Martin Empson
@resolutereader.bsky.social
One man's odyssey through the world of books. Author of 'Land & Labour', 'Kill All the Gentlemen', 'Socialism or Extinction', "The Time of the Harvest has Come!" Interested in Marxism, history, ecology, revolution. SWP.
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Ready for the 500th anniversary, my book "The Time of the Harvest has Come: Revolution, Reformation adn the German Peasants' War" is now available.
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My latest book review looks at Alyssa Battistoni's "Free Gifts", a study of natures "gifts" to capitalism. Excellent for those trying to find an alternative to capital's destruction of the environment. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/01/alys...
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Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the politics of nature
In 1875 Karl Marx wrote a devastating critique of the programme of the United Workers’ Party of Germany. In its opening paragraph he dismiss...
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February 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
My latest book review looks at Alyssa Battistoni's "Free Gifts", a study of natures "gifts" to capitalism. Excellent for those trying to find an alternative to capital's destruction of the environment. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/01/alys...
@alybatt.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social
@alybatt.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social
Preparing for a talk for a Lutheran congregation on the German Peasants' War. Here's a pamphlet by Johann Fundling defending the peasantry against Luther: "Demonstration of Luther’s Two False Tongues—How He Has Misled the Peasants with the One and Condemned Them with the Other".
February 15, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Preparing for a talk for a Lutheran congregation on the German Peasants' War. Here's a pamphlet by Johann Fundling defending the peasantry against Luther: "Demonstration of Luther’s Two False Tongues—How He Has Misled the Peasants with the One and Condemned Them with the Other".
My latest book review, as I explore settler colonialism theory, is of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's excellent Not a Nation of Immigrants. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/02/roxa...
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler colonialism, white supremacy & a history of erasure & exclusion
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a leading historian of settler colonialism in the Americas and the history of indigenous people and their struggles....
resolutereader.blogspot.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:34 PM
My latest book review, as I explore settler colonialism theory, is of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's excellent Not a Nation of Immigrants. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/02/roxa...
Reading Mahmood Mamdani's "Neither Settler Nor Native" (2020) and noticed this dedication. I wonder what became of the lad?
February 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Reading Mahmood Mamdani's "Neither Settler Nor Native" (2020) and noticed this dedication. I wonder what became of the lad?
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Victory! But absurd the ban remains in place. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful but group remains proscribed for now
Three judges ruled against the Home Office in a massive blow to the government, but said the ban must remain until a further hearing.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Victory! But absurd the ban remains in place. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
My Canadian comrade Brian Champ reviews John Bellamy Foster's new book "Breaking the Bonds of Fate - Epicurus and Marx" socialist.ca/node/5138
Review: Breaking the Bonds of Fate - Epicurus and Marx
Review of Breaking the Bonds of Fate: Epicurus and Marx
by: John Bellamy Foster
We live in times of a deepening interconnected global crises: rising inequality, authoritarianism, fascism,...
socialist.ca
February 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
My Canadian comrade Brian Champ reviews John Bellamy Foster's new book "Breaking the Bonds of Fate - Epicurus and Marx" socialist.ca/node/5138
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Oh great. Just what we need. Another billionaire racist.
February 12, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Oh great. Just what we need. Another billionaire racist.
The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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February 11, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Anyone who thinks ICE in the US is a new phenomena should read this account of the racist 1954 "Operation Wetback" which lead to hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants being targeted in racist raids. From Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's book "Not a nation of immigrants"
February 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Anyone who thinks ICE in the US is a new phenomena should read this account of the racist 1954 "Operation Wetback" which lead to hundreds of thousands of Mexican migrants being targeted in racist raids. From Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's book "Not a nation of immigrants"
My latest book review looks at Brian W. Dippie's study of how the myth of "Custer's Last Stand" was constructed through poetry, literature, pictures & films, and how that informed a particular view of America, and the US colonial project. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/02/bria...
Brian W. Dippie - Custer's Last Stand: The anatomy of an American myth
In 1876 George Armstrong Custer's forces attacked a Native American village. In the battle that followed around half of his troops, includin...
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February 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
My latest book review looks at Brian W. Dippie's study of how the myth of "Custer's Last Stand" was constructed through poetry, literature, pictures & films, and how that informed a particular view of America, and the US colonial project. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/02/bria...
Impressive demonstrations in Australia against the visit of Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel. Heavy police violence failed to stop tens of thousands showing solidarity with Palestine. Report from @solidarity-aus.bsky.social solidarity.net.au/palestine/hu...
Huge protests against visit of Israel’s President defy anti-protest laws and police violence – Solidarity Online
Albanese’s hopes that he could use Isaac Herzog’s visit to win sympathy for Israel after the Bondi attack have blown up in his face.
solidarity.net.au
February 10, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Impressive demonstrations in Australia against the visit of Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel. Heavy police violence failed to stop tens of thousands showing solidarity with Palestine. Report from @solidarity-aus.bsky.social solidarity.net.au/palestine/hu...
Unusual venue for me, but I'm speaking on Sunday at the Martin Luther Kirche Manchester at their KulturSonntage on the German Peasants' War if any of my followers are near Stretford in Manchester.
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Unusual venue for me, but I'm speaking on Sunday at the Martin Luther Kirche Manchester at their KulturSonntage on the German Peasants' War if any of my followers are near Stretford in Manchester.
Reading about Settler Colonialism is my Saturday evening.
February 7, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Reading about Settler Colonialism is my Saturday evening.
Here's a list of all the books in Marilyn Monroe's personal library. It's a fantastic list. nothingintherulebook.com/2020/02/06/b...
Book obsessed: the 430 books of Marilyn Monroe’s personal library
To Marilyn Monroe, books were “a refuge and a companion” – and she collected over 400 volumes in her lifetime.
nothingintherulebook.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Here's a list of all the books in Marilyn Monroe's personal library. It's a fantastic list. nothingintherulebook.com/2020/02/06/b...
The racism contines. Trump administration orders removal or alteration of signs at Little Big Horn describing and memorialising Native American particpation and losses. www.ktvq.com/news/local-n... (1/2)
Montana tribe fights federal government effort to change narrative at Little Bighorn National Monument
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe announced it will fight the Trump administration's effort to alter or remove displays honoring tribal involvement at the Little Bighorn National Monument.
www.ktvq.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
The racism contines. Trump administration orders removal or alteration of signs at Little Big Horn describing and memorialising Native American particpation and losses. www.ktvq.com/news/local-n... (1/2)
Starmer should resign over his knowledge of Mandleson's ongoing contact with Epstein. I suspect this may well happen.
February 4, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Starmer should resign over his knowledge of Mandleson's ongoing contact with Epstein. I suspect this may well happen.
My latest review looks at an inspiring book that celebrates how workers' fought and struggled in 1926. Charlie Kimber and Judy Cox's important socialist history, "Revisting the General Strike of 1926: when workers were ready to dare". resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/01/char...
Charlie Kimber & Judy Cox - Revisiting the General Strike of 1926: When workers were ready to dare
On day in May 1926 when my grandfather was on his way home from school in Plymouth, he was astounded to see a tram tipped over by a crowd of...
resolutereader.blogspot.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
My latest review looks at an inspiring book that celebrates how workers' fought and struggled in 1926. Charlie Kimber and Judy Cox's important socialist history, "Revisting the General Strike of 1926: when workers were ready to dare". resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/01/char...
Some inspiring news for a bleak January morning. The strike at the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership academy trust won. Not only did they win all their demands and save 100 jobs, and get more funding there "has been a mass resignation of the management"!
socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions...
socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions...
Education workers across Midlands strike decisive victory
NEU union members at the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership have won all of their demands in their battle against bosses' cuts
socialistworker.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Some inspiring news for a bleak January morning. The strike at the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership academy trust won. Not only did they win all their demands and save 100 jobs, and get more funding there "has been a mass resignation of the management"!
socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions...
socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions...
No tickets sold for Melania for the prime time Saturday night showing at my regular cinema. Perhaps there's some paint drying somewhere to watch instead.
January 28, 2026 at 11:57 PM
No tickets sold for Melania for the prime time Saturday night showing at my regular cinema. Perhaps there's some paint drying somewhere to watch instead.
Do it.
thinking of getting into Early Bourgeois Revolutions
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Do it.
Feb 1939, Aboriginal people living on the Cummeragunja reserve on the Murray River walked off the reserve, and set up a strike camp at Barmah. The role the working-class movement in Melbourne played supporting this struggle is less well known. solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/t...
The Cummeragunja walk-off: How workers backed struggle for Indigenous rights – Solidarity Online
Paddy Gibson looks at how unions and socialists provided support for one of the major struggles for Aboriginal rights and against the racist Protection system
solidarity.net.au
January 25, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Feb 1939, Aboriginal people living on the Cummeragunja reserve on the Murray River walked off the reserve, and set up a strike camp at Barmah. The role the working-class movement in Melbourne played supporting this struggle is less well known. solidarity.net.au/aboriginal/t...
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A very important article on the Italian strikes for Palestine by Lucia Pradella isj.org.uk/italy-strike...
Italy’s general strike for Palestine • International Socialism
Italy’s wave of mobilisation and general strikes for Palestine in September and October 2025 was unprecedented. Millions of workers and young people stopped work, blocking roads, railways and ports ac...
isj.org.uk
January 24, 2026 at 9:44 AM
A very important article on the Italian strikes for Palestine by Lucia Pradella isj.org.uk/italy-strike...