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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."
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"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"
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"It is not enough to assert that averting ecological disasters is inseparable from fighting capitalism. We need to develop movements based on that inseparability."
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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.
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"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
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Some comments on ecological crisis, the failures and successes of anti-capitalism, Charles Darwin and social Darwinism.
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"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...
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My pamphlet from last year:
“Remaking Home Heating in the UK”
Relevant for the heatwave too…
This is the final statement by Aleksandr Nesterenko, one of thousands of political prisoners in Russia, to an appeal court on 31 March. He appeared at the appeal via a video link from prison, and s…
Try Me For Treason to be released on Sunday 17 May.
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TRY ME FOR TREASON is a 50-minute film, in English, featuring speeches made by anti-war protesters in Russian courts. It has been made by a group of actors to draw English-speaking audiences’ atten…
By Simon Pirani We need a collective discussion about “what the hell can we do to get out of the catastrophe that is growing all around us?”, my friend and comrade Bob Myers wrote on this blog (27 …
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By Simon Pirani Russia’s political prisoners are “outcasts in their own land,” Sergei Dudchenko, a biker tortured and framed by the security services, told his trial judges this month before being …
Over four years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, some of the Russians imprisoned in its early days are still in jail. Even people with no previous political activism have been landed with long prison sen...
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
By Nagraj Adve Seeking to cushion the impacts of global warming is like aiming at a moving target. What’s worse, the target is now moving faster. Over the last decade or so, there has been a signif…
This post is based on a talk I gave at the Ecosocialism conference in London on Saturday 30 May, about the Fare Free London campaign, in which I participate, and the wider movements of which it is …
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Russian-Speaking Leftists, a group based in Germany, on 19 May published this interview with a socialist activist living in Russia who, they write, “stands for revolutionary defeatism”.[1] I transl…
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People & Nature has published three pamphlets by Tom Ackers, about the social, political and technological challenges involved in ridding the built environment of fossil fuels and of their use …peopleandnature.wordpress.com
