Mark Burton
@marhburton.bsky.social
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I use this a/c to repost from #Mastodon / #Fediverse
Scholar-activist.
#degrowth eco-socialist. Various topics, chiefly orientated to the pancrisis we are all in. Anti-imperialist.
Manchester
Mastodon: @markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I use this a/c to repost from #Mastodon / #Fediverse
Scholar-activist.
#degrowth eco-socialist. Various topics, chiefly orientated to the pancrisis we are all in. Anti-imperialist.
Manchester
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Does Shabana Mahmoud not understand the concept of playing with fire?
What people does she think the likes of Yaxley Lennon have in their sights. Clue: dark skin, Islamic names.
What people does she think the likes of Yaxley Lennon have in their sights. Clue: dark skin, Islamic names.
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Does Shabana Mahmoud not understand the concept of playing with fire?
What people does she think the likes of Yaxley Lennon have in their sights. Clue: dark skin, Islamic names.
What people does she think the likes of Yaxley Lennon have in their sights. Clue: dark skin, Islamic names.
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"Despite the left surge in the Green Party [E&W], it remains committed to Nato and to its war in Ukraine."
This is a problem for me as a GP member.
Lessons from Syriza’s failure for today’s radical politics | Morning Star […]
This is a problem for me as a GP member.
Lessons from Syriza’s failure for today’s radical politics | Morning Star […]
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mstdn.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"Despite the left surge in the Green Party [E&W], it remains committed to Nato and to its war in Ukraine."
This is a problem for me as a GP member.
Lessons from Syriza’s failure for today’s radical politics | Morning Star […]
This is a problem for me as a GP member.
Lessons from Syriza’s failure for today’s radical politics | Morning Star […]
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PFI deals signed under Tony Blair left the NHS without enough money to treat patients, while private investors made billions in profits.
Wes Streeting's plans to bring back private finance in our NHS MUST be stopped.
Take action with @adrianramsay.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tell-rache...
Wes Streeting's plans to bring back private finance in our NHS MUST be stopped.
Take action with @adrianramsay.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tell-rache...
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
PFI deals signed under Tony Blair left the NHS without enough money to treat patients, while private investors made billions in profits.
Wes Streeting's plans to bring back private finance in our NHS MUST be stopped.
Take action with @adrianramsay.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tell-rache...
Wes Streeting's plans to bring back private finance in our NHS MUST be stopped.
Take action with @adrianramsay.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tell-rache...
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This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
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“As one of the Limits authors, Dennis Meadows, always insisted when asked, technology can delay a peak, but the crash comes harder when it comes.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
Limits to Growth was right about collapse
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Limits to Growth was right about collapse
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Limits to Growth was right about collapse
The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.
www.resilience.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“As one of the Limits authors, Dennis Meadows, always insisted when asked, technology can delay a peak, but the crash comes harder when it comes.” #PostCapitalism #Degrowth #PostGrowth
Limits to Growth was right about collapse
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Limits to Growth was right about collapse
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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This!
Why did UNISON provide support to nearly 60 MPs who voted for Starmer's welfare cuts?
It's time for UNISON's subservience to Labour to end!
Agree? Sign up to my campaign now 👉 andrea4gs.org.uk#get-involved
It's time for UNISON's subservience to Labour to end!
Agree? Sign up to my campaign now 👉 andrea4gs.org.uk#get-involved
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This!
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What’s the shadowy organisation taking Gaza Palestinians to South Africa? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/16/whats-the-shadowy-organisation-taking-gaza-palestinians-to-south-africa?traffic_source=rss
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/16/whats-the-shadowy-organisation-taking-gaza-palestinians-to-south-africa?traffic_source=rss
What’s the shadowy organisation taking Gaza Palestinians to South Africa?
Details have emerged about the controversial scheme to take Palestinians out of Gaza, run by Al-Majd Europe.
www.aljazeera.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
What’s the shadowy organisation taking Gaza Palestinians to South Africa? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/16/whats-the-shadowy-organisation-taking-gaza-palestinians-to-south-africa?traffic_source=rss
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/16/whats-the-shadowy-organisation-taking-gaza-palestinians-to-south-africa?traffic_source=rss
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Who would have guessed that appointing an android as Health Secretary would lead to a muddle?*
Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform | Wes Streeting | The Guardian […]
Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform | Wes Streeting | The Guardian […]
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mstdn.social
November 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Who would have guessed that appointing an android as Health Secretary would lead to a muddle?*
Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform | Wes Streeting | The Guardian […]
Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform | Wes Streeting | The Guardian […]
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Not a biggie, but for the second report in a row the same BBC reporter has failed to understand what the key issue with the £800k in initial member subs is www.bbc.com/news/article...
Zarah Sultana has not transferred £200k of it elsewhere.
Another correction forthcoming, I guess.
Zarah Sultana has not transferred £200k of it elsewhere.
Another correction forthcoming, I guess.
MP quits Corbyn's new left-wing party amid infighting
Independent MP Adnan Hussain claims there is a "toxic" culture in Your Party as he announces he is leaving it.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Not a biggie, but for the second report in a row the same BBC reporter has failed to understand what the key issue with the £800k in initial member subs is www.bbc.com/news/article...
Zarah Sultana has not transferred £200k of it elsewhere.
Another correction forthcoming, I guess.
Zarah Sultana has not transferred £200k of it elsewhere.
Another correction forthcoming, I guess.
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"Whether that is a remade Labour, or the Greens, or Your Party, or Scottish and Welsh nationalists the essential issue will be the same – driving Farage back into his hard-core support through a politics of radical change."
Reform voting bloc can be challenged by the left | Morning Star […]
Reform voting bloc can be challenged by the left | Morning Star […]
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mstdn.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"Whether that is a remade Labour, or the Greens, or Your Party, or Scottish and Welsh nationalists the essential issue will be the same – driving Farage back into his hard-core support through a politics of radical change."
Reform voting bloc can be challenged by the left | Morning Star […]
Reform voting bloc can be challenged by the left | Morning Star […]
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Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document […]
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document […]
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mstdn.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document […]
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document […]
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The dates of 2026 CAF are 9th May – 17th May with schools continuing to showcase their work until 21st.
The page below has links for artists, venues and volunteers. All are open for sign up now.
Chorlton Arts Festival 2026 – Chorlton Arts Festival […]
The page below has links for artists, venues and volunteers. All are open for sign up now.
Chorlton Arts Festival 2026 – Chorlton Arts Festival […]
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mstdn.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The dates of 2026 CAF are 9th May – 17th May with schools continuing to showcase their work until 21st.
The page below has links for artists, venues and volunteers. All are open for sign up now.
Chorlton Arts Festival 2026 – Chorlton Arts Festival […]
The page below has links for artists, venues and volunteers. All are open for sign up now.
Chorlton Arts Festival 2026 – Chorlton Arts Festival […]
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From 8 years ago.
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version […]
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version […]
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mstdn.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
From 8 years ago.
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version […]
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version […]
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I've signed this cross party letter with many other politicians and leaders across civil society.
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I've signed this cross party letter with many other politicians and leaders across civil society.
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
The Labour Government is making a disastrous mistake with nuclear weapons expansion - this will not make us any safer.
The opposite is true - more info below 👇🏼
@cnduk.bsky.social
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ES | #COP30: Manifiesto de #LaVíaCampesina – ¡Tierra y derechos para quienes enfrían el planeta! https://viacampesina.org/es/cop-30-manifiesto-de-la-via-campesina-tierra-y-derechos-para-quienes-enfrian-el-planeta
Este manifiesto es nuestra hoja de ruta en […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Este manifiesto es nuestra hoja de ruta en […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
ES | #COP30: Manifiesto de #LaVíaCampesina – ¡Tierra y derechos para quienes enfrían el planeta! https://viacampesina.org/es/cop-30-manifiesto-de-la-via-campesina-tierra-y-derechos-para-quienes-enfrian-el-planeta
Este manifiesto es nuestra hoja de ruta en […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Este manifiesto es nuestra hoja de ruta en […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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A transatlantic warning. If #nigelthestockbroker , No Cartoons Jenrick or BadEnoch came to power, this is a taste of what to expect.
"Google removed certain apps used to report sightings of ICE [migration paramilitaries] officials, and “then they immediately turned around and approved an app […]
"Google removed certain apps used to report sightings of ICE [migration paramilitaries] officials, and “then they immediately turned around and approved an app […]
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mstdn.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A transatlantic warning. If #nigelthestockbroker , No Cartoons Jenrick or BadEnoch came to power, this is a taste of what to expect.
"Google removed certain apps used to report sightings of ICE [migration paramilitaries] officials, and “then they immediately turned around and approved an app […]
"Google removed certain apps used to report sightings of ICE [migration paramilitaries] officials, and “then they immediately turned around and approved an app […]
The dates of 2026 CAF are 9th May – 17th May with schools continuing to showcase their work until 21st.
The page below has links for artists, venues and volunteers. All are open for sign up now.
Chorlton Arts Festival 2026 – Chorlton Arts Festival […]
The page below has links for artists, venues and volunteers. All are open for sign up now.
Chorlton Arts Festival 2026 – Chorlton Arts Festival […]
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mstdn.social
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Good. Stop enabling this fascist regime’s #extrajudicialkillings
#uk suspends some #intelligence sharing with #us over boat strikes concerns in major break
The #unitedkingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #caribbean because it […]
#uk suspends some #intelligence sharing with #us over boat strikes concerns in major break
The #unitedkingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #caribbean because it […]
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masto.ai
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Good. Stop enabling this fascist regime’s #extrajudicialkillings
#uk suspends some #intelligence sharing with #us over boat strikes concerns in major break
The #unitedkingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #caribbean because it […]
#uk suspends some #intelligence sharing with #us over boat strikes concerns in major break
The #unitedkingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #caribbean because it […]
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Excellent piece this
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Excellent piece this
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3/ It would be interesting to know exactly what role BBC Board member Robbie Gibb played in this affair.
Whoever leaked Michael Prescott's inflammatory & ideologically loaded memo must have known what damage it would do to the BBC.
Cui bono?
Whoever leaked Michael Prescott's inflammatory & ideologically loaded memo must have known what damage it would do to the BBC.
Cui bono?
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
3/ It would be interesting to know exactly what role BBC Board member Robbie Gibb played in this affair.
Whoever leaked Michael Prescott's inflammatory & ideologically loaded memo must have known what damage it would do to the BBC.
Cui bono?
Whoever leaked Michael Prescott's inflammatory & ideologically loaded memo must have known what damage it would do to the BBC.
Cui bono?
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2/ Hanover has been described as expert in media manipulation & covert lobbying.
You could be forgiven for seeing the leaking of Michael Prescott's inflammatory memo as a textbook example of media manipulation (with the full connivance of the Daily Telegraph et al).
You could be forgiven for seeing the leaking of Michael Prescott's inflammatory memo as a textbook example of media manipulation (with the full connivance of the Daily Telegraph et al).
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
2/ Hanover has been described as expert in media manipulation & covert lobbying.
You could be forgiven for seeing the leaking of Michael Prescott's inflammatory memo as a textbook example of media manipulation (with the full connivance of the Daily Telegraph et al).
You could be forgiven for seeing the leaking of Michael Prescott's inflammatory memo as a textbook example of media manipulation (with the full connivance of the Daily Telegraph et al).
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1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.
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Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Robbie Gibb was appointed to the BBC Board by Boris Johnson, was an editorial advisor for GB News, and worked as Theresa May's Director of Comms.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
He is not impartial or neutral. The government should remove him from the Board immediately to protect the BBC's independence.
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"Mientras en Belém se repiten promesas vacías, miles de movimientos sociales, indígenas y ecologistas impulsan desde la Cumbre de los Pueblos una agenda internacionalista contra el extractivismo y por la justicia climática, territorial y comunitaria."
Los movimientos sociales y la COP 30: alianzas transnacionales contra la ofensiva extractivista global
Mientras en Belém se repiten promesas vacías, una pluralidad de movimientos sociales, indígenas y ecologistas impulsan desde diversos espacios de encuentro una agenda internacionalista contra el extractivismo y por la justicia climática.
elsal.to
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Mientras en Belém se repiten promesas vacías, miles de movimientos sociales, indígenas y ecologistas impulsan desde la Cumbre de los Pueblos una agenda internacionalista contra el extractivismo y por la justicia climática, territorial y comunitaria."
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"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->