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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The 2026 @redpeppermag.bsky.social annual print edition has landed! So proud to be part of this work, publishing engaging left/ radical analysis in a thoroughly independent + beautifully illustrated magazine. We CAN have good things. Subscribe or buy a copy & join the conversation/ community!

The cover of the new Red Pepper magazine, “Striking Back” shows a montage of archive clippings of the 1926 General Strike, with RP bookmarks near by

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I’m so glad my parents had this book at home—and let me read it even when very young. I’m so glad Raymond Briggs wrote a comic, so simply conveying the folly and horrors of war As we learned about war at primary school, this taught me to be anti-war. I’m so glad it’s on my local pub bookshelf now

The front cover of a graphic novella “The Ton Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman” by Raymond Briggs. It shows two metal faces, with wild eyes and clenched teeth, saying “mine!” over a tiny island, which is saying “help!” The backdrop is a red white and blue cross

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Only a few filmmakers make art, fewer still can make serious work that captures & revels in the utter bizarreness of human emotion & everyday life. A rare gift Anyway. Here are my parents enjoying David Lynch’s invitation to loose their heads in his work (Manchester International Festival 2019)

A man in a white hat pokes his head through an artwork that says: My Head is Disconnected

A person with grey hair looks at a series of framed micro paintings

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Right wing political parties continuing to fuel anti-migrant sentiment on the “hell site”

Tweet by UK Labour Party that reads: “The Tories lost control of our borders. Labour are taking it back.” Below is a photo of PM in front of a Union Jack flag with a headline stating: “Keir Starmer has organised the three largest deportation flights in UK history”

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Solid points here, but claim that Christian nationalism is at odds w/ US democracy, state & values is itself “post-truth” (or wilful denial). Hegseth is extreme + dangerous but not anomalous. It’s a foundational value; long a key platform in many states. Currency: In God We Trust. Here’s Harris:

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Peckham Library is just a beautiful place to write. Always busy but peaceful, inspiring in its displays and design. What a pleasure to sit serenely in a spaceship pod ‘quiet zone’, thinking silently with others on the power of words… great job, Southwark!

A banner in front of bookshelves reads “As long as she thinks of a man, no body objects to a woman thinking…” - Orlando, Virginia Woolf

A spiral staircase leads down from the pod to the library floor

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Looking forward to digging deeper into Klein’s (self-reflective) assessment of online self-branding as a consequence of capitalism/labour realities today that’s also monumentally destructive for the left… as I (re)build my own online persona on BlueSky(c) + watch other leftists do the same… 🫠

Cover of Naomi Klein’s latest book, Doppelgänger: A trip into the mirror world

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Klein kept quietly underscoring the necessity of robust theory for understanding social shifts. Her book’s dedication remembers others who’ve argued, demonstrated the same… Each also had an incredible capacity for empathy, which sharpened their analyses

A page in a book reads: IN MEMORIAM: Mike Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, bell hooks, Leo Panitch

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

I hear it’s a great book… How are migration laws and asylum policies shaped by capitalism? And how might we resist profit-making in the asylum industry? Feat. essays, photography, graphic novella + art by academics, activists, artists + people who have sought asylum Out now with PM Press

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