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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 3h
Fighting to get Palantir out of the NHS
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Fighting to get Palantir out of the NHS
Susan Pashkoff reports on protests to force the government to exercise a break clause on Palantir's NHS contract. Palantir is a US tech giant working with Trump's ICE and Israel's IDF
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 18h
Mamdani Condemns ICE Shooting in NYC and Israel’s Genocide, but Faces Criticism from the Left
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Mamdani Condemns ICE Shooting in NYC and Israel’s Genocide, but Faces Criticism from the Left
Dan La Botz reports from New York abput the latest ICE shooting and Mamdani's response
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Free public transport turns the city into a common good
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Free public transport turns the city into a common good
Fare Free London report on a recent public meeting about how to make public transport free where the experience of Montpelier in France was discussed
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The start of an unprecedented movement in France
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The start of an unprecedented movement in France
Antoine Larrache and Elsa Collonges report on the latest developments in the student movement in France plus latest NPA statement.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Alan Thornett‑ Key militant in the 1960s/70s/80s motor industry 
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Alan Thornett‑ Key militant in the 1960s/70s/80s motor industry 
Tony Richardson who worked at Cowley for 34 years as a steward in the Body Plant remembers his friend and comrade.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Trump–Putin Diesel Deal: A Betrayal Of Ukraine
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The Trump–Putin Diesel Deal: A Betrayal Of Ukraine
The Ukraine Solidarity Campaign is calling a protest at the American Embassy in  London for Friday evening. Christopher Ford explains why.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Indian state wages war on citizens: A Marxist assessment of the anti‑election commission movement
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The Indian state wages war on citizens: A Marxist assessment of the anti‑election commission movement
Modi's government has clamped down on a democratic rights protest in New Delhi with tens of thousands of arrests. Kunal Chattopadhyay, member of Revolutionary Communist Party of India explains what people are fighting back
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Spanish State – A new political cycle: Maricarmen, the general strike and the threat of a right wing electoral victory
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Spanish State – A new political cycle: Maricarmen, the general strike and the threat of a right wing electoral victory
Across two articles edited together by ACR Jaime Pastor gives the background to and prospect for the growing crisis in the Spanish State
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The privatisation of state schools as Academies will continue under Burnham
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The privatisation of state schools as Academies will continue under Burnham
Richard Hatcher reports on how the new Burnham government is refusing to restore local government control and accountability to a fragmented and increasingly privatised, academy system.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Holborn and St Pancras: you can’t judge a principle by a by‑election
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Holborn and St Pancras: you can’t judge a principle by a by‑election
Duncan Chapel' replies to Dave Kellaway about Zack Polanski's tactics on the Zionism is Racism motion
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Alan Thornett 1937‑2026 : a working‑class leader who faced the apocalypse
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Alan Thornett 1937‑2026 : a working‑class leader who faced the apocalypse
Here we publish an initial tribute to Alan Thornett who died on 9 October from Duncan Chapel, We welcome comments on this and expect further appreciations we will carry over the days ahead.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trade union support for the convoy keeps growing
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Trade union support for the convoy keeps growing
Dick Nichols reports on the growing trade union support for the international solidarity convoy with Ukraine
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Labour Holds Holborn and St Pancras but Green challenge remains
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Labour Holds Holborn and St Pancras but Green challenge remains
Dave Kellaway examines 5 key takeaways from yesterday’s by-election in the London seat of Holborn and St Pancras
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Surviving a nuclear war?
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Surviving a nuclear war?
Dave Kellaway reviews Sheltered by Kim Gordon-Bates which tells the story of one government bunker once the bomb goes off. We have an exclusive interview with Kim too below.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Spanish State : Anticapitalistas on the early general election: Let’s keep up the struggle on the streets
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Spanish State : Anticapitalistas on the early general election: Let’s keep up the struggle on the streets
This is a recent statement by our sister organisation in the Spanish state
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
French school students in revolt
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French school students in revolt
Dave Kellaway provides an update following Tuesday's huge mobilisations
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tories ‑The State Gets Out of the Way Until It Wants to Get in Yours
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Tories ‑The State Gets Out of the Way Until It Wants to Get in Yours
At Conservative conference, regulation is treated as a burden when it falls on business. Teachers, unions and public institutions are being offered a very different settlement writes Simon Pearson
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Proud, visible and not yet organised: the Greens at Brighton
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Proud, visible and not yet organised: the Greens at Brighton
The Green Party’s biggest conference showed a party with a great deal to be proud of, and a left with a growing audience. To turn that audience into influence, the left has to change how it works, argues Duncan Chapel.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On Violence in Fighting Occupation: The Case of Palestine
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On Violence in Fighting Occupation: The Case of Palestine
The following is a postscript written by Gilbert Achcar written in February 2026 to recent editions of his 2025 book, Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Left without a ‘camp’ is travelling to Ukraine with the international convoy.
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The Left without a ‘camp’ is travelling to Ukraine with the international convoy.
Roberto Firenze and Sergio Bellavita from the Collettivo Sinistra per l'Ucraina - Laboratorio internazionalista. report on the Italian leg of the International Convoy for Ukraine
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thousands celebrate anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
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Thousands celebrate anniversary of Battle of Cable Street
Simon Hannah reports on yesterday's march in Tower Hamlets
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Burnham – the resilience of Labourism
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Burnham – the resilience of Labourism
Following Burnham's conference speech Dave Kellaway discusses how there is still some life left in 'Old Labour' policies
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The National Care Service Starts With Its Workers
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The National Care Service Starts With Its Workers
In Oldham, council-owned care workers are striking over pay and sick pay. Simon Pearson reports and explains why Burnham needs to address workers pay and conditions in any new national care service.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People vs Palantir
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People vs Palantir
On 1 October, Anti*Capitalist Resistance joined Amnesty, Health Workers For Palestine, Global Justice Now, Keep our NHS Public and others in a global People vs Palantir day of action writes Jessica MacKenzie.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The landlord Is not a lord
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The landlord Is not a lord
Mistakenly, Yanis Varoufakis says Big Tech’s cloud rent has killed capitalism and left a feudalism in its place. But rent has kept capitalism company since the enclosures, argues Duncan Chapel.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cable Street 90 march unites our communities
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Cable Street 90 march unites our communities
This is Press release from Cable Street 90 Organising Committee.We call on all our readers to support the march on Sunday 4 October. The ACR will be there. Come and meet us.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Build the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine: a message for trade unionists
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Build the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine: a message for trade unionists
Liz Lawrence puts forward a number of key arguments to support trade unionists arguing for support for the forthcoming convoy in their unions.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
French students demand ministers resign!
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French students demand ministers resign!
Secondary school pupils are taking action; the government is cracking down. The situation in the national education system has been deteriorating for years. Successive governments and various ministers, led by Blanquer [Minister of Education 2017-2022], have accelerated the destruction. The lack of resources is becoming increasingly unbearable note the NPA-A
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do unions agree “an unjust law is no law at all”
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Do unions agree “an unjust law is no law at all”
A UNISON activist calls for immediate action against injustice and for UNISON and other unions to change their strategy on transgender rights.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spanish state: The spark that lit a prairie fire: let’s organise a hot autumn
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Spanish state: The spark that lit a prairie fire: let’s organise a hot autumn
On Wednesday, 23 September, the police evicted Maricarmen in Madrid write Anticapitalistas.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
War eating away at Russia’s economy
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War eating away at Russia’s economy
In early August, the otherwise listless campaign for the State Duma began to attract some public attention writes Oleg Shein
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dock Everton Ten Points
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Dock Everton Ten Points
Manchester City’s case has revived an old Everton joke about how quickly financial rules hit the pitch, and how differently regulation behaves when it meets wealth on City’s scale writes Simon Pearson
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK opponents of genocide urged to respond to Hackney consultation on ending Haifa twinning
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UK opponents of genocide urged to respond to Hackney consultation on ending Haifa twinning
ACR is happy to publish this press release from Palestine Solidarity activists in Hackney Campaigners are calling on opponents across Britain of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its apartheid system to take part in Hackney Council’s consultation on whether the London borough should end its 58-year twinning relationship with Haifa, Israel’s third largest city. The […]
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Solidarity with the Garvaghy Road residents
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Solidarity with the Garvaghy Road residents
To quote James Connolly, a ‘carnival of reaction’ has been brought to the traumatised generations of Garvaghy Road, says the Republican Socialist Platform.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Protest works!
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Protest works!
The British government’s new limited sanctions on Israeli settlements are far too little, far too late argues Roland Rance.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lost Generation?
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Lost Generation?
Martin Allen shows that, though the link between degrees and skilled jobs is diminishing, young people still want to pursue higher education, at least partly for its own sake and as a cultural phenomenon
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Slavery and the Fight for Reparatory Justice
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Slavery and the Fight for Reparatory Justice
Ian Townson looks at what Marx said about Slavery and sets out the case for reparations
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Violence against women and girls: the gigantic bull elephant in the room
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Violence against women and girls: the gigantic bull elephant in the room
According to a recent National Police Chiefs’ Council report, violence against women and girls (VAWG) now adds up to twenty percent of all crime and is seen by police as a national emergency. In response, writes Sandra Wyman
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Red Dragon breathes fire!!
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The Red Dragon breathes fire!!
John Richardson reviews Red Poets 32 – the latest magazine from the Red Poets (Beirdd Cochion) in Cymru
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine launches €100,000 appeal for generators and stoves
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International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine launches €100,000 appeal for generators and stoves
September 18, 2026 “Vladimir Putin is about to boost his criminal assault on Ukraine, and those of us who support the Ukrainian people’s right to resist and determine their own future must in turn intensify our effort.” With these words, David Acosta, spokesperson for the International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine, announced the launching of the […]
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
After Capitalist Realism
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After Capitalist Realism
Capitalism no longer needs to persuade us that it represents reality. Increasingly, it survives by making reality difficult to hold still writes Simon Pearson
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The slave trade is British history
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The slave trade is British history
Dave Kellaway reviews the David Olusoga BBC documentary Finding Britain's Slave Traders. Available on I Player.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Survival for the Chosen
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Survival for the Chosen
Simon Pearson reviews Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. Allen Lane, 2026.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What does the Left do about the Greens?
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What does the Left do about the Greens?
Duncan Chapel on the debate on how the left relates to the Green Party
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The case for renewed Palestinian political struggle
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The case for renewed Palestinian political struggle
Professor of international relations Gilbert Achcar argues for new ways of promoting the Palestinian cause, drawing on his recent book and in an interview with Dina Ezzat
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sitting on a time bomb
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Sitting on a time bomb
Knowledge and concern about the climate crisis has grown exponentially in the past 25 years. But not among ultra-conservative and fascist political forces such as Donald Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement in the United States, Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Reform UK in Britain. notes Phil Hearse.
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Strategies of Resistance
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Strategies of Resistance
Strategies of ResistanceNew expanded edition of selected writings By Daniel Bensaïd Edited by Alex de Jong Just £15 from Resistance Books here “Daniel Bensaïd was one of the most creative, imaginative and sharpest minds in the contemporary history of Marxism, in France and beyond.” Michael Löwy. CONTENTS: Introduction:  Daniel Bensaïd, melancholic revolutionary; 1.  What it […]
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Call for international solidarity against the crackdown on LGBTI+ people in Turkey
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Call for international solidarity against the crackdown on LGBTI+ people in Turkey
A statement of the Executive Bureau of the Fourth International issued 16 September 2026
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Climate is an emergency
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Climate is an emergency
Dave Kellaway reports back on a meeting where we showed a film produced for the National Emergency Briefing to highlight the ecological crisis
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AntiCapitalist Resistance @anticapresistance.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
90th anniversary of Cable Street :They Shall not Pass
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90th anniversary of Cable Street :They Shall not Pass
On Sunday 4 October 1936 the British Union of Fascists (BUF), led by Sir Oswald Mosley, staged a provocative march in the East End of London deliberately designed to intimidate the local Jewish population writes Ian Townson.
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