Simon Pearson

120 pieces on Anti*Capitalist Resistance.

• The Poor Law Inside the Welfare State31 October 2026
• Tories ‑The State Gets Out of the Way Until It Wants to Get in Yours7 October 2026
• The National Care Service Starts With Its Workers4 October 2026
• Dock Everton Ten Points29 September 2026
• After Capitalist Realism24 September 2026
• Survival for the Chosen22 September 2026
• Safety, Provided America Wins15 September 2026
• The Election the Sweden Democrats Have Already Won14 September 2026
• Equal Value, Unequal Power11 September 2026
• The Bond Market Did Not Tell Burnham to Cut Pensions4 September 2026
• When Work Becomes a Moral Test18 August 2026
• Farage Got His Mandate. Then He Needed an Enemy14 August 2026
• The Price of the Pact6 August 2026
• After Ceuta2 August 2026
• The Family Silver28 July 2026
• The Hard Questions of Reindustrialisation25 July 2026
• The uses of a death for Reform13 July 2026
• Power Play7 July 2026
• Burnham: the machine stays put3 July 2026
• Encoding the Moral Panic29 June 2026
• Manchesterism and its Limits26 June 2026
• Social Media: Prohibition does not work15 June 2026
• Britain Needs Class Politics, Not Imported Culture War4 June 2026
• Runners in Labour leadership race assessed20 May 2026
• Starmer’s reset speech13 May 2026
• “Our Way of Life”16 April 2026
• Fascism before power12 April 2026
• The Sewage We Made26 March 2026
• How the right manufactures a Muslim ‘threat’20 March 2026
• Starmer – Trump’s poodle14 March 2026
• Migrants dead in Iran’s strikes on the UAE10 March 2026
• SEND reforms: Built to Fail?26 February 2026
• When A Passport is Not Enough20 February 2026
• AI is coming for your job18 February 2026
• Tesco Boss wrings hands about jobless15 February 2026
• The money behind Farage14 February 2026
• Jim Ratcliffe’s Language of Decline12 February 2026
• Iran: Campism and the Erasure of Theocracy21 January 2026
• Tories sack Jenrick15 January 2026
• ICE – An Occupying Force9 January 2026
• They Took Him1 January 2026
• Defend Alaa el‑Fattah30 December 2025
• An Open Letter to Gianni Infantino24 December 2025
• Tommy Robinson’s Carol Concert14 December 2025
• The Mask Slips11 December 2025
• When the Last Witness Dies1 November 2025
• Eighty Years Since Hiroshima. We’re Closer Now.15 August 2025
• The Catastrophe Was the Point: Gilbert Achcar’s Dialectic of Gaza7 August 2025
• Looking at us: On Steve McQueen’s Resistance2 April 2025
• The boys are not alright29 March 2025
• Adolescence – The New Lost Boys19 March 2025
• Labour’s Inheritance Tax and the Fight for the Future of UK Farming17 December 2024
• Whatever1 September 2024
• Farage’s Populism13 June 2024
• Students Confront University’s Complicity in Israeli Apartheid3 May 2024
• “Civil War”: Alex Garland’s Unsettling Exploration of a Fractured America12 April 2024
• Anticapitalist Resistance Maps Out a Radical Ecosocialist Strategy at the 2024 Conference2 April 2024
• Call to Action: Join the National Demonstration in London on March 30—Ceasefire Now, Stop the Genocide in Gaza!28 March 2024
• Dubious Claims Shouldn’t Impede Humanitarian Relief2 February 2024
• Inheriting Occupation: Israelism’s Revelation25 January 2024
• Reclaiming the Language of Class19 January 2024
• Solidarity with jailed Palestine Action activist18 January 2024
• Ending the Privileged Pursuit28 December 2023
• My top five reads of 202325 December 2023
• Left Perspectives: Navigating Capitalism, Conflict and Authoritarianism in 202318 December 2023
• Tory Government continues its attack on civil rights8 November 2023
• Starmer’s Middle East speech: A meek bourgeois perspective masks Imperialist violence2 November 2023
• Walking the Tightrope30 October 2023
• New COVID 19 Variant Raises Concerns as UK Government Expands Booster Program8 September 2023
• Imagined Threats, Real Inequality: Marxism And The Allure Of Conspiracism24 August 2023
• Urban Wanderings: Keiller’s Cinematic Psychogeography19 July 2023
• Breaking Boundaries and Turning Up the Volume: Inside the Revolutionary Sound of KILL, THE ICON!24 May 2023
• Fascism Creeps into the UK: The Rise of Authoritarianism and the Threat to Democracy9 May 2023
• The Unravelling Monarchy5 May 2023
• Nursing Strike Cut Short After High Court Decision: Support for Nurses Continues Despite Legal Setback27 April 2023
• Environmental and Social Justice Groups Rally for Ban on Waste Incineration in the UK26 April 2023
• The Arrest21 April 2023
• The Unsettling Truth: Influencers and the Erosion of Authenticity12 April 2023
• Chronicles of the Abyss: The Alien Saga and America’s Shadows6 April 2023
• Trial of the Donald: A Circus or a Farce?5 April 2023
• Embracing the 15‑Minute City: A Sustainable and People‑Centric Urban Vision29 March 2023
• Dismantling the Met: A Call for Radical Police Reform21 March 2023
• The Inhumanity of Power: Suella Braverman’s Chilling Words and the Drip, Drip of Fear and Hatred14 March 2023
• The Human Story Behind the UK Budget: A Decade of Tory Economic Mismanagement13 March 2023
• Blood Sport: The BBC vs the Tories11 March 2023
• “HS2 Delay – Levelling Up in Doubt”10 March 2023
• Challenging Capitalism: Perspectives from Anti*Capitalist Resistance9 March 2023
• The Secret Messaging Dilemma: The Ethics of UK Government Officials Using WhatsApp”8 March 2023
• The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill: Sustaining Divisive Myths and Fuelling Far‑Right Extremism5 March 2023
• The Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior: A Legacy of State‑Sponsored Terrorism5 March 2023
• The Spectacle of Imperialism: Unpacking the Global Performance of Violence and Domination3 March 2023
• The Death Penalty and the Reactionary Right: A Violation of Human Rights11 February 2023
• Sexual harassment in the TSSA9 February 2023
• Building a World Without Police: The Fight for a Classless Society and Social Justice31 January 2023
• Understanding Mark Fisher11 January 2023
• Trussonomics: A Very Short Introduction3 October 2022
• Austerity 2.02 October 2022
• Class war30 September 2022
• Banker’s Bonuses and the Economics of Inequality29 September 2022
• The Kingdom of the Spectacle16 September 2022
• Continuity Misrule7 September 2022
• Where are your red lines?15 March 2022
• Not all refugees are equal8 March 2022
• A city in fear27 January 2022
• Johnson’s telling lies!15 December 2021
• I fear the end of the mass protest6 December 2021
• Cultural roundup3 December 2021
• News from the rank and file29 November 2021
• News from the rank and file21 November 2021
• Sage nursing home strikers victorious18 November 2021
• News from the rank and file10 November 2021
• My Cultural Highlights6 September 2021
• New writers wanted2 August 2021
• Batley Grammar School: what are the issues?8 April 2021
• Picture of the Week 5 Photograph Battle of Orgreave: the miner and the copper by Don McPhee.17 March 2021
• The latest radical views on YouTube1 March 2021
• England and Labour: Nation or Class?4 February 2021
• Join us and help to create a new revolutionary Marxist organisation28 January 2021
• A Jingoistic Shot in the Arm18 December 2020
• A perfect storm of conspiracy and hate!4 October 2020