The left currently rewards the sharks, snakes and charlatans and until this is confronted the left will get nowhere. The imperative we face is to ingrain a new ethic and new structures and new ways of working together. For as long as we're dominated by privatised egos we'll get nowhere.

22yo student Zhang Yadi, an activist with 华语青年挺藏会 ChineseYouthStand4Tibet who's supposed to begin her MA study at SOAS, has been detained while visiting family in China & charged with "inciting separation" www.instagram.com/p/DOy4rwViEk...

I agree we need "public banking for public need not profit" - 100% that's the aim. I'm a bit nervous of these big claims being made of a banking collapse as being something imminent, due to climate change, without sufficient evidence to back that up. Climate politics has overused this tactic.

New post: On the need to create state-owned/supported alternatives to supermarkets, as is becoming a typical popular demand across the world in response to price gouging and rising food insecurity. It could also help fix farming systems. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

"it exposed the fact that Israel remains a dependent colony whose ability to launch and sustain military campaigns is almost entirely reliant on the uninterrupted flow of arms, munitions, and money from the West." mondoweiss.net/2025/09/isra...

"The time has come to suspend Israel. Clubs everywhere must refuse to play Israeli teams, current players everywhere must refuse to play against Israeli teams." Éric Cantona for #Palestine, Wednesday evening at the Together 4 Palestine event.

When will the left stop going weak at the knees for a white bloke with an accent saying something vaguely socialisty at times? And when will the white left get real about racism and fascism and stop doing the whole left behind narrative that is partly to blame for this growing fascisisation?

I have no idea if it will work out but now is the chance for the party to break away from Labourism and the cliques and wrong uns that surround Corbyn

Sally Rooney unable to collect award due to threat of arrest for supporting Palestine Action The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, her publisher stated at the Sky Arts awards ceremony last night. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Fuck Corbyn. Whenever he's had a chance to make the right choice, he's made the wrong one and fucked the left.

Labour minister being a war criminal sounds about right though actually

This liberal both sidesism at a time of violent white mobs and essentially implying they have legitimate grievances is absolutely cowardly. Gary Stevenson is just another flag-waving white liberal centrist who ends up supporting fascist reaction. youtube.com/shorts/SzyGv...

‘Giving me your wallet could rapidly boost your wealth and definitely not lead to me stealing your money’ says wallet inspector

Definitely not concerning :/

If you're interested in how to progressively transition the food and farming system this post might interest you. Retailers have a lot of structural power in the food and farming system – seizing that power has potential to drive radical change that can benefit farmers, retail workers and wider pop.

Amid a relentless Israeli military advance on Gaza City, trapped civilians face an impossible choice: risk death by staying home or flee into a displacement crisis with no safe refuge.

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

The BBC apologised for livestreaming Bob Vylan's chants. BBC News at Ten played a video of Elon Musk telling protestors to 'fight back or die' and calling for the dissolution of parliament.

I went to a secondary school where I'd guess around 95% of the kids were white. The few black kids in my year got racially harassed on a pretty much daily basis. The racists from back then now largely seem to have solid jobs or become landlords. Stop painting these racists as 'the left behind'.

Does Brazilian agribusiness find ways to clear more Amazon or Cerrado to adapt to this market?

The best places to have counter demos would have been outside the major train stations but antifascism in this country is is caught in the grasp of the SWP extended universe and they have so much more money and time than us

We need to understand the libidinal composition of anglofascism. It's a carnival, it's pints and packet on a Saturday. It's the feeling the cruelty might finally be worth it, because you get your share, laundered through the images of owned lib, sad migrant, and the cheeky, horny, deporter in chief.

Let me elaborate my disagreement with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in a 🧵. The scenes on our streets are not "the consequences of decades of austerity" but of centuries of racism propagated by the British ruling classes to rationalise the social order they have constructed at home and abroad.

"This class struggle against big capital has the potential to push agroecology and food sovereignty further along at the same time. It’s time for all of us in these movements to engage in and expand this struggle and to take it on where we live." thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

New post: On the need to create state-owned/supported alternatives to supermarkets, as is becoming a typical popular demand across the world in response to price gouging and rising food insecurity. It could also help fix farming systems. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/democratic...

Melinda Cooper summarises neoliberal fiscal policy very succinctly: Greenspan understood much earlier than most that if the Federal Reserve could be disciplined to suppress the slightest hint of wage inflation, its powers of money creation could nevertheless be selectively unleashed...

Karma's a bitch

So in the course of this genocidal war Israel has so far bombed Gaza, Beirut, Sanaa, Tehran, Damascus, Tunis, and now Doha. If I haven't missed any. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Mike Davis on what he meant when he called himself an "old school socialist"

Functionally speaking what this pensioner says about climate change is what climate denial looks like today

wtf! (whole thread is enlightening as well)

Lancaster University staff to be balloted over strike action www.bbc.com/news/article...

We are nearly two years into a genocide that the EU has supported militarily, financially, politically. That the bloc is now massively expanding its military capabilities should terrify us all - transferring social wealth to the war industry, and making wars across the world much more likely.

What a growing police state really needs is this

Starmer's police state regime:

The latest event for @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social is now open for registration: 'Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy' will have three speakers: @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social ; @kaiheron.bsky.social and Jane Clarke. @mybisa.bsky.social www.bisa.ac.uk/events/pathw...

This piece is now free to read. @kmilb.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social and I argue that popular power and social property - rather than merely nationalisation - are important goals for working class struggles today. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in October. Really hoping it can be useful for analysing the imperialist political ecology of big tech and the energy transition. Big thanks to @kaiheron.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social, Anne Pasek (and others) for their generous words and engagement.

He's a gender activist in the same way Andrew Tate is

What really excites me is the ever expanding logic of warfare as the solution to our problems. Every day I look at the state of world and think: we need more war actually.

Just an average British education in the 90s (derogatory)

Pre-order the hardback edition for your institutional library now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

New paper on 'metabolic municipalism' in Barcelona, presenting Yousaf Nishat-Botero's PhD research in the city Recently published in @societyandspace.bsky.social here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... A kind of urban-rural synthesis of our ongoing work together on ecological economic planning…

#1 paper explored urban revolution: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #2 explored agricultural revolution: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #3 attempts a kind of urban-rural synthesis with the concept of metabolic municipalism… …open access here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I'm launching my book "Or Something Worse: Why we need to disrupt the climate transition" - if you are in London come along! 🟩 London launch: Book tickets, free to register - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-boo... 🟩 Speakers, Q&A & drinks reception

The family of T Hoxha, who is awaiting trial for allegedly taking part in a Palestine Action demonstration at Filton, have raised the alarm over her prison hunger strike at HMP Peterborough (now in its third week) over the authorities' denial of her basic rights observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A political-media class capable of colluding in genocide has *already proven* itself capable of the dehumanisation of Others that can sustain fascism at home. Aimé Césaire wasn't kidding about the imperial boomerang.