Kind of insane that this is where we are. Democrat governors calling for civil resistance and mutual aid against immigration raids www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Z3...

Worth reflecting in current fuss about defence spending numbers - Trump whinging about how Europe doesn’t pay its way blah blah… … that EU defence spending is greater than China. And if you include the UK in European defence, it’s even more.

Trump’s fascist domestic policy and his fascist foreign policy are joining up. Domestically, he has a private army of immigration goons invading cities with large non-white populations and rounding people up and kidnapping them And of course now murdering them if they get in the way.

Not to mention… Are we *trying* to start a war with Russia? Sending British troops to Ukraine and then helping seize their ships in international waters? Remember when the fear of nuclear annihilation meant that we avoided direct war for 45 years?

Is there an illegal US-backed war we won’t rush to join? Apparently the UK is now joining in with the illegal overthrow of a foreign head of state and the imposition of sanctions to pressure them to hand over all their oil to Trump.

This is Smedley Butler At the time of his death he was the highest decorated US marine in history. He served in the military for 34 years. He also single handily saved the US from a fascist coup in the 1930s (long story). Anyway, for no particular reason he came to mind today…

Time to pull this off the shelf…

Fuck me. They’re going to “run Venezuela”. I assumed they were going to do try and do some quick regime change and install the opposition. Looks more like they’re doing an Iraq.

Some extremely classic old school American imperialism to start the new year. It’s an oil war! How retro!

Just learnt from Behind The Bastards w @iwriteok.bsky.social that the Battle of Cable Street resulted in Mussolini pulling his £60,000 a year (£3.5m today) to British fascists bc he thought Mosley was a failure This makes Cable St even more of a body blow to the fascists than I had realised!

This event yesterday was excellent Looking forward to reading the book There’s so much stuff that has come out of the spycops enquiry - tens of thousands of pages Huge amounts of things I didn’t know and that you won’t know unless you’ve really been paying attention

Well Tommeh’s carol concert-cum-bigot fest only managed to draw a couple of thousand. (Which is still a couple of thousand too many) Who knows? Maybe coked-up hooligans aren’t as into sing-songs as he thought?

This is actually an amazing speech And so astounding that this is where we are - that you can’t present a silly/serious Radio 4 programme and think trans ppl might not be evil without getting the sack.

This is actually a pretty good song Happy that the Christian Nationalists only gathered a couple of thousand today (although being “happy” about that is in itself kind of bleak) youtu.be/liRd9pjSBDA

Today Christian Nationalist wannabes take to the streets of London, but don’t be worried - “it’s only a carol concert” Totally normal. Nothing to see here. If you want a taste of where this leads…

Tommy Robinson wants to put “the Christ back in Christmas” So when did the collection of racists and hooligans that make up the UK far-right suddenly decide it’s all about Jesus? Excellent article on the American $$ behind their sudden conversion: humanists.uk/2025/09/17/r...

Antifascists from Brighton travelled to Croydon yesterday to support Croydon Community Action against a planned demonstration by Horley Patriots. The Horley racists, who have mobilised large numbers locally to intimidate migrants housed in local hotels, on this occasion failed to show up at all!

Not enough people seem to appreciate that Dope magazine, with a current circulation of 40,000 copies, is one of the largest circulation anarchist papers in the world ever. Also it's really good. www.dopemag.org

That is an insane headline. Now is Trump just being characteristically volatile? Or is he being savvy in seeing which way the wind is blowing and moving with it? Either way, it looks like an amazing win for Mamdani which will hopefully keep the Federal Gestapo out of NYC.

In this day & age it’s nice to find something that can bring everyone together “Freedom from British rule is the single most popular secular festival anywhere in the world. Every six days, somewhere celebrates freedom from British rule” podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e... @empirepoduk.bsky.social

Still relevant bc the same shit keeps coming around ...or gets worse. 2012 me: "In a way a little similar to George Orwell, it always makes me feel almost patriotic to observe the general lack of overt patriotism in this country." whileromeburnsjournal.wordpress.com/2016/11/10/p...

Zohran Mamdani shows one way to resist fascism. Where the far-right is weak is that it is backed by billionaires and produces zero tangible benefits for working people. All it does is say - “Look over there! An immigrant!”

Putting this in context it is kind of astonishing. Someone who calls himself a socialist just won Mayor of New York. A Muslim just won Mayor of New York. Someone who is willing to say Israel is committing genocide just won Mayor of New York. www.dsausa.org/statements/z...

An amazing victory in New York. All the more impressive that all the billionaires and right wing maniacs weren’t able to come up with anything to stop him.

Another arrest in connection with the Peacehaven mosque arson. Also it’s now being handled by counter-terror police, although still not being called a terrorist attack (presumably bc the victims are Muslims). www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/11/04/a...

It’s really interesting seeing corporations lean into dystopianism.

This is an excellent history of Lewes Bonfire that draws out the contradictions of the event - a strange survival of another time that has somehow been passed down with mutating meanings And as is generally the case with history - nothing is really as of as great antiquity as people like to believe

Confirmation: it is indeed a post-Southport thing to stop the far-right burning asylum seekers alive every time there's a crime Still doesnt stop them though. Currently far-right Facebook is speculating the alleged attacker changed his name to sound more English www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A gang of us travelled from Brighton yesterday to support the anti-racist demo in Newhaven. About 300 people joined the ‘Everybody’s Haven’ march which wound around the town centre before finishing with a rally and music at the bandstand on Denton Island.

Interesting that the Huntingdon train attack has to be reported in this way. On the one hand feels reactionary to be immediately flagging up the ethnicity of the attackers. But on the other hand, after the racist riots last year, everyone’s trying to get in ahead of the far right rumour mill.

So many grifting cults been covered by @iwriteok.bsky.social What really struck me w this one is the symbiosis btw USA’s lack of decent healthcare and the opportunities it creates to prey on the desperate I guess that’s America: Capitalism x Christianity baby! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Nice window display Amnesty bookshop

Looking forward to seeing the "specialist experience and skills" of the British Army in bringing peace to the Middle East. news.sky.com/story/britis...

The episodes of Empire with Caroline Elkins on Palestine between the wars are really extraordinary. Shows British imperial techniques of violence, the Black and Tans and Bomber Harris were essentially the founders of the IDF. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

There are multiple clips from various locations of far right hotel protesters calling for asylum seekers to be burnt to death and laughing about the idea Sometimes the British press even turn these people into popular heroes and stick them on the front page of the paper metro.co.uk/2025/10/05/f...

Has global politics ever been driven so obviously before by one man’s petty rancour? (A: probably) He’s laying it on with a fucking trowel. He so obviously wants a Nobel Peace Prize just bc Obama got one and Obama once made fun of him at a White House dinner in 2011.

I’m sure the people who get lifted for this will turn out to have no connections at all with the sort of noble patriots who attach flags to lampposts. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Superhero team up with the Mud Wizard to defeat all cops

I have quite a lot of respect for what @defendourjuries.bsky.social are doing. Many ppl were critical of XR’s tactics of getting everyone arrested. It feels a bit like they’ve now found their moment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Little bit hard to see how the government is going to ‘ban’ protests at which everyone is already getting arrested for terrorism offences.

Shabana Mahmood is more outspoken than Starmer. And welcome as it is for someone publicly to be raising the alarm, nevertheless, the answer she comes up with is the same rhetoric we've had in Britain for decades - what Sivanandan called "the numbers game"... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What we're seeing with Trumpist fascism is America's imperial boomerang All the vast militarised security state build up by both parties especially after 9-11 that was meant to be deployed against 'them' is now coming home: the army on the streets, extra judicial disappearances and black sites

So we're at the rounding-up-all-my-political-opponents stage good good all on track www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

So Starmer actually finally said something Of course the reaction from the tabloids is what you’d expect: “Concerned about immigration? Starmer thinks you’re a racist” Because during a massive wave of racism the main victims are the people being called racist www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

All very grim. But the idea that racists are ‘confusing’ recent people arrived in small boats with Sikhs who have been here for decades is bizarre. That makes it sound like the rape was a mistake and if it had been a recent migrant, then it would all be more explicable. archive.is/liGyZ

BREAKING: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile

This has all backfired fairly spectacularly. The British state has inadvertently turned them into superstars. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Starmer seems to have compressed the whole of 1997-2010 Labour into the space of about a year. From joy at the departure of the Tories and hope for positive change to scandal, corruption, genocidal war, obsession w ID cards and ideological and physical exhaustion. All in a matter of months!

Demo this morning at the Home Office from @rmtunion.bsky.social The government is trying to copy the far-right and has now taken on the RMT, trying to deport the people that run the trains. We need more unions to stand up. Solidarity beats racism.

This is excellent and inspiring. It’s also not just words: people listening to the legacy of those who beat back the NF before, coming together and getting organised. @ukblm.bsky.social ukblm.org/news/defeat-...