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Colin Wilson

@colinwlondon.bsky.social

Queer Marxist author and activist. Based London, member rs21. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‰ https://revsoc21.uk/author/colinwilson/

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Latest posts by colinwlondon.bsky.social on Bluesky

Very useful summary of why AI is a bubble, why everyone knows this but it keeps going, what may happen when the bubble bursts.

22.10.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bubble-talk is breaking out everywhere But more optimistic investors continue to bank on the cavalry arriving if things get really dicey

It's now widely acknowledged that AI investment has created a bubble. Investors continue investing, confident that govts/central banks will intervene to stop the worst of the damage, as in 2008. That's probably true. Meanwhile, these same govts say there's no money for public services.

22.10.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Italian dockers disrupted the Israeli war machine rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Interview with an Italian socialist. The Italian protests are on a huge scale, and the issue of Palestine is rebuilding the union movement there. Fascinating stuff.

20.10.2025 08:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What do we mean by communism? rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Thinking that the Soviet Union or post-1949 China represent the communism advocated by Marx has been a longstanding problem on the left and remains one today, as I write for @rs21.bsky.social

17.10.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NYC is going to get extremely intense with Mamdani’s election and Trump’s ireβ€”streets saturated with ICE thugs, national guard, maybe insurrection act, lots of violence. Like Chicago and LA; maybe worse. I wish I had a clearer sense anyone was forming an adequate mass strategy to respond

16.10.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The precarious migrant worker rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Hsiao-Hung Pai reviews a new book about the jobs and consciousness of migrant workers, and highlights the similarities between their struggles and those of migrants in East London a hundred years ago.

16.10.2025 05:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Gaza ceasefire rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Palestinian struggle and a global solidarity movement have thwarted attempted Zionist annihilation after 2 years of genocide. The future of Palestine must be determined by the Palestinian people, not colonial governance. The fight for liberation will continue. Statement from @rs21.bsky.social.

13.10.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up. Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

13.10.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3769    πŸ” 1410    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 59

Politico has this nauseating quote: "Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Emily Thornberry told the BBC’s The World Tonight: 'If he can help to get us to a position where there’s peace in the Middle East, for heaven’s sake of course he should get the Peace Prize … I’ll wear a MAGA hat personally.'" (2/2)

10.10.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The US arms Israel, so it could stop the genocide whenever it pleased. Yet we're now seeing commentary suggesting that this is somehow down to Trump personally - he is "like a juggernaut" (Guardian). (1/2)

10.10.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jenrick, racism and "integration" Jenrick’s comments on Handsworth were plainly racist, based as they were on the idea that if a white person is in a place where they can’t see another white person, something is horribly wrong.

New Substack post from me about Jenrick and what exactly the right means by "integration".

09.10.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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E-Bow the Letter - Wikipedia

Splendid - Wikipedia tries to explain - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Bow_t...

30.09.2025 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Palestinian Authority, already an Israeli proxy, to go through "reforms" because it isn't supine enough. Resistance to the imposition of this monstrous attack results in continued genocide. And all this is described by the complacent morons of the BBC and the Guardian as a "peace plan". (3/3)

30.09.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Palestinians don't get to vote for their own government until some undefined point in the future, because they aren't proper human beings but Arabs, brown people, children, who can only be trusted to elect their rulers once they have utterly abandoned any hope of justice. (2/3)

30.09.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Child stands amid the rubble of Gaza

Child stands amid the rubble of Gaza

So, Gaza becomes - a protectorate, a mandate territory, a colony? Ruled over by colonial governors Trump and mass murderer Blair, who rebuild the Palestinians' country to suit the needs of international capital. Arab ruling classes smile and nod. (1/3)

30.09.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Follows from Italian general strike for Gaza and Spanish protests achieving part-cancellation of La Vuelta. Strikes and protests can isolate the apartheid state.

28.09.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

26.09.2025 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3702    πŸ” 1535    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 133
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God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremismβ€”and in the process, have become Israel's most important American allies.

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social reports on God's "blank check."

25.09.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 4

Years of nothing to do all day, cooking in the bathroom, dodging racists to get the kids to school, huge sums spent on taxis because the govt won't pay for buses or trains. Nothing like the luxury hotels the right talks about.

23.09.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On the Trump visit, the right-wing press all but say out loud that Britain has very little power in the world, the govt should do whatever the US wants and no problems with the royals staging Disneyland pageantry for visiting autocrats. Striking change from previous Tory ideas.

19.09.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your Party: Don’t fuck this up rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Straightforward message here to everyone squabbling at the top of the organisation. No to legal action - local groups keep organising - build the organisation - we need transparency at every level.

18.09.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Race against time: how do we challenge the new far right? rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

Report from Saturday's far right march in London and analysis of how we challenge them.

17.09.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Four arrested after images of Trump and Epstein projected on to Windsor Castle ahead of president’s visit Trump arrived in Britain late on Tuesday for an unprecedented second state visit in which he will be hosted by King Charles

"Unauthorised projection" is a crime now? If cops are using the Malicious Communications Act it looks like one hell of a stretch. We can expect this will never get to court, but legitimate protest gets suppressed and Donald kept happy.

17.09.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Britain’s far-right march was years in the making Britain’s largest far-right march was no fringe eventβ€”it was fuelled by years of Tory & Labour support for anti-immigration policies, argues Richard Seymour.

@leninology.bsky.social on how both Tories and Labour have for years conceded to and promoted the far right for their own ends.

16.09.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Block everything: the struggle in France rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

As Macron’s government faces yet another crisis, the Bloquons tout movement has brought students, workers and activists together in blockades and strikes across France. Some rs21 members joined the actions and report back from the ground

revsoc21.uk/2025/09/13/b...

13.09.2025 07:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is the Starmer government destroying itself? How has a government so focused on professionalism blundered into disaster? Partly through bending the knee to Trump – so what strategy should parties of the left pursue?

How has a government so focused on professionalism blundered into disaster? Partly through bending the knee to Trump – so what strategy should parties of the left pursue?

First post in my new Substack - please share, subscribe, comment.

12.09.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlie Kirk in his own words: β€˜prowling Blacks’ and β€˜the great replacement strategy’ The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events

Handy summary now that Kirk's far right views are being sanitised.

12.09.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot Who is running the government’s β€˜growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Tufton Street lobbyists behind Liz Truss still play a major role shaping government policy under Starmer.

11.09.2025 06:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"1930s-style autocracy". Gosh, if only there was a simple one-word term for that system of government.

02.09.2025 06:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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