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DK Renton

@livesrunning

Historian. Anti-fascist. He/him. Not here much but you can find me on @davidkr.bsky.social

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Citizen Marx – loving the book, but some notes of caution about the framing livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/cit…

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“The radicalization of the right has not taken place just in the United States, but in country after country, even ones that have been democracies for decades” tempestmag.org/2025/04/trump-…

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DK Renton looks to historic fascism to analyze the direction of Trump's authoritarianism and for examples of a counterpolitics to fight it. spectrejournal.com/trump-fascism-…

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DK Renton unpicks the legal background to the Supreme Court decision and argues for a strategy of mass action to turn back the tide of right wing authoritarianism. revsoc21.uk/2025/04/28/the…

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Spectre editor Holly Lewis responds to John Rees's "Marxist" "argument" for biological essentialism. spectrejournal.com/against-bad-ar…

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FESTIVAL OF THE OPPRESSED PROGRAMME NOW LIVE! London • 21-22 June • tickets from £10 There'll be 20+ panels and workshops on topics ranging from disability justice and grassroots trade unionism through to trans liberation and solidarity with Palestine revsoc21.uk/festival2025/

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The tale of a student who befriends the spirit of violent revenge. Published by Hegemon Press on 27.8.25 but available for pre-order at the link below. My first novel. "Creepy as fuck," Tina Baker. Available for pre-order here: shorturl.at/9yj6D.

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“When I was a child, the boys fetched catkins. They said - that tree, if they walked across the green carpet that lay upon the water – they would have found a victory. Beneath the surface a peg was waiting. Her, with the skinny paws and sharp teeth” shorturl.at/9yj6D

“When I was a child, the boys fetched catkins. They said - that tree, if they walked across the green carpet that lay upon the water – they would have found a victory. Beneath the surface a peg was waiting. Her, with the skinny paws and sharp teeth”

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A piece about my trans comrades, what they’ve written, and why I find their ideas compelling. livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/wha…

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An open letter to Virgil van Dijk livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/an-… "You’ll be playing in one of the biggest tournaments of your life. You’ll want to share that experience with the people you love. But by asking them to share it with you, you’ll putting their safety at risk."

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"I was a cancer birth, the joy of my conception warring in my mother’s head with the news of her father’s leukemia diagnosis..." livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/can…

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D K Renton on the Supreme Court 'For Women Scotland Ltd' judgment, legal Abolition, Trans Liberation and Working-Class Tolerance: legalform.blog/2025/06/25/leg…

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As David Renton requests in this article I say these words: "I am Palestine Action, I am a member of the group. I am its supporter. I want other people to support Palestine Action alongside me." labouroutlook.org/2025/06/26/tak…

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"Eleanor Marx could have been the route through which many further ideas had come; should have been our Zetkin, our Luxemburg..." davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/edward-aveli… TW: sexual violence, murder, the Marx family

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"So, how could a party like the SWP of 30 years ago – a group with working class autodidacts in every branch, and an abundance of talent among its theorists – have produced the dull, stale, sect of today?" davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/tony-cliff-y…

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A piece on antisemitism and Corbyn, in which I apologise gracelessly, maintain certain grudges, and admit to moral cowardice... am rude, basically, to everyone on the left whatever position you took davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/david-renton…

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Calling Parvus an adventurer, an ex-socialist, insisting on the break between him and the Bolsheviks, serves the good function of casting all his behaviour as something external to the left. He made mistakes, he ran risks, they were not ours... davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/parvus-you-l…

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“Fear has changed sides”. Bully, pimp, perpetator – Jenny’s coming to get you. Available for pre-order now on Kindle, just £3.99. shorturl.at/XVBvY“ Urban horror, folk horror, London, grisly murders, a mystery set in the distant past – why not pre-order your copy?

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Me for the London Review of Books on how (not) to argue with fascists, bigots, and the people in your family or friendship circles pulled by them. With thanks to @joanbraune, Layla Aithaldj and 12 Rules For WHAT lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/july…