Harry's Last Stand
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Son and comrade to Harry Leslie Smith and co-conspirator with his Harry's Last Stand. 5 books, hundreds of essays, cross country and cross continent tours to not make his past our future.
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Harry Leslie Smith
February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018
"I was born in a Barnsley slum on February 25th during the economically bleak winter of 1923. My working-class family were on a first name basis with poverty & hunger, so my beginnings weren’t auspicious but damning." ko-fi.com/post/The-Gre...
February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018
"I was born in a Barnsley slum on February 25th during the economically bleak winter of 1923. My working-class family were on a first name basis with poverty & hunger, so my beginnings weren’t auspicious but damning." ko-fi.com/post/The-Gre...
The American Empire Fell Gradually, Then Suddenly.
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The American Empire Fell Gradually, Then Suddenly.
The collapse of the West in 2025 arrived the way Hemingway described bankruptcy: gradually, then suddenly.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The American Empire Fell Gradually, Then Suddenly.
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The Working Class Must Reclaim Its History Before the 1% Writes Our Future
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The Working Class Must Reclaim Its History Before the 1% Writes Our Future
This is the opening chapter of Life on the Never, Never, the third volume of Harry Leslie Smith’s trilogy memoir cycle begun with The Green and Pleasant Land. This book chronicles life in post-war Bri...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The Working Class Must Reclaim Its History Before the 1% Writes Our Future
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"She Was Snatched From Us Because We Are Poor"
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"She Was Snatched From Us Because We Are Poor"
The past haunts everyone, whether it’s our own personal history, the history of our society, or the history of our nation.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
"She Was Snatched From Us Because We Are Poor"
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Let’s talk about #SocialistSunday thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/12/04/l...
Let’s talk about #SocialistSunday
I don’t know who started the hashtag but I embraced it from the very beginning and, although I have had my doubts about whether it served a useful purpose, I’m still here. I felt it incumbent on me…
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December 7, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Snow Falling Over Democracy’s Corpse
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Snow Falling Over Democracy’s Corpse
The snow began falling yesterday and hasn’t stopped since.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Snow Falling Over Democracy’s Corpse
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The Working Class Must Reclaim Its History Before the 1% Writes Our Future
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The Working Class Must Reclaim Its History Before the 1% Writes Our Future
This is the opening chapter of Life on the Never, Never, the third volume of Harry Leslie Smith’s trilogy memoir cycle begun with The Green and Pleasant Land. This book chronicles life in post-war Bri...
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December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The Working Class Must Reclaim Its History Before the 1% Writes Our Future
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The Ghost of our Christmas Future sleeps in doorways
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The Ghost of our Christmas Future sleeps in doorways
It’s the season, I suppose, that triggers the thought. When I brush past a homeless person in December, I think: there stands our Christmas Future.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The Ghost of our Christmas Future sleeps in doorways
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The Welfare State Built His Future. Neoliberalism Ruined Ours
"On November 28th, it will be seven years since Harry Leslie Smith died. Dying at 95 by any standard was a good run which, conside...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
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The Welfare State Built His Future. Neoliberalism Ruined Ours
"On November 28th, it will be seven years since Harry Leslie Smith died. Dying at 95 by any standard was a good run which, conside...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
The Welfare State Built His Future. Neoliberalism Ruined Ours
On November 28th, it will be seven years since Harry Leslie Smith died.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Harry's Last Stand
The Welfare State Built His Future. Neoliberalism Ruined Ours
"On November 28th, it will be seven years since Harry Leslie Smith died. Dying at 95 by any standard was a good run which, conside...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
The Welfare State Built His Future. Neoliberalism Ruined Ours
"On November 28th, it will be seven years since Harry Leslie Smith died. Dying at 95 by any standard was a good run which, conside...
#democracyhashtag/democracy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#democracy #usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists #fascism"/hashtag/fascism" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascism
👉 Vote 'em Out!
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Harry Leslie Smith on his Mum finding a Shop's deposit purse during Great Depression and how she was treated. "Her good deed was valued by the store’s manager as worth no more than a tin of broken biscuits in a city where children were dying from hunger." jmsmith.substack.com/p/i-am-going...
“I am going out of this World Fighting.”
In the last 10 years of Harry Leslie Smith’s life, five books were published, hundreds of essays penned, and a podcast produced.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Harry Leslie Smith on his Mum finding a Shop's deposit purse during Great Depression and how she was treated. "Her good deed was valued by the store’s manager as worth no more than a tin of broken biscuits in a city where children were dying from hunger." jmsmith.substack.com/p/i-am-going...
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THIS DAY in 2018, Harry Leslie Smith , of 'Harrys Last Stand' fame, died. In his youth he fought Nazis, in his latter years he campaigned for Social Justice.
We remember you, Harry.
We remember you, Harry.
November 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
THIS DAY in 2018, Harry Leslie Smith , of 'Harrys Last Stand' fame, died. In his youth he fought Nazis, in his latter years he campaigned for Social Justice.
We remember you, Harry.
We remember you, Harry.
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Mike’s Diary thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/11/30/m...
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Mike’s Diary
While I’m thinking of something to write about at greater length I’ve been writing down a few thoughts and observations. This is longer than usual but I’ve edited it for coherence. 18 November 2025…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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My Stalker and the Digital Storm Troopers of Fascism
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My Stalker and the Digital Storm Troopers of Fascism
This is a story unfolding in real time, one I never imagined would happen to me.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My Stalker and the Digital Storm Troopers of Fascism
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If anyone can help, please do, or pass this along.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If anyone can help, please do, or pass this along.
My Stalker and the Digital Storm Troopers of Fascism
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My Stalker and the Digital Storm Troopers of Fascism
This is a story unfolding in real time, one I never imagined would happen to me.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My Stalker and the Digital Storm Troopers of Fascism
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Neil, worth reading what Harry Leslie Smith wrote in 2015.
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I agree with both you and him.
I stopped buying the poppy many years ago. What I do is a monthly donation to another organisation supporting veterans.
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I agree with both you and him.
I stopped buying the poppy many years ago. What I do is a monthly donation to another organisation supporting veterans.
"Never Again", Remembrance Day’s Broken Vow.
The Poppy and the Politics of Forgetting
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November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Neil, worth reading what Harry Leslie Smith wrote in 2015.
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I agree with both you and him.
I stopped buying the poppy many years ago. What I do is a monthly donation to another organisation supporting veterans.
jmsmith.substack.com/p/never-agai...
I agree with both you and him.
I stopped buying the poppy many years ago. What I do is a monthly donation to another organisation supporting veterans.
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Harry Leslie Smith February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018. Did we change anything in the world? Probably not, but it was worth the bloody try. And during it and after it, nothing else mattered, but that love we had for each other. jmsmith.substack.com/p/seven-year...
Seven years gone: grief has softened, but my rage at the death of his dream hasn’t
Harry Leslie Smith
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Harry Leslie Smith February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018. Did we change anything in the world? Probably not, but it was worth the bloody try. And during it and after it, nothing else mattered, but that love we had for each other. jmsmith.substack.com/p/seven-year...
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“Thirty Days in the Hole”
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“Thirty Days in the Hole”
Who could be proud of doing a job like that is beyond me — protecting shop owners from potential 21st-century Jean Valjeans.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Thirty Days in the Hole”
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The Harsh Surrender Terms Austerity Demands
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The Harsh Surrender Terms Austerity Demands
It snowed in the early hours of this morning, just as it did seven years ago when Dad died.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The Harsh Surrender Terms Austerity Demands
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Harry Leslie Smith February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018. Did we change anything in the world? Probably not, but it was worth the bloody try. And during it and after it, nothing else mattered, but that love we had for each other. jmsmith.substack.com/p/seven-year...
Seven years gone: grief has softened, but my rage at the death of his dream hasn’t
Harry Leslie Smith
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November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Harry Leslie Smith February 25, 1923-November 28, 2018. Did we change anything in the world? Probably not, but it was worth the bloody try. And during it and after it, nothing else mattered, but that love we had for each other. jmsmith.substack.com/p/seven-year...
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Lovely man. Glad to have met you both in stroud. Hope you’re doing ok?
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Lovely man. Glad to have met you both in stroud. Hope you’re doing ok?
3 days left & it's an SOS for my rent. Nothing great still your help in part keeps me housed & doing work I started with my dad including 6 books. New work Harry's Green & Pleasant Land excerpts on my sub stack. Out to publishers one so far wants it. paypal.com/paypalme/Har...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
3 days left & it's an SOS for my rent. Nothing great still your help in part keeps me housed & doing work I started with my dad including 6 books. New work Harry's Green & Pleasant Land excerpts on my sub stack. Out to publishers one so far wants it. paypal.com/paypalme/Har...