HeyJaredPeople and Nature
I write a blog about the climate & ecological crisis, social & labour movement resistance, Russia's war on Ukraine, and more. Author of Burning Up: a global history of fossil fuel consumption (2018) and books on Russian and Soviet history
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Climate action: failed government retrofit scheme is ‘the next Post Office scandal’ (opens the original)
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By Simon Pirani. Republished with thanks from Labour HubThe disastrous failure of the government’s ECO4 scheme – which was supposed to retrofit homes with insulation, heat pumps and solar panels – is “the next Post Office scandal”, Imogen Thomas of Fuel Poverty Action warned last week.<div class="subsc
Russia: jailed anti-war partisan Ruslan Siddiqi faces new treason charges (opens the original)
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Russia’s federal security service (FSB) is preparing a new case, for high treason, against Ruslan Siddiqi, the Russian-Italian anarchist serving a 29-year sentence for sabotaging a train carrying munitions to the Ukrainian front.Siddiqi was convicted in May last year, and the Military Court of Appeal upheld the sentence on 1 July this year. In 2023 he blew up railway tracks in the Ryazan region, derailing a freight train carrying muniti
Megacities make progress with free public transport schemes (opens the original)
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Experiments with free public transport, introduced in some of the world’s biggest cities to tackle the fuel price crisis, are proving successful.In Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam and Tehran, Iran – which both have around 10 million people, more than London – people are shifting, in numbers, from private vehicles to buses and the metro.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oG2u!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-med
Russian empire, social dynamics and where Marxism goes from here (opens the original)
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What, really, have socialists learned from the Russian war on Ukraine? Has it changed our understanding of the way that imperialism works? Tell us we were right all along?Reflecting on the first four years since the invasion, Oleksandr Kyselov, a Ukrainian socialist based in Sweden, wrote in February that Ukrainians found themselves “trying to safeguard our future free from foreign dictates, and simultaneously sacrificing any chances to actually have one”
Extortionate heat network charges face judicial review challenge (opens the original)
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By Simon Pirani. Republished from the Ecologist, with thanksSkyrocketing charges for heating and hot water from council heat networks in Lambeth, south London, are to be challenged at a judicial review by two tenants.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</di
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