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

Screenshot of a post on X by Reform UK MP Richard Tice claiming that “Net Stupid Zero” is contributing to rising temperatures and that “cleaner air = higher temps, not CO2,” concluding that “we have been gaslit and lied to.” The post quotes a Telegraph headline stating that Britain’s recent heatwaves are being driven in part by cleaner skies after air pollution was reduced.
Screenshot of a post by the account Stand Up To Marxism claiming that counter-extremism efforts have focused on the far right and Islamism while the far left has gone unchecked. It argues that Marxism, communism and Leninist revolutionary socialism are illegitimate political views with no place in Western democratic societies.
A newspaper infographic titled “Screening” reports levels of social media use among children in the UK, citing Ofcom. It states that Sir Keir Starmer was expected to announce a ban on social media for under-16s and asks how many children currently use it. The figures shown are: 37% of 3–5-year-olds use social media (19% have their own phone); 36% of 6–7-year-olds (30% have their own phone); 57% of 8–9-year-olds (69%); 81% of 10–12-year-olds (86%); and 95% of 13–15-year-olds (97%). The percentages in brackets refer to children who have their own phone. Source: Ofcom.
Screenshot of an X (Twitter) exchange. Charlie Downes (@cfdownes_) posts: “If fighting against the systemic exploitation, rape, and murder of our people makes us ‘extremists’, so be it.” He is replying to Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski), whose post reads: “This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s. It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark…” The Polanski post is truncated. Downes’s post has 236 retweets, 2,000 likes, and 24,000 views.
Screenshot of an X post by Kai Stephens. The post argues that anti-white prejudice is dangerous because white Britons are becoming more racially conscious. It then calls for extreme collective punishment against migrants and grooming gang perpetrators, including deportations, asset seizure, and “killing fields that would make Hirohito blush in envy.” The post claims worsening demographics will make native Britons more racially conscious and angry, and concludes by contrasting the actions of “third worlders” with Europeans, asserting that Europeans “wipe out entire civilisations and radically alter the course of history.” The post contains racist language and advocacy of mass violence.
Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post. James Goddard has reposted a post from the account National Housing Party U.K. (@NHPUKOfficial), posted approximately one hour before the screenshot was taken. The post reads: "The Police have finally dropped investigation on me for 17 tweets (& this video), & a YouTube video about 911. I never broke any X or YouTube rules & now Police admit I didn't break any laws. This was a traumatic experience & joined Free Speech Union yet they refused to help me." The post quotes an earlier post from the same account, dated 10 May 2024, which reads: "Jewish ideas are destroying our country, not Islamic ideas. #FrankfurtSchool #CulturalMarxism." The quoted post includes a thumbnail of a video (5 minutes 4 seconds) showing a middle-aged white man in a grey suit and gold tie speaking to camera on a city street. The post has 9 replies, 12 reposts, and 45 likes, with 2,200 views.
Screenshot of a Facebook post by verified account Rupert Lowe. The post reads: “On April 13th, I asked the Home Office what visa categories were held by the parents of Axel Rudakubana during their residence in the United Kingdom; and what character-assessment checks were applied when issuing their visas. No response… I am pushing again.” The post shows it was made six hours ago and has around 10,000 reactions, 628 comments, and 283 shares.
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Screenshot of an X post by Martin Sellner (@MartinSellner_) posted 7 hours ago. His caption reads: “The age of Remigration begins.” Below is an embedded repost from The White House account (@WhiteHouse), posted 12 hours earlier. The post states: “Under President Trump, replacement migration will never be the standard. The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration.” Accompanying the post is a promotional image of Donald Trump speaking at a presidential podium in front of a blurred American flag backdrop and teleprompters. The image edits the phrase “Replacement Migration” with a red strike-through over the word “Replacement”, leaving “Remigration” prominently displayed in large white text. A White House logo appears at the bottom. The screenshot shows engagement metrics beneath the post.
screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) from an account named Montgomery Toms (@MontgomeryToms). The profile picture shows a man standing in front of a Union Jack flag wearing a black t-shirt with a St George’s Cross. The text of the post reads: "The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right that should never have been taken away in Britain." The post has 31 replies, 52 reposts, 356 likes, and 7.3K views.
The twenty demands of a tiny fascist party In Britain
Andrew Bridgen X post — photo of Bridgen in a Restore Britain t shirt with Rupert Lowe standing next to him.
Restore Britain Facebook post, posted two hours ago, reading: “The BBC is attacking Restore Britain, again. For the avoidance of any doubt - a Restore Britain Government would defund the rotting BBC and let it collapse under its own arrogance.” The post has 4,200 likes and reactions, 298 comments, and 91 shares.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Screenshot of two posts on X. The first is from “BRITAIN IS BROKEN” (@BROKE…), posted six hours earlier, with a small black profile image reading “I’M GETTING MY COUNTRY BACK.” The post says: “I’m going to type out Tommy Robinsons latest email BEGGING the hard working British people for money, AGAIN” followed by a Union Jack emoji. It continues: “Reminder that Tommy secured £100,000 just a few days back for May 16th….” Then: “Here is the email: ’WE ARE IN CRISIS MODE. With only three weeks to go until our crucial” before being cut off by a “Show more” link. Engagement metrics show 110 replies, 30 reposts, 216 likes, and 55K views. The second post is a reply from Tommy Robinson (@TRobinso…), posted four hours earlier, with a profile photo of a man in a dark polo shirt. It reads: “You carry on tweeting like a bitch I’ll organise a cultural revolution. Wait till people see the set up on may 16th. I’ll awaken more people today than you do in your life. Carry on”. Engagement shows 75 replies, 100 reposts, 2.6K likes, and 58K views.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Nine men pose formally on a stage, arranged in two rows, most dressed in suits and ties. One man on the left wears a black leather jacket, and another on the right wears a white shirt with a loosened tie. Behind them are several red, white, and blue flags with a central symbol. The group faces the camera with serious expressions, standing against a dark curtain backdrop.Think cosplaying Oswald Mosley peak BUF
Screenshot of a social media post by an account called Angloid stating, “This is why mogging is so important. They call us names, but we mog them to death. Brutal.” Below is a photo of four men sitting at an outdoor table holding pints of stout, with papers and snacks on the table. A caption beneath the photo identifies one of the men as a Restore Campaigns director pictured with ethnonationalist influencers in Great Yarmouth, dated 18 April 2026.
Screenshot of a post on X by Carl Benjamin (@Sargon_of_Akkad), timestamped two hours ago with 13K views. Benjamin writes: “There is really no need for this kind of unpleasantness. Whatever one’s opinion of Mahmood, this just gives all the ammunition needed to justify the ban, and makes everyone look bad in the process.” He is quote-tweeting a Telegraph post from five hours earlier which reads: “Valentina Gomez calls Home Secretary a ‘dirty Pakistani Muslim’ after she was denied entry to attend rally organised by Tommy Robinson.” The Telegraph post includes a photograph of Gomez smiling at the camera, wearing sunglasses and a military-style plate carrier with “GOMEZ” printed across the chest, holding an assault rifle in front of a lake and wooded hillside. The Telegraph headline overlaid on the image reads: “Anti-Muslim influencer launches racist attack on Mahmood.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Screenshot of a thread on X. Top post by Steve Laws, verified account @Steve_Laws_, posted four hours ago: “People like to avoid the mixed race question but here’s a prime example of these people belonging nowhere. We don’t want them and neither do they. Very problematic.” The post quote-tweets an earlier post by the same account: “We don’t want them. They’re yours.” That post in turn quotes a user called Naima, @Naimaintaipei, replying to @eleanorzjames and @MrNChance: “Mixed race people aren’t black at all. We don’t want them to claim black.” The Laws post shows 79 replies, 59 reposts, 928 likes, 16,000 views. Below it, a reply from a verified account called Zoomer, @ZoomerHistorian, posted four hours ago: “A genuinely rootless people, terrible.” The reply shows 6 replies, 3 reposts, 234 likes, 2,500 views.
Rupert Lowe facebook post. Says "Loving the support for Restore Britian from Rangers fans today. Proper club, proper fans, proper atmosphere."
I1 I want to be clear about this on tax. Richard Tice has obeyed the law. He's filed his accounts on time. He's obeyed the law in every way, and no one pays more tax than they have to. You don't I don't. No one does. He claims criticism of Tice is unfair, and comes from people who do not undertand how businesses operate.
X post from Matt Goodwin
Donald J. Trump © C @realDonaldTrump • 3h Bobby DO @robertdunlap947 So at what point are we going to realize the enemy is within gar. China and Russia are the boogeymen when the real threat is the U.N., NATO and this "religion." I put "religion" in quotes because it's not a religion, it's a e culte! Yeh, I went there
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.”
"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."
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
Title card reading 'The Conjuncture and the Commodity' over a photograph of Trump and Epstein
Album cover of the Stone Roses debut album
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
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
The Ghosts We Deserve Why England queues for hauntings whilst cinema dies
THE ROBOT ARMY DREAM (A FEVER) or: Notes Towards the Infinite Money Glitch The richest man in the world is afraid
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.
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.
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.
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.
Photograph of Hope of the States playing in London tonight.
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.
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.
'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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Photo of Assata Shakur
X Post - Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi No one is above the law. Today’s indictment reflects this Department of Justice’s commitment to holding those who abuse positions of power accountable for misleading the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.
Screenshot of a New York Sun post on Truth Social reporting that the Trump administration is preparing a $20 billion bailout plan for Argentine President Javier Milei. The post includes a preview link to the article and a photo of Milei wearing glasses and a dark jacket, speaking into two microphones against a purple background.
Screenshot of a Conservative Brief post on Truth Social featuring Vice President JD Vance’s remarks after a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas. The post includes a quote where Vance tells Democrats they can “go straight to hell” for rhetoric against ICE and law enforcement, specifically targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom. Below the text is a Fox News broadcast still showing Vance in a suit speaking at a podium in front of a police vehicle in Concord, North Carolina.
Book cover of Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism by William I. Robinson. The title is in large red letters on a peach background. The central image is a deflated inflatable globe, crumpled and tied at the top, symbolising collapse.
Snip of video which shwos Trump and Melania on a stalled escalator at the UN - writing says The World Goes to Hell On Trump at the UN and the death of liberal internationalism
Photo of a hand with two paracetamol tablets in the centre of it.
Front cover of Chosen By God
Book cover of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges. The design features bold red text on a white background, with review quotes in smaller orange-red text at the top. A blue square with six white crosses arranged in two columns appears on the left side.