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Simon Pearson
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Politics with https://anticapitalistresistance.org/ and blogging at https://anticapitalistmusings.com/ and books at https://resistancebooks.org/

Anti Capitalist/Anti Fascist/Anti Trump
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#EndOfYearReviews #Books #BookReviews
A two-part graphic. The top half has a brown background with white serif text reading “Books of the Year” and beneath it “On absence, labour, madness, annihilation, and guilty pleasures.” At the bottom it says “Anti-Capitalist Musings” in italic. The lower half shows the book cover of Saltwater Mansions, featuring stacked, sunlit concrete balconies of a tower block in warm yellow-brown tones, with the title in large turquoise lettering and the subtitle “The woman who disappeared and other untold stories.”
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"Elon Musk and Jensen Huang seated on stage at the 2025 U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, with the forum's dual-language logo displayed on screens behind them. The Forbes logo appears in the bottom left corner. Orange title card reading 'The Robot God and His Desert Temple: Or: How Silicon Valley learned to stop worrying and love mass unemployment' overlays the top portion of the image."
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It Is Not Where You Are From, It Is Where You Are At On Mani, memory, and how Britain forgot what Ian Brown already knew Anti-Capitalist Musings DECEMBER 5-11 1994 N°108 ISSUE Coming up from the streets
November 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Title card reading 'The Conjuncture and the Commodity' over a photograph of Trump and Epstein
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Will always be the best album ever made, at the best time to be alive. RIP Mani. #Legend
Album cover of the Stone Roses debut album
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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THE MANAGED DECLINE OF COMPASSION HM Government RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL A statement on the government's asylum and retums policy November 2025 CP 1418 Anti-Capitalist Musings
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Must have the B team on headline writing duties today at the Daily Mail. Just because you don’t like her, does not make her an extremist. Evidence suggests Israel has behaved like a terrorist state. The missile strike on Qatar is a good example. Hamas ran Gaza so were the civil society of the place.
Extremist left-winger Catherine Connolly who said Israel behaved like "terrorist state' and called Hamas 'part of the civil society of Palestine' is confirmed as new Irish president at Dublin Castle after landslide triumph
October 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The Ghosts We Deserve Why England queues for hauntings whilst cinema dies
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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THE ROBOT ARMY DREAM (A FEVER) or: Notes Towards the Infinite Money Glitch The richest man in the world is afraid
October 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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End times of capitalism.
Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X from user @nearczyan. The post reads: “a16z-backed Coverd lets users get up to 100% cash back on cc purchases by offering fun and interactive games of chance paired with a new type of credit card – spin to win!” Below are four iPhone screenshots with bright yellow backgrounds showing app screens: “Up to 100% Cash back, Zero fees,” “Turn Expenses into Games,” “Play & Win Instantly,” and “Buy Coins to Play.” The images depict a black credit card, a sneaker purchase screen, a roulette-style spin game, and a coin purchase screen.
October 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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This should be a cracking read. #books
Close-up of a Kinski's face captured mid-shout, his mouth wide open and expression intense, with a grainy, distorted, VHS-style texture. The title Jesus Christ Kinski appears across his mouth, and below it, the author’s name Benjamin Myers is written in white handwritten-style text, along with “Author of Cuddy” and “Bloomsbury.” The image evokes raw emotion and theatrical fervour.
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Another title due for release shortly from Resistance Books.

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Book cover for “The POUM: Republic, Revolution, and Counterrevolution” by Andy Durgan. The design features a red-tinted historical photograph of smiling POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification) militants holding large flags emblazoned with communist symbols and lettering. The title appears in bold white and black block text overlaid across the centre-left, with the author’s name in a small white banner at the bottom. The overall style evokes the revolutionary spirit of 1930s Spain.
October 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Published very soon by Resistance Books. resistancebooks.org/product/in-s...
Book cover for "In Stalin’s Shadow: Leon Trotsky and the Legacy of the Moscow Trials" by Douglas Greene. The design features a bright yellow background with sharp triangular cutouts revealing black-and-white newspaper images of Trotsky and others from the era of the Moscow Trials. The title and author’s name appear in bold black text, with the Resistance Books logo at the bottom left of the back cover. The back cover includes a summary discussing Trotsky’s portrayal in conspiracy theories and the book’s analysis of Stalinist narratives and irrationalism.
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Hope of the States were brilliant tonight. #music #HOTS
Photograph of Hope of the States playing in London tonight.
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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New documentary on the life and ideas of James Connolly.
#Movies
Poster for the documentary film “We Only Want the Earth: The Life & Ideas of James Connolly.” It features a large black-and-white portrait of James Connolly, with a starry grey background. The title is in bold red capital letters on the right side. Above it is a laurel mark for the 37th Galway Film Fleadh official selection. Below, smaller text credits Alan Gilsenan as writer and director and lists supporting organisations such as the James Connolly Foundation, Fórsa, SIPTU, and others.
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#Politics #Britain
A bar chart titled “Voting intention” showing UK public opinion if a general election were held tomorrow. Reform UK leads with 32%, followed by Labour and Conservatives both on 17%, Greens on 15%, Liberal Democrats on 12%, Other on 4%, SNP on 3%, and Plaid Cymru on 1%. The chart is from Find Out Now, based on a sample of 2,668 GB adults interviewed on 9th October 2025.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Yes sadly true, if you want a later reading on it, check out Neil Faulkner’s last book
'Combines sweeping perspectives with fresh historical analysis and old-fashioned storytelling Tim Mackintosh-Smith NEIL FAULKNER EMPIRE and JIHAD The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920
October 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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#Politics #History #Culture #Marxism
October 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Strip away rules of engagement and you invite war crimes.
In his address, which has come to an end, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth railed against what he called “stupid rules of engagement” that he claims limit war fighters in the field. Early in his tenure, Hegseth fired the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force in an effort to remake the military into a force that is more aggressive on the battlefield and potentially less hindered by the laws of armed conflict.
September 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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It makes you want to weep: Reform UK have perfected Schrödinger’s racist.

#Politics #Britain
Reeves says people can support racist policy without being racist, in reference to PM's comment about Reform UK Ferrari asks about what Keir Starmer said yesterday about Reform UK’s plan to end indefinite leave to remain being racist. Q: Does supporting that policy make someone racist? No, says Reeves. Q: So you can support a racist policy but not be racist. Reeves says it is a racist policy. Q: But how can you support a racist policy and not be racist? Reeves says people support Reform UK for all sorts of reasons. Ferrari says he does not see how you can support a racist policy and not be racist. Reeves says she is not sure lots of people do support this policy. She says: I think there are lots of people who back Reform would be horrified by the thought that people who came to this country legally, are working and contributing, will be deported from this country. And we had to call out Reform for their policies. And this is a racist policy, and it’s a bad for our country, and we need to call that out.
September 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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1970s Cinema and the Trumpocene The thrillers of the 1970s mirrored a society that no longer trusted its institutions; the Trumpocene, by contrast, parades its corruption so openly that cinema has yet to find a language equal to it.
September 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The Order After the Order The UN is meant to be the conscience of the world; Netanyahu used it as a stage set, a place to strip words of meaning.
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Rest in Power. #AssataShakur
Photo of Assata Shakur
September 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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If you see this, post a bridge.
September 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM