How energy was commodified, and how it could be decommodified

This article discusses what "energy" means, how it was commodified in the development of capitalism, and how social movements can resist and reverse that commodification. It is based on a paper presented at the Energising Political Ecology session of the on-line conference of POLLEN (Political Ecology Network) in September 2020

Ukraine 1917: socialism and nationalism in a world turned upside down

My review of The Workers' Movement and the National Question in Ukraine, 1897-1918 by Marko Bojcun: “by far the most comprehensive account of its subject, filling a gap in writing about Ukraine’s revolution – that has most often been seen through lenses focused primarily on Russia”.