Critical Mass London: Hundreds of protesting cyclists ride through Silvertown Tunnel in ‘mass trespass’ trib.al/9mVXQ6a

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/the…

This article was published 25 years ago, including interviews with Grossman's daughter and his friend Semyon Lipkin. I have dug it out to counter the tidal wave of hypocrisy that will wash over us like Thames Water sewage next week 2/2

Fare Free London group met Claire Hamilton, Head of Transport at the Greater London Authority (GLA) on 30th April, to seek “a commitment from the GLA to set up a commission about free public transport in London” - positive start. Read more: bit.ly/4jIF7WQ

Genocide & ethnic cleansing. Clearly announced by these fascist murderers, who are armed by the UK govt & other western govts. theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Thanks The Ecologist for using my piece on rooftop solar being "well suited to community, co-operative and municipal forms of ownership that have lengthy precedents associated with the labour mov't & with socialist visions of post-capitalist economies" theecologist.org/2025/may/07/ro…

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Good to see positive coverage for our @farefreelondon campaign in the Evening Standard today. standard.co.uk/news/transport…

135 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far today. Massacre after massacre, day after day. The world does nothing. aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

18 pages of babies who didn’t live to see their first birthday.

Alexei Rozhkov, kidnapped, tortured & sentenced to 16 years for his protest 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/rus…

Trafalgar square, Palestine Action demo yesterday, a police officer punches a protester in the face whilst another films the whole thing. Asa Winstanley Matt Kennard Novara Media Will Metropolitan Police examine their video of this incident and hold this officer to account?

My review of Oleg Dubrovsky's book on 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. commons.com.ua/en/oglyad-knig…

How to infect the working class with the virus of solidarity? Read Simon Pirani’s review of Oleg Dubrovsky’s book about real stories of struggle at Ukrainian enterprises, the transformation of the working class, and the challenges of late capitalism. commons.com.ua/en/oglyad-knig…

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

I talked at a session at the Socialism 2025 conference, about a book I am working on, comprising speeches in court by anti-war protesters in Russia.

My talk about protesters who use their speeches in Russian courts to denounce the war on Ukraine. Thanks Links Socialism and Federico Fuentes for publishing it

“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/how…

Thanks to the Ecologist for publishing my review of Climate Injustice by Dr Friederike Otto. It's a great contribution to desperately-needed dialogue between climate scientists and social movements. theecologist.org/2025/aug/06/cl…

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/cli…