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.
⭐️Get it from all good bookshops or direct from the publishers @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social
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⭐️Get it from all good bookshops or direct from the publishers @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social
bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/product/the-...
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...
Reposted by Martin Empson
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...
Reposted by Martin Empson
There is a reason Lenin called them opportunists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour row erupts after Andy Burnham blocked from byelection race
Allies of Greater Manchester mayor say No 10 has ‘chosen factionalism’ as decision leads to a furious backlash
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
There is a reason Lenin called them opportunists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Thanks for @chartist48.bsky.social for this review of my book on the German Peasants' War.
Duncan Bowie reviews "The Time of the Harvest Has Come" by Martin Empson published by Bookmarks buff.ly/SwhrCn1 #chartist48
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January 24, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Thanks for @chartist48.bsky.social for this review of my book on the German Peasants' War.
British politics needs more enthusiasm for the Minneapolis General Strike as a strategy and less blind hope in Andy Burnham.
January 24, 2026 at 2:49 PM
British politics needs more enthusiasm for the Minneapolis General Strike as a strategy and less blind hope in Andy Burnham.
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Minneapolis shutdown: Workers show power to resist Trump regime:
✊️Minnesota rose up on Friday in a historic shutdown. People refused to go to work or school or go shopping in a day of rage against Donald Trump’s use of federal agents to occupy the state. socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...
✊️Minnesota rose up on Friday in a historic shutdown. People refused to go to work or school or go shopping in a day of rage against Donald Trump’s use of federal agents to occupy the state. socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...
Minneapolis shutdown: Workers show power to resist Trump regime
The trade unions threw their weight behind the call for an Minneapolis shutdown against Ice terror and the Trump White House
socialistworker.co.uk
January 24, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Minneapolis shutdown: Workers show power to resist Trump regime:
✊️Minnesota rose up on Friday in a historic shutdown. People refused to go to work or school or go shopping in a day of rage against Donald Trump’s use of federal agents to occupy the state. socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...
✊️Minnesota rose up on Friday in a historic shutdown. People refused to go to work or school or go shopping in a day of rage against Donald Trump’s use of federal agents to occupy the state. socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...
My latest book review looks at a study which shows that First Nations people in Canada never surrendered their land in the "numbered treaties". Sheldon Krasowski's "No Surrender", a powerful weapon for those fighting for land rights today. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/01/seld...
Sheldon Krasowski - No Surrender: The land remains Indigenous
Between 1871 and 1921 a series of so called "numbered treaties" were signed between the First Nations of Canada and the (settler) Canadian g...
resolutereader.blogspot.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:51 PM
My latest book review looks at a study which shows that First Nations people in Canada never surrendered their land in the "numbered treaties". Sheldon Krasowski's "No Surrender", a powerful weapon for those fighting for land rights today. resolutereader.blogspot.com/2026/01/seld...
I am very sorry to hear of the death of the Marxist Historian Henry Heller. His work on bourgeois revolution and the rise of capitalism, and the French Revolution in particular, was always stimulating. Here's my review of his "Birth of Capitalism" resolutereader.blogspot.com/2018/12/henr...
January 20, 2026 at 5:56 PM
I am very sorry to hear of the death of the Marxist Historian Henry Heller. His work on bourgeois revolution and the rise of capitalism, and the French Revolution in particular, was always stimulating. Here's my review of his "Birth of Capitalism" resolutereader.blogspot.com/2018/12/henr...
Thanks to the eight people who borrowed "Kill all the Gentlemen", and the one who borrowed "Land and Labour", from their library. It's generated me a total of £1.11 which, as is traditional, I'll be donating to my publisher Bookmarks Bookshop, a socialist & trade union bookshop.
January 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Thanks to the eight people who borrowed "Kill all the Gentlemen", and the one who borrowed "Land and Labour", from their library. It's generated me a total of £1.11 which, as is traditional, I'll be donating to my publisher Bookmarks Bookshop, a socialist & trade union bookshop.
Tonight's film was this incredible 2004 documentary about the struggles of Nova Scotia's handline fishers against the government and the fishing corporations whose practices were destroying the sea's ecology. Brave people who fought back - some remarkable characters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=icls...
One More Dead Fish - Documentary
YouTube video by Nova Scotian Commercial Fishing
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January 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Tonight's film was this incredible 2004 documentary about the struggles of Nova Scotia's handline fishers against the government and the fishing corporations whose practices were destroying the sea's ecology. Brave people who fought back - some remarkable characters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=icls...
Trump adding cringe to his nascent fascism.
January 16, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Trump adding cringe to his nascent fascism.
Reposted by Martin Empson
Important statement from the Danish International Socialists about Nunarput/Greenland and resisting US and Danish imperialism (in English/Danish). socialister.dk/internationa...
Internationale Socialister: USA, Denmark, EU – get out of Nunarput | Internationale Socialister
socialister.dk
January 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Important statement from the Danish International Socialists about Nunarput/Greenland and resisting US and Danish imperialism (in English/Danish). socialister.dk/internationa...
Reposted by Martin Empson
this is fucking incredible
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
this is fucking incredible
The Tory party really is fucked. If it wasn't all fuelling Reform it would be hilarious.
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
The Tory party really is fucked. If it wasn't all fuelling Reform it would be hilarious.