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Steve Rushton

@steve-rushton.bsky.social
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Writer and political organiser interested in ground-up and autonomous movements co-creating socially just & ecologically sound worlds #Municipalism #Degrowth #Decolonise #Commons

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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Green Capitalism is a Death Trap by Steve Rushton bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/07/13/g...
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Green Capitalism is a Death Trap
The European Union wants the future to look like Dublin. The bloc wants to expand data centres threefold across the continent in the next 5-7 years, reducing regulations. Dublin hosts the European …
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Calling all municipalists and anyone who want cities ran by and for the people. Support Laurence Ruffin on Sunday's poll to become Grenoble's next mayor. #OuiGrenoble #Municipalism #CooperativeMunicipalism #LaurenceRuffin #RebelCity #Grenoble2026
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Fearless Cities, the international summit initiated by Barcelona En Comu, shows how we can build another world. And there is much to take from the Fearless Cities we co-organised in Sheffield in 2024, which we have explored in three blogs and a podcast. @barcelonaencomu.cat #FearlessCities
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
To tackle the ecological crisis we must challenge the corporate-driven growth model and rethink power beyond the state. @steve-rushton.bsky.social explores how #Degrowth connects to #Municipalism drawing on Fearless Cites summit in Sheffield researchforaction.uk/fearless-cit...
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Fearless cities and neighbourhoods for a living planet: from Sheffield to Rojava – Research for Action
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Naples #UrbanCommons are six massive buildings legally recognised spaces run by weekly democratic assemblies,with the only stipulation being that everyone agrees the space is anti-sexist, anti-racist and anti-fascist. researchforaction.uk/fearless-cit... #GiardinoLiberato   #ScugnizzoLiberato
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Fearless Cities: Building our power as a multitude – Research for Action
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"To truly challenge Reform and the British establishment, the Greens will need to work out how to utilise their increasing membership and work alongside social movements." By me occupy.com/article/can-... @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Can the UK Green Party Surge Match Mamdani’s NYC Earthquake?
To truly challenge Reform, Labour and the British establishment, the Greens will need to harness their increasing membership and work alongside social movements.
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
To break free from top-down power, we need the solidarity economy and participatory democracy. Our second Fearless Cities write-up looks at how we build power as a multitude. by @steve-rushton.bsky.social #SolidarityEconomy #DemocraticAssemblies researchforaction.uk/fearless-cit...
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Fearless Cities: Building our power as a multitude – Research for Action
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Rojava is the world's leading example of democracy, gender liberation, and people power—and it is under existential threat. This piece, written before the recent invasion by the Syrian state and jihadist forces, helps explain why Rojava matters. Read. Share it. Act in solidarity. #DefendRojava
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#AntiRaids organising is central in building a city for everyone. Check out our first write up of this inspirational anti-racism organising, from #FearlessCities in Sheffield by @steve-rushton.bsky.social #KenmureStreet researchforaction.uk/fearless-cit...
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Fearless Cities against racism and fascism – Research for Action
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢 Check out our podcast, where Gloria speaks to Shiri Shalmy from the inspirational Cooperation Town, who aim to create a food cooperative on every working class street across the country. #Cooperatives #FearlessCities @cooperationtown.bsky.social researchforaction.uk/fearless-cit...
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Co-operation at the cutting edge – two perspectives – Research for Action
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Defend Rojava! The Kurdish-led democratic North and East Syria faces an brutal invasion by the Islamist Syrian regime. freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/20/s... We need to stand with the world’s most advanced experiment in democracy. #defendRojava #saveRojava #KobaneUnderAttack
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State integration forced on Rojava - Freedom News
Islamist attacks and great-power manoeuvres place the revolution in existential threat ~ Blade Runner ~ Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian …
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ways to #DefendRojava. * Organise demos/ banner drops * Public statements, pressure MPs * Donate to Kurdish Red Crescent * Take action vs. arms companies supporting Syrian Islamist state * Spread awareness of democratic revolution Read more: kurdistansolidarity.net/2026/01/19/w...
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What’s Happening in Rojava
What's happening in Rojava? Over the past couple of weeks tensions between the the Syrian Transitional Government (STG) and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have broken out into war. The SDF, which ...
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Many of us will be looking at 2026 with a mix of resolve and fear, wanting to help tackle the big problems we face. We're sharing reflections on some of these through the lens of #FearlessCities - here's some effective organising against racism and fascism researchforaction.uk/fearless-cit...
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Fearless Cities against racism and fascism – Research for Action
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣In November 2024, we were part of organising #FearlessCities gathering in #Sheffield. A year on, we're reflecting and expanding on directions for municipalism in the UK and beyond - citizens’ assemblies, mutual aid, action networks & reclaiming common spaces. 🪷 researchforaction.uk/fearless-cit...
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Fearless Cities against racism and fascism – Research for Action
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Research for Action @research-for-act.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
⚡In our first offering, @steve-rushton.bsky.social uncovers some of the threads of anti-racist and antifascist cities, with wide implications for community spaces and organising.
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Taxing the rich is key to challenging the far-right Latest by me occupy.com/article/taxi...
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Taxing the Rich Is Key to Challenging the Far-Right
Anyone who claims to oppose the rise of the far right must, at the very least, support higher taxes on extreme wealth.
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I’m paddleboarding 12km down the river towards the sea in East London to raise funds for my friend Solly’s family in Gaza. Please support them! gofundme.com/f/Save-my-family-from-death-in-gaza-now #SupportGaza
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Questioning The All Powerful Age of AI - and Big Tech occupy.com/article/ques... my latest for occupy.com #Degrowth #AI #CriticalMinerals
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Questioning the All Powerful Age of AI
We do not need to move towards a world where AI grows exponentially and accelerates the world's – and our own mental health's – destruction.
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
How minerals will drive geopolitics, as oil already does by me for the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m... @ccccjustice.bsky.social
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Securing access to minerals essential for the green transition will in the 21st century will be a resource curse, just like fossil fuels were in the 20th Century. Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog. ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The world cannot afford electric vehicles occupy.com/article/worl... My latest article with focus on #CriticalMinerals #Degrowth #ElectricVehicles
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The World Cannot Afford Electric Vehicles
If we embraced integrated public transport rather than the rush to fill our cities with EVs, there would be much more space for parks and society on foot.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"In fact, almost everything worthwhile that has come out of British culture for the last century, from music hall, to street kebabs, to standup comedy, rock 'n' roll, and the rave scene, has been primarily a working-class phenomenon.

Essentially, these were the things the working-class created when they weren’t actually working.

The sprouting of British popular culture in the 60s was a product of the UK’s then very generous welfare state….and a surprising proportion of major bands later to sweep the world spent at least some of their formative years on unemployment relief."

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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
5 years since he passed. Rest in play David Graeber www.occupy.com/article/my-f...
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My Friend David Graeber
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
MSM is complicit in genocide
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Why are there so many empty spaces and voids in the City, in capitalism's core? These are Bullshit Spaces! Me for @DopeMagazine developing ideas from #DavidGraeber #BullshitJobs www.dopemag.org/articles-1/f...
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Bullshit Space in Capitalism’s core — DOPE Magazine
T he downstairs two floors of the global bank UBS's 13-storey headquarters lie empty. In the City of London, this space – dubbed a 'double-height reception' – is barren of activity. Except for the m...
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Degrowth offers so many ways we could imagine a future beyond endless mining and the crises it brings. It's time to broaden out this political debate that will determine the future so we can get off the path towards the billionaires' dystopia. #criticalminerals #degrowth occupy.com/article/crit...
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Critically Rethinking Minerals—and the Cost of Extraction
In the green transition, the IEA predicts lithium usage will rise by 40 times the current amount by 2050, while graphite, nickel and cobalt use will increase 20 times. Can we imagine a different futur...
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
This all sounds dystopian. It's not fiction. Billionaires with corporate interests from Silicon Valley to the military, from mining and oil extraction to cryptocurrencies, are backing a new wave of US expansionism. #CriticalMinerals #ArcticOpening occupy.com/article/digg...
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Digging Deep into Trump's Aims to Annex Greenland
Behind the scenes, the billionaires backing Trump have serious plans to build a techno-futuristic, regulation-free city on Greenland to serve as a stepping stone to Mars.
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Capitalists argue all the minerals are need for a #GreenTransition In reality, "A great deal of the demand is for war machines and technology. Wars are being fought to control these minerals, which replicates how wars have often been fought for oil." #CriticalMinerals occupy.com/article/mine...
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Minerals, Like Oil, Will Drive the Wars and Conflict this Century
Minerals touted as essential for the “Green Transition” are central in ongoing wars from Ukraine to Myanmar, and to Trump's ambitions to take over Canada and Greenland.
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Pigpen Radio @pigpenradio.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Less chop 👎 More green 💚 www.change.org/p/stop-the-f...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the felling of three healthy lime trees on Trelawney Road in Falmouth.
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Emma River-Roberts @emma-river-roberts.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You can't make this shit up. "A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is an in-depth well-researched exploration of the whole issue of 'opening up' the Arctic to commercial exploitation and mineral extraction, and how to resist it ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/14/d... #Trump #Sami #Arctic #North #Sweden #Greenland
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How to respect indigenous rights in the Arctic
US President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland have created concern globally. However blatant his approach, the shock element masks the fact that the entire capitalist system foll…
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
On Inuit and Sami indigenous rights and how to protect the Arctic and Greenland from Trump and industrial exploitation by @steve-rushton.bsky.social bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/03/14/d...
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How to respect indigenous rights in the Arctic
US President Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland have created concern globally. However blatant his approach, the shock element masks the fact that the entire capitalist system foll…
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
In many places the rise of the populist far-right seemed unlikely, not possible. Then it happened. And it seemed inevitable. latest by me about the dysfunctional state of Britain for Occupy.com occupy.com/article/brit...
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Britain Is Sleepwalking Towards Far-Right Populism
In a political earthquake last year, the populist and racist Reform Party took 4.1 million votes, coming third, against a backdrop of collapsing living standards and accelerating impoverishment.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
WE HAVE BEEN CREATING INDEPENDENT SCOTTISH MEDIA SINCE 2007. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO CONTINUE AND DEVELOP. Backing Bella Caledonia 2025 – for an independent Scottish Media Fighting for Scotland www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be...
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 12/02/2025
Today would have been Graeber's birthday. I recommend checking out his work.
"Everywhere the centrist argument that the Left has to abandon its principles to fight fascism, leaving the only choice between corporate bureaucrats and Nazis, has had the effect of empowering Nazis. That's a failed formula every time." -David Graeber
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Collectively resisting fascism and building alternatives in Naples by me occupy.com/article/coll... #UrbanCommons #Municipalism
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Collectively Resisting Fascism and Building Alternatives in Naples
The way the urban commons create a space to solve material problems and enable social movements to forge city-wide networks are antidotes to people being attracted towards the far-right.
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Mike Small @bellacaledonia.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Degrowth Municipalism could change the world bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/12/20/d...
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Degrowth Municipalism could change the world
A panel discussion about Degrowth and Municipalism, at the international municipalist summit Fearless Cities in Sheffield November 2-3rd, explored the overlaps between the two movements. Degrowth a…
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Steve Rushton @steve-rushton.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Cities were crucial in humanity's journey long before capitalism & other structural oppression. Through Degrowth Municipalism cities can continue this role as these human constructions fade into history. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/12/20/d... me for @bellacaledonia.bsky.social #FearlessCities
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