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A political education collective engaging with decolonial, abolitionist and socialist texts, both classic and contemporary. Education is a communal practice!

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Myles Howard @myleshoward.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
this is in a couple of days! would love to have folks involved in this conversation - come along on thursday eve if you can 💛
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable is a sorely-needed look at the role of the political and media establishment in normalising extremist rhetoric, paving the way for the far right both on our streets & on the ballot www.panmacmillan.com/authors/dani...
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If We Tolerate This by Daniel Trilling
A short, urgent and illuminating book about the rise of the far right in Britain, and what we can do to stop it.'READ THIS BOOK!' - JAMES O'BRIEN'A LUCID PRIMER
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We'll be chatting about both writers' most recent books. Renton's latest, Revolutionary Forgiveness: Beyond Moralism, Toward Liberation is a fascinating, insightful study of 'forgiveness' as a concept, and a powerful call for transformative justice www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2755-r...
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Revolutionary Forgiveness
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
LONDON! We'll be discussing the rise of the far-right and how we build an alternative next week with Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social and David Renton @davidrenton.bsky.social at Reference Point with @haymarketbooks.org - free tickets here! events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
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Select tickets – Resisting the Road to Fascism With Daniel Trilling and D.K. Renton – Reference Point
Resisting the Road to Fascism With Daniel Trilling and D.K. Renton – Reference Point, Thu Jul 2, 2026 - Join D.K. Renton and Daniel Trilling at Reference Point on the 2nd of July to discuss the danger...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
And the fact that his petty-ass bitch talked about the party he inherited as morally bankrupt when he fucking supported a genocide is just something else. Not only that, but the only tears this fucking tool has shed was over having to give up the office.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We'll be joined by grassroots local groups @camdenantiraids.bsky.social and the West London Resistance Collective! Regular reminder to join your local anti-raids group, learn to spot the signs, and what you can do. We keep each other safe!
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We're looking forward to screening #EverybodytoKenmureStreet this Thursday evening at the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn, London with a workshop on resisting immigration raids as a part of #RefugeeWeek Find out more and get your tickets here kilntheatre.com/whats-on/eve...
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Everybody to Kenmure Street + workshop | Kiln Theatre
World class theatre from the heart of Kilburn. Your stories live here.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social's popular history of the Jewish movement that fought European anti-Semitism and refused Zionism’s call to colonize and subjugate, insisting that Here Where We Live Is Our Country. We sat down with Molly and you can listen on Radio Al Hara tomorrow at noon Palestine time
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Myles Howard @myleshoward.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Abolish the home office
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
📣This Radical May, get 50% off all books from Pluto Press📣 Shop the sale now until May 14th: www.plutobooks.com/product-cate...
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We will leave no-one behind; we are not free til we are ALL FREE!
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
While states try to divide us - excluding some for the benefit of others, plundering the world only to shut the gates on those who flee the consequences - we fight for a better future for ALL, recognising & amplifying the work already being done, encouraging us all to take action wherever we can.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
These actions bring together our shared struggles - from housing and the cost of living, to the impact of racist policing, prison, and detention centres on our communities, to anti-imperialism and the struggle for liberation in Palestine, Sudan, Iran, and beyond!
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Join us in fighting back: on every street, in every workplace, as a movement everywhere! We have actions taking place in Sheffield, Manchester, London, Bristol and more, with grassroots groups and collectives leading actions confronting the impact of the border on local communities.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Whether it's the cruel, escalating deportations and expansion of detention from Labour, the constant demonisation of migrant communities, the threat of Reform & the far right on our streets, or the years of 'hostile environment' policies across society, the border appears everywhere.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Email AgainstDetentiondeportations@proton.me or drop us a DM to find out how you can get involved, and we can connect you with other local groups where possible!!
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
📣📣RESIST BORDERS EVERYWHERE! 📣📣 Join us on the 20-21st June at actions across Britain and Ireland as we resist racist borders!! Just as people have always migrated, our communities have always resisted the systems of control, exclusion and violence that we see in border policies today.
BREAK UP THE BORDER 
BELFAST
BRISTOL
BRIGHTON
LONDON
MANCHESTER
OXFORD
SHEFFIELD
& MORE! 
20-21 June
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hahaha yes. Also, genuinely, who reads the Telegraph? Like I get that the Mail is cheap & sold everywhere so ppl read it but who *makes the effort* to procure news from the Telegraph? (genuine Q)
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Such a rich conversation - from a sharp analysis of the historical and internationalist context of the border regime to practical lessons about ongoing resistance movements.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🌹LOVE AND REVOLUTION🌹 40% off books on love, intimacy, care and more! www.plutobooks.com/love-and-rev...
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"a community convinced that its financial survival depends on locking people up. It’s not a new phenomenon. In this iteration of the classic prison town... "Trump needs these towns, and he needs local officials who are willing—and sometimes eager—to sign deals...."
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We don't want to become our own surveillance state, where we're all basically the walking ring cams of social justice. Also, the infrastructure is just impractical. Batteries, mounts, storage cards, secure off-loading, data management. Industries exist to make this kind of thing make sense for cops.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This makes more sense, but it still isn't a good idea. It's important that a thoughtful, conscientious person on the ground decides when to film and when not to. Sometimes, protesters break the law. If everyone's continuously filming everything, there's a lot to subpoena.
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
While it has been getting better over the last decade, large part of the UK labour movement suffers from the same problem that @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talks about here. I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Why major unions refuse to organise seasonal farm workers
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Solidarity with all the brave people resisting this - in Minneapolis and everywhere. And full solidarity with every single person being pursued and persecuted by the violent policing of 'belonging', a practice inextricable from the racist settler-colonial capitalist state that is the US
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Masked federal agents killing people in the streets to enact violent, racist policies ripping people from communities, into detention or for deportation. Border enforcement breeds, requires, enacts fascism.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m sorry to say it’s only a matter of time before we can no longer count the daily murders on one hand. We’ve already crossed so many lines but there’s a harder one coming up that we can’t afford to pass, perhaps the last one it’s still possible to avoid. The urgency of this moment is absolute.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
⚡️We are hiring! ⚡️ We're looking for a part-time Customer Service Operative to handle queries from readers around the world. Full job description here: www.plutobooks.com/jobs/
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Jobs - Pluto Press
Jobs Open Positions Customer Service Operative (Freelance) Hours: 7 hrs/week (Mon–Fri)Pay: £16.50 per hourLocation: Remote, London office, or hybridStart date: 5 January 2026 Download the full job description. Pluto Press is looking for a Customer Service Operative to handle email queries from readers around the world. You’ll help customers with orders, account access and eBooks, […]
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Support indie bookshops !!!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/11/2025
Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
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Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Also genuine recognition that there are different types of voters/constituencies who have a valuable voice in elections. UK politics speaks only to perceived voters and ignores everyone else. Large part of why we are in the position we are in today.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
so basically, fuck anyone using the language of 'democracy' to legitimise their policies of premature death. They are not interested in democracy but in power, and that should be obvious. They do not need some faux democratic legitimacy they need a punch to the throat
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Of course this has 'democratic' appeal in our warped society! And this narrative is used not only by fascist parties themselves, but by the media establishment and mainstream political parties to normalise and implement fascistic policies.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Policies of mass deportation and militarised borders are not any less fascistic because they have popular support. Fascism operates through offering majority groups superficial (and often material!) benefits at the expense of the subordination, expulsion, and extermination of imagined 'Others'.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Whatever false understanding of "democracy" we have under a capitalist and colonial system is still an avenue towards fascism, as the system itself breeds fascism.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
One dangerously normalised thing (alongside all the other things) is this idea that if there are lots of people supporting something, it's not fascism, it's democracy. Masses of people supported slavery, segregation, apartheid, the british empire... Hitler was elected!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world. Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
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On Parenthood and Genocide
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 06/10/2025
In celebration of Black History Month in Britain and Ireland, we're offering readers 40% off a range of titles on Black radical lineages, legacies, and futures. Check out the full list here ⬇️ www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/532-bl...
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Black History Month 2025 in Britain and Ireland!
In recognition of Black History Month in Britain and Ireland this October, and celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945, we are offering 40% off books on the ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
*elite capture intensifies*
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Sophie Lewis argues that feminism is capacious and fascist forms of feminism have long existed. And she calls attention to many international anti-fascist feminist formations that can inspire activists today." youtu.be/CcV35lcBWGE?...
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Sophie Lewis on Enemy Feminisms
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