Free public transport can open cities to all. It combats social injustice and can also help to tackle climate change, by moving away from car-centred urban transport systems. Public transport has b…| People and Nature
5 posts published by peoplenature123 during August 2025| People and Nature
□ TOM ACKERS puts the case for a universal programme to retrofit the UK’s housing stock with insulation, in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he argues that a strategy to decarbonise home heating must rely first of all on electrification and heat pumps □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking […]| People and Nature
□ Electrification and the installation of heat pumps should be the principle technology for decarbonising homes in the UK, TOM ACKERS argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he assesses the great potential for reducing energy throughput by retrofitting buildings with insulation. □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking Home […]| People and Nature
□ Heat pumps and insulation are the keys to decarbonising home heating in a socially just way, TOM ACKERS argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he surveys fuel poverty and the UK’s broken, inadequate mechanisms for monitoring it □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the […]| People and Nature
□ Fuel poverty in the UK is exacerbated by the poor condition of millions of people’s homes – and methods such as the government Energy Performance Certificates are woefully inadequate, TOM ACKERS argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he puts the case for an integrated approach to […]| People and Nature
Review by Simon Pirani of Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change, by Friederike Otto (Greystone Books, 2025). Republished, with thanks, from the Ecologis…| People and Nature
1 post published by peoplenature123 during July 2025| People and Nature
“I am using this trial as a tribune from which to denounce the war publicly”, Dmitry Ivanov told a Moscow court, just before it sentenced him to eight-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for circulating…| People and Nature
6 posts published by peoplenature123 during February 2025| People and Nature
Review by Simon Pirani of A Socialist Activist in Industrial Workplaces under Ukrainian bourgeois democracy 1998-2003 (Sotsialistichnii aktivist na promislovome pidpriemstv v umovakh Ukrainskoi burzhuaznoi demokratii 1999-2003, “Ekologia”: Odesa, 2025). Republished with thanks from Commons.com.ua. = In April 2000, Oleg Dubrovsky managed to sign on at the Dnepropetrovsk Rolled Products Works or DZPV. A […]| People and Nature
The Russian anti-war protester Alexei Rozhkov was last month sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment on charges of committing a “terrorist act”, “justifying terrorism”, and circulating false information about the Russian army. The “terrorist act” charge arose from Rozhkov’s action against Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, when he painted a peace symbol on […]| People and Nature
I am not looking forward to the tide of political hypocrisy that will wash over us like Thames Water sewage next week, on VE Day, the 80th anniversary of the end of the European war in 1945. So I have dug out a couple of old articles I wrote, as a response. Here’s the first […]| People and Nature
By Simon Pirani. Based on a talk given at a panel, “What peace?”, at the Solidarity with Ukraine event this week in Brussels “What peace?” is a wide question. To narrow it down, we can ask: what so…| People and Nature
Some socialist ideas about society, the earth and their interaction| People and Nature
2 posts published by peoplenature123 during March 2025| People and Nature
Posts about Social and labour movements written by peoplenature123 and Gabriel Levy| People and Nature
Download this, and a linked article, as a PDF here By Simon Pirani Households and businesses across Pakistan are covering their roofs with cheap Chinese solar panels. Generating their own electrici…| People and Nature
This Q&A goes with a linked article: Pakistan’s rush for rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares Download both articles as a PDF here How big is the shift to solar panels? It is hard t…| People and Nature
□ An interview with Daria Saburova and Denys Gorbach, by Clement Petitjean, first published in French on the socialist web site Mouvements. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, …| People and Nature
Solidarity Zone, which supports people arrested in Russia for anti-war actions, tells the story of political prisoner Igor Paskar. Reposted from Solidarity Zone’s web site. Igor Paskar has been sen…| People and Nature
By Katya Aleksander, who interviewed activists supporting more than 100 Crimean Tatar political prisoners. First published in Russian by Important Stories (Vazhnye Istorii) on 18 May, the 80th anni…| People and Nature
By Simon Pirani. Reproduced, with thanks, from Capitalism Nature Socialism journal, August 2024. Introduction Matthew Huber and Fred Stafford’s insistence that “electricity is poised to be a centra…| People and Nature
Three workers from the ex-GKN factory collective at Campi Bisenzio, near Florence, Italy, are today (Thursday) on their third day of hunger strike. This is the latest action by workers who have be…| People and Nature
An interview with IVAN ASTASHIN of Solidarity Zone, by Alexander Leonidovich. This translation, by Thomas Campbell, was first published by the Russian Reader and is reposted here with thanks. The o…| People and Nature
