While Rome Burns
@while-rome-burns.bsky.social
Anarchism, anti-fascism, history
The past "flashes up at a moment of danger" (Benjamin, 1940)
Also at whileromeburns_ on Insta
https://whileromeburnsjournal.wordpress.com
The past "flashes up at a moment of danger" (Benjamin, 1940)
Also at whileromeburns_ on Insta
https://whileromeburnsjournal.wordpress.com
That is an insane headline.
Now is Trump just being characteristically volatile? Or is he being savvy in seeing which way the wind is blowing and moving with it?
Either way, it looks like an amazing win for Mamdani which will hopefully keep the Federal Gestapo out of NYC.
Now is Trump just being characteristically volatile? Or is he being savvy in seeing which way the wind is blowing and moving with it?
Either way, it looks like an amazing win for Mamdani which will hopefully keep the Federal Gestapo out of NYC.
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
That is an insane headline.
Now is Trump just being characteristically volatile? Or is he being savvy in seeing which way the wind is blowing and moving with it?
Either way, it looks like an amazing win for Mamdani which will hopefully keep the Federal Gestapo out of NYC.
Now is Trump just being characteristically volatile? Or is he being savvy in seeing which way the wind is blowing and moving with it?
Either way, it looks like an amazing win for Mamdani which will hopefully keep the Federal Gestapo out of NYC.
In totally coincidental other news our local flag shaggers “Sussex Patriots” have entirely vanished off Facebook and gone completely silent on all other platforms for the last month… 👀
I guess they must be busy.
I guess they must be busy.
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
In totally coincidental other news our local flag shaggers “Sussex Patriots” have entirely vanished off Facebook and gone completely silent on all other platforms for the last month… 👀
I guess they must be busy.
I guess they must be busy.
It’s really interesting seeing corporations lean into dystopianism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s really interesting seeing corporations lean into dystopianism.
Interesting that the Huntingdon train attack has to be reported in this way.
On the one hand feels reactionary to be immediately flagging up the ethnicity of the attackers.
But on the other hand, after the racist riots last year, everyone’s trying to get in ahead of the far right rumour mill.
On the one hand feels reactionary to be immediately flagging up the ethnicity of the attackers.
But on the other hand, after the racist riots last year, everyone’s trying to get in ahead of the far right rumour mill.
November 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Interesting that the Huntingdon train attack has to be reported in this way.
On the one hand feels reactionary to be immediately flagging up the ethnicity of the attackers.
But on the other hand, after the racist riots last year, everyone’s trying to get in ahead of the far right rumour mill.
On the one hand feels reactionary to be immediately flagging up the ethnicity of the attackers.
But on the other hand, after the racist riots last year, everyone’s trying to get in ahead of the far right rumour mill.
Nice window display Amnesty bookshop
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Nice window display Amnesty bookshop
Has global politics ever been driven so obviously before by one man’s petty rancour?
(A: probably)
He’s laying it on with a fucking trowel. He so obviously wants a Nobel Peace Prize just bc Obama got one and Obama once made fun of him at a White House dinner in 2011.
(A: probably)
He’s laying it on with a fucking trowel. He so obviously wants a Nobel Peace Prize just bc Obama got one and Obama once made fun of him at a White House dinner in 2011.
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Has global politics ever been driven so obviously before by one man’s petty rancour?
(A: probably)
He’s laying it on with a fucking trowel. He so obviously wants a Nobel Peace Prize just bc Obama got one and Obama once made fun of him at a White House dinner in 2011.
(A: probably)
He’s laying it on with a fucking trowel. He so obviously wants a Nobel Peace Prize just bc Obama got one and Obama once made fun of him at a White House dinner in 2011.
All very grim.
But the idea that racists are ‘confusing’ recent people arrived in small boats with Sikhs who have been here for decades is bizarre.
That makes it sound like the rape was a mistake and if it had been a recent migrant, then it would all be more explicable.
archive.is/liGyZ
But the idea that racists are ‘confusing’ recent people arrived in small boats with Sikhs who have been here for decades is bizarre.
That makes it sound like the rape was a mistake and if it had been a recent migrant, then it would all be more explicable.
archive.is/liGyZ
September 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
All very grim.
But the idea that racists are ‘confusing’ recent people arrived in small boats with Sikhs who have been here for decades is bizarre.
That makes it sound like the rape was a mistake and if it had been a recent migrant, then it would all be more explicable.
archive.is/liGyZ
But the idea that racists are ‘confusing’ recent people arrived in small boats with Sikhs who have been here for decades is bizarre.
That makes it sound like the rape was a mistake and if it had been a recent migrant, then it would all be more explicable.
archive.is/liGyZ
Demo this morning at the Home Office from @rmtunion.bsky.social
The government is trying to copy the far-right and has now taken on the RMT, trying to deport the people that run the trains.
We need more unions to stand up.
Solidarity beats racism.
The government is trying to copy the far-right and has now taken on the RMT, trying to deport the people that run the trains.
We need more unions to stand up.
Solidarity beats racism.
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Demo this morning at the Home Office from @rmtunion.bsky.social
The government is trying to copy the far-right and has now taken on the RMT, trying to deport the people that run the trains.
We need more unions to stand up.
Solidarity beats racism.
The government is trying to copy the far-right and has now taken on the RMT, trying to deport the people that run the trains.
We need more unions to stand up.
Solidarity beats racism.
Competition for most cursed headline
September 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Competition for most cursed headline
Well Charlie Kirk’s dead.
Probably shouldn’t have any more sympathy for him than for the thousands of Americans that get shot all the time.
Probably a bit less.
Probably shouldn’t have any more sympathy for him than for the thousands of Americans that get shot all the time.
Probably a bit less.
September 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Well Charlie Kirk’s dead.
Probably shouldn’t have any more sympathy for him than for the thousands of Americans that get shot all the time.
Probably a bit less.
Probably shouldn’t have any more sympathy for him than for the thousands of Americans that get shot all the time.
Probably a bit less.
Antifascist, antiracist mural in Brick Lane area of East London.
The central image is taken from a famous photo of Syed Mizan, Jamal Miah and Abdul Manik from the Bangladeshi Youth Front on the Day of Action 20 Aug 1978 following the racist murder of Altab Ali.
The central image is taken from a famous photo of Syed Mizan, Jamal Miah and Abdul Manik from the Bangladeshi Youth Front on the Day of Action 20 Aug 1978 following the racist murder of Altab Ali.
September 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Antifascist, antiracist mural in Brick Lane area of East London.
The central image is taken from a famous photo of Syed Mizan, Jamal Miah and Abdul Manik from the Bangladeshi Youth Front on the Day of Action 20 Aug 1978 following the racist murder of Altab Ali.
The central image is taken from a famous photo of Syed Mizan, Jamal Miah and Abdul Manik from the Bangladeshi Youth Front on the Day of Action 20 Aug 1978 following the racist murder of Altab Ali.
Keir Starmer: Please like me. Do you like me yet? Please like me.
September 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Keir Starmer: Please like me. Do you like me yet? Please like me.
Fantastic ‘Thousands of Years of Small Boats’ zine from thebookshelf.org.uk
Genuinely inspiring. A great piece of work.
Read it online here:
cloud.disroot.org/s/ZPpow3Pxf8...
Genuinely inspiring. A great piece of work.
Read it online here:
cloud.disroot.org/s/ZPpow3Pxf8...
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Fantastic ‘Thousands of Years of Small Boats’ zine from thebookshelf.org.uk
Genuinely inspiring. A great piece of work.
Read it online here:
cloud.disroot.org/s/ZPpow3Pxf8...
Genuinely inspiring. A great piece of work.
Read it online here:
cloud.disroot.org/s/ZPpow3Pxf8...
Britain’s tabloid media fully on course to get someone killed
They turn the woman who called for migrants to be burned alive into a folk hero, side by side with more scare mongering about the migrant ‘invasion’
They’ll do this every day and then be *shocked* when people try and burn down a hotel
They turn the woman who called for migrants to be burned alive into a folk hero, side by side with more scare mongering about the migrant ‘invasion’
They’ll do this every day and then be *shocked* when people try and burn down a hotel
August 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Britain’s tabloid media fully on course to get someone killed
They turn the woman who called for migrants to be burned alive into a folk hero, side by side with more scare mongering about the migrant ‘invasion’
They’ll do this every day and then be *shocked* when people try and burn down a hotel
They turn the woman who called for migrants to be burned alive into a folk hero, side by side with more scare mongering about the migrant ‘invasion’
They’ll do this every day and then be *shocked* when people try and burn down a hotel
Locals in Whitstable want to erect a monument to the men killed in the last battle on English soil.
The Battle of Bossenden Wood in 1838 saw troops sent in against impoverished agricultural workers - “Sir William Courtenay” and 8 of his followers were killed
whitstableviews.com/2025/02/12/t...
The Battle of Bossenden Wood in 1838 saw troops sent in against impoverished agricultural workers - “Sir William Courtenay” and 8 of his followers were killed
whitstableviews.com/2025/02/12/t...
July 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Locals in Whitstable want to erect a monument to the men killed in the last battle on English soil.
The Battle of Bossenden Wood in 1838 saw troops sent in against impoverished agricultural workers - “Sir William Courtenay” and 8 of his followers were killed
whitstableviews.com/2025/02/12/t...
The Battle of Bossenden Wood in 1838 saw troops sent in against impoverished agricultural workers - “Sir William Courtenay” and 8 of his followers were killed
whitstableviews.com/2025/02/12/t...
We have a very few MPs in Parliament willing to stand up for Palestine Action.
You would hope their position as MPs would allow them to evade the anti-terrorism laws and continue to speak out
However the British state has form for categorising elected MPs as terrorists and silencing them
You would hope their position as MPs would allow them to evade the anti-terrorism laws and continue to speak out
However the British state has form for categorising elected MPs as terrorists and silencing them
July 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We have a very few MPs in Parliament willing to stand up for Palestine Action.
You would hope their position as MPs would allow them to evade the anti-terrorism laws and continue to speak out
However the British state has form for categorising elected MPs as terrorists and silencing them
You would hope their position as MPs would allow them to evade the anti-terrorism laws and continue to speak out
However the British state has form for categorising elected MPs as terrorists and silencing them
They’ve really scraped the bottom of the barrel to find some Nazis to lump in w Palestine Action.
Has anyone ever heard of these groups? Have they ever done anything?
I imagine some poor civil servant was tasked with dredging up some plausible Nazis to try and smuggle thru the PA ban….
Has anyone ever heard of these groups? Have they ever done anything?
I imagine some poor civil servant was tasked with dredging up some plausible Nazis to try and smuggle thru the PA ban….
July 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
They’ve really scraped the bottom of the barrel to find some Nazis to lump in w Palestine Action.
Has anyone ever heard of these groups? Have they ever done anything?
I imagine some poor civil servant was tasked with dredging up some plausible Nazis to try and smuggle thru the PA ban….
Has anyone ever heard of these groups? Have they ever done anything?
I imagine some poor civil servant was tasked with dredging up some plausible Nazis to try and smuggle thru the PA ban….
I hate the way the whole media discourse has instantly shifted to ‘did they or did they not destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity?’
Just making that the thing we’re all meant to be interested in.
This is how the media build consent for war…
Just making that the thing we’re all meant to be interested in.
This is how the media build consent for war…
June 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I hate the way the whole media discourse has instantly shifted to ‘did they or did they not destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity?’
Just making that the thing we’re all meant to be interested in.
This is how the media build consent for war…
Just making that the thing we’re all meant to be interested in.
This is how the media build consent for war…
Oh surprise surprise. It looks like pro-Israel campaign groups are writing the government’s policy for them…
Based on nothing at all.
Seriously… the best they could come up with was “the vocabulary echoes that of Iran…”?
Based on nothing at all.
Seriously… the best they could come up with was “the vocabulary echoes that of Iran…”?
June 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Oh surprise surprise. It looks like pro-Israel campaign groups are writing the government’s policy for them…
Based on nothing at all.
Seriously… the best they could come up with was “the vocabulary echoes that of Iran…”?
Based on nothing at all.
Seriously… the best they could come up with was “the vocabulary echoes that of Iran…”?
In a country where every potential Prime Minister has to faithfully swear that they would annihilate the world to be considered ‘electable’, perhaps we need to change the question?
June 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In a country where every potential Prime Minister has to faithfully swear that they would annihilate the world to be considered ‘electable’, perhaps we need to change the question?
Anything like this remains inconceivable in the current climate with Israel, which carries out Sharpeville massacres almost daily with impunity, while the BBC reports 'both sides' of racial apartheid
Today's Guardian is reporting 450 dead in the last 12 days, shot while trying to collect food aid
Today's Guardian is reporting 450 dead in the last 12 days, shot while trying to collect food aid
June 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Anything like this remains inconceivable in the current climate with Israel, which carries out Sharpeville massacres almost daily with impunity, while the BBC reports 'both sides' of racial apartheid
Today's Guardian is reporting 450 dead in the last 12 days, shot while trying to collect food aid
Today's Guardian is reporting 450 dead in the last 12 days, shot while trying to collect food aid
This is from Wendy Webster's "Englishness and Empire"
Kind of stunning the contrast with South Africa then and Israel now.
Sharpeville killed 67 people as was considered so shocking and beyond the pale that the BBC compared it to Belsen.
Kind of stunning the contrast with South Africa then and Israel now.
Sharpeville killed 67 people as was considered so shocking and beyond the pale that the BBC compared it to Belsen.
June 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is from Wendy Webster's "Englishness and Empire"
Kind of stunning the contrast with South Africa then and Israel now.
Sharpeville killed 67 people as was considered so shocking and beyond the pale that the BBC compared it to Belsen.
Kind of stunning the contrast with South Africa then and Israel now.
Sharpeville killed 67 people as was considered so shocking and beyond the pale that the BBC compared it to Belsen.
And who thought we’d live to see the day where Northern Ireland cops are the ones with the best take on racism?
No mealy mouthed equivocation or “legitimate concerns” from the cops.
Clearly saying this is racist violence and we stand with and support the targeted communities.
No mealy mouthed equivocation or “legitimate concerns” from the cops.
Clearly saying this is racist violence and we stand with and support the targeted communities.
June 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
And who thought we’d live to see the day where Northern Ireland cops are the ones with the best take on racism?
No mealy mouthed equivocation or “legitimate concerns” from the cops.
Clearly saying this is racist violence and we stand with and support the targeted communities.
No mealy mouthed equivocation or “legitimate concerns” from the cops.
Clearly saying this is racist violence and we stand with and support the targeted communities.