Spot on from the brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 👇

Time to read this one again #HistIR

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

Looking for a good read for 2026? Try The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes (2020). Starts with the Kinder Scout trespass and just gets better and better. An emotive eye opener and a blistering critique of English capitalism.

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

My article on Hans Kelsen and the world state is now published in open access on The Journal of Global History and you can check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/S174....

Anarchism is the opposite of tyranny crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/b...

2025: The Year in Review With a Complete Accounting of Our Efforts crimethinc.com/2025inreview The year 2025 arrived like a nightmare. Congratulations on surviving it—and welcome to our year in review report! What did we accomplish this year? How can we prepare for what comes next? Let’s review!

The race to tax AI is finally heating up! And there's a clear winner IMHO: require AI firms to pay a tax in equity so that the public shares ownership of what was stolen. Full article now out in @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Journal of Tax Law journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/ta...

An antidote to white Christian nationalism (or whatever other right wing BS you might have been subjected to over the last week)

The tide is turning…

Excellent and informative. Concludes that the radical far right poses a problem too big to solve rationally or even politically, and so descends into fantasy solutions that are violent, antisemitic and elitist, and worse they *struggle* to distance themselves from the mainstream right

Spectacular successes were achieved by sabs in the Severn Valley, where the Dummer Beagles were prevented from hunting altogether, and in Dorset, were two foxes were saved by sabs from the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/27/s...

@akpress.org have a 50% sale, so you can get Proudhon’s War and Peace for $15! Go on! Do something different in 2026 www.akpress.org/war-and-peac...

#OtD 26 Dec 1862 the largest mass execution in US history took place when 38 Native American Dakota people were hanged. Some trials lasted less than five minutes, and Pres Lincoln personally reviewed the trial paperwork and approved the death penalty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9808...

Here are some translations from the genre of Anarchist Christmas stories. And, with a little luck, I'll add a few more, from "Le Libertaire," before I drift off to sleep tonight. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/tag/christmas/

It was extremely difficult to reconcile their disparate perspectives on the functioning of the International, the consequences of centralisation, the horizon of self-management, the nature of the State, participation in parliaments, or the role of intellectuals. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/26/b...

We’re going to need more opposition to the US in the coming months.

Look at crime fall and fall and fall and fall. There's unlikely to have been much of a a safer time in English and Welsh history.

Weston Antifascists are now on bsky! Follow them @westonantifascists.bsky.social to find out about what they've been up to.

Winning ugly against spurs. Can’t say I’ve seen that in a while. But I bet it was cathartic for the lads. Richarlson is a twat but he’s done our squad a massive favour. This’ll help them get over their hump for sure. #lfc

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

French far-right leader Valentin Linder has been convicted for possession of child pornography. Story: www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran... Valentin joins our list of 122 other far-right figures who also happen to be child sex predators: antifainternational.tumblr.com/post/1700458...

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Hanukkah 5786, Night 2: If it felt both necessary and impossible to engage in Jewish ritual in Athens, where there is so little Jewish life left following the Nazi occupation, and so much antisemitism, that sentiment is even stronger now in the shadow of Bondi Beach. Full post on IG @cindymilstein

The guy who blamed Rob Reiner for his own death says the BBC damaged his reputation www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...

I’m finding it increasingly hard to report anything delivered by “official sources” in the US. Could be true, could be a coverup, could be completely made up for nefarious ends. It’s a country now where no one really has any idea what’s actually going on.

Rob Reiner Compares Trump’s America to Nazi Germany (and I agree with him) www.youtube.com/shorts/CqhzH...

This should excuse any of us who rejoice when this narcissistic oxygen bandit finally croaks

James Milner is the anti-Owen. Played for loads of clubs and they all love him.

StRaTeGiC pLaNnInG

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

We are truly honoured to be one of ten titles on @iajournal.bsky.social's Christmas reading list 2025. 🎅🎄

We're hiring! Anti-capitalist researcher #vacancy 👉Would you like to use strategic research skills to support movements fighting inequality, war and ecocide? Would you like to work for a small workers' coop? Then get in touch! Closing date 1st Feb. corporatewatch.org/corporate-wa...

An insight into the process happening at Essex: My brilliant colleague Lucy Noakes is*President of the Royal Historical Society* and is still, like me, officially "at risk" of redundancy.

Initial thoughts on a HE car-crash: first proper post on my Substack. Part 1 of a million, probably, where I get very annoyed about bad decisions taken by UCU.

Congratulations to every House Democrat and 20 Republicans for voting to restore the constitutional right to a union for over a million federal employees. The Senate must pass this bipartisan provision immediately. All workers, including federal employees, have the right to be in a union.

Your move, #UCUleft. Da iawn, Dyf. Mwy plis.

There's no point in attacking Reform/Tommy Robinson/Far-right racists with 'you're selling yourself to the USA, where's the patriotism in that!?' as the ̶B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ (Englishness) that they want to 'return' to includes MAGA. We exported Christian nationalism; it's in the DNA of Britain's racists.

I am not actually asleep in this picture and was very much engaged throughout this excellent roundtable!

So apparently I can say this now; I am like 99% sure this was the guy that attacked my friend at one of the protests outside a hotel housing refugees earlier this year an got me arrested for affray (released without charge). Bristol antifascists K/D ratio remains immaculate.

It is shocking that a government inquiry was needed to confirm that universities should prioritise … checks notes … teaching and research A similar inquiry is needed in the UK

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

It's not a thing I talk about a lot, but last year I went through the *whole* process one can go through when it comes to being made redundant. I am still in post. I have no idea if my experiences are useful to others going through the same now, but if they might be, and you want to talk, reach out.

My article in @jisb.bsky.social has found a home in Volume 19, Issue 5. With real page numbers! Scientific publishing feels still surreal. Thank you to the colleagues, friends and my two mentors Alexander Spencer and @profalexp.bsky.social who supported me along this journey.

I agree, Europe is worth defending, so fuck off fascist Yankee scum