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Justice for the Middle East Is Also About Climate

Adam Hanieh, Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani — 2026-05-11T17:10:15Z

“The deepening climate emergency means that we need to put upfront the question of the climate and the urgent need to move away from fossil fuels. The Middle East is absolutely key to this because it sits at the centre of the world oil and gas industry, particularly in relation to global exports. The politics of the region – from Palestine to Iran – cannot be understood separate from this role of the Middle East in the global energy system.”

- Features / Palestine, United States (USA), MENA (Middle East/North Africa), Ecology and the Environment, Israel, Iran, Kurdistan

Free public transport in Ukraine

Denys Gorbach, Simon Pirani — 2025-11-19T15:35:31Z

The common weal versus capitalist modernity.
Free public transport can open cities to all. It combats social injustice and can also help to tackle climate change, by moving away from car-centred urban transport systems.
Public transport has been made free in more than 130 municipalities in Brazil – and, in Europe, Luxembourg; Tallinn, Estonia; Belgrade, Serbia and several French cities.
In this interview, the writer and activist Denys Gorbach talks with Dr Simon Pirani about Kryvyi (…)

- Features / Ecology and the Environment, Ukraine, Public services

‘We need a peoples' solidarity with Ukraine and against war, not the fake solidarity of governments'

Denys Gorbach, Denys Pilash, Nick Buxton, Shaun Matsheza — 2022-03-14T08:51:21Z

“I think these sad circumstances show that it is high time to build a practical solidarity that is anti-capitalist, anti climate change and anti militarist. We need concretely to join these three agendas in a movement that can rise today against the war, as well as against imperialism that is destroying our planet.”

- IV566 - March 2022 / Ukraine