Keir Milburn

There is a new Chotiner interview that really underscores what is unique about Israel's genocide in Gaza: it would be very easy for the world to stop it if only a few countries wanted to.

This is overt, premeditated, and on-going genocide.

Red Plenty Games haven't made the move over here yet, but I'm happy to report we completed the game Cooperation Nelson, put it in a box and handed it over. Even better we recently got a little bit of funding to transform it into a a more generic game that can be adjusted for any town or city.

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Any politics that wants to democratise society and the economy, that wants to give people control over their lives has to develop the democratic capacities of those participating. This means open, democratic and collective deliberation of strategy. Discuss ideas reject gossip.

Whenever you catch yourself excited by political gossip or conspiracy theorising you should pause and question yourself. Are you being animated by the incentive systems built into social media? Have you failed to break with the mode of politics fostered by the mainstream media?…

Political journalism tends to reduce politics to personal gossip. The algorithms of social media reward outrage and scandal mongering. Taken together they create modes of behaviour and thought that are the opposite of those we need to build institutions of mass solidarity…

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With climate change driving food price inflation this is how we can start to socialise our food systems and bring them under democratic control.
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Food Systems in Common: Council Farms, Agroecological Food Sovereignty, and Public-Common Partnerships | Kai Heron, Bertie Russell & Keir Milburn Nov 28, 2024

With climate change driving food price inflation this is how we can start to socialise our food systems and bring them under democratic control.
www.in-abundance.org/reports/food...

‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says Exclusive: Increasingly extreme weather a threat to production and supply chains in Britain and elsewhere

Under the ever worsening conditions of climate change we can no longer afford the needs of private capital dominating our food systems and we can no longer afford the oligarchs it creates undermining democracy.
Great research from @autonomy-institute.bsky.social
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This could easily end up the largest UK party in terms of membership

My hand is bigger than my head. I never realized.

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What’s the Hidden Unpaid Labour That Keeps the Economy Running? | Novara Media The ACFM crew explain how social reproduction gets us back into work, day after day.

An #ACFM episode on the topic of social reproduction. Just to show you how central this often invisible work is here's some stats.
Unpaid social reproductive work (childcare, housework, etc.) isn't include in measures of GDP. If it was then GDP would be 30% larger.

novaramedia.com/2025/07/13/w...

A ★★★½ review of 28 Weeks Later (2007) When someone is overcome with rage are they still fully human? While 28 Days Later, the original film in the series, introduced us to the rage-virus it did little to examine the consequences of using ...

In preparation for reviewing 28 Years Later Ive been rewatching and reviewing the earlier films in the series on Letterboxd. Here's my review of 28 Weeks Later.

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Reeves to say cuts to City red tape will bring trickle-down benefits to households Chancellor to announce raft of deregulation changes as City regulators move to pare back transparency rules

Labour confirm themselves as the party of finance capital. The last remaining neoliberal true-believer, dead-enders.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Young Lords Brought the Revolution to Public Health The group achieved victories for health care access in New York and beyond.

today in 1970 the Young Lords staged a 12-hr takeover of the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital—overcrowded, overrun by rats, called the "butcher shop" b/c medical residents trained on poor people of color

the takeover led to one of the first patients' bill of rights in history, and other wins @teenvogue.com

i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf

A brilliant conversation, especially when superheroes are effectively paying your rent.

Are Superheroes Inherently Reactionary? | Novara Media The ACFM hosts explore the enduring popularity of superheroes.

Give it a listen here: novaramedia.com/2025/06/01/a...

'He was a violent socialist': How Superman started out as a radical rebel Returning to cinemas next week, the superhero may be known as the ultimate all-American Mr Nice Guy – but, back in the 1930s, he didn't begin that way.

We told this story of Superman's radical roots fighting for social justice as well as criminal justice in our ACFM episode on Superheroes.

The report argues that England’s council farm estate is an ideal starting point for a wider transformation of Britain’s food system away from ecologically destructive ‘conventional farming’ methods, towards socially & ecologically regenerative systems rooted in the principles of food sovereignty 4/4

The report proposes that local authorities, farmworkers and community groups should work together to implement public-common partnerships to ease a transition away from today’s socially and ecologically unsustainable food system. 3/4

Food Systems in Common: Council Farms, Agroecological Food Sovereignty, and Public-Common Partnerships | Kai Heron, Bertie Russell & Keir Milburn Nov 28, 2024

Our report, Food Systems in Common, outlines how we can democratise Britain’s food system and produce good quality, nutritious and affordable food while repairing the country’s damaged ecosystems, and meeting climate targets. 2/4

www.in-abundance.org/reports/food...

To meet biodiversity and climate targets, we need a transition towards agroecological food production in Britain.

But how?

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The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy Political responses to a bad situation tend towards either charlatanism or timidity

Martin Wolf: According to the IMF, the trend growth of GDP per head in the UK had been 2.5 per cent a year from 1990 to 2007: then, between 2008 and 2025, it was just 0.7 per cent. on.ft.com/4lf4OyV The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy

He's right.
But also: this was exactly how some of us warned the Terrorism Act 2000 would be used when it was passed, by the government in which Peter Hain was a minister. He and all the others either ignored or dismissed our warnings. It's very frustrating.

Should we prioritise ensuring water is used to irrigate fields for crops ...or for cooling data centres?

Thames Water might soon be brought into a Special Administration Regime, but public ownership alone won’t fix a system rigged for private profit.

Without real social control, we risk repeating the same mistakes.