Raging against Putin's war machine

In Russia and occupied Ukraine, many thousands of civilians have been jailed or forcibly disappeared for speaking out against the invasion. The numbers reflect a crackdown on dissent worse than at any point since the 1950s. My article in Jacobin.

Dave Temple, mineworker and militant

Dave Temple, who died on 13 September aged 81, was a lifelong militant in the labour movement. He worked as an electrician at Murton colliery, county Durham, and played a leading part in the mineworkers’ union for several decades. We worked closely together for much of that time, and Dave’s family asked me to write part of the eulogy read out at his funeral on 7 October by the celebrant, Nichola Reeder. With the family's agreement, I published it here.

Technological transition, the ideology of capital

My review, on People & Nature, of More, More and More: an all-consuming history of energy, by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz

Voices Against Putin's War: protesters' defiant speeches in Russian courts

I edited, and helped to translate, this collection of speeches, made in court by anti-war protesters in Russia, most of whom are now serving long jail sentences imposed by the Kremlin dictatorship. Published in October 2025 by Resistance Books. All the thanks are to the brave people whose words are featured, who have made such great sacrifices to call on their fellow citizens to resist the Putin regime's horrific onslaught on Ukraine. More about it here on People & Nature and here on Posle.Media.

Climate change is an injustice multiplier

My review, in the Ecologist, of Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change, by Friederike Otto  

Ukraine: the ups and downs of workplace organising

My review of Oleg Dubrovsky's memoir of his activism among industrial workers in Dnipr, Ukraine, on the Commons.com.ua web site