Simon Hannah

@simonhannah.bsky.social

Ecosocialist Anticapitalist Resistance Latest book is Reclaiming The Future: A Beginners Guide to Planning the Economy, (Pluto 2024)

After withdrawing support for Pride at Durham and Havering councils - the trade union movement stepped up to defend and support the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. The workers movement at its best is a universalist movement fighting for human liberation for all against oppression and exploitation.

Andy Burnham will have a loft of work to do to prove his is “profressive”. Labour members got their fingers burnt before with Starmer ‘s so called pledges. Triangulation in power whether conscious or not is s consequence of managing the capitalist state

In "politics, racism is a vapid and bombastic variety of chauvinism in alliance with phrenology... the ruined nobility sought solace in the gentility of its blood, so the pauperised petty bourgeoisie befuddles itself with fairy tales concerning the special superiorities of its race." Trotsky

Despite everything humanity can become great and we can live wonderful lives. We just need to mercilessly crush the ruling oligarchs and seize control of the economy in order to create the conditions for true greatness