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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New book day www.routledge.com/The-Anti-Fas...

DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sharing this discount code for my next book, which is due out in a week. (The cover is by the artist Sophie Carapetian and is a tribute to Book Bloc c2010).

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Kollontai was right – under communism time will belong to us again… open.substack.com/pub/davidren...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

AI hasn’t made your toaster smart. It hasn’t trained an army of robot dogs to resist human beings and start World War IV. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Lukacs democratises ethics. But he's wrong to gloss Marxism as the elevation of self-sacrifice "...What is key to the worker’s role is their typicality. By withholding her labour, the worker proves the system could not run without her ... A martyr will not save us." substack.com/home/post/p-...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

More from me on forgiveness, Marx, the difference between morals and moralism... davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/on-revolut...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

LAUNCH.... LAUNCH.... For friends who like their Marxism with as much Eleanor in as Karl, who care if Lukacs or Trotsky were right when they tried to fuse revolution and ethics, who're interested to know if fury and the desire for venegance can help make a better world-

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Out in the summer, the book is about the fiction anti-fascists have written, menippean satires, feminist dystopia, Communist-modernist-activism, Judas allegories, love letters to David Bowie, detectives under Hitler, queer fantasia, and much else besides. www.routledge.com/The-Anti-Fas...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Many thanks to the good folks at Waterstones who are offering my Forgiveness book at 25% off (till Friday) - use code FEB26 when ordering. www.waterstones.com/book/revolut...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Out next May "Renton rescues ‘forgiveness' from the pulpit and returns it, bloodied but lucid, to history. With a barrister’s intolerance for cant and a socialist’s contempt for vicarious absolution, he shows that forgiveness with justice is radical realpolitik" —Richard Seymour shorturl.at/WWeS5

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Cover reveal: Comrade Delta The 2013 Crisis in Britain’s Largest Far-Left Party “An honest, balanced & well-documented account of an appalling episode” Ian Birchall "An impeccably researched reckoning with the causes of a catastrophic betrayal" Sophie Lewis Out in July 2026 shorturl.at/emntq

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

A Substack from me, addressing the consequences of the Tommy Robinson movement last weekend. We probably won't see more marches on that scale this year. What will happen, though, is a huge boost of energy for Farage and Reform davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/tommy-robi...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

This work of love and rage will be out in May next year with Haaymarket; it's for anyone who cares about Marx (Eleanor, of course), HG Wells, Albie Sachs, Victor Hugo, Jean Améry, Hannah Arendt, György Lukács, Leon Trotsky, Victor Serge...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

New video for my book - The Story of Jenny Greenteeth: By one who knew her. shorturl.at/XLuYc New #urbanhorror #folkhorror. £3.99 on kindle. Fear has changed sides With big thanks to Matt Saywell and Natalie Melton

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

First time I've ever been in Publishers Marketplace. Book due out in May next year

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Defend the refugees at the Thistle Hotel Saturday - 2nd August - 1230. Thistle City Barbican Hotel, 120 Central street EC1V 8DS

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Latest version of publicity for Saturday. If anyone would like to participate as a steward, either post below or DM me

"Defend migrants" poster for protest on Staurday Aug 2 to defence migrants at Thistle Barbocan hotel. Assembly 1230 at hotel, EC1V 8DS

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Ebook published today. Jenny Greenteeth says:- "Thy rage was sweet as blood, it raised me from my bower." To read her story, order her book which is available for just £3.99 (or in paper at 56a, Housmans, News from Nowhere). "Do my looks discontent thee?" shorturl.at/XLuYc

Photograph of Jenny Greenteeth.

(actor Natalie Melton, photo Matt Saywell)

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Updated poster for protest this Saturday defending refugees living in the Thistle Barbican from Tommy Robinson supporters

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

First publicity for the demonstration on Auugst 2nd in defence of the residents at the Barbican Thistle - plan is to occupy the space before the far right show up at 130 - do share if you can

Text for anti-fascisy mobilisation on August 2nd - protest is at 1230 at the Thistle City Barbican Hotel, 120 Central Street, EC1V 8DS

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

First spot in the wild - at the wondeful 56a bookshop, 56a Crampton Street SE17 3AH (also very happy with the journal she's been placed besides).

Book display at 56a bookshop in London. Shows 'The Story of Jenny Greenteeth' and beside her a copy of the Guillotines journal

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Tolkien: Tory, Catholic and … police abolitionist

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

So a box arrived in the post...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

On the disease, its history, my progress davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/how-cancer...

A photograph of me griping a chemo bottle between my legs

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

“Fear has changed sides”. Bully, pimp, perpetator – Jenny’s coming to get you. Available for pre-order now on Kindle, just £3.99. shorturl.at/XVBvY%E2%80%9C Urban horror, folk horror, London, grisly murders, a mystery set in the distant past – why not pre-order your copy?

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“When I was a child, the boys fetched catkins. They said - that tree, if they walked across the green carpet that lay upon the water – they would have found a victory. Beneath the surface a peg was waiting. Her, with the skinny paws and sharp teeth” shorturl.at/9yj6D

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Fuck what happened at the end, this was still a day of gratitude to two amazing managers, a team. We find joy in the game where everything else is so awful. We go again; what else could we do?

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

As Reform rises in the polls - leaving the rest of us watching in in horror, because the crash will be our lives - for the geniuses guiding Starmer the prospect the far right in government isn’t anything to worry about, it’s the plan

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Chemo means I burn in direct sunlight, but there’s plenty of shade in our local park

Me in Caledonian Park beneath its clock tower

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This poll equates to a Reform majority of 120 seats at the next election. Grim

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If you’ve never been on a Tesla Takedown protest you really wouldn’t believe what a high proportion of cars driving past blow their horns to signal their support: ambulances put on their sirens - coaches holler at us - at times it’s deafening

Protesters carrying banners reading, “Honk if you hate Elon”

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Happily settled down for the game

Me with my son Ben, I’m wearing a Liverpool top

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Morning everyone from UCLH where I’m two weeks post surgery (colorectal cancer). Grateful to be alive and leaving soon-ish.

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Published this a year ago; it’s now feeling more relevant than ever tempestmag.org/2024/01/what...

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

“Tonight, we are serving a 5 course tasting menu with home-made cocktails. The piece de resistance will be mushroom wellington…”

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

"Kraken (dormant): rising, expected apocalyptic at 1400 hours: moderate to severe. Who needs fronds with anemones like these?" There isn't another writer anywhere who does interior monologue like Eley Williams.

Cover of Eley WIlliams' short story collection: Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

For 52 - a very fine raspberry and dark chocolate cake x

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Inspiring in the younger generation a love of learning, eighteenth-century-style. (From Sam Leith’s The Haunted Wood).

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Celebrating the European Legal Support Centre - the Uk and Europe’s main campaign giving legal support to pro-Palestinian speech

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Having a 16 yr old son at home, he picks a lot of our TV. We got to the mini season break of this last night. I thought it was fun and silly and fair enough. But the last 20 minutes had Anne and Ben howling in misery and fury. "No, no, no, No, NO!!!"

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