We pay billions every year to expand the military industry, yet jobs vanish & insecurity grows.   We could invest in real security: good jobs, green industry, thriving communities.   Our video investigates alternative futures for the military industry via the Clyde shipyards.

Our interactive timeline showcasing historic instances of industrial conversion in the UK, US and continental Europe.

Industrial conversion has happened before, and it can happen again.   Military industrial sites are directed by public investment and can be used to make more than just military equipment.   Watch our new video and explore the interactive timeline below.   transitionsecurity.org/green-clydeside

If you missed our launch event on 16 October, you're in luck! You can now listen back to the live recording with Stephen Semler, Ilias Alami, Thea Riofrancos & Laleh Khalili 🇵🇸 on MACRODOSE Learn about our forthcoming work at Transition Security Project 👇 open.spotify.com/show/7ABsNTles…

I'm on MACRODOSE alongside great peeps, for an episode on war, climate crisis, and the economy. My own remarks focus on the rise of state capitalism with a military-imperial twist, at the very heart of US empire open.spotify.com/episode/4un13F… Cambridge Centre of Development Studies Politics and International Studies Cambridge

“Transition Security Project found when speaking with workers from the shipyard they described poor working conditions, low quality production, delays and fire risks at the sites.” Our new research at Govan and Scotstoun shipyards covered by The National thenational.scot/news/25564791.…

New essay from Transition Security Project! This new series — and the broader research programme it introduces — offers a platform for analysis, ideas and proposals to help develop a world of collective and climate safety. 🔗👇

important new work from Transition Security Project — an essay series on climate crisis and militarisation. Essays out weekly from here till Christmas. Read the series introduction at the link below

“By binding Israel’s military power together with the Gulf’s hydrocarbon reserves...Washington aims to push back against its weakened regional and global position.” Read Adam Hanieh on fossil capitalism in the Middle East, kicking off our essay series. transitionsecurity.org/oil-militarism…

Read Adam Hanieh's urgent piece on Middle East oil, militarism and the transformation of world order “For the US, this deepening fossil fuel expansion — tied to its strategic alliance with the Gulf monarchies and their normalisation with Israel — is a crucial source of power.”

On the International Day of Care and Support, this week’s New Economy Brief explores what the Carer's Allowance scandal tells us about how our economy and society undervalue care: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/wha…