SIMON PIRANI

Simon Pirani is a writer and activist who blogs at peoplenature.org. His most recent book is Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption.

Russia and South Africa: the oppressors make a deal

Transport: how Silicon Valley turns technologies against us all

Russia: the time for protest has gone, it’s time for resistance

Appeal to Labour Party members: help turn back this tide of greenwash

The limits of western economic war with Russia and the failure of climate policy

Achieving climate justice is about solidarity across borders. Not charity

Ukraine: bogus ‘anti‑imperialism’ serves the Kremlin

28.09.2022

EU’s hydrogen greenwash is last thing Ukraine needs

12.08.2022

War and climate justice: a discussion

22.07.2022

Russia: nature reserve staff hit with savage jail terms

Belarusian ‘railway partisans’ face death penalty

18.07.2022

Ukraine: the ‘Russian world’ is militarising children

12.07.2022

Durham and Ukraine miners: historic links of friendship

Ukrainians face forcible deportation and conscription by Russian forces

Why is Ukrainian resistance invisible to you?

Lower Thames Crossing? No. Stop this road‑building madness

Greenwashed Silvertown tunnel pollutes, trashes the climate, and steamrollers democracy

‘The Russian empire is failing in its own way’

Two enemies, one fight: climate disaster and frightful energy bills

Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance. Six questions

19.04.2022

Russian army unleashes terror in occupied cities

24.03.2022

Ukraine: the sources of danger of a wider war

The Russian Statelets in the Donbas Are No “People’s Republics”

04.03.2022

Fighting disaster capitalism with ecosocialism

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