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Politics with https://anticapitalistresistance.org/ and blogging at https://anticapitalistmusings.com/ and books at https://resistancebooks.org/ Anti Capitalist/Anti Fascist/Anti Trump

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · Nov 15

In an age of escalating crises, it's clear that our current system is unsustainable. Our planet and societies are being pushed to their limits by profit-driven capitalism. But there is hope.

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Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto

This manifesto was agreed at Anti*Capitalist Resistance conference in June 2024

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 3h

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Dave Temple, mineworker and militant

Dave Temple, who died on 13 September aged 81, was a lifelong militant in the labour movement. He worked as an electrician at Murton colliery, county Durham, and played a leading part in the minewo…

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5h

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 4h

Oh do f**k off Farage. Sticks and stones and all that, oh, and if the cap fits....

Farage criticises ‘disgraceful’ rhetoric after alleged attack on Reform council leader

George Finch, 19, says he was called a ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ during incident in Warwickshire on Friday

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14h

I think this from @donmoyn.bsky.social is essential reading for the moment. I’d emphasize that the staggering process he describes doesn’t end with the assault on immigrants. It’s about creating an armed force loyal to nobody but Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 14h

A simultaneous critique of far left parties and groups ... and a defence of their participation in Your Party.

What about the Little Lenins?

Last Thursday, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition urged its supporters to take out Your Party membership . This is despite the bar ...

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 5h

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‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 15h

Much more likely, he's one of the deeply racist people living in Dundee. It's not everyone, but I think it's a lot more common than people assume.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 5h

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The New Hollywood Dilemma

On the State of Cinema Today

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 16h

The #Trumpocene in the Middle East

The Ceasefire That Changes Nothing: Trump’s Middle East Spectacle

Today’s elaborate ceremonies in Jerusalem and Sharm el-Sheikh reveal not the dawn of peace, but the terminal contradictions of American regional management

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

Tommy Robinson
stopped at border driving
Bentley with thousands in
cash'
Far-Right activist insulted police
officers after being arrested for
refusing to give them pin to his
phone, court hears

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 19h

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When Supporting Liberation Movements Becomes Uncritical Cheerleading of Bourgeois Leaders

Lessons for Ukraine & Palestine from the Second Chinese Revolution

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 20h

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

We don’t need Christian fundamentalists in Britain. They can keep the f**k out of our politics.

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Now here is an artist. Abdul. Red blanket, beneath it a yellow construction sign. He wore a blue hoodie. I asked to take a portrait. Yes. I raised camera; he raised hand. Down went camera. “I’m sorry.” “No, take it.” Up went camera; up went hand. Down & up again. This is the portrait he wanted.

A bright red blanket drapes the shoulder of a man in a red t and a blue hoodie. Behind him the black metal bars of an Underground entrance railing. Center: the palm of his light brown hand, obscuring his face.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 1d

You may remember that when Trump went to the UN, the teleprompter and elevator broke. What you may not know is that after that Jesse Watters said, on Fox News, the US should respond by either leaving the UN or bombing it.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

Haven’t read invisible rulers will take a look of that one, read the other two, Birchers is fascinating, I’m about a quarter though a book called the Seven Mountains mandate - that’s all about the Christian right in US.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

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Noam Chomsky: Almost No One Reads Adam Smith

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

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A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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AnaGualberto🍉 @anagualberto.bsky.social · 1d

"Ai, também agora tudo é fascista..."
Nada mostra tão bem que não se é fascista como ilegalizar o antifascismo.

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 2d

To make the transition to fascism easier, you lock up anti fascists. Know your history and resist. #SocialistSunday

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 2d

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When Liberal Order Meets Its Contradictions

Carlo Masala’s scenario in his new book, reveals not Russian strength, but the terminal crisis of Atlantic capitalism.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 2d

And you David. Hope it’s a relaxing one for you.

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Prof. David Kitchener @davidbsky1.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Socialist Sunday #SocialistSunday Simon

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 2d

To make the transition to fascism easier, you lock up anti fascists. Know your history and resist. #SocialistSunday

European far right follows Trump in calling for antifa to be declared terrorists

Netherlands and Hungary move towards designation as draft resolution reportedly backed by 79 MEPs in 20 countries

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 3d

He lost me at the "should have" bit. Shoehorning in the synagogue attack for no reason, instead of concentrating on what Neville did actually say. I mean, there are lots of shoulda, woulda, couldas in my life. But I don't conflate issues for no reason.

Except maybe now*. 😉

*But to make a point.

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