Labour embraces Saudi Arabia's dystopian energy transition

The UK's Labour government is helping Saudi Arabia dress up its criminal fossil fuel expansion drive in "green" colours. On People & Nature.

Silvertown tunnel enforcer Heidi Alexander takes over as transport secretary

 Let's adjust our battle plans, I suggested on Labour Hub, 1 December.

Oiling the machine

A study of oil's history helps us dissect the many-headed hydra of 21st century capital, I argued in this review, in the Ecologist, of Crude Capitalism: oil, corporate power and the making of the world market, by Adam Hanieh.

From Brazil to India to Europe, free public transport is gaining momentum

Zero-fares transport opens cities to all: it everywhere and always works as a social justice measure. Combined with other policies, it can help tackle climate change and air pollution. On Labour Hub, 18 September. 

Technologies that work for people, not profit, in the climate emergency

How social and technological change combine. Based on a talk at an on-line event, on the Roadmap to Ecosocialism, on 10 September.

Socialism and electricity: renewables and decentralisation versus nuclear

An article in Capitalism Nature Socialism journal (available on open access), discussing socialist approaches to electricity networks, to the fight for public and common forms of ownership of them, and to their place in tackling climate change. 

The road to nowhere

Invest in public transport - not the Lower Thames Crossing. My comments on the Labour government's transport policy, in the Ecologist.

Post-election battlegrounds on climate and social justice

A review of Labour policies on climate and energy, and the possible responses by trade unions and civil society. The Ecologist, June 2024

Power station bombing redoubles pressure on Ukraine

The Russian attack on Ukraine's electricity infrastructure, and the response. Foreign Policy in Focus, June 2024.

'Capitalism won't save the planet'

 Review of The Price is Wrong by Brett Christophers, in The Ecologist, May 2024

Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires

Comments on two struggles against colonialist aggression, in Commons.com.ua, the Ukrainian socialist web site, May 2024

No path to peace in Ukraine through this fantasy world

Comments on "campist" writers and what they say about the war, in New Politics, April 2024.

Free Public Transport for London - why and how

 A campaign briefing, supported by Fare Free London, the Greener Jobs Alliance, the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel coalition and Tipping Point. I drafted the text.

Energy should be a right, not a commodity

The 1980s gave us "this idea of energy, whether for electricity or fuel for vehicles, as being a commodity which some people could profit from, as opposed to being a right which all people should have because we live in modern times and the technologies available can deliver this to us". My interview with the Times of India.