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Ukraine and Palestine: building real solidarity is hard work

People and Nature - Wed, 05/15/2024 - 00:49
A guest post by JOHN LAWRENCE “Genocide is genocide, a mass grave is a mass grave. We are with the people who are in there, and against the people who put them there”, journalist Ed Vulliamy told a discussion meeting in London on Monday. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Israel’s war on Gaza – […]
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“Market forces” will never prevent climate disaster

People and Nature - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 01:40
Review of The Price is Wrong: why capitalism won’t save the planet, by Brett Christophers (Verso: 2024, 398 pages) Wind and solar power projects, that for so long needed state backing, can now provide electricity to wholesale markets so cheaply that they will compete fossil fuels out of the park. It’s the beginning of the […]
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Wheat as a weapon: European farmers’ protests and the Ukraine war

People and Nature - Tue, 04/30/2024 - 00:10
Polish farmers’ organisations yesterday ended a blockade of Ukrainian agricultural exports that has dragged on for months (see here and here). The farmers were promised subsidies from the Polish government and a system of checks to ensure the goods are transited through Poland to other destinations. But many of the tensions underlying the protests remain. […]
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GKN sit-in Festival: ‘the exploiters need us, but we don’t need them’

People and Nature - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 00:16
By Hilary Horrocks Five thousand people joined a march in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence, on Saturday evening 6 April, organised by the sacked workers at the huge GKN factory, who have been fighting for two-and-a-half years to keep their workplace open under public ownership and workers’ control. The dispute and the occupation of the factory […]
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Palestine, Ukraine and the crisis of empires

People and Nature - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 00:17
On the Easter weekend, on the latest gigantic march in London against UK complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza, a group of us took a banner that said “From Ukraine to Palestine, occupation is a crime”. We were welcomed by marchers around us, and people took up our slogan. But beyond a slogan, what can […]
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No path to peace in Ukraine through this fantasy world

People and Nature - Mon, 04/08/2024 - 00:13
The Russian army’s meagre successes in Ukraine – such as taking the ruined town of Avdiivka, at horrendous human cost – have produced a new round of western politicians’ statements and commentators’ articles about possible peace negotiations. Hopes are not high, because the Kremlin shows no appetite for such talks. Its actions, such as nightly […]
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Zero fares: a way to act on climate and social justice

People and Nature - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 01:13
Free public transport “opens the city to all” and should be “provided as a public service, just like health, education and public parks”, a new Campaign Briefing from Fare Free London says. Abolishing fares for public transport in London is “one of the drastic, demonstrative actions needed to tackle climate change globally and air pollution […]
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Women standing up for mining communities, forty years on

People and Nature - Mon, 03/04/2024 - 00:22
The women’s groups formed to defend embattled mining communities in the 1984-85 strike marked their 40th anniversary in Durham on Saturday. The celebration was organised by Women Against Pit Closures, which brought together the local groups that sprung up across the coalfields as the strike wore on. The national strike started 40 years ago this […]
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‘Free public transport opens the city to all’

People and Nature - Fri, 03/01/2024 - 00:36
“Free public transport opens the city to all”, says Fare Free London, a campaign set up on 10 February at the Waterloo Action Centre. Free public transport “is provided as a public service, just like health, education and public parks, and is supported by public investment. “It is central to a vision of London as […]
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Russia turns Ukraine’s occupied areas into an armed camp

People and Nature - Wed, 02/21/2024 - 00:12
After ten years of war, and two years of all-out invasion Russia is turning the parts of Ukraine it has occupied into a giant military buffer zone, from which further assaults may be launched, the Eastern Human Rights Group (EHRG) has warned. The expansion of military combat, training and transport infrastructure, and the forced mobilisation […]
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