Mark Simmonds
@coopsmark.bsky.social
Anarchist, co-operator, orchardist, boatbuilder, solidarity economist.
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Right now, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and other officials are participating in a panel about "Antifa," threatening to "destroy the entire organization [sic] from top to bottom."
This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
President Trump Participates in a Roundtable on Antifa
President Trump holds a roundtable meeting on Antifa.
www.c-span.org
October 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Right now, Donald Trump, Kash Patel, Kristi Noem, and other officials are participating in a panel about "Antifa," threatening to "destroy the entire organization [sic] from top to bottom."
This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
This is a good time to revisit our guide to preparing for repression:
crimethinc.com/Safeguarding
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It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
Lots of interest in training to deliver peer to peer co-operative business support at #coopcongress Find out more at www.stirtoaction.com/barefoot
barefoot
Specialist training for co-operative and community business practitioners. Gain skills, knowledge, and confidence to work as an advisor in the sector. Are you ready to join a new generation of advisor...
www.stirtoaction.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Lots of interest in training to deliver peer to peer co-operative business support at #coopcongress Find out more at www.stirtoaction.com/barefoot
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This Sunday join we're celebrating #co-operatives to mark the UN year of the #co-ops. #IYC2025
Learn about coops from those involved in establishing and running them locally. Enjoy beers from worker-owned @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social's tap takeover, and pizzas and tunes in the garden. #HebdenBridge
Learn about coops from those involved in establishing and running them locally. Enjoy beers from worker-owned @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social's tap takeover, and pizzas and tunes in the garden. #HebdenBridge
July 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This Sunday join we're celebrating #co-operatives to mark the UN year of the #co-ops. #IYC2025
Learn about coops from those involved in establishing and running them locally. Enjoy beers from worker-owned @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social's tap takeover, and pizzas and tunes in the garden. #HebdenBridge
Learn about coops from those involved in establishing and running them locally. Enjoy beers from worker-owned @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social's tap takeover, and pizzas and tunes in the garden. #HebdenBridge
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In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq.
Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.
Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.
The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.
Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.
Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.
The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.
June 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq.
Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.
Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.
The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.
Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.
Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.
The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.
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Our wonderful community pub is in need of an exterior refresh and we are inviting quotes from local painters.
If you are interested in this exciting project, please contact businessmanager@foxandgoose.org by Thursday 19th June to express your interest. 1/2 #HebdenBridge #Todmorden
If you are interested in this exciting project, please contact businessmanager@foxandgoose.org by Thursday 19th June to express your interest. 1/2 #HebdenBridge #Todmorden
June 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our wonderful community pub is in need of an exterior refresh and we are inviting quotes from local painters.
If you are interested in this exciting project, please contact businessmanager@foxandgoose.org by Thursday 19th June to express your interest. 1/2 #HebdenBridge #Todmorden
If you are interested in this exciting project, please contact businessmanager@foxandgoose.org by Thursday 19th June to express your interest. 1/2 #HebdenBridge #Todmorden
I was interviewed about co-operative governance by the Corporate Bodies project corporatebodies.substack.com/p/episode-7-...
June 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I was interviewed about co-operative governance by the Corporate Bodies project corporatebodies.substack.com/p/episode-7-...
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We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s.
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
Tribute to Colin Jerwood
Dedicated to the memory of Colin Jerwood
colinjerwood.muchloved.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s.
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
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More information on the L&SERWFL Trophy final between Clapton CFC Women's First Team and Dulwich Hamlet Reserves at Maidstone United today 🇵🇸✊
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/05/25/c...
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/05/25/c...
May 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
More information on the L&SERWFL Trophy final between Clapton CFC Women's First Team and Dulwich Hamlet Reserves at Maidstone United today 🇵🇸✊
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/05/25/c...
www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/05/25/c...
Nice day for dry stone walling. Hopefully I'll be wet stone walling tomorrow. We need rain!
May 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Nice day for dry stone walling. Hopefully I'll be wet stone walling tomorrow. We need rain!
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The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.
Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.
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The way predatory people like Musk operate is they get their foot in the door incrementally. Just comply with my email, what’s so hard about that? Then when people give in because they don’t want a hassle, he owns you. Then he comes back next time demanding something much worse.
February 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The way predatory people like Musk operate is they get their foot in the door incrementally. Just comply with my email, what’s so hard about that? Then when people give in because they don’t want a hassle, he owns you. Then he comes back next time demanding something much worse.
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Sad news from theclaptonpress.com. It's closing down on March 7th, due to the press's owner's illness. Clapton had a growing list of books in translation from South America and Spain, and a number of books on the Spanish Civil War. Mail order and trade customers stock up now while you still can.
TheClaptonPress
Visit the post for more.
theclaptonpress.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Sad news from theclaptonpress.com. It's closing down on March 7th, due to the press's owner's illness. Clapton had a growing list of books in translation from South America and Spain, and a number of books on the Spanish Civil War. Mail order and trade customers stock up now while you still can.
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💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD
ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
www.reuters.com/markets/euro...
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Happening now: Israeli tanks have entered the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians were expelled from three refugee camps in the Jenin & Tulkarm areas. There's a real and present danger that these camps will be erased. This genocide must be stopped. By us all. Now!
February 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Happening now: Israeli tanks have entered the northern West Bank after 40,000 Palestinians were expelled from three refugee camps in the Jenin & Tulkarm areas. There's a real and present danger that these camps will be erased. This genocide must be stopped. By us all. Now!
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Kindling Farm seeks architects kindling.org.uk/news/kindlin... @kindlingtrust.bsky.social
Kindling Farm seeks architects
Kindling Farm seeks architects for the first stage of a hugely exciting project! We are looking for ecologically and socially focused architects to work with us to design the transformation of our bea...
kindling.org.uk
February 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Kindling Farm seeks architects kindling.org.uk/news/kindlin... @kindlingtrust.bsky.social
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The world’s developing countries mainly owe their debts in dollars. Trump is, however, making it harder for them to earn dollars, and is trying to inflate the dollar’s value. The result will be massive poverty.
youtu.be/aYYBmdTOA9E?...
youtu.be/aYYBmdTOA9E?...
Trump is a threat to developing countries who owe their debts in dollars
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The world’s developing countries mainly owe their debts in dollars. Trump is, however, making it harder for them to earn dollars, and is trying to inflate the dollar’s value. The result will be massive poverty.
youtu.be/aYYBmdTOA9E?...
youtu.be/aYYBmdTOA9E?...
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This is a scary time, but also one where people across divisions could in theory link up and offer real solidarity and support to each other.
We have a choice - allow different groups of people to be targeted, or show up and stand with everyone under attack.
We have a choice - allow different groups of people to be targeted, or show up and stand with everyone under attack.
February 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This is a scary time, but also one where people across divisions could in theory link up and offer real solidarity and support to each other.
We have a choice - allow different groups of people to be targeted, or show up and stand with everyone under attack.
We have a choice - allow different groups of people to be targeted, or show up and stand with everyone under attack.
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British bosses are supposedly telling the Telegraph that they want to end protection for minority groups in the workplace. It hasn't taken them long to go full on Trump so that they can enrich themselves at cost to those who need protection and support.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
The bastards are out to exploit again
The bastards bosses who run the UK's businesses have not been slow to notice what Trump is all about. Nor have their friends in the press been either. As the Telegraph notes this morning:
Financial ch...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
February 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
British bosses are supposedly telling the Telegraph that they want to end protection for minority groups in the workplace. It hasn't taken them long to go full on Trump so that they can enrich themselves at cost to those who need protection and support.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...
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Why experts don't agree with Rachel Reeves that 'Sustainable' Aviation Fuel (SAF) is a "game changer"
It's clear that they are absolutely NOT a get-out-of-jail-free card enabling airport expansion:
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's clear that they are absolutely NOT a get-out-of-jail-free card enabling airport expansion:
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Rachel Reeves says cabinet ‘united’ in backing Heathrow third runway plan – UK politics live
Chancellor says she has support of cabinet as climate minister Ed Miliband reported to be sceptical over Heathrow plans
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Why experts don't agree with Rachel Reeves that 'Sustainable' Aviation Fuel (SAF) is a "game changer"
It's clear that they are absolutely NOT a get-out-of-jail-free card enabling airport expansion:
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's clear that they are absolutely NOT a get-out-of-jail-free card enabling airport expansion:
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Great starter pack follow list of the full Bylines network and a host of other great small independent news and investigations outlets from @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
Here’s my Bylines starter pack.
This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…)
Please follow & share.
go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
This is the full Bylines Network, plus Byline Times and other public good investigative press (Declassified, Desmog, openDemocracy…)
Please follow & share.
go.bsky.app/RWVEKv
January 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Great starter pack follow list of the full Bylines network and a host of other great small independent news and investigations outlets from @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
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Well, this is exciting.
Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber represent, promote and connect social enterprises across our region and we've only gone and been shortlisted for large social enterprise of the year!
We find out the results on March 20, wish us luck!
Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber represent, promote and connect social enterprises across our region and we've only gone and been shortlisted for large social enterprise of the year!
We find out the results on March 20, wish us luck!
January 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Well, this is exciting.
Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber represent, promote and connect social enterprises across our region and we've only gone and been shortlisted for large social enterprise of the year!
We find out the results on March 20, wish us luck!
Social Enterprise Yorkshire & Humber represent, promote and connect social enterprises across our region and we've only gone and been shortlisted for large social enterprise of the year!
We find out the results on March 20, wish us luck!
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For those who enjoy delicious beer, some cracking cheer and a modestly sized television, the #SixNations will be shown at the Fox, starting with France v Wales on Friday evening.
January 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For those who enjoy delicious beer, some cracking cheer and a modestly sized television, the #SixNations will be shown at the Fox, starting with France v Wales on Friday evening.
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🔴Climate Activists to March on Courts as Mass Just Stop Oil Appeal Kicks Off
The Met Police have promised arrests if the protesters, who are campaigning for protest rights, step out of line
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/29/c...
The Met Police have promised arrests if the protesters, who are campaigning for protest rights, step out of line
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/29/c...
Climate Activists to March on Courts as Mass Just Stop Oil Appeal Kicks Off
The Met Police have promised arrests if the protesters, who are campaigning for protest rights, step out of line
bylinetimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🔴Climate Activists to March on Courts as Mass Just Stop Oil Appeal Kicks Off
The Met Police have promised arrests if the protesters, who are campaigning for protest rights, step out of line
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/29/c...
The Met Police have promised arrests if the protesters, who are campaigning for protest rights, step out of line
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/29/c...