Please share this courageous statement. "In fact, the side blocking the path to peace is Russia. To maintain his dictatorship, Putin would by all possible means keep this war going. We stand by Ukraine in refusal to give in to a superpower." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/h...

"We can not oppose arms supplies to Ukraine, even if they come from NATO powers who simultaneously arm Israel." Calls by Scandinavian left parties "for arms exports to be banned to all countries except Ukraine" are welcome. My talk at Green Left meeting peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/i...

"I was convinced from the start of the all-out war that Ukraine was waging a just, defensive war against revanchist Russian imperialism". @ensu-resu.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social @ukrainesolidarity.bsky.social @labour-hub.bsky.social peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/r...

My pamphlet from last year: “Remaking Home Heating in the UK” Relevant for the heatwave too…

"It is not enough to assert that averting ecological disasters is inseparable from fighting capitalism. We need to develop movements based on that inseparability." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/o...

"Unions, NGOs, & other collectives that organise or work with workers (in e.g. construction & waste, + street vendors & home workers) have intensified engagement with climate change, demanding protective shade, more water, cooling spaces, and toilets" peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/t...

"The beginning of any fightback is very often when people stand up against an apparently unassailable power." Anti-war protesters' speeches in Russian courts, on film. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/r...

Try Me For Treason to be released on Sunday 17 May. Sign up for the Youtube premiere: go here and hit "notify me". www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHa... More information at trymefortreason.org @ensu-resu.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social @ukrainesolidarity.bsky.social

Aleksandr Nesterenko, at appeal hearing: "My case was thought up in the investigator’s office. Of course there is nothing new in all this. That’s exactly how they fabricated political cases in the Soviet security police." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/p... @ensu-resu.bsky.social

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, 000s have been arrested for protesting against war. Many appear in court, facing years behind bars. What do they say to the judges? What would any of us say? This 50-min film in English features speeches in court. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/t...

Some comments on ecological crisis, the failures and successes of anti-capitalism, Charles Darwin and social Darwinism. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/k...

"We, one of the most recently evolved life forms, are exhausting the resources needed for existence & changing the environmental parameters within which life is possible. The failure of this reality to impact how society operates threatens our existence" peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/d...

Igor has been sent to a punishment cell & declared a "malicious offender". He is serving 8.5 years, after painting his face the colours of Ukraine's flag & firebombing the stone porch of a security services building, doing no damage or injury. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/r...

London’s road transport pumps around 7 million tonnes of CO2 into the air each year. Labour transport policy, focused on sinking billions into building roads & airports, makes things worse. Government & city hall have set a bonfire of climate targets peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/l...

"We support building schools & oppose building airport runways. Why can’t we support provision of air defence systems to Ukraine & oppose sinking billions into Trident & aircraft carriers? & call on govt to refuse to buy Israeli-made weapons systems?" peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/e...

"Were Argentine socialists right to support Malvinas war, & call for it to be “made popular”, in the face of dictatorship? Why should we not demand the racist, anti-working-class, genocide-supporting Starmer govt steps up arms shipments to Ukraine?" peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/r...

"Cory claims it will generate electricity to power 371,000 homes,but is more likely to put less than half of that into the grid [...] incinerator expansion will encourage local authorities to send waste for burning that could be avoided or recycled". peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/c...

The Turkish miners’ strike of 1990-1991 "was far, far more than just a strike. It brought into action the whole community, in common with all movements that really challenge the established order of things." Pamphlet republished as free-to-download PDF peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/b...

Kremlin aims "to force us to become sheep, marching to the beat of drums made from our own skins". It's an honour to stand side by side with those who refuse - Aleksandr Nesterenko peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/y... @ensu-resu.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social @labour-hub.bsky.social

How electricity networks are decentralising, how renewables can be integrated, and why it matters to socialists. A response to @matthuber.bsky.social peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/c...

"Nigerian artists, both before & after independence from the British empire in 1960, fused artistic traditions of the Fulani-Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba & other Nigerian peoples with European art forms that the colonial power brought. The results are dazzling" peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/b...

“Try me for treason. I betrayed your deranged state”, the anti-war protester Andrei Trofimov said in court. He is now behind bars for 13 years. Russia's political prisoners need our support peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/t...

"After the Russian shelling and bombing, not a single house in my district was left undamaged. Whole blocks of flats were in ruins." Why a Russian woman living in Kharkiv fought on Ukraine's side - and has been jailed for 19 years peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/i...

Try Me For Treason. Readings of anti-war speeches in Russian courts, and launch event for Voices Against Putin's War, a book comprising texts of the speeches. Thursday 20 November, 7.0pm, Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London E1, and streamed on line. Register at bit.ly/trymefortreason

A Russian court sentenced Anton Khozhaev, a trainee officer accused of desertion to Ukraine’s side, to 23 years. He urged Ukrainians to fight on, & denied treason. "I aimed to stop a criminal government, to prevent deaths of peaceful civilians." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/r...

Trials of anti-war protesters “provide a snapshot of Russia’s wartime lurch towards a form of fascism” peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/r... @ensu-resu.bsky.social @labour-hub.bsky.social @ukrainesol.bsky.social @ukrainesolidarity.bsky.social @ukrainesolscot.bsky.social

A tribute to our comrade Dave Temple, who worked at Murton colliery in county Durham and played a leading part in the mineworkers’ union for several decades, and died on 13 September aged 81 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/10/14/d...

False assumptions about past 'energy transitions' support comforting but illusory narratives about how we might quit fossil fuels. Transition as a shift of technologies, 1st to nuclear power, has become dominant, false “solution” to global heating. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/t...

"Capital’s need for social control underpins near-fascist methods. From Russia’s dystopian punishment of dissenting citizens as 'terrorists' & 'traitors', patterns are retraced in the witch-hunts in USA & Europe, against opponents of Gaza slaughter." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/t...

"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...

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...

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...

Our free-to-download pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the UK, is here on the People & Nature site. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/decarbonisin... In it, Tom Ackers argues for wholesale electrification (including district heating & heat pump installation), & a universal programme of deep retrofit

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...

Homes leak heat & people suffer as a result, writes Tom Ackers. Fabric efficiency is poor, & the govt's awful monitoring system, based on Energy Performance Certificates, should be replaced. Free-to-download pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the UK peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/f...

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...

“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...

"Oleg Dubrovsky concludes that his efforts at socialist propaganda failed almost completely, but his organising around wages, hours and workplace conditions had some success." Review of a memoir by a lifelong workplace activist in Dnipro. peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/u...

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...

I am on substack now, as well as at peoplenature.org. People and Nature peopleandnature.substack.com?r=5toglo&utm...

Kremlin propaganda, using Red army victory in 1945 to justify ethnic cleansing in Ukraine, would have Vasily Grossman turning in his grave. So would Labour politicians who facilitate genocidal war crimes in Gaza talking "democracy" on VE Day. 1/2 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/v...

Yevgeny Khaldei, who took that iconic shot of the Red flag in 1945, as a Ukrainian Jew suffered official Soviet discrimination & censorship. In 1999 I interviewed his children & wrote this: a counterweight to the VE Day hypocrisy coming up next week peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/t...

Solar power expanding. China leads (40% of global capacity). Most is big solar farms; rooftop solar a close 2nd. Outside the rich world, businesses & well-off households use it to back up unreliable grid electricity. Poorer households left behind. 1/4 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/r...

"Technologies are not rabbits pulled out of hats. They are instruments of labour. [...] Instead of inventing for renewable technologies social powers they do not have, we should consider how they are used now, by capital, and how we can change that." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/t...

We lost this battle, but not the war. We campaign for free public transport & against the Lower Thames Crossing. "We don’t need more tunnels. We need rational, low-traffic, socially just transport policies, to make our city an even nicer place to live." peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s...

"We are not required to endorse long-term rearmament programmes, in order to support politically the provision to Ukraine by western European states of the weapons and ammunition it needs." Photo by Solidarity Collectives 1/3 peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/s...