Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, thousands of people have been arrested for protesting against the war. Many appear in court, facing years of imprisonment. What do they say to the judges? What would any of us say? This 50-minute film, in English, features some of their speeches in court.
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/try-me-for-treason-the-film/

Aleksandr Nesterenko, at his appeal hearing: "My case was thought up in the investigator’s office. Of course there is nothing new in all this. That’s exactly how they fabricated political cases in the Soviet security police."
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/political-prisoner-aleksandr-nesterenko-they-fabricate-cases-just-as-they-did-in-soviet-times/

Russia's war: stop trying to delegitimise resistance https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/russias-war-stop-trying-to-delegitimise-resistance/ "Were Argentine socialists right to support Malvinas war, & call for it to be “made popular”, in the face of dictatorship? Why should we not demand the racist, anti-working-class, genocide-supporting Starmer govt steps up arms shipments to Ukraine?"
Photo: Ukrainian soldiers in battle of Donetsk airport, October 2014

European socialism, imperial militarism and defence of Ukraine https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/european-socialism-imperial-militarism-and-defence-of-ukraine/ "We support building schools & oppose building airport runways. Why can’t we support provision of air defence systems to Ukraine & oppose sinking billions into Trident & aircraft carriers? & call on govt to refuse to buy Israeli-made weapons systems?"
Photo by Steve Eason

The Turkish miners’ strike of 1990-1991 "was far, far more than just a strike. It brought into action the whole community, in common with all movements that really challenge the established order of things." Pamphlet republished as free-to-download PDF. Photo: Zonguldak, 1991

The Russian government's aim is "to force us to become sheep, marching to the beat of drums made from our own skins". It's an honour for me now to stand side by side with those who refused - Aleksandr Nesterenko in court
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/your-power-is-based-on-lies-and-violence-three-years-for-sharing-ukrainian-songs/

"These anti-war speeches have much to tell us not only about Russia, but about the increasingly dangerous world we live in, & right-wing, authoritarian turns in USA & European countries. https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/the-courtroom-rebels-standing-up-to-warmonger-putin/ [...] Capital’s need for social control underpins near-fascist methods. From Russia’s dystopian efforts to punish its dissenting citizens as 'terrorists' and 'traitors', patterns are retraced in unhinged witch-hunts in the USA & Europe, against opponents of the Gaza slaughter."

Bosnia: Unite for mineworkers, for land and for water. No to unjust transition https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/bosnia-unite-for-mineworkers-for-land-and-for-water-no-to-unjust-transition/ Bob Myers reports from the Breza Zbor (assembly) in Bosnia, where trade unionists and environmentalists made common cause against international corporations and their false “green transition”. Photo: Gacko coal mine, Bosnia

Climate Injustice by Friederike Otto reviewed.
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/climate-change-is-an-injustice-multiplier-not-an-asteroid/ In mainstream discourse, global heating "is gutted of content, stripped of its origins in economic activity & social hierarchies". The responsibility of powerful humans in corporations & governments is concealed.