West Runton punks, 1979 – Syd Shelton I’ve held back from commenting on the Robinson march; I needed some time to process this new period we’re in. For a long time, the right has been able to out-mobilise anti-racist in Brexit voting areas (Rotherham, Nuneaton), but we continued to out-organise them in the university towns. […]| lives; running
The picture was taken on Friday, it’s the last photograph of me in the chemo ward at UCLH. I’m delighted to share the news that, after six months, I’m on my final cycle. The last round of drugs still need to wash through me but I’ve been running a marathon and this is mile 25. […]| lives; running
All of us on the left are still coming to terms with the numbers of people that Tommy Robinson brought to central London this weekend. At the most surface observation, this didn’t seem to be very d…| lives; running
We’re on day three of the response to the killing. Obviously, the most important analysis/commentry is coming from the States, but it’s worth looking at a couple of UK sources too, to see how they’ve engaged with the story. For the first 24 hours after Kirk died, the dominant approach on the US right was […]| lives; running
This Saturday, Tommy Robinson will march through central London. If you read the left press, you would think that anti-fascists are “coming to stop Tommy Robinson”. Sadly, they’ll be doing no such …| lives; running
You weren’t a member, you tell me, in 2013 when the arguments happened. You’ve heard, of course, there was some controversy but you have been told that the people who left were sectaria…| lives; running
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For some time, I’ve been collecting novels which focus on the far right. One of them is a book published in 1938, Minimum Man, published under the pseudonym Andrew Marvell. That book tells the stor…| lives; running
Niamh listened to the whisper of the water as the wind passed over. A woman sat down on the same bench as her – leaving a small gap between them. The woman wore a black dress, its thick material lo…| lives; running
At the start of August, I was one of the organisers of the demo outside the Thistle Barbican hotel. That protest was called by a meeting of 50 people representing around 20 anti-racist groups. We w…| lives; running
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Usually, when I write, I have a destination in mind when I begin – a critique of another socialist perhaps, or a proposal for how we should organise the left differently. Here, though, my question …| lives; running
From the Flag to the Cross is the first book in what I’m hoping will become a significant genre of texts written for a activist audience, explaining what’s at stake in the Trump second Presidency and how to resist it. The book isn’t without flaws; but whatever criticisms I make of it, I’m glad it’s […]| lives; running
In the aftermath of last year’s Southport riots, the right made sustained attempts to identify a face who they hoped would prove a pattern of aggressive sentencing – someone whose suffering might c…| lives; running
I’ve waited a week before posting about the death of Diogo Jota. I’m conscious that few of the people who read my work share my interest in football, fewer still my support for Liverpool. Don’t wor…| lives; running
From the Flag to the Cross is the first book in what I’m hoping will become a significant genre of texts written for a activist audience, explaining what’s at stake in the Trump second Presidency and how to resist it. The book isn’t without flaws; but whatever criticisms I make of it, I’m glad it’s in print, and I hope there will be many more books like it soon, summoning into being the large anti-fascist crowd that we need.| lives; running
The story of Brianna Ghey’s will be familiar to many friends. A 16 year old trans woman in Warrington, she built up a Tiktok audience in the hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions. Brianna was m…| lives; running
