SIMON PEARSON

Simon Pearson is a Midlands-based political activist and ACR member

The Price of the Pact

After Ceuta

The Family Silver

The Hard Questions of Reindustrialisation

The uses of a death for Reform

Power Play

Burnham: the machine stays put

Encoding the Moral Panic

Manchesterism and its Limits

Social Media: Prohibition does not work

Britain Needs Class Politics, Not Imported Culture War

Runners in Labour leadership race assessed

Starmer’s reset speech

“Our Way of Life”

Fascism before power

The Sewage We Made

How the right manufactures a Muslim ‘threat’

Starmer – Trump’s poodle

Migrants dead in Iran’s strikes on the UAE

SEND reforms: Built to Fail?

When A Passport is Not Enough

AI is coming for your job

Tesco Boss wrings hands about jobless

The money behind Farage

Jim Ratcliffe’s Language of Decline

Iran: Campism and the Erasure of Theocracy

Tories sack Jenrick

ICE – An Occupying Force

They Took Him

Defend Alaa el‑Fattah

An Open Letter to Gianni Infantino

Tommy Robinson’s Carol Concert

The Mask Slips

When the Last Witness Dies

Eighty Years Since Hiroshima. We’re Closer Now.

The Catastrophe Was the Point: Gilbert Achcar’s Dialectic of Gaza

Looking at us: On Steve McQueen’s Resistance

The boys are not alright

Adolescence – The New Lost Boys

Labour’s Inheritance Tax and the Fight for the Future of UK Farming

Whatever

Farage’s Populism

Students Confront University’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid

“Civil War”: Alex Garland’s Unsettling Exploration of a Fractured America

Anticapitalist Resistance Maps Out a Radical Ecosocialist Strategy at the 2024 Conference

Call to Action: Join the National Demonstration in London on March 30—Ceasefire Now, Stop the Genocide in Gaza!

Dubious Claims Shouldn’t Impede Humanitarian Relief

Inheriting Occupation: Israelism’s Revelation

Reclaiming the Language of Class

Solidarity with jailed Palestine Action activist

Ending the Privileged Pursuit

My top five reads of 2023

Left Perspectives: Navigating Capitalism, Conflict and Authoritarianism in 2023

Tory Government continues its attack on civil rights

Starmer’s Middle East speech: A meek bourgeois perspective masks Imperialist violence

Walking the Tightrope

New COVID 19 Variant Raises Concerns as UK Government Expands Booster Program

Imagined Threats, Real Inequality: Marxism And The Allure Of Conspiracism

Urban Wanderings: Keiller’s Cinematic Psychogeography

Breaking Boundaries and Turning Up the Volume: Inside the Revolutionary Sound of KILL, THE ICON!

Fascism Creeps into the UK: The Rise of Authoritarianism and the Threat to Democracy

The Unravelling Monarchy

Nursing Strike Cut Short After High Court Decision: Support for Nurses Continues Despite Legal Setback

Environmental and Social Justice Groups Rally for Ban on Waste Incineration in the UK

The Arrest

The Unsettling Truth: Influencers and the Erosion of Authenticity

Chronicles of the Abyss: The Alien Saga and America’s Shadows

Trial of the Donald: A Circus or a Farce?

Embracing the 15‑Minute City: A Sustainable and People‑Centric Urban Vision

Dismantling the Met: A Call for Radical Police Reform

The Inhumanity of Power: Suella Braverman’s Chilling Words and the Drip, Drip of Fear and Hatred

The Human Story Behind the UK Budget: A Decade of Tory Economic Mismanagement

Blood Sport: The BBC vs the Tories

“HS2 Delay – Levelling Up in Doubt”

Challenging Capitalism: Perspectives from Anti*Capitalist Resistance

The Secret Messaging Dilemma: The Ethics of UK Government Officials Using WhatsApp”

The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill: Sustaining Divisive Myths and Fuelling Far‑Right Extremism

The Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior: A Legacy of State‑Sponsored Terrorism

The Spectacle of Imperialism: Unpacking the Global Performance of Violence and Domination

The Death Penalty and the Reactionary Right: A Violation of Human Rights

Sexual harassment in the TSSA

Building a World Without Police: The Fight for a Classless Society and Social Justice

Understanding Mark Fisher

Trussonomics: A Very Short Introduction

Austerity 2.0

Class war

Banker’s Bonuses and the Economics of Inequality

The Kingdom of the Spectacle

Continuity Misrule

Where are your red lines?

15.03.2022

Not all refugees are equal

A city in fear

Johnson’s telling lies!

I fear the end of the mass protest

Cultural roundup

03.12.2021

News from the rank and file

29.11.2021

News from the rank and file

Sage nursing home strikers victorious

News from the rank and file

10.11.2021

My Cultural Highlights

Fighting disaster capitalism with ecosocialism

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