The polycrisis is wreaking economic insecurity, mass death and genocide, climate disasters, and other kinds of instability on working people worldwide.

Winning durable change requires a policy platform that tackles the root causes of the existential challenges of our moment. Neoliberalism has failed the working class by providing stopgap measures to the interlocking problems of economic inequality, never ending war, racism, and environmental degradation.

Progressives must put forward policies that link kitchen table issues to political economic crises and the compounding climate emergency. It’s time to seize the opportunity for change that delivers a greener, fairer future for all.

Read on for four comprehensive, justice-oriented agendas around which progressives should organize in 2024 and beyond.

Tackling the cost of living crisis

Supplying good jobs and infrastructure

Ending forever wars

Preventing disasters and protecting migrant safety

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Tackling the Cost of Living Crisis

The cost of living crisis is a climate crisis.

To build momentum for climate action, progressives need to show how this cost of living crisis affects climate, and how progressive climate policies can help solve that crisis. The most effective path forward is to tackle the climate crisis and the cost of living crisis together to deliver immediate relief and safety to working families – and build a broad coalition of people who demand and will benefit from ambitious climate action.

Policy Recommendations

• 1. Slash housing costs and deliver healthy, green, affordable homes for all

• 2. Lower household costs by investing in essential public services

• 3. Invest in safety nets to reduce costs and raise standards of living

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Supplying good jobs and infrastructure

The energy transition requires empowered workers and robust planning.

Averting climate catastrophe requires comprehensive, all-out action by the United States, the world’s top historic emitter and among the highest per capita emitters. However, to date the United States has failed to confront the crisis at scale. In order to stay under 1.5 Degrees Celsius and stave off the worst impacts, the world must cut carbon emissions in half by 2030. The United States is nowhere near on track for that goal. Now is the time for an agenda that rapidly builds the new, green economy.

Policy Recommendations

• 1. Empower the green working class

• 2. Construct supply chains that build worker power and community benefit

• 3. Coordinate the energy transition

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Ending forever wars

The US should pivot foreign policy away from funding militarization to focus on peace and resource provision to climate-vulnerable communities. Full policy agenda forthcoming.

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Preventing disasters and protecting migrant safety

Extreme weather and climate disasters are destroying infrastructure and displacing communities—we must adopt equitable mitigation policies for people in the US and abroad. Full policy agenda forthcoming.

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