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Cis, he/him, London (UK), politically unaffiliated. I like socialism, arts/culture, and hate cars.
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Sher Singh (1951-2025) was editor of Faridabad Majdoor Samachar (Faridabad Workers News) and member of several other communist groups based in northern India, including Kamunist Kranti and Collectivities.
January 19, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Sher Singh (1951-2025) was editor of Faridabad Majdoor Samachar (Faridabad Workers News) and member of several other communist groups based in northern India, including Kamunist Kranti and Collectivities.
BlueSky should change its name to BlueSkeet.
January 18, 2026 at 11:15 AM
BlueSky should change its name to BlueSkeet.
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Yes it's hypocrisy, but a reminder that for ministers, rights are neither fundamental nor universal, they're treated as weapons used strategically against opponents. In any event, governments and the state don't protect people's rights to protest - people do though, by turning up and exercising them
Govt minister Heidi Alexander on #trevorphillips this morning urging the Iranian govt to protect peoples right to peacefully protest
January 11, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Yes it's hypocrisy, but a reminder that for ministers, rights are neither fundamental nor universal, they're treated as weapons used strategically against opponents. In any event, governments and the state don't protect people's rights to protest - people do though, by turning up and exercising them
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Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
December 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
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Read hundreds of short biographies of anarchists written by Nick Heath, a British anarchist, retired library worker, historian and member of the Anarchist Communist Group.
He is the author of The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present & Future.
Check⬇️
libcom.org/tags/nick-he...
He is the author of The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present & Future.
Check⬇️
libcom.org/tags/nick-he...
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Read hundreds of short biographies of anarchists written by Nick Heath, a British anarchist, retired library worker, historian and member of the Anarchist Communist Group.
He is the author of The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present & Future.
Check⬇️
libcom.org/tags/nick-he...
He is the author of The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present & Future.
Check⬇️
libcom.org/tags/nick-he...
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December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It's genuinely insane that Ann Widdecombe (a socially conservative religious zealot) sensibly opposed this idea because she opposes trans women being raped.
Labour MP Jonathon Pinder called her 'woke'.
For opposing rape.
Labour MP Jonathon Pinder called her 'woke'.
For opposing rape.
reform don't think trans women should be put in men's prisons bcos we're at high risk of rape.
labour changed the rules almost immediately after the election so that we are placed in men's prisons.
other than that i think their policies are identical.
labour changed the rules almost immediately after the election so that we are placed in men's prisons.
other than that i think their policies are identical.
December 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It's genuinely insane that Ann Widdecombe (a socially conservative religious zealot) sensibly opposed this idea because she opposes trans women being raped.
Labour MP Jonathon Pinder called her 'woke'.
For opposing rape.
Labour MP Jonathon Pinder called her 'woke'.
For opposing rape.
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reform don't think trans women should be put in men's prisons bcos we're at high risk of rape.
labour changed the rules almost immediately after the election so that we are placed in men's prisons.
other than that i think their policies are identical.
labour changed the rules almost immediately after the election so that we are placed in men's prisons.
other than that i think their policies are identical.
December 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
reform don't think trans women should be put in men's prisons bcos we're at high risk of rape.
labour changed the rules almost immediately after the election so that we are placed in men's prisons.
other than that i think their policies are identical.
labour changed the rules almost immediately after the election so that we are placed in men's prisons.
other than that i think their policies are identical.
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Heatwave is a new magazine for a world on fire. The editorial and our first article can be read online now, but subscribing to our Patreon gets you an Issue 1 hardcopy in June! A full PDF of Issue 1 will be available for everyone in September. Links below ~
April 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Heatwave is a new magazine for a world on fire. The editorial and our first article can be read online now, but subscribing to our Patreon gets you an Issue 1 hardcopy in June! A full PDF of Issue 1 will be available for everyone in September. Links below ~
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A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle.
illwill.com/theory-of-th...
illwill.com/theory-of-th...
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle.
illwill.com/theory-of-th...
illwill.com/theory-of-th...
I would unironically rather live in a 1 party state where everything just works than have to attend endless meetings of workers’ councils to decide on everything.
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I would unironically rather live in a 1 party state where everything just works than have to attend endless meetings of workers’ councils to decide on everything.
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In 2009 as today, the leadership of The New School fails to live up to its founding values
December 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
In 2009 as today, the leadership of The New School fails to live up to its founding values
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December 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
London improvement idea: destroy the M25 and replace it with a high-speed, orbital, passenger and freight railway.
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
London improvement idea: destroy the M25 and replace it with a high-speed, orbital, passenger and freight railway.
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"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”
Sean Middlebrough says he and fellow Palestine Action activists were “kidnapped” by British counter-terrorism police at the point of a gun.
electronicintifada.net
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
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Went along this week to Morocco Bound bookshop off Bermondsey St SE1, good selection of books (and drinks), lots of events including jazz, folk and poetry nights. Picked up new Emma Warren book 'up the youth club' which I am enjoying and reflecting on my own teenage Friday nights
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Went along this week to Morocco Bound bookshop off Bermondsey St SE1, good selection of books (and drinks), lots of events including jazz, folk and poetry nights. Picked up new Emma Warren book 'up the youth club' which I am enjoying and reflecting on my own teenage Friday nights
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Should be Bluesky's tagline.
it's the americans who are most exhausting
October 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Should be Bluesky's tagline.
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The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
October 7, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
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#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...
October 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...
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As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.
Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context
by Marie Louise Krogh
This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”
web.sas.upenn.edu
September 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of European imperialism.