I hope, dear readers, you get time for reflection, rejuvenation and relaxation in the midwinter holidays. If you find yourself reaching for your phone for something to read – then, rather than winding yourself up with news of Boris Johnson’s vileness, go a level more thoughtful: look at those People & Nature articles you missed out on first time 
round. Here is some stuff that has stood the test of time. Thanks for your interest, and see you all (virtually or really) in the 2020s. GL, 23 December 2019.
Climate and ecological emergency
Disaster environmentalism: looking the future in the face (5 December 2019). A critique of Rupert Read, Jem Bendell and other writers linked to Extinction Rebellion
Climate grief, climate anger (25 June 2019). How different global warming looks to young people
What does “climate emergency” mean? Let’s define that OUTSIDE parliament (2 May 2019)
Still bigger mountains of plastic on the way (March 2018). The petrochemicals companies are driving it
Global warming in the Indian context (June 2016). A pamphlet by Indian climate campaigner Nagraj Adve
Let’s face it. Melting ice has passed point of no return (23 November 2015)
The Paris climate talks and the failure of states (February 2015)
Stop tailoring global warming scenarios to make them “politically palatable” (July 2013). An interview with Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research
A Galileo for Our Time (June 2011). Review of Storms of My Grandchildren, by the climate scientist James Hansen
Science, technology and society
Climate scientists are people too (19 November 2019). About a London conference on climate change
I have seen the techno-future and I’m not so sure it works (4 April 2016). A response to Postcapitalism by Paul Mason
‘The instrument of labour strikes down the labourer.’ Marx on machinery is worth reading (June 2015). A response to a guest post by Ned Ludd on socialism and ecology
A radical critique of science: writing the next chapter (April 2015). A conference looking back at the radical science initiatives of the 1970s
We’re all Luddites now (August 2013). Some thoughts on socialism and technology
Energy and energy workers
North Sea oil and gas: the elephant in the room (4 October 2019). Neil Rothnie on the need for a just transition away from UK oil production
Making decentralised electricity work for all of us (30 September 2019)
Moving the trade unions past fossil fuels (August 2017). An interview with trade union researcher Samantha Mason
Break the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers’ deaths (4 August 2016). Supporting the Oil Workers Rights Protection Organisation on industrial accidents
Kazakhstan. A young mother grieves, Tony Blair cashes in (20 April 2016). The aftermath of the 2011 massacre of oil workers at Zhanaozen
Zhanaozen: worker organisation and repression (December 2013). The story of the oil workers’ strike of 2011, the biggest workers’ revolt ever in Kazakhstan, the police massacre of demonstrators that ended it, and what followed
The North Sea: the reaction to Piper Alpha (May 2013). The Piper Alpha disaster of 1988 in which 167 oil workers died; the wave of rank-and-file organisation that followed. An interview with Neil Rothnie
No Dash For Gas: We climbed those chimneys to kick-start protest and debate (March 2013). Interview with Ewa Jasiewicz about direct action against the fossil fuel industry
Coalfield paradoxes (July 2011). The Durham miners’ gala gathers tens of thousands, years after the last pit closed. Why?
Russia
“Russia’s ‘anti-fascist’ fascism is not an exotic far-away reality.” It’s here (20 January 2019). London action in solidarity with arrested Russian anti-fascists
“Electric shock is our way of doing things” (31 December 2018). Russian state torture of anti-fascists
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate (14 May 2018). A play based on the great novel about Stalinism and war
The Death of Stalin is a riot. (21 November 2017). Film review
The spectre of social unrest is haunting Putin’s Russia (December 2014)
Ukraine
Ukraine: “we need new ways of organising”. (4 August 2017) Interview with Pavel Lisyansky, a grass-roots worker organiser in eastern Ukraine
Ukraine: Russian White Guards in the Donbass (5 July 2014). Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski on the Russian fascists and their “left” supporters
‘Libertarian in spirit’: the left and Maidan (16 June 2014) Kirill Buketov on workers’ organisation in the 2014 uprising
Darkness in May. A socialist eye-witness in Odessa (5 May 2014). How division and nationalism led to tragedy
Ukrainians, Russians and Europeans against Putin’s war (March 2014). Reactions to the Russian annexation of Crimea
Ukraine: Yanukovich’s end is a beginning (February 2014). Q&A on the Maidan uprising. People & Nature’s most-viewed article
Syria
Starting to understand the Syrian tragedy (August 2018) A review of Impossible Revolution by the Syrian Marxist Yassin al-Haj Saleh
The “anti-imperialism” of idiots (15 April 2018) Leila al-Shami on western leftists and the Syrian tragedy
“Tyrants across the world now know they can maintain power through mass slaughter” (16 December 2016) An interview with Leila al-Shami, writer on Syria and co-author of Burning Country
The UK
Confronting the agents of capital: a Corbynista’s dilemma (19 December 2019). John Graham Davies looks back at the election defeat
Zealots and ditherers (15 August 2019). The Tory party’s crisis
From resisting property developers to making ecosocialist strategy (21 December 2017) Gordon Peters draws lessons from defying the building moguls
Scotland: We encourage everyone to speak, even if their voice shakes (3 April 2017) Cathy Milligan on grass-roots organising in Glasgow
What would Corbyn do? (20 June 2017). Thoughts on the 2017 election
After the referendum: what we can do (25 June 2016) Ewa Jasiewicz on Brexit
Social and labour movements
“You’re not a worker, you’re just a pair of hands.” (February 2019) How Leeds women workers struck back in 1970, by Liz Leicester
Iran: sedition, revolt, revolution and social disintegration (March 2018) Interview with the Iranian socialist Torab Saleth
China: collective resistance against iSlavery (October 2017)
Wear the white poppy with pride (21 September 2015)
We need Zizek’s “Thatcher of the left” like a fish needs a bicycle (April 2013)
Taranto community refuses false choice “health vs jobs” (October 2012). How an Italian steel town said no to pollution and job cuts
Histories, thoughts and theories
Reading Marx on ecology: “capitalism generates an unrepairable physical rift”. (December 2019) Barbara Harriss-White discusses Kohei Saito’s book Marx’s Eco-socialism
Argentina 1976-1981: Theatre Against Dictatorship (March 2019) Marta Cocco tells the story of a clandestine theatre group
Desperately seeking socialism (18 June 2018) The political history of the Soviet dissidents: a discussion with Gabriel Levy and Ilya Budraitskis
The Earth and us: ways of seeing (February 2018). Review of The Shock of the Anthropocene by Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
How neo-liberalism used the “limits to growth” (November 2015). Interview with Sarah Nelson on the politics of environmentalism
How the Paris communards made their lives luxurious (July 2015). Interview with Kristin Ross, author of Communal Luxury: the political imaginary of the Paris Commune
The ideologue who tried to make environmentalism mean population control (July 2014) On Paul Ehrlich and neo-Malthusianism
No. Morals really are not written into our genes (July 2013). Steve Drury challenged the paleontologist Christopher Boehm – and in The Revolution That Worked, Chris Knight responded to Drury
Human “madness” in an inhuman society (March 2012). Steve Drury on genetics, paleontology and psychology
Accuser of capitalism: John Maclean’s speech from the dock, 9 May 1918. The Scottish revolutionary who opposed the first world war – a People & Nature pamphlet
The human species and the earth’s crust, by Amadeo Bordiga (1952). An early Marxist writer on ecology
People and Nature: towards a socialist approach, by Gabriel Levy (September 2011). The way I saw socialism and ecology when I started this blog
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