Simon Pirani

Kazakhstan ten years after the Zhanaozen massacre: oil workers’ fight to organise goes on.

Now is the time to fundamentally transform how our societies produce and distribute energy.

The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.

Oil workers stage biggest industrial action since the general strike of 1978-79 that helped toppled the Shah’s regime.

An impassioned plea to the Mayor of London to chance his mind about the Silvertown Tunnel - based on local and global climate fears.

The false narrative that population growth is a key driver of ecological crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south.

Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?

Review of The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, by Michael E. Mann.

London is pressing ahead with a £2 billion climate-trashing tunnel project just as UK prepares to host COP26 international climate negotiations.

The UK Government focus on electric cars is opposed by researchers of climate science, transport policy, engineering and urban planning.

China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.

Low carbon? Hydrogen greenhouse emissions globally are more than twice that of the entire UK economy.

A just transition to a low carbon economy should involve oil companies paying more tax and energy workers having more say.

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out.

A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into millions of UK homes is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry.

More than half of UK oil workers would switch to work on renewable energy if given the opportunity to retrain, new survey shows.

Leeds Trades Union Council leads national demand for large-scale investment to insulate homes.

The UK Government cannot claim to be dealing with climate change and build the Silvertown Tunnel.

Local, community-led testing and contact tracing must be built into an enhanced public health protection system.

Deng Yingtao presented a scathing critique of economic growth thirty years ago - finally we must listen.

We must push for social and climate justice to be at the heart of recovery efforts as big capital works out how to profit from Covid-19.

We watch as people panic-buy loo roll. But behind the scenes traders are panic buying gold bars as world markets crash - and there are none left.

We who are active in social movements should try harder to work together with climate scientists.

A response to After Geoengineering by Holly Jean Buck.