Sitemap - 2025 - Harry's Last Stand Newsletter

Mum Died 26 Years Ago But Would Have Recognised Trump's Digital Nazism.

We've Stared Down The Barrel of Neoliberalism's Economic Sawed Off Shotgun, For So Long, We Forgot How To Live.

Canada Day In The Before Times When Workers Were Permitted Leisure.

2025 Has Much In Common With The Rise of Fascism In The 1930s.

NATO Protects America’s Military Industrial Complex, Not Democracy.

The World Ends Not With A Bang. But With A "Thank-You For Your Attention To This Matter."

We Forget Our Working Class History At Our Peril.

During A Live Streamed Genocide, World Refugee Day Feels Like A Farce

The Greatest Generation's Revolution Must Be Our Inspiration For Revolution.

Father's Day-And The Awfully Big Adventure..

Harry Leslie Smith never forgot or forgave what capitalism did to workers during the Great Depression.

Capitalism Is The Arsonist Lighting The Fires Now Burning Down The Planet.

Can Cuba Outlast America's Dying Empire or Will It End As A Murder Suicide?

Neoliberal Governments sold fear to the people like the markets sell fish on Friday.

"This is the f**king oddest place to launch a socialist memoir."

The Hell, The West Will Soon Enter Is Even Beyond The Imagination of Even Dystopian Novelists

Revolution is difficult because everything is monitored and dissent against the wealthy is punished swiftly

Everything feels tenuous in 2025 because it is. Everyone is on the chopping block.

There is no civilisation without socialism. Capitalism in 2025 is driving us back to 1935

Fascism promises more chaos on the horizon, and it won't be pleasant.

“It is still bleak and stinks of human suffering.”

"The greatest evil is always done by those few at the top, who control society."

2020 was an uncertain, terrifying moment in history, especially if you had cancer.

The Leaders Of The West Are Betting Xenophobia Will Preserve The 1%.

It isn't migrants or refugees that made an "Island of Strangers" but neoliberalism.

The memories of my mother erode in the strong, eternal currents of time.

Hamburg May 8, 1945-"spring and the dying season for the war were everywhere."

"They were skeletons with skin still attached to their bones." Famine as a weapon of war.

Neoliberalism Was The Ultimate Betrayal Of The Spirit of 1945.

Starmer's Labour Party Would Have Lost WW2.

80 years after Victory in Europe, it's begun to feel like Spring Time for Hitler.

Canada, and its lesser of two fascisms election.

February 1945 “Stay alive. It’s almost over.”

"In 1944, I knew socialism was the only ideology going to give the working class a life worth living."

It's a Second Death & Just as Terrible As The First.

"Without Moral Fibre."

It Took The West 80 Years to Lose The Victory of WW2.

"World War Two radically altered, for the better, the political trajectory of my generation."

"He appeared to shrug off life’s disappointments until I mentioned Margaret Thatcher."

We are living through an ice storm of fascism and genocide.

The April Rain of 1945 Is Not The Rain of 2025.

Mothering Sunday and the Responsibility & Joy of Remembrance.

To Everything, There Is a Season-Final Writings From the World's Oldest Rebel

Keir Starmer's Labour Party Betrayed Britain's Greatest Generation's Fight For Economic Equality.

It's been 5 Years wandering across the badlands of cancer during a time of Covid.

Preventing the witnesses to a genocide from speaking is also an act of genocide.

"In 1944, you just ploughed on and did your best not to get killed."

The Iraq War and the Original Sin of a Dying American Empire.

March 17, 2020-The Day Normal Stopped Working.

We are living through the wrong revolution because the Oligarchs are Madame Defarge.

Keir Starmer And the Banality of Neoliberal Evil.

Feminism-as a weapon against Totalitarianism.

Another catastrophic World War looms that will engulf North America and Europe.

Love on the Dole Broken Hearts And Empty Stomachs.

Neither our hopes nor outrage will find a solution at the ballot box under first past the post, representative democracy.

Keir Starmer has done more to destroy the State than Margaret Thatcher.

Harry Leslie Smith-"The Toffs Can Piss Off." A Rebel's 102nd Birthday.

I was born in the darkest of times and it seems I will exit this world in a similar era of uncertainty, inequality and cruelty.

"I was born into working-class poverty on February 25, 1923"

You Can't Peacefully Vote Your Way Out Of Fascism.

News of his death in 1943, shamed me.

"The heavy breath of war was near everyone in 1943."

She Often Wanted More From Life & Deserved It.

We are in a revolutionary world not of our choosing but partially of our making.

Neoliberalism Delivered Us Onto Caesar.

Welcome to the age of dictatorship because the World hasn't been this dangerous since WW2.

A Rooming House Death, In An Age Of Neoliberalism.

A Trump America is Canada's Greatest Existential Threat Since Confederation.

In the dead of winter, false hope is better than no hope.

2025 is the year, we lose the Second World War to the Nazis and fascism.

Neoliberalism was the best potting soil for fascism. The Green & Pleasant Land

Ancient Rome had Bread & Circuses. Today's Empire Thinks intolerance Is A Cheaper Diversion.

"We wanted something more than a bread and drippings democracy."

Davos 2025 doesn't even bother to pretend that their members aren't antidemocratic.

The era of Tyrants is upon us.

You go to war against fascists, you don't elect them President.

Britain fought Hitler To The Death B/C They Were Promised A Welfare State, in Peacetime.

Whether it is 1939 or 2025, Fascism is born from unfettered capitalism.

"By 1937, I knew I wasn't a communist. But I was damn certain I was a socialist."

Politicians should have the backs of tenants but don't b/c they have skin in the Landlord Game.

"Fascists always say: immigrants take bread out of the mouths of the working class."

"Long time, no see," said a homeless man as he trudged to a warming centre.