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SIMON PEARSON
Simon Pearson is a Midlands-based political activist and ACR member
When Work Becomes a Moral Test
Farage Got His Mandate. Then He Needed an Enemy
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
