Simon Hannah

Simon Hannah

@simonhannah.bsky.social

Ecosocialist Anticapitalist Resistance Latest book is Reclaiming The Future: A Beginners Guide to Planning the Economy, (Pluto 2024)

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Simon Hannah
@simonhannah.bsky.social

Battle of Cable Street 90th anniversary meeting - hosted by @anticapresistance.bsky.social London 23 September at 7pm, 2 Ossulston Street near Kings Cross anticapitalistresistance.org/events/the-b...

anticapitalistresistance.orgThe battle of Cable Street and anti fascism todayNinety years ago socialists, trade unionists and the local Jewish community in East London blocked the fascist Black Shirts from marching. Today far right violence is on the rise. What can we learn fr...
Simon Hannah
@simonhannah.bsky.social

The monopolisation of media is a threat to democracy and culture www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comA TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict WongThe Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumb...
Simon Hannah
@simonhannah.bsky.social

After withdrawing support for Pride at Durham and Havering councils - the trade union movement stepped up to defend and support the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. The workers movement at its best is a universalist movement fighting for human liberation for all against oppression and exploitation.

Simon Hannah
@simonhannah.bsky.social

Andy Burnham will have a loft of work to do to prove his is “profressive”. Labour members got their fingers burnt before with Starmer ‘s so called pledges. Triangulation in power whether conscious or not is s consequence of managing the capitalist state

Simon Hannah
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In "politics, racism is a vapid and bombastic variety of chauvinism in alliance with phrenology... the ruined nobility sought solace in the gentility of its blood, so the pauperised petty bourgeoisie befuddles itself with fairy tales concerning the special superiorities of its race." Trotsky

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This is happening on Saturday - cohosted by Monthly Review and Global Ecosocialist Network Zoom link is in the article monthlyreview.org/april-25th-e...

monthlyreview.orgApril 25th: Ecosocialism Forum to host Ian Angus, author of "Metabolic Rifts" (Available now!) - Monthly ReviewOn Saturday April 25, starting at 11:00am EST/4:00 pm GMT Ian Angus will introduce his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth’s System, in an event cosponsored with,... READ MORE
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@simonhannah.bsky.social

Can folks take 1 minute to sign this, the staff at the FCA are having a big push back against Palantir getting a contract and they could win this one, public support will make a big difference actionnetwork.org/petitions/fc...

actionnetwork.orgFCA: Don't give our data away!Have you heard of Palantir? The secretive US tech company has been mired in controversy over the use of artificial technology to expand government surveillance, ties to the Trump administration, and a...
Simon Hannah
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I am going to this in May

Ecosocialism Conference@ecosocialism-conf.bsky.social

KILL CAPITALISM Climate targets are being ignored, wars for oil are escalating, the cost of living is starting to spiral out of control for millions, an entire generation of baby Emperor Penguins has drowned in the Artic... It is all connected. It is all capitalism and constant growth for profit

Simon Hannah
@simonhannah.bsky.social

Despite everything humanity can become great and we can live wonderful lives. We just need to mercilessly crush the ruling oligarchs and seize control of the economy in order to create the conditions for true greatness

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Simon Pearson
@anticapitalistmusings.com

Subtraction politics works because it replaces structural causation with moral causation. The problem is not what was done to the country over forty years. The problem is who arrived, who ruled, who stayed. An explanation that requires no history and promises no change. It only requires a target.

open.substack.comThe Only Politics on OfferEvery significant force in British opposition politics currently offers the same thing, expressed in different registers: removal.
Simon Hannah
@simonhannah.bsky.social

The great victory in Minneapolis over ICE and Trumps racist agenda shows a model of socialist organising that makes a difference

anticapitalistresistance.orgSocialist Strategy: Minneapolis shows the wayThe victory of the people of Minneapolis against ICE and Trump is something we can be inspired by and learn from, writes Simon Hannah
AntiCapitalist Resistance@anticapresistance.bsky.social

Socialist Strategy: Minneapolis shows the way

dlvr.itSocialist Strategy: Minneapolis shows the wayThe victory of the people of Minneapolis against ICE and Trump is something we can be inspired by and learn from, writes Simon Hannah

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Gabriel Zucman
@gabrielzucman.bsky.social

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Simon Hannah
@simonhannah.bsky.social

Your Party has been launched and of course no one is exactly happy with it but that reflects the state of the left. However the fact that it exists at all is a positive thing - now the has a party we can engage in proper strategic thinking about power and how to change society.