Heterodox Left Politics
A selection of left individuals & groups (with a UK & US focus) that have interesting takes.
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@paulfrostafcm.bsky.social
@lfcscally.bsky.social
Socialist, recovering academic, now in the NHS. LFC season ticket holder. Editor Review of African Political Economy. https://roape.net/ Check out our genuinely free access journal https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/957770c3-4943-4fde-a72b-841025ea4ab1
@ukrainesol.bsky.social
UK-based internationalist labour movement campaign in support of Ukraine + its labour movement. Founded 2014. Russia out! Victory to Ukraine! #SolidarityWillWin ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/join
@peteradcliff.bsky.social
Socialist, Marxist, supporter of Workers Liberty and of UK Friends of Standing Together
@paulcrofts.bsky.social
Socialist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, Marxist, grumpy old man. Supports equality, Critical Race Theory, Palestine, LGBTQ+, a Women's Right to Choose, workers rights and the end of capitalism. Not much to ask for really. 😎✊🏾
@anticapitalistmusings.com
Politics with https://anticapitalistresistance.org/ and blogging at https://anticapitalistmusings.com/ and books at https://resistancebooks.org/
@promiseli.bsky.social
@philipproudfoot.bsky.social
Researcher of activism, labour, accountability, and humanitarianism in the Arab World & elsewhere | co-founder of The Accountability Archive | Personal account, views, especially the bad ones, are my own.
@loucalvey.bsky.social
Asylum Rights Campaigning. Migrant & Human Rights advocacy. She/Her 🏳🌈 🧡
@poltheoryother.bsky.social
A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social Listen: https://linktr.ee/poltheoryother
@neweconomics.bsky.social
Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
@jphillll.bsky.social
Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻 www.jphilll.com
@simonhannah.bsky.social
Socialist Anticapitalist Resistance Latest book is Reclaiming The Future: A Beginners Guide to Planning the Economy, (Pluto 2024)
@ffrafaction.bsky.social
News, scholarship, publications, activism, & anti-disinformation for anti-fascists.
@aaronwinter.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
@francesryan.bsky.social
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.”
@lizziedearden.bsky.social
Contributing reporter to the New York Times in London, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed' Website: https://www.lizziedearden.com/
@chrischirp.bsky.social
Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Editor and CEO, Zeteo Author, ‘Win Every Argument’ British-American
@godpod.bsky.social
Creator of the Universe. Daily free newsletter & animated podcast here: https://www.thegodpodcast.com
@katharinehayhoe.com
climate scientist posts 100% my own 🇨🇦 is my home distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy board member, Smithsonian NMNH alum, UToronto and UIUC author, Saving Us
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@pabloite.bsky.social
Democratic socialist, Marxist and secularist. Andrew Coates. Lives in Suffolk. Blog: http://http.tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/
@odwyer198012.bsky.social
A general sports fan. Trying to visit as many football grounds as possible at any level. A supporter of all Non-League football. http://odwyer1980.blogspot.com
@transformpolitics.bsky.social
We are a new progressive ecosocialist party of the working class. We need a radical change in the UK to ward off the dangers of the far right and fascism. Contact us at info@transformpolitics.uk
@pete-davies.bsky.social
Guinnarcho-syndicalist/ Class struggle 👍 party politics 👎/ Chair Cardiff County Unison/ Cardiff City FC/ Sci-fi/ Plant eating cat butler/ From the river to the sea/ Save pubs FFS!
@lindawall.bsky.social
One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain Be the change that you want to see Transform member 🦋
@a-r-s-e.bsky.social
Member of the Socialistparty.org.uk. Trade Unionist in the public sector. Queer. He-him/they-them. AMAB. Married to a woman. 2 Kids. Disabled: Neurodivergent; PTSD; Part-deaf. White English North Londoner with German & Irish heritage, based in Bristol.
@anothergreen.bsky.social
Teaches political economy at Goldsmiths, married to Emily Blyth #ClimateChange #Renewables #Ecosocialism #Think32 #ElinorOstrom #Commons #Gaza #UCU #Rojava #transrights #Marx #DrWho #Wiltshire #CorneliusCardew #GaeilgeGachLá
@caiwuunion.bsky.social
The Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU) is a worker-led trade union. We represent cleaners across Britain. #Justice4Cleaners✊
@acerbicnerd.bsky.social
Against Cryptofascists, Entryists and Red-Browns In Canada. Antifascist researcher, insufferable nerd and bitter old lefty. He/Him.
@uvwunion.bsky.social
Community union for low paid, precarious, migrant and marginalised workers. Our members come from over a hundred countries and work across the economy.
@wviww.bsky.social
The West Virginia Industrial Workers of the World • HHJ Union, CRMW Union, & more • Member of the IWW Southern Coordinating Committee • westvirginiaiww.org
@iwwnyc.bsky.social
NYC General Membership Branch of the IWW, a global union dedicated to direct action, solidarity, and industrial democracy. Website: https://iww.nyc/ Email: organize@iww.nyc
@iwwmanchester.bsky.social
Official bluesky account for the Manchester branch of the IWW! Grassroots, member led, a union for all workers! 📢 iww.org.uk/manchester
@workersliberty.bsky.social
Fighting as part of the labour movement for a socialist alternative to capitalism & Stalinism. Website: https://workersliberty.org/
@seemasyeda.bsky.social
Marseille-London. Global liberation from below. Research & activism on Islamophobia. Co-author, Creeping Fascism. She/They. Talking about class, colonialism, race & revolutions. Own views.
@portlandiww.bsky.social
The Portland General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World. Please contact us if you would like to organize your workplace, have organizing experiences or stories you would like to share, or know of someplace with bad working conditions.
@solidaires.org
Compte officiel de l'Union syndicale Solidaires. 🤝 Droits / défenses des travailleur-euses. ✊ Actualités des luttes, transformation sociale. 👉 Anticapitalisme, écologie, antiracisme, féminisme, antifascisme, lgbti+, internationalisme, antivalidisme
@northumbriaiww.bsky.social
Northumbria branch of the IWW Revolutionary animal of the month: leaf slug Email: northumbria@iww.org.uk
@iwgbunion.bsky.social
The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain is a grassroots member-led union fighting for of some of the most ignored and marginalised workers in the UK.
@acornunion.bsky.social
The union for the community. From housing to public transport, we use collective action to transform our communities and our country. Together we win! https://linktr.ee/acornunion
@social-ecology.bsky.social
🌱 The ecological crisis is a social crisis. 🌱 Est. 1974 by Murray Bookchin and Dan Chodorkoff. 🌱Support our work today: https://social-ecology.org/wp
@thelma-2.bsky.social
Former Headteacher, former MP Now happily retired at the seaside. I still like to share my views.
@ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social
Ecosocialist, blogger, photographer, gardener, poet, and author. Nature lover. Working for social, economic and environmental justice. Banned from Twitter for being too left. Trans ally. "Demand the impossible!" #MMT #Antifa 🇵🇸
@dywizjon161.bsky.social
Anti-fascist immigrants. UK based. Anarchist. Unapologetically anti tankie. #ACAB
@weownit.org.uk
After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It. https://weownit.org.uk/people-not-profit https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/donate
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
The UK and Ireland's largest trade union. Fighting for #JobsPayConditions. Join at: http://unitetheunion.org/join
@kateflood.bsky.social
Trade union organiser H&S rep + branch exec officer 💐 personal account, nothing to do with my employer ✨ insta is _kateflood 🇵🇸 (she/her)
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
Recovering academic, obsessive thread-writer, exposer of lies, disinformation & propaganda. Focused on news media, neoliberalism, rhetoric, billionaires, media barons, climate action, far-right extremism, Reform UK, Reclaim, Tories & Republicans.
@davidosland.bsky.social
Forty-year veteran of British leftwing politics. Not the opinions of any publication for which I write.
@jackdunc1.bsky.social
JackDunc1 on the bird app London, UK LGBTQ+ Activist 🏳️🌈 // a gay boy // 🏉 @Harlequins season ticket // ⚽ @LFC // vice chair & comms lead @QuinsPride 🏉🃏 // he/him
@jewdas.org
Radical Voices for the Alternative Diaspora || Refugees Welcome || Gratuitously Jewish
@lausanhk.bsky.social
Radical left perspectives from Hong Kong, Asia, and its diasporas www.lausancollective.com
@tajali1.bsky.social
Journalist and historian specialising in coverage of trade unions. Writing a book on British South Asian history.
@tom--scott.bsky.social
Writer, editor, lecturer, occasional poet, Green Party person. Views here not all party positions. On Twitter/X as Tom___Scott (for now)
@josssheldon.bsky.social
Radical author, a bit of an anarchist - preaching the stuff the mainstream dare not touch. Woke as an insomniac after ten cups of coffee. 🏴☠️🍉🌍 Get my books here: https://payhip.com/JossSheldon
@labourlewis.bsky.social
MP for Norwich South “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently” - David Graeber
@mikestuchbery.bsky.social
Writer/Historian ★ Aussie in Germany ★ Navigating AuDHD ★ Always anti-fascist CONTACT/LINKS: https://linktr.ee/mikestuchbery
@davemacleod.bsky.social
Internet stuff for Private Eye ⚡️ Indie landfill at trainboy.co.uk ⚡️ All views my nans
@bobfrombrockley.bsky.social
Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
@iwwfju.bsky.social
A union for all freelance journalists, bloggers, and other writers in news media - www.freelancejournalistsunion.org. Part of the IWW (https://iww.org). For assistance, please email freelancejournalists@iww.org
@climatehuman.bsky.social
Climate scientist working at NASA/JPL and lover of truth. Arrested for defending Earth. Opinions mine.
@bencsmoke.bsky.social
writer (lots of places) ex-digital editor (huck) vibes (everywhere) bensmoke.com
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
Researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social Reactionary Democracy w. @aaronwinter.bsky.social and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right Full profile: https://shorturl.at/CiYKm
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
@dangoyal.bsky.social
Fighting for health equality. Medical Doctor and Researcher. Host of The Debrief podcast. My substack is here: https://dangoyal.substack.com?r=1lppfd&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
@jujuliagrace.bsky.social
Chief Executive of EveryDoctor, and I write a personal newsletter called Call to Action! Click on my linktree for info: https://linktr.ee/jujuliagrace
@indiawilloughby.bsky.social
Broadcaster. Woman Of Year nom. Celeb Big Bro. Kindness Extremist. Trans. Everything Twitter and the UK hates. Rent Free In A Billionaire’s Head. Keighley Cougars 🏳️⚧️💚
@jksteinberger.bsky.social
Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
@danielsohege.bsky.social
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in refugee and migrants' law, rights policy, comms and advocacy. NOT A LAWYER. Also talking about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). Purely my views, no-one else would want them.
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@gwensnyder.bsky.social
Organizer, writer, mom. Philly partisan. IIWFJU member. She/they.
@soozuk.bsky.social
"Comedian". DOOM in @bbcdoctorwho. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social Acting: The Foundry Management Comedy: Gag Reflex VO: The Joneses she/her www.soozkempner.co.uk/gigs
@crimethinc.com
We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. 🏴 crimethinc.com
@bylinesnetwork.co.uk
Powerful citizen journalism | regulated by IMPRESS https://bylinesnetwork.co.uk A network of 10 not-for-profit, volunteer-led news publications from across the UK Donate via https://bylinesnetwork.co.uk/donate/ Email info@bylinesnetwork.co.uk
@josiah.writes.news
Chief Reporter at UK political outlet Byline Times. I write the 'On the Ground' column in our print edition. Interested in democracy & protest. 'Fake news w*nker' - Tommy Robinson Content may include my cat, and bits of music. Got a story? Get in touch
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@countbinface.bsky.social
Space politician. Sane. Down with Fascism, Up with Ceefax! Come see me on tour: countbinface.com/tour
@eladn.bsky.social
Ex-Hasid now fighting for a true pluralistic democracy | Writer: democracy, peace, extremism, antisemitism, & marketing | MSNBC, DailyBeast, HuffPo, the Forward & more | Founder: justicemarketing.io | Newsletter: eladnehorai.substack.com
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
Help us build the better - independent - media Britain deserves. Subscribe for exclusive content only in the Byline Times news magazine: subscribe.bylinetimes.com Visit our free daily news site: bylinetimes.com
@brainnotonyet.bsky.social
Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews Www.instituteofunreality.com Unreality.institute
@igd.bsky.social
In search of new forms of life. Digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reports on autonomous movements, social struggles, and revolt across so-called North America from an anarchist perspective. itsgoingdown.org
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@unicornriot.bsky.social
Official Account ~ UR is a decentralized nonprofit media org reporting underrepresented stories and shedding light on alternative perspectives and systems. linktr.ee/unicornriot
@paulfrostafcm.bsky.social
Veteran social, political, union & environmental activist in English East Mids. AFC Mansfield VC. DRFC. Local Unitarian Chairperson. Reader, (usually pseudonymous) writer & speaker.