#OnThisDay in London religious history, 1888: Vicar George Bancroft Butterfield nicked in South Kensington for being drunk & begging.

#OnThisDay in London solidarity history, 1927: An International Class War Prisoners' Aid (ICWPA) rally is held in Trafalgar Square in support of US anarchists on death row, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The Sacco & Vanzetti case: libcom.org/article/sacc...

#OnThisDay in London's rebel past: Rent Strike Begins, Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields, 1939. wp.me/p74yfw-1q

#OnThisDay in London anti-war history: 4000 rally in protest at the Russo-Japanese War, Whitechapel, 1905. Many are Jews living in the East End who had fled the Russian Empire due to pogroms & anti-semitism.

#OnThisDay in London radical history: Nicholas Tew interrogated over the printing of Leveller tracts, 1645. wp.me/p74yfw-hn

#OnThisDay in London's legal history, 1987: Met Police Inspector Lovelock acquitted of maliciously wounding Cherry Groce in September 1985 after shooting her during a raid on her home. Mrs Groce was paralysed for the rest of her life. wp.me/p74yfw-1m

#OnThisDay and tomorrow, in London's shopping history: bread riots in Whitechapel, 1861 wp.me/p74yfw-Qx

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Clay Cross's famous 1972 Rents Rebellion that resisted the Conservative Government's plans to raise council house rents: 'Clay Cross Council: ‘doing our job – and that’s to help the working class, the cream of the nation’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/clay-cross...

A little preview of my forthcoming journal article on council tenants' resistance and resilience today in @scotnational.bsky.social. Massive thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for reaching out and giving my work a write-up. www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

Just had a little chuckle remembering the Comicsgate apologist guy who told me Leo Baxendale would be "turning in his grave" if he could see what The Wokes had done to Brit comics. Real "Tell me you know nothing about Leo Baxendale without saying you know nothing about Leo Baxendale" vibes there.

January is bleak with nothing happening EXCEPT you can come to the London Metropolitan Archives for my talk on sexuality in the capital during the Second World War, from the cover of the blackout to LGBT+ lives AND new research on the mackintosh fetish scene: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/men-at-war...

Andrew Milne, the solicitor in the Sheffield leasehold houses scandal, is currently in Magistrates Court on something else entirely - defending a stalking charge. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/solicit...

80 years ago local teacher Stanley Reed became the UK's first teacher of Film Studies as a curriculum subject, introduced in a West Ham technical school. He later became Director of the BFI. A group of us are marking this with a project involving local schools in film-making using Stanley's methods

International inappropriate touching of exactly the kind parents warn their toddlers against. (I've always thought that rape was violent invasion of sovereign bodies at the human scale; maybe invasion is rape of sovereign bodies at the nation-state scale.)

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

"Three Palestine Action members end 73-day hunger strike | UK News | Sky News" news.sky.com/story/palest...

#OnThisDay in London religious history, 1649: Ranter Abiezer Coppe gives a blasphemous sermon in Bishopsgate. wp.me/p74yfw-1j

OnThisDay in conspiratorial history, 1796: Members of the radical London Corresponding Society are indicted for trial, accused of a ludicrous plot to assassinate king George with a poisoned dart fired from an airgun wp.me/p74yfw-22V

#OnThisDay in London's squatting history, 2013: the 491 Gallery closes. Leytonstone. wp.me/p74yfw-r5

#OnThisDay in London's criminal history: rowdy innkeeper Mary Harvey escapes the Kings Bench prison, 1731. wp.me/p74yfw-hj

#OnThisDay in London military history, 1840: troops are mobilised in London amidst rumours of an impending Chartist uprising. Chartist insurrectionary plots in northern England had just been busted, following the Newport Rising in South Wales.

Heba Muraisi, a Palestine Action-affiliated activist who has refused food for 72 days in prison, says that she “no longer feels hunger”, is suffering with pain and knows that her death may be imminent. #Filton24 aje.news/5hdneq

The reports coming out of Minnesota of the brutality of ICE terror are harrowing. What's clear to me, however, is that the people are rising up to resist this violence head on. Resistance is everywhere. We may be on our own, but we are not alone. "Every time a whistle blows, they don’t win."

A wonderful writeup here of the many sons & daughters of Chartists named after the Irish radical journalists, political agitators & Chartist leaders Fergus O'Connor (1796?–1855) and James Bronterre O'Brien (1804-1864) ☘️

Micaela Panes is researching Labour women’s activism in south Wales and south-west England for her PhD thesis. We were delighted to help her visit a range of archives with one of our research bursaries. Read more on our website. @dwi-micaela.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2026/01/13/m...

#OnThisDay in London educational history, 1786: a group of wealthy, reform-minded Protestant dissenters meet to establish a new dissenting academy in or near to London. This becones the radical New College, Hackney. The New College staff, curriculum & more: www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/religion...

#OnThisDay in radical history, 1658: Agitator, Leveller, conspirator - Edward Sexby dies of a fever in the Tower of London wp.me/p74yfw-ES

#OnThisDay in London's radical past: Anti Tax riot in the City, 1648 wp.me/p74yfw-1e

#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1947: workers strike at Smithfield Market, in protest at use of troops to break a road haulage strike. wp.me/p74yfw-h4

Oh, the child porn factory known as Grok is merging with the Department of Pushups. Maybe they will launch the Epstein papers into orbit?

#OnThisDay in London housing history, 1976: Lambeth Squatters kick off a week of action against Council housing policy, during which a joint march was held by squatters and council building workers striking against layoffs. Some of the history of early squatting in Lambeth: wp.me/p74yfw-1sX

#OnThisDay in 1983, 21-year old Colin Roach was killed in Stoke Newington Police Station, sparking local anger and a community campaign for justice wp.me/p74yfw-1IB

#OnThisDay in London's radical history: the Colin Roach Centre launched, Hackney, 1993, as local activist organising space, named for 25-year old killed by Stoke Newington police. Later the Centre is infiltrated by #spycop Mark Jenner. wp.me/p74yfw-1b

#OnThisDay in London cult history, 1819: Followers of millenarian prophetess Joanna Southcott march into London, causing a riot in Cannon Street. wp.me/p74yfw-QP

51k "likes" for this, & over 160k followers. I can assure you this man has NO "lesbian homies"; he cannot stand that women choose not to choose men, & he's curious as to the reasons why. Like many men, he worries the answer is in the mirror; but the real terror is that it's nothing to do with you.

This really shouldn't need saying again. When we say 'Zionists', we mean Zionists, not Jews. Keir Starmer is a Zionist. The BBC is Zionist. Most white nationalists, like 'Tommy Robinson', are Zionists. Zionism is a western colonial mindset, not a religion or an ethnicity.

UPDATE: We have now published our dossier on perspectives on the Iranian uprising, which we will continue to expand in the coming days: leftrenewal.org/perspectives...

On the #LeftRenewal blog we’ve just posted a multilingual dossier of texts on Trump’s Venezuelan takeover. We’ll keep adding over the coming days leftrenewal.org/us-venezuela...

#OnThisDay in London anti-war history, 1871: A Land and Labour League meeting at St James Hall, Piccadilly denounces the slaughter of the Franco-Prussian War . A brief account of the Land & Labour League: wp.me/p74yfw-tV

#OnThisDay in London's radical history, 1993: hospital campaigners occupy St Charles Hospital chief executive’s office, Paddington, to protest planned closure of A&E department wp.me/p74yfw-17

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1988: dole office workers walk out on strike in Marylebone and Westminster Unemployment Benefit Offices, in support of sacked casual workers in Camden UBO. This sparks a 3 month strike across North London. wp.me/p74yfw-kO

We’re inviting artists from refugee backgrounds to exhibit their work at Hoxton Hall, a historic theatre and creative hub in east London. Artworks will be shown during the new multimedia performance SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA (3–8 March). Email: [email protected] #OpenCall #RefugeesWelcome

#OnThisDay in London's transport history: Labour government sends troops to break London road haulage strike, 1947. wp.me/p74yfw-h4

#OnThisDay in London's anti-racist history, 1986: Bangladeshi schoolchildren protesting racist attacks inside and outside Morpeth School, Bethnal Green, walk out on strike.

#OnThisDay in London radical history: Freethinking radical Richard Carlile jailed for supporting Swing rioters, 1831. wp.me/p74yfw-qR

Yesterday and today, in London's rebel history: Lollards heretic uprising defeated by royal troops in St Giles Fields, 1414. wp.me/p74yfw-h7

#OnThisDay in London history, 1987: Michael Delaney killed by scab TNT truck, Wapping, during printers’ lockout by Murdoch’s News International wp.me/p74yfw-QE

#OnThisDay in secret policing history, 1892: French police spy Auguste Coulon is expelled from the anarchist Club Autonomie, Fitzrovia, having been discovered to have engineered a bomb plot which caused the arrests of several anarchists in Walsall.

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️ @ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org

It all went to shit when Mark E. Smith died