"Under the guise of 'green transition', a new colonial plunder is taking place." "We need a form of transition that doesn't harm us." "We categorically reject sowing discord between workers and nature defenders." Bob Myers reports on a meeting in Bosnia peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/b...

A comrade. A thinker and a doer. And for me, a dear, close friend. RIP. www.durhamminers.org/dave_temple

Hurry hurry. If you don't yet have a copy of my book Dissident Communists in Early Soviet Russia, and you want one, buy before the end of this month. Then print-on-demand sales will end (tho' there will still be a free downloadable PDF available). troubador.co.uk/bookshop/his...

Thanks @kevinclimate.bsky.social for telling it as it is. "The delusion is now systemic." People who talk about "climate policy" without facing this reality usually just make things worse climateuncensored.com/talk-at-the-...

Les Levidow: Labour has lulled some campaigners with a narrative combining 3 false promises, that (1) novel decarbonisation technologies (e.g. carbon capture and hydrogen) + (2) more renewable energy will (3) achieve Net Zero Emissions (NZE). peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/o...

"Public transport finance could & should be radically overhauled, to release it from dependence on fares. We in @farefreelondon.bsky.social advocate a system that is not only publicly owned, and generously funded, but also free at the point of use." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/b...

On @weownit.org.uk today: "Public transport finance could be radically overhauled to release it from dependence on fares. We in @farefreelondon.bsky.social advocate a system that's not only publicly owned, & generously funded, but also free at the point of use." weownit.org.uk/news/zero-fa...

"London’s public transport should be entirely free, say campaigners, echoing New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's proposal to remove fares from New York's buses." More publicity for @farefreelondon.bsky.social, in Forbes magazine. www.forbes.com/sites/nicole...

How zero-fares succeeds & fails in Krivyi Rih, Ukraine: "Buses & trolleybuses are perceived as belonging to the public domain or common weal, while [privately-run minibuses] are something new, modern and non-socialist, harbingers of capitalist modernity" peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/f...

@farefreelondon.bsky.social covered very positively in the Metro today. metro.co.uk/2025/08/27/l... ‘It is about getting back to the idea of public services, provided by the state. Transport systems should not be there to make anyone loads of money, but to provide the service people need.'

Free public transport hits at social injustice in Krivyi Rih, Ukraine, one of the largest cities that has it. But it doesn't & can't fix lack of investment or "market" profiteering. My interview with Denys Gorbach in @theecologist.org @farefreelondon.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/aug/27/...

Great to see @hynotnw.bsky.social in action - again! - against the fossil fuel companies' disgusting greenwash. please share. www.hynot.uk/category/med...

Obviously the smears against this man are incredibly libellous - and it says a lot about access to the law that he wouldn't be able to afford to Lord McAlpine these fuckers - but at what point does the government clock that it needs to get a grip on this raging online fire of fascist hate?

“If the government brought forward a viable, long-term funding model to make public transport free for everyone, that’s a call I would absolutely support.” - well said @carolinerussell.bsky.social @farefreelondon.bsky.social www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...

Hse of Comm Transport C'ttee wants free buses for under-22s. Yes. But why only u-22s? Why only buses? Why not a bold move to free transport for all? Good questions by @farefreelondon.bsky.social @tippingpointuk.bsky.social @getglasgowmoving.bsky.social & others. www.farefreelondon.org/posts/1064-2

Our bulletin #158: Miners’ union denounces bombing frenzy/ Connections between Gaza and Ukraine/ In memoriam David Chichkan/ Comments on Alaska talks/ US hint at ‘West Bank style” occupation in Ukraine/ Anti-militarism without pacifism/ & more ukraine-solidarity.org/2025/08/17/n...

A universal programme of retrofit is needed to stop UK homes leaking heat. Here Tom Ackers shows that the Low Energy Transformation Initiative proposals are a convincing alternative to the government's lukewarm promises peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/r...

Electrify, electrify, electrify, Tom Ackers argues in this excerpt from our free-to-download pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the UK. District heat networks and heat pumps can keep us warm peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/08/13/e...

"We need a 'twin track' approach to remaking home heating: wholesale electrification (incl. district heating & heat pump installation), & universal programme of deep retrofit" - Tom Ackers in a free-to-download pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the UK peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/h...

Climate Injustice by Friederike Otto reviewed. In mainstream discourse, global heating "is gutted of content, stripped of its origins in economic activity & social hierarchies". The responsibility of powerful humans in corpor'ns & gov'ts is concealed. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/c...

The falsity and the reality. #Essar doesn't care about nature. It keeps on #Greenwashing and pretending #Stanlow will become the world's first decarbonised refinery while it keeps on pumping and dumping pollution into the environment. The fossil fuel industry is lying to you.

Thanks @theecologist.org for publishing my review of Climate Injustice by @frediotto.bsky.social. It's a great contribution to desperately-needed dialogue between climate scientists and social movements. theecologist.org/2025/aug/06/...

President of the intnl assocn of genocide scholars says, it's genocide. opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...

“I am using this trial as a tribune from which to denounce the war publicly”, Dmitry Ivanov told a Moscow court, before it sentenced him to 8.5 years in prison, for 12 social media posts. More than 30 others have used the Russian courts to speak out peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/h...

The politicians and pundits who have acted as enablers of or apologists for Israel through these horrors have crossed into a truly dark place. We should all be concerned about what else they might now be capable of.

I talked at a session at Socialism 2025, about the book I am working on, comprising statements in court by anti-war protesters in Russia. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

I joined Palestine Action. I do not support terrorism. I support PA's efforts to obstruct the multiple terrorist actions and war crimes of the IDF against civilians in Gaza. actionnetwork.org/forms/join-p...

The BBC is reporting that the IDF killed 86 people in Gaza this weekend. And vile politicians are working themselves into a tiz about Bob Vylan. What a sick circus Westminster is. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our latest bulletin #152: Banning of the Ukrainian language/More evidence of Russian torture/Deliberate targeting of civilians/Refusal of Russians to fight in Ukraine/The militarisation of Russian childhood and more ukraine-solidarity.org/2025/06/29/n...

I found Oleg Dubrovsky's reflections on his activism in the giant industrial complex at Dnipro compelling and thought-provoking. Here's my review.

My review of Oleg Dubrovsky's book about his workplace activism in Ukraine. I tried to (1) give an idea of what's in the book, for English-lang readers, & (2) to engage in discussion Dubrovsky asks for, on lessons of his activity. Thanks Commons journal for using it. commons.com.ua/en/oglyad-kn...

Enemies of public services say - free transport for over-60s is "unsustainable". @farefreelondon.bsky.social says - no it is not. MORE people should have it.

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Thankyou to the courageous people who did this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The government's shameful pact with climate-trashing oil companies. Good to see quotes from @andrewboswell.bsky.social who is fighting these devils www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

well said www.durhamminers.org/statement_du...

Free public transport. Socially just. Helps fight air pollution and global heating. Opens the city to all. This should be a good discussion, in person or on line

Please support @sioldridge.bsky.social and @drandrewboswell.bsky.social against this horrendous gov't plan to hand money to fossil fuel co's for carbon capture, and pretend that is "green"

Alexei Rozhkov, kidnapped, tortured & sentenced to 16 years for protesting against Putin's war: "Truly, culture and freedom are what make us human. They are things that are so hard to obtain, and so easy to lose. It’s impossible to remain indifferent." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/r...

This horrendous footage will be studied - but not by comedians.

Our bulletin #148: “Try me for treason” – antiwar Russian/ Socialists & Ukrainian national question/ Russification drive in occupied areas/ More evidence of Russian torture/ Execution of unarmed prisoners/ UN accuses Russia of crimes against humanity/ & more ukraine-solidarity.org/2025/06/01/n...

genocide. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

Scrap CCS. a campaign that is sorely needed

Ruslan Siddiqi jailed for 29 years, for trying to stop weapons going to Ukraine to massacre people. Poem he read in court: “Let them bury us now,/ But our essence will not sink into oblivion,/ It will rise up at the necessary hour/ And will triumph, I believe in this.” en.zona.media/article/2025...

absolutely agree with you @jael.bsky.social . we've been campaigning on this in the UK. Brazil is way ahead of all of usxwith free public transport in 130+ municipalities. www.farefreelondon.org @danielsantini.bsky.social