Ok so it seems like the hive mind consensus is neither of these but EYES. Thanks folks.

EYES and IZ seem to be equally popular, with EYE in remote third place

Fam, are the Isley Brothers the EYE-ley Brothers or the IZ-ley Brothers?

The Red-Brown “Zombie Plague”: How Fascist Ideas Are Becoming Popular on the Left – Part 1, by Daphne Lawless – May 2018 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

Jim Denham in @workersliberty.bsky.social: Trump’s security strategy and invasion of Venezuela put into practice the “multipolarity” the Morning Star and the rest of the campist left have long dreamt of. workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

This piece argues that Trump’s approach to Venezuela reveals a convergence w right-wing geopolitics and some anti-imperialist left. It is not ideological but structural and focuses on shared rejection of neoliberal globalization with implications for universalism. open.substack.com/pub/theright...

Trying to make sense of the tankie phenomenon, an oblique response to the Gabriel Rockhill internet drama but actually much more than that substack.com/@mohammede/n...

One of the most powerful images of the Iranian protests is that of an Iranian young woman burning Khamenei’s portrait, and lighting her cigarette with it. Photographer unknown.

Typically sizzling clarity from @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social:

Essential read: @transform6789.bsky.social’s annual overview of the US far right newrepublic.com/article/2049...

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...

Some good stuff on libcom: 1. The 2008-16 archive of the fantastic Kittens journal, the English-language zine of supercool anti-capitalist/anti-nationalist Critisticuffs / Gruppen Gegen Kapital und Nation / Wine and Cheese Appreciation Society of Greater London. libcom.org/article/kitt...

Watching Trump’s Venezuela madness unfold reminds me how all those clever people told us he’s no warmonger and has an anti-interventionist mindset

As the SWP clears out the Comrade Delta accomplices on its central committee, the orthodox Trotskyists of Red Mole give a sharp analysis of the deformities caused by the SWP’s 24 year alliance with the Stalinist CPB: redmole.substack.com/p/the-swps-t...

Really interesting by @polphilpod.bsky.social. One of the central points is that those who saw the danger of Trump first (often women, queer people or of colour) are often embedded in conservative-dominated communities and have insight into bigotry via their own experiences of being marginalised.

David Miller has spouted some pretty despicable stuff lately but this enraged me, combining Jew-hate with racism against Syrians.

Noam Chomsky has spent about 60 years telling us that billionaires control the world through corporate propaganda.

I’ve seen claims that the hero is a Lebanese Christian, an Israeli Jew or a white IT worker. Musk’s Grok and his Community Notes are spreading the false stories. It seems the definitive version is that Ahmed al Ahmed is an Australian citizen born in Idlib, Syria 🇸🇾 www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Made the mistake of looking at X to see if there were useful updates about Bondi. What I saw was (a) nativist ghouls like Nick Timothy using the tragic violence as an excuse to demonise and fear-monger about migrants and (b) “anti-Zionist” ghouls like David Miller & 5Pillars justifying the attack.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Here to stay, here to fight BLM UK on how we resist the rise of the far right “Billionaires may fund their hate but we carry the hope of billions.” www.ukblm.org/news/article...

Extraordinarily high numbers of Your Party activists oppose trans rights.

#OtD 28 Nov 1971 Jewish anti-fascists of the 62 Group shut down a fascist meeting at the Royal Pavillion Hotel in Brighton, UK. Present were National Front members and former Nazi SS officers, some of whom were hospitalised. More on Jewish anti-fascism: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

Now part of the Jewish Museum London collection, this is one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain. Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/lo... #JewishHistory #JewishCulture #JewishCommunity #WorkingClassHistory #Archives

Deeply un-surprised that right-wing anti-vaccine activist Alon Mizrahi, recently feted by lots of western leftists for literally no other reason than that he is a Jew who hates Israel (eg he has been promoted by Owen Jones), is now singing the praises of Nazi Nick Fuentes. (HT @vorkoz.bsky.social)

[CW: abusive relationships] One of the reasons why I have not completely quit “X” is that it remains the best place to follow the proceedings of the #spycops Undercover Policing Inquiry now unfolding, documenting one of the grimmest scandals of the British state since the end of the Cold War…

#OtD 12 Nov 1918 in Kursk, Ukraine, a conference began which led to the formation of the Nabat Confederation, one of the most important anarchist groups in the world at that time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8428...

Sharp piece by Sofron Bliznakov of Posle on how the the way that Russian war machine evades sanctions shows how global capitalism really works www.posle.media/article/capi...

Crackpot antisemitism x armchair antisemitism on the right (in the Cold War and today).

My brother has gifted me the chevron of Arkan, the drone batallion of the 10th Mountain Assault Unite of 🇺🇦. They have been valiantly defending Hulyaipole, the birth place of Nestor Makhno, the communist anarchist who fought in the Ukrainian war of independence. The situation in Hulyaipole is bad. 🧵

An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana, by Galina Rymbu - a Ukrainian anarchist on the bad geopolitics Zarah’s been listening to leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Piece by @paulmason.bsky.social very worth reading for the detailed account near the end of who was involved in the recent “peace” conference in Paris that Sultana attended

The MAGA thinktank that brought us Project Esther uses antisemitic code words (globalist) and says neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes has a spot in the conservative big tent. Essential thread:* *screenshot is of FB post in case you’re not going to read the thread

Really scary report on the Prarieland case, the Trump regime’s intensification of its war on antifa:

“You have strength. It doesn’t come from your government. It doesn’t come from your media. It comes from you.” @dlj.bsky.social, Founder and ED, @onepeoplesproject.bsky.social GLOBAL WARNING, Ep 1 On US anti-fascism, from the 80s through 2025, and beyond — and what YOU can do to make a difference

🌈 Brockley rainbow over Bob and Spoons

I wish I was making this up: conservative groups in Taiwan continue eulogizing Charlie Kirk in an attempt to build a Turning Point Taiwan "young conservatives movement." Students not having it protested their event yesterday and were attacked by event participants, and then labelled as "terrorists"

Please support an O.G. Black antifascist being targeted by nazis and their ilk. Daryle Lamont Jenkins is an amazing guy and he's been fighting fascism for decades.

Byron Clark and Daphne Lawless on Colonialism in the Pacific and the Left in New Zealand – 12 Oct 2025 leftrenewal.org/videos-en/cl...

Just noticed @stewarthome.bsky.social’s Fascist Yoga is 40% off in the @plutopress.bsky.social sale! www.plutobooks.com/product/fasc...

The Israeli left fighting from within: I don’t normally share the Morning Star, but this is Ofer Cassif, who with his Palestinian colleague Aymen Odeh was just kicked out of the Knesset for heckling Trump. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ofer...

Good response from @workersliberty.bsky.social to Eddie Dempsey’s call in Tribune for the left to retreat from “middle class” causes like trans rights, climate change and anti-racism. www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-0...

" ... one of the founders of antifa"

I’m not generally a fan of if-the-boot-was-on-the-other-foot counterfactuals, but can you imagine what the UK media would be doing if one of Corbyn’s closest politician allies was found to be a Russian agent? Why is Farage not being held over the coals for this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It’s extraordinary but not shocking that it isn’t seen as a massive story that one of the most senior politicians in Farage’s party was an active Russian agent for pay, asking questions in the European Parliament on the Kremlin’s behalf, organising pro-Russian events. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i have added @mark-bray.bsky.social to the afa research starter pack & apologize for such an embarrassing oversight. go.bsky.app/739SB3g

Folks, have tinned steam puddings ceased to exist? Has the Microwave finally killed them off? I’ve just looked in like four different corner stores, the kinds of places they would’ve once been a staple, and there were none.

So @danielmang.bsky.social and I wrote something about the left in our current moment. It took us ages and ended up being rather longer than intended. Let us know what you think.