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Eco-socialists urged to mobilise ahead of COP26
Scottish Labour's Mercedes Villalba calls for a worker-led Green New Deal
Extinction Rebellion Scotland blockade the road with a boat and demonstrate outside the Ineos oil refinery at Grangemouth, in October 2020

ECO-SOCIALIST solutions to the climate crisis will be vital in the run-up to the COP26 conference, a Labour MSP has said, calling for a worker-led Green New Deal with international solidarity at its heart.

Mercedes Villalba called on the Westminster and devolved governments to urgently address the climate emergency. 

Ms Villalba, who represents North East Scotland at Holyrood, said that class inequality continued to blight Britain and smothered the potential of many people across the globe. 

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