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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 1d

So: 1. Bray gets fascist death threats 2. He leaves the country. 3. The administration uses this to claim that the leaders of the “antifa terrorist network” or whatever are fleeing the country so they’re not arrested

Vero @vero99999999.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 7d

Newcastle: beyond good and evil. 👍🏼

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 9d

Also this longer recording from 1998 Brussels www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2J...

Blood & Fire Sound System - *Live* in Brussels, Belgium 1998, Joseph Cotton, U-Brown, Ranking Joe

YouTube video by Steven K

www.youtube.com

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 9d

Restorative.

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 9d

30 minutes of U Roy on the Blood & Fire soundsystem in Japan in 2006 at the end of this. Really really nice performance and sound quality. "Now hear what my mama say: if you can't be good be careful!" www.nts.live/shows/blood-...

Blood & Fire Presents: A Tribute To The Mighty Mighty U Roy 28th February 2021

Playing Dub, Reggae. Dom Sotgiu pays tribute to U Roy, featuring an exclusive 30 minutes of Blood & Fire & U Roy live in session in Osaka Japan.

www.nts.live

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 10d

100% but also some Home Counties upper middle class tories. So the distinction between “the economy” (abstract) and welfare/housing (very immediate) is an important one.

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 10d

It could mean having two holidays instead of four, or a marginal decline in income from your buy to let properties… my guess is that there are benefit claimants etc who fall for the Reform schtick though.

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 10d

Well economy is #2. It would be good to know more about that. But yes obviously the far right hate benefit claimants and the poor nearly as much as they hate Muslims.

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 14d

Today's statement about "Fighting Back Against Antifa Violence" from the DHS contains a false conspiracy theory about our member crew Rose City Antifa.

RCA has not doxed any ICE agents, a fact confirmed by going to the URL DHS conveniently censored from their photo.

RCA did not put up this flyer.

Screenshot of a DHS report with the following text, followed by a censored photo of a flyer soliciting tips about ICE agents with Rose City Antifa's email listed.
"Rose City Antifa also illegally doxed ICE officers, publishing their private information and home address online and on public flyers. Individuals associated with Antifa also sent death threats to ICE agents and DHS personnel."

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · 19d

#OnThisDay in London policing history, 1999: cops shoot Harry Stanley dead in Hackney, after a chair leg he is carrying in a bag is mistaken for a gun.
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Today in London policing history: cops shoot Harry Stanley dead, Hackney, 1999

Harry Stanley was a 46-year-old Scottish painter and decorator, who lived in Hackney, East London. In September 1999 he was recovering from a successful cancer operation. On September 22nd Harry le…

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 21d

youtu.be/eQDyeEfExtM?... new Dave Ball remix. 🎃

Martin (Dave Ball Hallowe'en Dub of Doom)

YouTube video by Soft Cell

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frozen reeds @frozenreeds.com · 26d

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 26d

We need to understand the libidinal composition of anglofascism. It's a carnival, it's pints and packet on a Saturday. It's the feeling the cruelty might finally be worth it, because you get your share, laundered through the images of owned lib, sad migrant, and the cheeky, horny, deporter in chief.

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · 26d

Is this... the sound of one hand clapping?

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Ill Will @illwill.bsky.social · Sep 7

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...

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Sep 7

Next Sunday: all roads lead to Wapping! Radical History Factions's 2025 offensive continues with a FREE walk around East London. 2pm Wapping Green. radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/f...

Forward to Wapping! 14th September

Join us in East London for tales of riots, pirates, pressgangs, dockers and more! 2pm Wapping Green, Sunday 14th September 2025. Bring your own memories and contributions…

radicalhistoryfaction.wordpress.com

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Sep 6

After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, the awesome Mark Pawson now has a Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pa... Wiki-competent people are welcome to make it better. It could do with some images....

Mark Pawson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Radical History Faction presents:

A WAPPING Radical history walk

Sunday 14 th September

from 2pm

starting on Wapping Green.

RADICALS, RIOTS, PIRATES,
PRESS GANGS, COPS,
DOCKS, DEBTORS ………

FREE EVENT

See you there!

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is the way to report on the far right. UK newspapers take note

Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.

The Nightly electronic newspaper: Who is this dickhead.

Picture shows a white man with a moustache, in a black baseball cap, and a black jacket, calling him “Australia’s least wanted”.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Sep 1

This made my day today.

Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - royalnavy.org.uk

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Lol.

An indie chart from Music Week in 14th April 1984. At number in the chart is "The F........................................................." by Flux of Pink Indians.

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yes I have been dicking about with wikipedia again en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fuc...

The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks - Wikipedia

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Aug 31

TIL that Martin Price of 808 State is the same Martin Price who worked at Eastern Bloc records and successfully defended the shop in an obscenity case brought by "God's cop" James Anderson in relation to a window display of Flux of Pink Indians' album "The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks".

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John Eden @johnedenuk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Finally a reckoning for this creep. The unstated story here was always the C of E letting him get away with it all for so long.

The Black Dog @theblackdog.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our old tour driver was a member of his church, for a while they had the best sound rig In Sheffield, hope he dies in prison, scum.

Ex-priest Chris Brain found guilty of 17 indecent assaults

Chris Brain abused nine women while head of the Nine O'Clock Service in Sheffield in the 80s and 90s.

www.bbc.co.uk

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House of Reggae @houseofreggae.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sad to hear that Channel One studio engineer Barnabas died yesterday.

He helped shape the legendary Channel One sound in the 70s/80s and was also the DJ on their sound system.

He made a few appearances on vinyl, like on this 12"...

youtu.be/FOzg8nyicbQ?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #musicsky

12" picture sleeve of Gregory Isaacs & Ranking Barnabas - Tumbling Tears / How Can I Change My Mind on GGs Hit Records label. Released in 1977. Produced by Alvin Ranglin.

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