direct action, e.g. mutual aid

• Allegations that aren’t fact checked

• Making sure not to target individuals (meaning members of the public and fossil fuel industry workers - politicians and decision makers are fair game) and alienating people.

• Singling out indigenous communities unnecessarily - the People’s Against Extractivism alliance are aiming to frame this as a global struggle

Permissive Camp

• This year we’re camping on a site where we have permission to be there. Police can’t enter the site without a warrant, we are not at risk of eviction, and we are building ties with locals directly.

Facts & Numbers

Climate Change

• Record heat in Scotland has lead to massive numbers of wildfires in Scotland (LINK)

• January, February and March 2025 have all been the hottest months on record

• While the global south is disproportionately affected by climate change, no one is safe, and Europe has been highlighted as one of the currently fastest warming continents, with increased risks of floods, droughts and heatwaves. (LINK)

• 2024 was the warmest year on record, for the first time breaching 1.5 degrees in warming.

The Far-Right

• Reform UK is funded by 92% by fossil fuel industry interests. Since the 2019 General Election, Reform UK received 2.3 Million Pounds from high-polluting industries, oil and gas linked firms, fossil fuel financiers and climate change deniers. Reform UK’s revolutionary programme includes a British version of Trump’s “Drill Baby Drill” and the abolition of any net-zero goals.

• Reform have said they would reverse the ban on new oil and gas licenses as a priority.

Fossil Fuel Companies and Far-Right links

Trump & US Far-Right

• INEOS is importing fracked gas into Scotland, from marginalised communities’ land. (LINK). Grangemouth is planning to expand LNG imports, with a new port set to be constructed (LINK), despite INEOS firing over 500 workers from closing their own oil refinery. INEOS has been Scotland’s worst polluter for a long time. (LINK)

• This links directly to the US’ new drill baby drill policy, massively expanding fossil fuel extractivism, often from Native soil, coinciding with crackdowns on Greenpeace and Standing Rock protestors. (LINK)

Putin & Russian Fascism

• Seapeak helps transport LNG from Russia across Europe, avoiding Russian sanctions, and directly helping to finance Russian warfare in Ukraine. This is despite repeated calls to close down the Russian shadowfleet by the European left, and is likely left open because of European gas needs.

  • The Russian Gas transported is extracted from Indigenous Land in Russia. The Nenet people are suffering from the impact of mining and extraction of gas, and are disproportionately likely to be drafted as cannonfodder in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

  • More Information here

Netanhayu & Israeli Far-Right

• Ithaca is a“pure play” fossil fuel company, which means they only invest in oil and gas. It is 75% owned by the Israeli Delek Group. The company is supporting the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. They are currently exploring plans to develop gas fields off the coast of the disputed territory of Western Sahara, where the indigenous Sahrawi people contest Moroccan annexation.

• Delek Group, who partly own Ithaca, has been linked to the IDF, with Delek Israel have been under contract for refuelling vehicles of the Israeli military at least until 2023.

• BP has been awarded licenses for gas field explorations by the Israeli government on the coast of Gaza. They are also in talks for acquiring 50% of NewMed, the main Israeli oil and gas company.

Shell & Nigeria

• Shell’s oil extraction in the Niger Delta has had catastrophic consequences such as oil spills, flaring, poisoned water supplies, and ruined farmland.

• The backlash against protestors was brutal and resulted in the execution of 9 men known as the Ogoni 9 following peaceful protests caused by oil leaks.

Greenwashing

• Hydrogen: Hydrogen is being set up as a main alternative to oil and gas as an energy source. It can be produced as a by-product from other energy sources, such as green hydrogen from renewables, blue or gray hydrogen from gas, and pink hydrogen from nuclear power. Currently, less than 0.1% of hydrogen is green, while 99% of hydrogen used is based on fossil fuels.

  • Green Hydrogen is obtainedvia electrolysers, a process using wind or solar energy to split water molecules, removing the H from H2O. This process is currently costly, and not consistent due to fluctuation from solar and wind energy.

  • Blue or Grey Hydrogen is made by using high-temperature steam to break apart Methane (CH4), which is the main component of fossil fuel gas. This process produces hydrogen, but also carbon monoxide, and a lot of CO2 - for every kilo of hydrogen produced this way, 12 kilograms of CO2 are emitted. Grey and blue Hydrogen are the same, but blue has Carbon Capture attached.

• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): Carbon Capture and Storage refers to the idea of capturing CO2 produced before it is released in the atmosphere. CO2 is captured and then compressed to a liquid, to transport and store it, usually underground. CCS is one of the high profile projects backed by governments and corporations with over 20 billion dollars, but is scientifically dubious and so far unsuccessful.

  • Currently, there are 42 commercial Carbon Capture projects, which - if successful - can only capture 0.1% of the world’s annual carbon emissions. Scaling this up would mean astronomical costs and raises difficult / impossible storage issues.

  • The International Energy Agency casts doubts on the success of carbon storage, with leakage during capture, transport and storage being a massive problem, while the IPCC highlights the low mitigation potential of the technology. The costs of CCS have not decreased in the last 40 years, while renewable costs have plummeted.

  • But even if successful, CCS can be used to justify further fossil fuel expansion, defeating the purpose of it as a technology to reduce carbon emissions.

Potential Questions from Media

• Why are you here in x/what brings you to the camp?

• What do you hope to achieve with this camp?

• What kind of people are taking part in this camp?

• Why should people come to the camp?

• What have the local people thought of all of this?

• What would you say to people in x who might be wondering why you are here?

• Will there be any disruption to the local community?

• Do you agree with (insert recent controversial direct action)?

• While we’re talking to you, what do you think about (direct action an anonymous affinity group have done)?

• How do you expect people to cope during a cost-of-living crisis if you shut down the oil industry?

• Previously Climate Camp was in Grangemouth, where there have been devastating cuts in jobs since - should people be worried about their jobs because of Climate Camp? Or other phrasing of trying to put climate activists against fossil fuel industry workers

• Did you seek permission from the council before you set up your camp in Twechar?

• Don’t you think that calling people fascists is divisive when we should be bringing people together?