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BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Our interview with Tom Gann of @newsocialist.bsky.social, talking about who we are, why we do what we do, our philosophy, and Woodcock's sinister proscription attempt. This is our most in-depth interview yet, so please give it a read xoxo BASH BACK newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
We Can't Afford Not To Be Able To
Deliver Consequences
August 1, 2026
An interview with the trans liberationist non-violent direct action group BASH
BACK."Things are hard and we have so few
freedoms so it's very common for trans
people to turn rage on themselves. We
encourage trans people to use their rage,
to make something of it.""I don't want the next bomb to be sent by
a trans woman. I want people free.""Total transgender liberation means
fighting not just for our goals, but for a
better world."
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"It’s often said that we need all the help we can get, but BASH BACK exists so we can liberate OURSELVES", our interview with @bashback.bsky.social. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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We Can’t Afford Not To Be Able To Deliver Consequences
An interview with the trans liberationist non-violent direct action group BASH BACK.
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Justin @hereliesjustin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bumping this article I wrote for New Socialist. It reviews Max Haiven's 'Palm Oil: the Grease of Empire', a thought-provoking book that prompted some critical questions about fetishism, imperialism, historical 'detail', and the metaphors we use to understand the world system.
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Max Haiven @maxhaiven.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An author can only dream of such deep and considered engagement with their work. It's quite moving to have one's writing addressed with such comradely rigour. I fear that the reviewer is justified in many of their critiques of Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. The review thickens the discussion.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Max Haiven's Palm Oil, published by @plutopress.bsky.social, is bracing & engaging. However, the pressure to ascribe agency to palm oil, & all the consumer goods in which it’s an ingredient, leads to some eyebrow-raising claims argues @hereliesjustin.bsky.social. newsocialist.org.uk/missing-the-...
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Missing the Wood for the Palms
by Justin Davis // <p>A Review of <em>Palm Oil</em> by Max Haiven</p>
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Max Haiven's Palm Oil, published by @plutopress.bsky.social, is bracing & engaging. However, the pressure to ascribe agency to palm oil, & all the consumer goods in which it’s an ingredient, leads to some eyebrow-raising claims argues @hereliesjustin.bsky.social. newsocialist.org.uk/missing-the-...
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Missing the Wood for the Palms
by Justin Davis // <p>A Review of <em>Palm Oil</em> by Max Haiven</p>
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Justin @hereliesjustin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My review of 'Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire' by Max Haiven, for @newsocialist.bsky.social (feat. some monoprint artwork by me) Thanks to the NS editors for their always thoughtful and attentive editorial work on this newsocialist.org.uk/missing-the-...
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Missing the Wood for the Palms
by Justin Davis // <p>A Review of <em>Palm Oil</em> by Max Haiven</p>
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In this statement @dsyp.org express their love, admiration and solidarity for the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strikers. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Solidarity Statement with the Prisoners for Palestine Hunger Strike
DSYP express their love, admiration and solidarity for the prisoners on hunger strike.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“We have a duty to resist wherever we are, weaponising everything at our disposal.” Calla Walsh on the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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“Who blinks first is lost”: on the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike
“We have a duty to resist wherever we are, weaponising everything at our disposal.”
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The reintroduction of the Hillsborough Law to Parliament was a victory for campaigners against those who benefit from the state’s lack of accountability. But the fight is not over. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Hillsborough Law: Rewiring the State?
The reintroduction of the Hillsborough Law to Parliament was a victory for campaigners against those who benefit from the state’s lack of accountability. But the fight is not over.
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Tom Williams @shirleymush.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The families who’ve campaigned for justice are some of the most inspiring people I know of, so I’m really pleased that we were able to publish this. Also big shout out to @IanByrneMP for giving me so much of his time. If only all MPs were like him. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Hillsborough Law: Rewiring the State?
The reintroduction of the Hillsborough Law to Parliament was a victory for campaigners against those who benefit from the state’s lack of accountability. But the fight is not over.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Palestine Action are about to be proscribed as a so-called terrorist organisation for disrupting a genocide. We must not let legalism or obedience prevent us from affirming that they are heroes write @peachtreepeartree.bsky.social & Tom Gann. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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We Are All Palestine Action
Palestine Action are about to be proscribed as a so-called terrorist organisation for disrupting a genocide. We must not let legalism or obedience prevent us from affirming that they are heroes.
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The Corbyn era inspired a new wave of socialist publications, including @newsocialist.bsky.social. Here, its editors Tom Gann and Josie Sparrow reflect on the challenges, ambitions and necessities facing left media today www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Necessary and (im)possible: New Socialist and the task of left media - Red Pepper
New Socialist editors Tom Gann and Josie Sparrow reflect on the challenges, ambitions and necessities facing left media today
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 25/05/2025
"The guest list shows the extent of cross-party political support for arming and fuelling ‘Israel’’s genocide in Gaza." newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Genocide Gala
Inside the ‘Israeli’ embassy’s secret party at the British Museum, where Jimmy Carr with Nigel Farage, Ian Austin, and Richard Tice, and Maria Eagle affirmed Britain’s commitment to arming genocide.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Inside the ‘Israeli’ embassy’s secret party at the British Museum, where Jimmy Carr with Nigel Farage, Ian Austin, and Richard Tice, and Maria Eagle affirmed Britain’s commitment to arming genocide. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Genocide Gala
Inside the ‘Israeli’ embassy’s secret party at the British Museum, where Jimmy Carr with Nigel Farage, Ian Austin, and Richard Tice, and Maria Eagle affirmed Britain’s commitment to arming genocide.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Inside the ‘Israeli’ embassy’s secret party at the British Museum, where Jimmy Carr with Nigel Farage, Ian Austin, and Richard Tice, and Maria Eagle affirmed Britain’s commitment to arming genocide. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Genocide Gala
Inside the ‘Israeli’ embassy’s secret party at the British Museum, where Jimmy Carr with Nigel Farage, Ian Austin, and Richard Tice, and Maria Eagle affirmed Britain’s commitment to arming genocide.
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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Have you read @hannahkateboast.bsky.social 's article on public toilets and public luxury? I really think you should. newsocialist.org.uk/public-toile...
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Public Toilets and Public Luxury
by Hannah Boast // In Britain, toilets have always been a flashpoint for debates about who ‘belongs’ in public space. The Tōkyō Toilet Project shows us how toilets can instead transform and expand pub...
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Under Trump’s administration, the spheres of educational and carceral jurisdiction are rapidly converging. The students of Columbia are continuing to fight, writes Aslan Ivanov ahead of actions taking place today. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Kids are Alright: How the Student Body Resists Today
Under Trump’s administration, the spheres of educational and carceral jurisdiction are rapidly converging. The students of Columbia are continuing to fight.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Under Trump’s administration, the spheres of educational and carceral jurisdiction are rapidly converging. The students of Columbia are continuing to fight, writes Aslan Ivanov ahead of actions taking place today. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Kids are Alright: How the Student Body Resists Today
Under Trump’s administration, the spheres of educational and carceral jurisdiction are rapidly converging. The students of Columbia are continuing to fight.
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Mwendwa.philip @thephilip.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Amazing article newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I've delved into this newsocialist.org.uk/workers-worl...
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Workers of the World Unite
by Angela Mitropoulos // The use of Marx to justify nationalist leftism is a well worn genre. This explores the falsehoods this always rests on, including both empirical data on migration and their mi...
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A— @guttermachinations.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Always rated this article to debunk the myth of migrants depressing wages. libcom.org/article/over...
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Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?
Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation" to discov...
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This story on AI aesthetics and the far right has so many great lines. “Trump’s haircut, which we all seem to have become inured to, serves the same purpose. It looks like shit and that’s the point. It is a display of power and a small act of cruelty.” newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"Whilst abolitionist and ecosocialist tendencies remain marginal in many ways, there exists the potential for them [in these land struggles] to represent these broad sentiments and to unify the widespread discontent of the public." www.newsocialist.org.uk/transmission... @newsocialist.bsky.social
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The Prison and the Forest
In the US, #StopCopCity has unified a broad coalition around abolitionist and ecosocialist struggle. What would it take for something similar to be possible in Britain?
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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Despite the fact that social democracy, as the article argues, doesn't exist as an option anymore, all I keep reading is people suggesting—both socialist and imperialist/fascist visions—yet one more attempt at building social democracy. @newsocialist.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/the-last-soc...
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The Last Social Democrat
by Tom Blackburn // <p>Tony Judt’s <em>Ill Fares the Land</em>, 15 years on</p>
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If you missed it, here's a post reminding you of some recent pieces we've published. www.patreon.com/posts/this-w...
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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John @j-m-moore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In the US, #StopCopCity has unified a broad coalition around abolitionist and ecosocialist struggle. What would it take for something similar to be possible in Britain? newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Prison and the Forest
In the US, #StopCopCity has unified a broad coalition around abolitionist and ecosocialist struggle. What would it take for something similar to be possible in Britain?
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In the US, #StopCopCity has unified a broad coalition around abolitionist and ecosocialist struggle, Sam Kelly explores what would it take for something similar to be possible in Britain? newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Prison and the Forest
In the US, #StopCopCity has unified a broad coalition around abolitionist and ecosocialist struggle. What would it take for something similar to be possible in Britain?
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DB 📉 @konvolutj.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I wrote about this once upon a time newsocialist.org.uk/design-life-...
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Objects of History: A Design for Life and the Production of A New World
by Dan Barrow // The longing for a vanished world can't be assuaged by pretending the dark history of working-class defeat encoded in 'A Design For Life' never happened. It can only answered by the pr...
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
An update on what we've published this week, featuring Lauren Taylor & @tomblackburn.bsky.social, some other recent pieces, featuring @garethwatkins.bsky.social & Ravachol Mutt, and some brief thoughts on @redpeppermag.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/124433...
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
An update on what we've published this week, featuring Lauren Taylor & @tomblackburn.bsky.social, some other recent pieces, featuring @garethwatkins.bsky.social & Ravachol Mutt, and some brief thoughts on @redpeppermag.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/124433...
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Tom Blackburn @tomblackburn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It's been 15 years since Tony Judt's Ill Fares the Land was first published, so I wrote this for New Socialist on how the book still stands up (not well) newsocialist.org.uk/the-last-soc...
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The Last Social Democrat
by Tom Blackburn // <p>Tony Judt’s <em>Ill Fares the Land</em>, 15 years on</p>
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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 14/03/2025
Worth your time: “Leaving the means of production firmly in private hands was precisely what enabled capital to unpick Labourist reforms when a crisis of sufficient magnitude presented the opportunity.”
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Despite its moral urgency, Tony Judt's polemic struggles to explain the decline of social democracy, while his proposed solutions ultimately fall well short of addressing the systemic crises and injustices we face today writes Tom Blackburn. newsocialist.org.uk/the-last-soc...
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The Last Social Democrat
by Tom Blackburn // <p>Tony Judt’s <em>Ill Fares the Land</em>, 15 years on</p>
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"The Cass Review is a youth liberation issue. It runs as deep as the way we raise children, and it extends as far as the bodily autonomy of all trans people living in Britain."// newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Cass Review is a Youth Liberation Issue
By relying on contemporary understandings of young people as confused and incapable of self-knowledge, the Cass Review is likely to create conditions which resemble the effects of Section 28.
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yes - this is such a pithy way of putting it: Rightists “want to assert, simultaneously, that unambiguous laws govern all aspects of being, while acting as though ‘truth’ is whatever they want or need it to be at any given moment.” newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
By relying on contemporary understandings of young people as confused and incapable of self-knowledge, the Cass Review is likely to create conditions which resemble the effects of Section 28 writes Lauren Taylor. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Cass Review is a Youth Liberation Issue
By relying on contemporary understandings of young people as confused and incapable of self-knowledge, the Cass Review is likely to create conditions which resemble the effects of Section 28.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
By relying on contemporary understandings of young people as confused and incapable of self-knowledge, the Cass Review is likely to create conditions which resemble the effects of Section 28 writes Lauren Taylor. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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The Cass Review is a Youth Liberation Issue
By relying on contemporary understandings of young people as confused and incapable of self-knowledge, the Cass Review is likely to create conditions which resemble the effects of Section 28.
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Tim J L @amanoutoftim.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is very much worth your reading
If a matter of personal agency is jammed into the logic of medical treatment (as opposed to medical facilitation of transition), the same old senseless gatekeeping, scrutiny, and conversion will be once again presented as though they are reasonable.Repression is made to seem the sensible (frequently: “cautious”) option in light of daunting complexity. The Cass Review is a feat of performed uncertainty. It asserts an ignorance and uses this as the ground against which anti-trans restrictions appear as the safe option.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you've been following me a while you might know that a friend of mine is being held by the UK government for allegedly taking action against Elbit Systems, a key supplier to the Israeli regime. You can learn more here in @newsocialist.bsky.social: newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Political Outlaws
All Palestine Action have ever struggled for is a world in which Palestinians can live out their lives with freedom, dignity, and self-determination. Pushing us outside the law won't stop us.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
All Palestine Action have ever struggled for is a world in which Palestinians can live out their lives with freedom, dignity, and self-determination. Pushing us outside the law won't stop us writes Ravachol Mutt newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Political Outlaws
All Palestine Action have ever struggled for is a world in which Palestinians can live out their lives with freedom, dignity, and self-determination. Pushing us outside the law won't stop us.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
New article from me in the New Socialist on how AI is the aesthetic of postmodern fascism.
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Dr. Problems @askdrproblems.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Essential reading. I have a feeling that I'm going to be thinking of this essay a lot, for a long time to come
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
An actionist has been fined by the “Australian” State for targeting a weapons manufacturing university, during a protest for Palestine. Unsurprisingly the State has chosen to punish the comrade. As such they are raising much needed funds. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Palestine Solidarity Actionist Targeted at University Encampment
If we believe that direct action against state-sponsored genocide is necessary, we have a responsibility to support those who undertake it.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
An actionist has been fined by the “Australian” State for targeting a weapons manufacturing university, during a protest for Palestine. Unsurprisingly the State has chosen to punish the comrade. As such they are raising much needed funds. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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Palestine Solidarity Actionist Targeted at University Encampment
If we believe that direct action against state-sponsored genocide is necessary, we have a responsibility to support those who undertake it.
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weronika mamuna @weramamuna.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
i was hoping someone would write about the intersections of AI aesthetics and fascism, and this by @garethwatkins.bsky.social is a fantastic, incisive read newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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New Socialist @newsocialist.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
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