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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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Prospect Magazine (@prospectmagazine)

In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @Benjamin Clark queries the right’s obsession with “white British” people, as @Ben Ansell joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss the trend with @...

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The Apolitical Fantasy

Poverty and Politics

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Wouk Backlash

On ‘The Caine Mutiny’ and the Literature of War

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What a Black Sheep Joke Tells Us About Nigel Farage

One criminal act should not indict a whole community.

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We waited far too long to recognize and oppose the Seven Mountain Strategy, first published in 1975. Now the Christian Nationalist takeover is nearly complete.

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What Is Cyberpunk? (Hint: Not What You Think)

Ask the average pop culture consumer what “cyberpunk” means, and you’ll get some variation of the same stock answer: rain-slick streets, flickering signage written in kanji, a trench-coated loner hack...

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A Real Alternative

Like many Scots, I was brought up with the political education that Labour politics were progressive and enlightened.

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“Defence secretary tells special forces: We have your back”

He shouldn’t if it involves war crimes. It doesn’t matter if they are the tip of the spear. An illegal killing is an illegal killing.

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 1h

“If the straight question is, would I abolish the monarchy, yeah, absolutely” - @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaking to me at Green conference:

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Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence

The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

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Defund the Young Republicans! Leaked Texts Reveal Them to be Exactly Who We Thought They Were

Racist, Misogynist, Homophobic, Antisemitic, and Violent

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A Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin About Cats

“Entanglements” March 28 Black cat, amiable visitor, let’s give each other all the pleasure we can, quick, yes, sitting on each other in the sunlight and stroking each other with our hands and face…

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What if Americans Are the Opposite of "Atomized"?

Thinking with Ganz and Riley on civil society and fascism.

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Billboard Mountain

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 2h

Vought, the shutdown and God. The anti enlightenment is destroying the US.

WHY ARE US TROOPS OCCUPYING AMERICAN CITIES?

Trump's homeland invasion may be a prelude to election interference

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Watching this great band tonight…

#HOTS

Long Waits in A & E

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A decade of failing to persuade the New York Times to pay attention to Leonard Leo

By Tom Carter

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WHY ARE US TROOPS OCCUPYING AMERICAN CITIES?

Trump's homeland invasion may be a prelude to election interference

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 3h

One of the biggest threats to reproductive rights: a NYT piece showed how US Christian fundamentalists hijack free speech concerns to promote anti-abortion hate. The money involved is obscene, it’s unfair to expect charities and progressive groups to fight this well-funded interference alone.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 4h

About time.

Vets could be made to cap prescription prices after UK watchdog investigation

Market ‘not fit’ for purpose, CMA says, as it proposes shake-up including publishing treatment costs

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We're in a Massive Financial Bubble, and It's Popping. It's Not The End of the World. It Can Be the Beginning of a Better One"

"Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years."

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 12h

Daily reminder: The recent noble peace prize winner, María Corina Machado, supports these murders by the Trump administration & is desperate for a US coup to install her as leader.

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US strikes another vessel off Venezuela coast, killing six

President Trump said the vessel belonged to "narcoterrorists" and that it was "trafficking narcotics." US officials have not provided evidence to this claim.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 6h

Yes, I vaguely remember that, I don’t think I played it though.

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The War Games We Played: A 1970s British Childhood

On silence, toy soldiers, and the games we never speak about

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 21h

Given the company Robinson keeps, it could be any number of rogue states or shady individuals.