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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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Lee 🌎🩵💚🌱 @lee70.bsky.social · 9h

A good read.
Interesting that the look after our own
brigade are the least likely to actually do that.

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Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay

An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 8h

Down the Rabbit Hole www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Runciman · Down the Rabbit Hole: Britain’s Europe Problem

From Macmillan to Wilson to Heath to Thatcher to Major to Blair to Cameron, a succession of prime ministers persuaded...

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 9h

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The Guardian view on an AI bubble: capitalism still hasn’t evolved to protect itself | Editorial

Editorial: Warnings about inflated tech stocks suggest investors never learn and central bankers learn too late

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Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay

An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 21h

My thoughts on Bernie Sanders speech in Chicago. 👇

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 21h

One big takeaway from the Bernie Sanders rally was he looked moderate. He said fighting the richest wasn't radical. Healthcare & unions wasn't radical. These were just sensible ideas that the man on the street agrees with.

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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 1d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 22h

The Daily Mail has just discovered Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints.

I’m only surprised it’s taken them this long to find that vile book.

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We Only Want The Earth

New James Connolly documentary to be screened in Edinburgh next month.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

New documentary on the life and ideas of James Connolly.
#Movies

Poster for the documentary film “We Only Want the Earth: The Life & Ideas of James Connolly.” It features a large black-and-white portrait of James Connolly, with a starry grey background. The title is in bold red capital letters on the right side. Above it is a laurel mark for the 37th Galway Film Fleadh official selection. Below, smaller text credits Alan Gilsenan as writer and director and lists supporting organisations such as the James Connolly Foundation, Fórsa, SIPTU, and others.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

'We Will Not Back Down,' Says Indivisible as Trump Aims FBI, IRS at Liberal Groups www.commondreams.org/news/trump-t...

'We Will Not Back Down,' Says Indivisible as Trump Aims FBI, IRS at Liberal Groups | Common Dreams

"Let’s call this what it is: A baseless attempt to chill free speech and scare people away from exercising their constitutional right to protest an authoritarian regime."

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 1d

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Stephen Miller is the most dangerous man in the Trump administration | Judith Levine

In the White House deputy chief of staff, we see that Maga will not simply end with Trump. We must keep our eyes on Miller

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

#Trumpocene #Antifa

The President and the Phantom Enemy

What took place in that State Dining Room on Wednesday was an act of state-sponsored psychosis.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

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Richard Tice has 15-year record of supporting ‘net stupid zero’ initiatives

Firms led by deputy Reform UK leader since 2011 have shown commitment to saving energy and cutting CO2 emissions

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Ryan Ward (@weareunderused)

This one got long but I wanted to give this topic the care I think it deserves. It’s serious with serious implications.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

More from the #Trumpocene

The State That Films Itself

The White House now stages its own paranoia, inviting the grifters and propagandists of the “Antifa threat” to perform governance for the camera.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 1d

That's hilarious. Bad Bunny has criticised Trump, so they are offering an alternative half-time show for all the MAGA snowflakes who had their feelings hurt. @anticapitalistmusings.com @neilmackay.bsky.social

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

From @theathletic.com: Turning Point USA, the organization founded by the late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, announced that it will be hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 8, 2026, to rival the NFL’s choice of Bad Bunny.

Turning Point USA, group founded by Charlie Kirk, announces Super Bowl halftime counterprogramming

Turning Point USA is calling its Super Bowl halftime show a celebration of "faith, family and freedom."

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

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Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime

Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks a...

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

Every tyranny needs its chorus of informers. In Trump’s America, that role in academia is played by Turning Point USA, the fresh-faced heirs of McCarthy’s index cards. #Trumpocene

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 1d

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Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 2d

Congrats to László Krasznahorkai on his Nobel! In 2012, Ben Ehrenreich found himself among "the exceedingly small tribe of us who have been bewitched by the humor, audacity and unrelenting bleakness" of the author.