Author: Simon Pirani
Simon Pirani is the author and editor of Voices Against Putin’s War: Protesters’ Defiant Speeches in Russia’s Courts (Resistance Books). He is an honorary professor at the University of Durham and a longtime Russia-Ukraine specialist. He writes at the Substack People and Nature.
Russia today holds more political prisoners than at any time since the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian state has systematically prosecuted antiwar critics on charges ranging from “discrediting the
How might we develop a socialist approach to technologies, in the face of the threat of rapid, potentially uncontrollable, climate change?
The claim that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up by U.S. special forces, made by Seymour Hersh, is being used to reinforce false narratives about Russia’s culpability for the war in Ukraine.
An attempt to understand the economic war being waged alongside the military conflict in Ukraine, the resulting disruption of energy markets, and their place in the broader social and ecological crises shaking capital.
