A belly full of natural gas and other fictions of self-sufficiency: Does a greenhouse full of peppers and tomatoes bathing in the warmth of natural gas and fed a diet of fertilisers really represent food security and self-sufficiency? thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/a-belly-fu...

A belly full of natural gas and other fictions of self-sufficiency

Does a greenhouse full of peppers and tomatoes bathing in the warmth of natural gas and fed a diet of fertilisers really represent food security and self-sufficiency?

thestruggleforland.substack.com

This is one of the reasons why I've been cautioning against trying to tap into the food security discourse – they'll use it to justify abominations like intensive poultry units: (see image in next post to see how gov justifies it) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

theguardian.com

On Tuesday April 21, I'll be hosting an in-person (non-recorded) one-day symposium on "Culture and the 21st-Century Agrarian Question" at Durham University. Details in the images, booking link below. All welcome!

I'm recruiting for my PhD research, please share with anyone who you think maybe be interested 👌

I wrote about whether the UK really is 60% self-sufficient in food production (spoiler: it's not). But rather than making the currently very favourable move of saying We Must Produce More – I question whether self-sufficiency has much valence at all: thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/is-the-uk-...

Is the UK really 60% self-sufficient in food?

On the myths of self-sufficiency, localism and nationalism, and why it matters for the project of food sovereignty at a time of global eco-apartheid

thestruggleforland.substack.com

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

The US is engaged in imperialist war at a world scale and Starmer is very happy to support that (thus the UK is also engaged in imperialist war at a world scale)

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Keir Starmer: "I constantly remind myself that 24/7 our defence, our security & our intelligent relationship with the US matters probably more than any other relationship we've got in the world and it would not be in our national interest to weaken that in any way"

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Abajo con el imperialismo, abajo con el estados unidos, solidaridad con el pueblo de Venezuela

“Dreams of a ‘fair price’ for farmers is not a realisable demand due to the inherent contradiction that exists between food production & the profit motive.” Agroecology as revolutionary, anti-imperialist, class struggle - @alexheffron.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thestrug...

Agroecology as revolutionary, anti-imperialist, class struggle

What would it mean to reorient the project of agroecology in the global north around the aims of revolutionary, anti-imperialist, class struggle?

open.substack.com

Really interesting food for thought (pun intended) from @alexheffron.bsky.social....embedding sustainability produced local food as a universal basic right is a great way to start imaging a transition away from global agribusiness

Alex Heffron@alexheffron.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New post: Zarah Sultana recently said we need to nationalise the entire economy. What I put forward here is a brief plan for a People's Food Service, which both supports farmers and tackles food poverty. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/nationalis...

@mikegrunwald.bsky.social brings fresh energy to an everlasting idea: To reduce agriculture's environmental impact, we need to make "more with less." New episode of Landscapes: "More with Less" plinkhq.com/i/1552882054

New post: Zarah Sultana recently said we need to nationalise the entire economy. What I put forward here is a brief plan for a People's Food Service, which both supports farmers and tackles food poverty. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/nationalis...

'Nationalise everything' (or why we need a People's Food Service)

Zarah Sultana recently said we need to nationalise the entire economy. What I put forward here is a brief plan for a People's Food Service, which both supports farmers and tackles food poverty.

thestruggleforland.substack.com

New post: Zarah Sultana recently said we need to nationalise the entire economy. What I put forward here is a brief plan for a People's Food Service, which both supports farmers and tackles food poverty. thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/nationalis...

'Nationalise everything' (or why we need a People's Food Service)

Zarah Sultana recently said we need to nationalise the entire economy. What I put forward here is a brief plan for a People's Food Service, which both supports farmers and tackles food poverty.

thestruggleforland.substack.com

Showing this to my 6 year old

BREAKING: Quesser Zuhrah is taken to hospital after crowds gathered at HMP Bronzefield following her rapid health deterioration after 46days of hunger strike. There are seven more hunger strikers currently facing critical health deterioration. Support them by visiting PrisonersForPalestine.org

New Substack: 'Perhaps we became so enamoured with our own gardens we retreated from the wider world, and in doing so neglected to contest the future for everyone.' thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/agroecolog...

Agroecologisation

What would it mean to agroecologise socio-ecological relations at a time of climate breakdown, war and genocide? How does agroecology stop this destruction and refashion a new world?

thestruggleforland.substack.com

DK Renton argues that David Lammy’s proposal to severely cut the number of jury trials is another authoritarian step by Labour. revsoc21.uk/2025/11/30/i...

In defence of jury trials

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

revsoc21.uk

New post where I push a little bit further on my previous writing on agroecology being a project of class suicide and why this means small privately-owned farms are not the vehicle of change for agroecology as too often supposed thestruggleforland.substack.com/p/towards-an...

Towards an agroecological theory of change

Small, privately-owned farms and localised markets can never achieve agroecology, therefore the movement needs a new strategy.

thestruggleforland.substack.com

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war By @alexheffron.bsky.social and @tom-cb.bsky.social buff.ly/eine9eg

We really need to defeat these fascist pigs - cos they're coming for us

Juliet Turner@juliet-turner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Looking at the way Reform and the far right are trying to leverage rural resentments against solar farms. Given that most farmers are concerned by climate change – does this actually make Reform anti-farmer? Enjoyed writing this with @tom-cb.bsky.social theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

theconversation.com

Looking at the way Reform and the far right are trying to leverage rural resentments against solar farms. Given that most farmers are concerned by climate change – does this actually make Reform anti-farmer? Enjoyed writing this with @tom-cb.bsky.social theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

theconversation.com

“Effective green policy must ensure that green transitions benefit those doing the work or opposition will grow.” ‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war - @alexheffron.bsky.social theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

theconversation.com

My latest article, with the fantastic @alexheffron.bsky.social has just been published. Looking how Reform UK are trying to turn placement of Solar Panels on farmland in a rural culture war and wedge issue. theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became Britain’s latest culture war

Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

theconversation.com

A memorable night ruined by a racist thug. I was invited to speak at the EuroAsia Curry Awards on Monday night, it should have been an exciting opportunity. But on my way there, outside Earl’s Court station, I was subjected to an Islamophobic hate crime. I have now reported it to the police

Very weak. What I hear from this is that Polanski backs European imperialism and isn't actually anti-imperialist at all. Sorry but this is basically the most important point for British anti-imperialists – at a time when the UK and Europe are engaged in genocide and constructing Fortress Europe.

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Victoria Derbyshire, "Do you want the UK to withdraw from NATO?" Zack Polanski, "Not immediately. The world is in turmoil and we need to make sure our country is defended" "However, we've got Donald Trump in the White House. I would say America has been a problem with imperialism"

Just one of the many genocides the British empire conducted

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10mo ago

#OtD 20 Oct 1877 this drawing was published in London depicting famine in Bangalore, India. Famine began in 1876, and while around 5.5m Indians starved to death 100,000s of tonnes of food were exported to England with almost no relief. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9318...

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced. We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

Football fans that are actually fascist ultras who chant things like "kill all Arabs" and intimidate local Muslims and people of colour. Good chance of violent war criminals. It's not about their religion.

LiLBaz@lilbazza.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Those who've supported the genocide with their full chest have dug themselves into a hole & have no choice now but to keep digging. Otherwise, they'd be facing some very awkward questions that would not reflect well on them at all