One of the weird things about some syndicalists, is that when it does all come together and it's a grand half-century old tradition that spawned the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism, defeated the National Front and has broad union backing, along with pro-Palestine groups, the Muslim […]

Yes, there is a lot happening at national level in Britain to generate strategies to oppose the growth of the far right and racist narratives that serve as a distraction from the nation's true structural problems, which are caused by the richest not the […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Sorry for the Insta link. You can view this without an account or seeing ads! Nazi Nick Tenconi being forced off the streets of Sheffield, England, clearly shitting bricks at how vastly outnumbered he is by our lot...and how their intimidation tactics are only […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/nigel-farages-chosen-reform-mayoral-candidate-suggested-black-britons-cant-be-english/ The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon […]

📣 Workshop! Transformative Conversations to Defeat Narratives of Division. Weds 19 Nov, 7 - 9pm. Register. 👇🏼 https://actionnetwork.org/events/transformative-conversations-defeating-narratives-of-divisions/ Run by the Ella Baker School of Organising and […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

I hope you all realise that just as under Pinochet in Chile, a full historical accounting of the number of "disappeared" in the USA under Trump won't be possible in real-time. It could be decades before we have anything close to accurate numbers. We already know they will deport tiny children […]

Today may be a good time to remember when Dick Cheney almost killed his friend Harry Whittington on a quail hunting trip in Texas in 2006. Cheney hit the 78 year-old Texas attorney in the face, neck and chest with birdshot. Whittington suffered a collapsed lung and had a heart attack the next […]

Dick Cheney, who as Vice President under George W. Bush was chief architect of the "War on Terror", has died at aged 84.

"every time you hear a piece of good news about the explosive growth of clean energy, it’s worth remembering that the benchmark in question likely could have been met in 2005, rather than 2025, if not for Big Oil’s climate deception" @aaronregunberg.bsky.social banger in @newrepublic.com -->>>>>

White Christian ethno-nationalism is by far the biggest terrorist threat in the West. It's your typical mass shooter profile. It's by far the greatest danger to democracy, to women's rights and bodily autonomy, to ethnic minorities, to freedom of speech. It's currently the most destabilising […]

When Skeptic gets political, the situation is dire. "...Reform UK is the party with the most support..yet they have shown that they have no problem with spreading pseudoscientific misinformation that aligns with the interests of their donors, no interest in vetting their members and candidates […]

A productive day doing outreach to a local mosque. While not religious myself, it was still a truly profound experience to visit Mecca during the hajj. They had VR headsets that were so immersive, it really did feel like being there in person! Motion sensitive, so you could look around just as […]

Doesn't sound like enough to quell a national uprising, but still worrying. "A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form "quick reaction forces" trained in "riot control", including use of batons, body […]

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America. The human brain is resilient. While you’re watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you’re accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

It's looking increasingly like all those inflatable costumes and witty placards just weren't the optics these Republican Fascists needed to justify martial law. No, in order to trigger the dramatic escalation of violence needed for their Reichstag Fire Decree, they're going to have to starve […]

There was a time at the very beginning of the pandemic when people were actually looking out for their neighbors. Getting them groceries. Picking up prescriptions. Checking on their general wellbeing. I feel we are in a similar circumstance at the moment, but now the pathogens are Republicans.

The USA is run by a mad tyrant. "[Trump] posted a fake AI video about right-wing "med beds," a conspiracy theory that he later deleted. He claimed Portland is burning down and that there aren't any stores there anymore. He spread nonsense about Tylenol. He keeps talking about cutting […]

A significant chunk of The Guardian's political commentary these days is just Oxbridge liberals urging politicians to do stuff they absolutely won't do. Thus we have Polly Toynbee today saying that Kier Starmer already being the most unpopular PM ever is an "opportunity": now (says Polly) he can […]

"In the minds of these [British] political leaders and the mainstream media, this ban [of dangerous Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer hooligans] must have been put in place because of worries that Jewish Israeli fans would be attacked by British Muslims...Labour has become so embedded in the right wing […]

@chemoelectric Ancient Athens was the birthplace of democracy, though it wasn't a representative one. Iceland's Althing was the earliest national assembly with yearly meetings of chieftains to make laws, established around 930AD. The oldest continuous parliament is the Isle of Man's Tynwald […]

Denizens of the fedi, A comrade who was falsely arrested in Nottingham this summer while facing up to UKIP - an extreme far-right, anti-immigration party here in Britain - has his trial coming up soon and would deeply appreciate any contributions, however small, towards his legal fees. He […]

First, apologies for the Substack link; it's frustrating that excellent journos such as Carole Cadwalladr have chosen to hang out at the Nazi bar. But a friend has shared with me this excellent piece about Nigel Farage and Reform UK's links to Russia, and Russia’s role to undermining Western […]

I miss the days when the absurdly camp, astronomically wealthy mega-villains in James Bond movies still seemed implausible.

I realise this is a depressingly unoriginal post, but "we" - that is, everyone politically leftward of Genghis Khan - profoundly couldn't give a fuck how many Democrats or British Royals or Israeli Prime Ministers or Christian clergy or media moguls may be implicated in the largest documented […]

"...these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves...The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and […]

@Holberg It's long been a theory of mine that part of the appeal of far-right politics is that emotionally-stunted men are just perpetually angry that the women they find attractive won't sleep with them. So they support all sorts of policies that mean those women will have less choice in the […]

In an interview with The Economist, #bannon vaguely asserted that there was “a plan”to circumvent the #22ndamendment, which states that “no person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice,”regardless of whether the terms are consecutive. He also suggested that he was part […]

🧵This is an important story. Chicago is at the forefront of the resistance to our nation’s fall into authoritarianism. Every city should be joining in and showing consistent support for them. We’re in one of the most pivotal moments in the nation’s history.

I'll save you any suspense: I'm also going to hate the quantum cyborgs.

“I’ve begun to think of it as the digital equivalent of an invasive species. Just as the introduction and replication of a novel plant or animal usually results in some form of ecological harm and threatens native organisms, the arrival of chatbots pumping out lorem ipsum–flavored text has […]

The London Metropolitan Police have allowed the actual, Nazi-saluting fascist Nick Tenconi and his band of thugs to assemble at Hyde Park tomorrow, but barred anti-racist counter-protesters from opposing them except at a separate event in another part of the city. There is indeed "two-tier" […]

Keir Starmer’s Labour is a lost cause. But there’s still hope for the left: In choosing big business over ordinary people, the PM has sacrificed the heart of the Labour Party. So what next? […] [Original post on newsie.social]

The whole problem with the Western world is that the richest have for decades been indoctrinating the masses with racism and white nationalism, to distract from the growing inequality caused by their looting of the wealth of the workers. They see far-right movements as a counterweight against […]

I too find it a bit rich that people in the movement middle seem more animated by the destruction of a building than by the litany of cruelties but you also don't get to choose which symbolic moments animate people, you just need to take full advantage of them when you get the chance.

You will notice that I no longer say “ICE agents” when referring to the goons attacking immigrants, people of color, and protesters in U.S. cities. I call them what they are, ICE troops. Trump is arming ICE to the hilt and will, I’m sure, use them to impose martial rule in more places and […]

Anil Dash looks at "Open"AI's new "browser" -- and he accurately calls it "the first browser that actively fights against the web." The escalating efforts of Google, Apple, Meta, et al to wreck the open web look almost tame compared to this vile control-freakery […]

The largest study of its kind shows that AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time, regardless of language or territory. Why is something that doesn't work being so relentlessly shoved down our throats, whether we want it or not? […]

“'We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust,' the signatories write. 'Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel.'” Jewish figures across the globe call […]

Yeah, don't even try it, Nazis. Even the London Metropolitan Police are on our side at this point. This is not going to be the repeat of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street which you imagined and wanted to happen. You will not get your police escort or protection […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

[Big spider warning] Look, I know if you're from basically anywhere else other than the UK, this is a baby one. But on these isles, they don't get much bigger than this! She's a whopper!

Accidentally becoming a regional delegate for the national counter-movement against the far-right in Britain wasn't on my 2025 bingo card, but when someone had to pull out I just had to step up. I hope it's true that the best leaders are typically those who didn't want the job. 😬

I'd put good money on a majority of those saying protests, marches and demos won't be enough to topple the regime, not having attended any events - nor indeed done anything themselves other than be snarky from the sidelines on social media. What these actions do accomplish is visibility […]

Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it. As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.

Portraying the KKK as representing all Christianity, and calling anyone who opposes this racist hate mob "anti-Christian" would be deeply offensive to Christians around the world. It would also put Christians everywhere at risk from extremists who accepted this conflation, and therefore assumed […]

The world is watching and still has faith in you, the American people. You got this, and you're gonna do it in style tomorrow. ✊🏼 #nokings

Meanwhile, here in Britain... "The trio had more than 200 weapons including crossbows, swords, machetes, axes, hunting knives and an almost-complete 3D-printed assault rifle, which prosecutors say could "have been used to devastating consequences"." […]

What's that sound we're hearing? Is it the whistle of tumbleweed blowing past the social media stalls of "liberals" who told us not to call the Nazis, Nazis because that was too shrill and alarmist? 'Cos now what the Nazis talk about among themselves in private has been made public, and it's […]

Whichever poor sod was trying to squeeze a living out of the niche market for inflatable frog costumes, is currently rethinking their retirement plan.