London Fashion Week Orcas flip yachts. Sinking these symbols of obscene greed and reclaiming their home as a billionaire-free zone. We want this in fashion: Redistribute wealth and power into the hands of the millions of people who make our clothes. Photos: Kim Ford

👗The top 10 fast fashion brands raked in $13.9 billion in profit in 2024 - while paying the workers who make their clothes poverty wages. We're at London Fashion Week today to say: tax extreme wealth. Pay living wages now. #BillionairesOut #LivingWageNow

Manual anticapitalista de la moda! Thrilled to say that The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion is out now in Spanish... Desde las alfombras rojas de la Gala del Met hasta la moda rápida online, la ropa cuenta una historia de desigualdad, racismo y crisis climática. capitanswing.com/libros/manua...

ENTREVISTA | "La moda sirve para hacer más ricos a los multimillonarios y para actuar como un sistema de control", señala @tansyhoskins.org .

Esta edición de 'Manual anticapitalista de la moda', de @tansyhoskins.org, ha sido traducida por Beatriz Ruiz y Lorenzo Arroyo. Os dejamos por aquí el índice y el enlace web a la ficha del libro. Esperamos que la lectura sea de vuestro agrado. capitanswing.com/libros/manua...

Galardonada periodista inglesa, @tansyhoskins.org es licenciada en Relaciones Internacionales por la London School of Economics y máster en Periodismo Audiovisual por la U. de Cardiff. Es documentalista de actualidad en ITV y miembro del Sindicato Nacional de Periodistas de UK.

A lo largo del libro, @tansyhoskins.org recurre a Karl Marx para explicar cómo el capitalismo convierte la moda en mercancía, símbolo y deseo, pero también en instrumento de explotación. Así, la pregunta que atraviesa toda la obra es: ¿y si la moda pudiera existir sin capitalismo?

Desde las alfombras rojas de la Gala del Met hasta la moda rápida online, la ropa cuenta una historia de desigualdad, racismo y crisis climática. En este libro, @tansyhoskins.org deshace con rigor e intención los hilos de la industria capitalista para revelar la verdad sobre nuestra ropa.

👕 NOVEDAD 👕 Explotación laboral, racismo, devastación ambiental, control de los cuerpos, monopolios mediáticos y desigualdad económica. La moda es política, y este un análisis crítico del sistema que sostiene la moda global. Manual anticapitalista de la moda, de @tansyhoskins.org. #YaEnLibrerías

«La moda es una forma de producción social [...]. El objetivo de este libro es descoser y desmitificar la industria de la moda y su ideología, no alimentar su mística cuidadosamente cultivada [...]. La moda es un concepto puramente europeo indistinguible del capitalismo». @tansyhoskins.org

Via @tansyhoskins.org :"In May NEXT announced record level profits at its AGM. A few days later, NEXT shut down a factory that it owns in Sri Lanka citing ‘high costs’ – plot twist, the factory was unionised. 1,416 workers were fired by WhatsApp message. No notice." tansyhoskins.org/summer-of-20...

Listening to the "anticapitalist book of fashion" by @tansyhoskins.org and wondering why I missed it for so long 😭 I'm at chapter 1 and I've already swore on the grave of my beloved cat that I will only buy small brands clothes and shoes from now on, or not buying nothing at all 🫡

Nepal is on the front line of the fast fashion crisis. Sandwiched between manufacturing giants China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of fast fashion exports that are devastating both its sacred waterways and domestic textile traditions. Read the full story eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...

Nepal is on the front line of the fast fashion crisis, caught between two manufacturing giants - China and India - this small nation is becoming an unintended dumping ground for fast fashion’s overproduction. Read the story by Tansy Hoskins and Arun Karki tomorrow 10am. #TextileWaste #FastFashion

Just published a new investigation into textile waste on @ecoage.bsky.social with my colleague Arun Karki in Nepal: Sandwiched between manufacturing powerhouses China and India, Nepal faces a relentless influx of cheap, toxic fast fashion exports: eco-age.com/nepal-the-fr...

London’s Nakba protest last weekend - 500,000 people marching to say Stop the Genocide and Free Palestine.

We joined @labourlabel.bsky.social, No Sweat, Remake Our World @ucu.org.uk & @gmb.org.uk to remember the workers who lost their lives 12 years ago, and deliver a letter to the Bangladesh High Commission demanding that the Bangladeshi government: drop the false charges and improve working conditions.

Today, the 12th anniversary of Rana Plaza, we joined @labourlabel.bsky.social @waronwant.bsky.social and other workers rights activists in the Rana Plaza Solidarity Collective to deliver an open letter to the Bangladesh government demanding labour reform. www.tbsnews.net/economy/rmg/...

What greater monument could there be for the 1,138 people who died at Rana Plaza, than for the Bangladeshi garment industry to become a light in the darkness, a beacon to the world rebuilt with safe factories, trade unionism and full workers rights. #RanaPlazaNeverAgain

On the 12th anniversary of Rana Plaza, the Rana Plaza Solidarity Collective went to the Bangladesh High Commission in London to urge the new government in Bangladesh to pay garment workers a living wage and assure trade union freedoms. #RanaPlazaNeverAgain

The devastating earthquake in Myanmar on March 28 has worsened an already dire humanitarian situation for millions of people in the country. The military junta should allow immediate access to humanitarian aid for survivors and lift restrictions that impede emergency response.

It's been a minute since I put on my reporter hat, but I'm eager to share something I worked on w/ @annawolfewriting.bsky.social. Our investigation for @wired.com goes inside toxic Telegram groups targeting predominantly women of color in the UK with harassment, doxing and sexual digital abuse.

Fashion activism is in a state of flux. Global crises on multiple fronts. Right-wing govs cutting funding. Corporate social media owned by the worst people in the world. So now what? Join me for an urgent online event with Clean Clothes Campaign on 25th March, 13:00 CET: mailchi.mp/e968c671ffbf...

I wrote about the importance of Resistance, drawing strength from the past, meeting Steve McQueen and having an essay in his new book 🌹 tansyhoskins.org/resistance-w...

“In Billionaires and Guillotines, players take on the role of 2-5 rival plutocrats vying to grab the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution where they all lose… a lot more than their assets.” Looking forward to backing this new #boardgame from Pluto Press!

“A device to view the interdependency between fashion and nature, whereby nature is seen as the starting point and not just a resource for fashion to exploit…short vignettes and full of hopeful predictions” Not yet read Fletcher’s Almanac, but Fashion Roundtable’s write up is interesting.

New Patched advice column out. I wrote back to Julia, who is feeling exhausted by her laser focus on her wardrobe, about reimagining fashion activism as being about far more than the limitations of consumer-based activism: tansyhoskins.org/you-cannot-c...

Peaceful protest should be fundamental to our society. Yet instead, police have arrested, interrogated and intimidated protesters over the weekend for standing against genocide. As democracy is threatened worldwide, we must defend the right to free speech and assembly.

This is where Abu Sayeed was killed in July in Rangpur in Bangladesh. I will never get over what he did and what they did to him. He’s become a national icon. A 6 year old made me a clay model of him, complete with blood spatter. The trauma recirculates through the generations.

The cost of obtaining papers to stay in Thailand is an increasing barrier to many Burmese migrant workers in the garment sector in Thailand: www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/hard-grin...

London comrades... Find out about the Italian car factory that was occupied by workers for 3 years, who had a vision of a new, greener life. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gkn-floren...

In the first two weeks of 2025, 15 miners have been killed😞in Pakistan’s 🇵🇰coalfields. The absence of adequate safety 😷mechanisms are behind the grim start of the year for the country’s miners.

Dhaka folk, please come to the long-overdue launch of the 🇧🇩 edition of The Aid Lab on Saturday 18th Jan at Bookworm. Many thanks to UPL Books. Afsan Chowdhury, Navine Murahid and Asif Shahan and I will be talking about the 1974 famine and what it meant for Bangladesh. 3pm!

Goodbye www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

Cranking up the furnaces to send my first newsletter of 2025 🛠️ 2024 ended on a high note with this superb piece 🌸 so please consider subscribing for the year ahead. It’s free, annoys CEO’s and doesn’t try and sell you clothes.

Happy to see my interview with LifeGate Magazine about ‘Il libro della moda anticapitalista - Tra Karl Lagerfeld e Karl Marx’ has been published: www.lifegate.it/moda-anti…

Dark Green: Climate Finance Investigations - a new #free online training programme for European journalists. 8x2hrs sessions over 4 weeks 15 journalists to be selected 5 x €1,000 grants for the best stories Apply now: tcij.org/initiative/d... Deadline: 2 Feb Funded by @journalismfund.bsky.social

I remember when Vandana Shiva was a scientist who cared about humanity. Now it's wall-to-wall this. Disappointing doesn't begin to cover it.

The BBC spoke with factory workers in Guangzhou's Panyu neighbourhood, the so-called "Shein village" The truth behind your $12 dress: Inside the Chinese factories fuelling Shein's success www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #ModernSlavery @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

This is the story of E.S., who is living with HIV in a Gaza under siege.

It’s the hope that keeps us here

‘Dark Green: Shining a light on climate finance’ New Centre for Investigative Journalism course teaching the methods, tools and research skills needed to investigate climate finance. I’m teaching Supply Chains Investigations for one of the modules: tcij.org/initiativ…

Thanks to Lucy Siegle for this round-up of SHEIN’s car crash performance at the UK Parliament. The number counter going up every time SHEIN refuses to answer a supply chain question about cotton is excruciating. @lucysiegle.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch

Ranks as one of the most embarrassing media responses to a makeover ever

The global 1% - who earn over $140,000 a year - have already burned through their carbon budget for the whole of 2025. Will Brazil's push for a billionaires tax for climate at the G20 last year go anywhere? www.climatechangenews.com/2025/01/10/o...

The UAE has secured the deportation of an Egyptian-Turkish poet from Lebanon for social media comments he made in Syria, reports @hrw.org He is at risk of torture and will not receive a fair trial. Our new authoritarian world order is already here. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

me: Try to be optimistic about the future Meanwhile: Capitalism

Research published in The Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was around 40 percent higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory's health ministry. u.afp.com/5v3C

The Bangladeshi trade organization will form the group by Jan. 26 and hold elections within the next few months.