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Bert Russell

@bertrussell.bsky.social

Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025) Preorder books: https://linktr.ee/Bertierussell

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If you email Pluto - with a proposal to do a review (and you have somewhere that will publish) - they will hopefully send you a copy!

06.10.2025 08:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I received an email congratulating me that my life insurance premium was going up. Really feel like I achieved something.

06.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes it would be great to touch base on this at some point

06.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks! Have you got your hands on a copy yet? Looking forward to your forthcoming review 😎

06.10.2025 07:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Así ha sido el asalto al barco Florida (de bandera polaca) hace unos minutos.
www.elsaltodiario.com/palestina/ba...

02.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 105    🔁 106    💬 7    📌 4

High praise @pbresnihan.bsky.social 🙏

30.09.2025 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So glad to finally get my hands on this - @kaiheron.bsky.social,
@kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social are some of the clearest and sharpest thinkers on post-capitalist futures, green transition, commons, social movements and eco-socialism. Essential reading.

30.09.2025 15:58 — 👍 33    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Bullshit abundance and the joys of cloudberries Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic FutureKai Heron, Keir Milburn, Bertie Russell, Pluto Press, £16.99CLOUDBERRIES sound like a magic fruit from the mind of Philip Pullman. They are a pea...

Great review of Radical Abundance (by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social).
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#GreenDemocraticFuture

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bull...

28.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

The first podcast interview with @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and I on our book, Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future.

A really in depth interview this. Well worth a listen.

28.09.2025 09:56 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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We live in a world where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we do – but it doesn't have to be this way Ahead of in-conversation in Sheffield next Thursday, we have an exclusive extract from a new book that makes the case for creating a world of “radical abundance”.

Here's an exclusive extract in @nowthenmag.bsky.social from Keir Milburn, @kaiheron.bsky.social & @bertrussell.bsky.social's new book 'Radical Abundance'

Keir is coming to #Sheffield next Thursday to explore how we can “create a world of true abundance” 📚

Tickets 👉 buytickets.at/wordlife/183...

26.09.2025 08:06 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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We live in a world where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we do – but it doesn't have to be this way Ahead of in-conversation in Sheffield next Thursday, we have an exclusive extract from a new book that makes the case for creating a world of “radical abundance”.

"Under capitalism, for the sake of generating a bullshit abundance of privatised wealth for the few, our collective freedom and capacity to flourish is constrained"

Here's an exclusive extract from Keir Milburn, @kaiheron.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social's new book 'Radical Abundance' 🌱

24.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Why the strawberry on the front cover of our new book? Three reasons. The first is the simplest: they’re red and green, representing communism and ecology. 1/15

22.09.2025 13:14 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2
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Thanks so much to the 160+ people who joined us to celebrate the launch of Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future, in London last night!

And apologies to those who couldn't fit in the room!...

20.09.2025 13:18 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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TOMORROW is the launch of Radical Abundance: How to win a Green Democratic Future.

A new book by our co-directors @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social & kaiheron.bsky.social, published by @plutopress.bsky.social.

Tickets are gone, but we've a waitlist: www.in-abundance.org/latest/book-...

18.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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We're organising Radical Abundance discussion events around the country. London, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester, Norwich, and Leeds, with many more to follow.

Find out more here:
www.in-abundance.org/latest/radic...

16.09.2025 09:49 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
The Slow Reappearance of the Future In a world where economic stagnation and ecological deterioration threaten our very existence, we need to envisage a socialist transition based on the radical democratisation of utilities and governan...

From @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social and I's article in the latest issue of Tribune. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-... 2/2

11.09.2025 19:53 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Attention Bristol. On Wednesday 24th September we'll be discussing our book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future at Bookhaus.

Get your tickets from the link below.

www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e136...

10.09.2025 17:36 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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The Slow Reappearance of the Future In a world where economic stagnation and ecological deterioration threaten our very existence, we need to envisage a socialist transition based on the radical democratisation of utilities and governan...

This piece is now free to read. @kmilb.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social and I argue that popular power and social property - rather than merely nationalisation - are important goals for working class struggles today. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

03.09.2025 14:35 — 👍 28    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 2
Radical Abundance – Pluto Press

Why Keir, isn’t it possible to preorder the book from Pluto?

www.plutobooks.com/product/radi...

03.09.2025 14:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

So please to have this article in this superb issue of Tribune.

@bertrussell.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and I lay out a few arguments from our Radical Abundance book. We explain why the political centre and right have taken such a sharp authoritarian turn, and what we can do about it.

03.09.2025 09:44 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

Good journalism from @manchestermill.bsky.social

30.08.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

When the Labour government panders to and “acknowledges” anti-immigration sentiment, this is who and what they’re fuelling.

“Why are we sending money to the Beijing Lesbian Opera company?”

manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

30.08.2025 18:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Yes we have to find a way to get a Spanish/Catalan publisher and translator! @plutopress.bsky.social ??!!

27.08.2025 21:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What Does Winning Look Like? Radical Abundance Book Launch Aug 27, 2025

BOOK LAUNCH: Join us for the launch of our new book, Radical Abundance!

📆 Friday 19th September, 7-9pm
📌 Pelican House, London

🔗 Register your free place: www.in-abundance.org/latest/book-...

27.08.2025 11:51 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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What Does Winning Look Like? Radical Abundance Book Launch Aug 27, 2025

BOOK LAUNCH: Join us for the launch of our new book, Radical Abundance!

📆 Friday 19th September, 7-9pm
📌 Pelican House, London

🔗 Register your free place: www.in-abundance.org/latest/book-...

27.08.2025 11:51 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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What Does Winning Look Like? Radical Abundance Book Launch Aug 27, 2025

BOOK LAUNCH: Join us for the launch of our new book, Radical Abundance!

📆 Friday 19th September, 7-9pm
📌 Pelican House, London

🔗 Register your free place: www.in-abundance.org/latest/book-...

@bertrussell.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @kaiheron.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

27.08.2025 11:49 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Radical Abundance Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit...

We have a book coming out next month, that explains how public-common partnerships are institutions that support ecosocialist transition.

Only in English at first…

www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...

26.08.2025 11:16 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Radical Abundance Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit...

First sighting of our Radical Abundance out in the wild. Get it at Bookhaus in Bristol or pre-order it here.

www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...

10.08.2025 10:36 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The evil that caused this is part of the continuum that we call “western civilization”.
This barbarity is our barbarity.
This fascism is a product of how our own societies - our economies - work.
Horrific.

05.08.2025 22:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📚 SPECIAL OFFER - LAST DAY!📚

@waterstones.bsky.social is offering 25% off pre-orders of select Pluto books until 31 July - including, Radical Abundance by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social:

www.waterstones.com/book/radical...

31.07.2025 09:12 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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