Bert Russell

Talk 1 of 3 in the Netherlands over the next few days with @kmilb.bsky.social

Details here www.in-abundance.org/latest/lates...

Is that a humble brag I smell Hettie? :p Congratulations though, looking forward to getting my hands on a copy soon.

Players should push for the salary floor - that’s the trade chip.

Is there a recording?

Merz has said that Germans need to "work harder", whilst the CDU is tabling a proposal that may include extending the working day to nine hours, reduce vacation entitlements, and modify the currently strict Sunday working legislation.

Any 'leadership' of this sort will see Europe burn.

Alleged someone allegedly burning a concentration camp in Kansas City.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Open letter to Wes Streeting: release your messages with your private healthcare donors The public has a right to know that health policy is not driven by quid pro quo relationships.

Wes Streeting released his whatsapp messages with Mandelson

We've written to him asking him to also release messages with private health donors (who benefit from NHS privatisation)

@goodlawproject.bsky.social found he is 60%+ funded by private healthcare

weownit.org.uk/news/wes-str...

Good news from Transport for London. They have committed to “develop detailed plans” for a publicly-owned bus company, to reverse the trend to privatisation that has made services worse and more expensive. Unite the union has welcomed this – and we do too. www.unitetheunion.or...

Are you, or someone you know interested in studying a Master's in Political Ecology, Degrowth and Environmental Justice?

Register for the programs open day to learn about their structure, content, and more!

📅Monday, February 23, 2026
⏰15:00 CET

More info and register: www.uab.cat/web/studies/...

The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

“Among many things we learn from this compelling guide, the most fundamental is the knowledge that we are all in one, indivisible class struggle”

Radical Abundance by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social in @lseusablog.bsky.social:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

For those who have not done so, now is a very good time to get a copy of Arrighi's The Long Twentieth Century...

BREAKING 🇬🇧🇵🇸 A British jury has refused to convict six pro-Palestine activists — who broke into an Elbit Systems factory in Filton, England to dismantle Israel’s war machine — of any of the charges levelled against them by the state.

“Among many things we learn from this compelling guide, the most fundamental is the knowledge that we are all in one, indivisible class struggle”

Radical Abundance by @kaiheron.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social in @lseusablog.bsky.social:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

[Starts drafting NLR nerdy article...]

This was pre-Adam Smith in Beijing's publication though.

What chance there is a video of that!

But Brenner himself had charted how "the financial sector continued to enjoy a historic ascent that was transforming the face of the economy. Every major trend of the period ran in favour of finance".

Again, Arrighi notes: "I see the financialization of capital, rather than persistent "over-capacity and over-production" in manufacturing, as the predominant capitalist response to the joint crisis of profitability and hegemony"

Yet Brenner himself had said:

"In 1947, the US imposed its recently adopted Cold War perspectives upon the occupied lands, Germany as well as Japan. It made clear, in particular, that Marshall Plan aid was conditinoal upon the restoration of a free-market economy"

It seems to me that Arrighi overstates their differences somewhat. For example, Arrighi says:

"All I am saying in contrast to Brenner is that, historically, uneven development after the Second World War was embedded from beginning to end in Cold War rivalries"

Did Robert Brenner never write a direct response to Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing? It seems extraordinary for him to have not.

But I can't find anything. Can anyone assist?

Radical Abundance: A Political Agenda for Cities ​​What is the political agenda necessary to make cities more just and sustainable? In a world of excess wealth and increasing social inequalities cities are becoming less accessible, inclusive and div...

I'll be speaking at a number of events in the Netherlands at the end of February, along with @kmilb.bsky.social

This is on the 27th February.

www.spui25.nl/programma/ra...

In his parting words to Russian President Vladimir Putin during his state visit in March 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, "Right now there are changes – the likes of which we haven’t seen for 100 years – and we are the ones driving these changes together"

How to transition from capitalism’s scarcity to radical abundance - LSE Review of Books Kai Heron, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell's Radical Abundance calls for a transition from capitalism to a “radical abundance” that benefits people & the planet.

How can we protect democracy from capital, not the other way around?

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social @abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social reviewed by Ivan Radanović @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

Trump appoints Blair, Kushner and Rubio to Gaza ‘board of peace’ White House says seven-strong board, chaired by Trump, will steer Gaza through next phase of reconstruction

As if the people of Gaza have not suffered enough. But Blair’s inclusion confirms the obvious - this is a board of colonial administration, run by war criminals and kleptocrats. It has zero legitimacy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Eso es un magnífico articulo 👏

How to transition from capitalism’s scarcity to radical abundance - LSE Review of Books Kai Heron, Keir Milburn & Bertie Russell's Radical Abundance calls for a transition from capitalism to a “radical abundance” that benefits people & the planet.

NEW✨ How to transition from capitalism’s scarcity to radical abundance.

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future by @kaiheron.bsky.social @kmilb.bsky.social @bertrussell.bsky.social @abundance-org.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

#Review by Ivan Radanović 👇

Heba (on the left) and a photo of Kamran and his sister (on the right)

Heba Muraisi is in critical condition on day 72 of her hunger strike. She struggling to breathe and suffering uncontrollable muscle spasms.

Kamran Ahmed is on day 65. He is experiencing shrinkage to the muscle of his heart and has been diagnosed with bradycardia.

I'm in Southampton in a fortnight discussing the @plutopress.bsky.social book Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future written by @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kaiheron.bsky.social, and myself.

The Radical Abundance roadshow continues!