Mark Ramsbrook argues that watching Wasteman forces us to confront our own fear of punishment, and the gap between the change we desire and the price we are unwilling to pay.
revsoc21.uk/2026/03/25/r...
Wrote on how Labour's attacks on the Green Party's drug policies are a desperate attempt to maintain the War on Drugs and kill any solution or alternative.
From Iran to Palestine
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Wrote on how Labour's attacks on the Green Party's drug policies are a desperate attempt to maintain the War on Drugs and kill any solution or alternative.
Thomas Necchi argues that the War on Drugs has failed, and Labour’s attacks on the Greens during the Gorton and Denton by-elections prove they’re happy to keep it that way.
revsoc21.uk/2026/03/06/p...
Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...
Ngl some of the stuff I see people posting on IWD makes me understand why Virginie Despentes made such a point of saying she wrote for women who are unfuckable losers first thing in King Kong Theory.
wife chasing me around the kitchen table with a rolling pin because she found me in the epstein files being a Mossad Operative
tonight i saw my oldest Rival, a gamer I'll refer to as "DX", tell his 8 viewers hes trying to sell his dead wifes diapers on fb marketplace
Honestly fair fucks to Vittorio Angelone for calling out Penny Mordaunt on Last Leg
Coming out in October 2026: my translation of London by Louis-Ferdinand Céline from New Directions!
www.ndbooks.com/book/london/
Here's a clip of me reading from my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and New Directions, recently longlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com , for Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social :
youtu.be/qSxnBV4aMh4?...
‘Caravaggio didn’t draw but painted directly onto the canvas. He invented a dramatic, overpowering chiaroscuro, a spotlit style he used to freeze the worst moments of his subjects’ lives in paint.’
@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Caravaggio’s clothes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Just throwing it out there: telling people that they have legitimate grievances about immigration will never reduce the sense of grievance. This isn't how anything works and a government that paid even the merest attention to social science research would know their approach helps the far-right.
Left: The Labour Party is running this misleading ad on the Green Party's drug policy, targeting a million people in Manchester and surrounding areas, including Gorton and Denton
Right: Zack Polanski explaining the Green Part's drugs policy
‘In 1977, at the height of his fame, Fela attended the All-Nigerian Socialist Conference at Ahmadu Bello University with members of his band and dance troupe. Such encounters are rarely mentioned in biographies.’
Sean Jacobs on Fela Kuti’s politics.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
I had no idea that this book was out and available: sevenstories.com/books/4761-b... - It's by William Loren Katz - a book for tweens and teens.
Niklas Rosen reviews Melayna Kay Lamb’s book, which provides an overview of the philosophies at work behind policing and their development.
revsoc21.uk/2026/01/26/r...
The Sheffield Transformed team chart their experience of organising in South Yorkshire and select on the success of their 2025 conference. revsoc21.uk/2026/01/30/s...
David L argues that ’28 Years Later – The Bone Temple’ is more than just another high-octane horror movie.
revsoc21.uk/2026/02/04/r...
In part 2 of his article on Venezuela Mike Gonzalez looks at the implications of Trump’s attack for the wider region, resistance and international solidarity.
revsoc21.uk/2026/02/09/v...
The third edition of ‘Israel: the making of a racist state’ is now available. To mark its publication we are reprinting author Neil Rogall’s preface to the new updated edition
revsoc21.uk/2026/02/16/i...
Amu Gib will stand as one of three Islington Community Independents candidates in the Finsbury Park ward.
revsoc21.uk/2026/02/25/p...
Proud to have been part of this! Fuck the fascists ✊️
rs21 members argue that the counter-protest against fascist Britain First marked a significant step forward for antifascism in Manchester, one that was particularly welcome in the week before the by-election in Gorton and Denton.
revsoc21.uk/2026/02/26/m...
‘Soldiers at Fort Bragg and another special forces base, Fort Campbell, are more likely to die of drug overdoses than the average US citizen. Dependency on narcotics isn’t the only after-effect of war.’
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Short and sweet article on fascism by @johntheduncan.bsky.social
Pls read and share!
For rs21 I wrote a quick summary of how neoliberal hegemony is being intensified rather than dismantled in its transformation into fascism
Short and sweet article on fascism by @johntheduncan.bsky.social
Pls read and share!
