DK Renton
@Livesrunning
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Historian. Anti-fascist. He/him. Not here much.
London
Joined March 2012
Between 1965 and 1980, dozens of the best-known musicians in Britain were collectors of Nazi regalia… https://t.co/bzP8Fbnwgz
tribunemag.co.uk
A new book reflects on the music industry’s disturbing obsession with Nazi aesthetics and ideology — ranging over unexpected examples of fascist fetishism, and celebrating those who challenged it.
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"The reason for the backlog is simple. Justice budgets have been cut year-on-year since 2010. Court buildings are workplaces too..." https://t.co/YaKZCqUPYf
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Statement from Islington Community Independents regarding the welfare of Kamran Ahmed. We will be contacting Islington representatives @UnaOHalloran, @EmilyThornberry, @jeremycorbyn, as well as the Deputy Prime Minister @DavidLammy over this issue.
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If only there was an Oscars for government ministers, then whoever was responsible for this decision could win an award for the most obviously, infuriatingly, achingly, predictable U-turn in the history of the Labour party
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"In a number of towns and cities, local activists have ignored the leadership contest and pressed on with local organising. Where people have done that – as we have in Islington – we’ve enjoyed the experience..." https://t.co/9NyY38zNFH
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In his final article on rs21’s key political ideas, DK Renton explains why we can’t take over the state – we need to smash it to create a new world of freedom. https://t.co/2XHXAdBYvN
revsoc21.uk
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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In the fourth of his series on rs21’s key political ideas, DK Renton explains why it’s vital to reject nationalism and stand with anti-imperialist struggles.
revsoc21.uk
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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"...Telling the story of the Anti-Nazi League without giving equal weight to Rock Against Racism is like telling a version of Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo delivers his lines, while cutting Juliet’s words back to him..." On a new history of the 70s https://t.co/rfRIYG4iV3
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"...Of all Corbyn’s many controversial friendships, the one which has the potential to cause most damage to his legacy is Karie Murphy..." Me for The Lead on what's happened since -that- launch https://t.co/5D8PPs3DyV
national.thelead.uk
Splits, rows and even legal threats have dogged the first few months of what was supposed to be a new start for the left in Britain. Left-wing veteran David Renton dives into just what went wrong.
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"‘No Socialist looks on “outrages” as a virtue,’ Eleanor Marx acknowledged. But whatever crime the Fenians had committed, there was ‘a greater criminal’: ‘the English Government’" Me for @revsoc21
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revsoc21.uk
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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Me for @truthout on the Pal Action protests "Those arrested included nurses, Anglican priests. They waited without grumbling in the hot summer sun, ageing limbs made painful by the police’s slow processing of the crowd." https://t.co/OT3DoDZYol
truthout.org
More than 1,600 people have already been arrested, and 1,500 more have pledged to risk arrest on Saturday in London.
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Out in May with @haymarketbooks Renton rescues forgiveness from the pulpit and returns it to history. With a socialist’s contempt for vicarious absolution, he shows that forgiveness with justice is radical realpolitik—Richard Seymour https://t.co/QB3THyVSRT
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Out next year- Comrade Delta The 2013 Crisis in Britain’s Largest Far-Left Party “An honest, balanced & well-documented account of an appalling episode” Ian Birchall "An impeccably researched reckoning with the causes of a catastrophic betrayal" Sophie Lewis
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How are you supposed to talk down your racist uncle if the only person he’ll listen to it’s the AI on his Android? Or the attention economy which cocoons our enemy – sending their cadres picures of crowds singing Allah is a Pedo? https://t.co/KgyyW7hzof
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"The worst was four weeks when it spread to my mouth. It was as if some torturer-antagonist was burning my jawbone with an oxyacetaline torch. The hospital recommended I drink salt water. “Just a placebo,” the consultant told me at our next appointment https://t.co/oS6G2aG5ax
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In the second part of a five part series on what we mean by revolutionary socialism., DK Renton explains that workers remain central to capitalism and can overthrow it. https://t.co/pqkjt1aiYZ
revsoc21.uk
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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Me, with some worries about the signs of the re-emergence of the US street right https://t.co/efjrNenh4f
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A Substack on Charlie Kirk's killer and how the story has changed about his likely politics https://t.co/XcOUT6AoWo
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"In 1968, when students rose up at the Sorbonne, few of them had read any Marx. And yet one of their most powerful slogans of their movement was a radical simplification and restatement of Marx’s theories: ‘The boss needs you, you don’t need him.’” https://t.co/0tmcaGdGHg
revsoc21.uk
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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“A name once whispered across the industrial north, Jenny Greenteeth has declined into print, into kitsch.” David Renton on the history of a cautionary creature of folklore, pointing “to the world we have made and could yet unmake”. https://t.co/9zUja1N7xB
overland.org.au
A creature of places, not of books — that’s how we should understand Jenny Greenteeth. She once belonged to specific, forgotten, sites: the cold, dark, moorland Black Pool on the way to Butterdon...
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