Private Equity = buying companies and changing them up yo. The usual PE playbook: load up on debt, hide profits, raid pensions, sweat assets, sack workers. Our playbook: increase worker control, reduce inequality/environmental degradation, build socialism. Get. Fucking. Ready.

What if we could buy up gun-runners like BAE Systems, Inc. & Lockheed Martin? Redeploy their assets to empower humans instead of killing? *researches how to de-list public companies* BAE Systems market capitalisation: £19.381B. We gonna need a bigger boat. investopedia.com/terms/d/delist…

15th Sep: we're launching our project at Goldsmiths with help from @GoldPraxis. The agenda: democratise finance + resist gentrification in Deptford! Input from: Andrea CareyFuller of Save Tidemill/Reginald campaign; Reiss, PPE Deptford People Project eventbrite.co.uk/e/peoples-priv…

Interested in Labour's plan to turn firms into worker coops? Join People's Private Equity on Saturday in Deptford to discuss how to build an anti-gentrification fund! tinyurl.com/y9l86dwz Brett Scott @AnnPettifor Grace Blakeley James Meadway Finance Innovation Lab Franck Magennis 🍉 Positive Money UK 🦋 @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social

When we think about the TUC's calls for a 4 day week by the end of the century, remember that in Germany, their biggest union has **already secured** the right to move to a *28 hour week with an INCREASE in pay*. buff.ly/2CR92fx @n_srnck Aaron Bastani owenjones84

Woohoo, we're in Novara Media! "Who Wants to Build a Left-wing Private Equity Firm?" Follow the link to find out more about our ambitious plans to set up a private equity fund to resist gentrification in Deptford. Please RT! novaramedia.com/2018/09/13/who…

"From below, we need to understand where money in our communities needs to go. From above, we need to create financial instruments that will enable us to take finance by the horns." People's Private Equity novaramedia.com/2018/09/13/who…

An idea: A playwriting and community education workshop for 16-18 years olds. Lasting say 6 weeks, culminating in a co-produced play staged somewhere in the community. [Thread]

Thrilled to hear Bhaskar Sunkara on Novara Media talking about the failure of Sweden's Meidner Plan, an attempt to "socialise the power of capital to flee". That’s exactly what we’re working out how to do with our people’s private equity fund. Get involved!

Hey Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Barclays Bank n shit. We'r coming for ur wealth yo. You guys got crazy power n stuff n we here to put a stop to it. What u saying? We do this the easy way, or the hard way? #BackToTheFuture2Ref #OhJeremyCorbyn RT to troll them dickhead 'vestment banks yo

The people who founded Wealth Equality are setting up a bank! Well, a private equity fund. Get involved!

We want to organise a weekend conference about building a new, socialist and internationalist finance sector. We're looking for organisations to co-produce it with us. Might anyone at NEF be interested? HMU with suggestions!

Don't cross the digital picket line! Don't use Uber until 1pm tomorrow! PPE stand in solidarity with the legends from the United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) branch of IWGB. Industrial action gets the goods! theguardian.com/technology/201…

We're proud to announce that we'll be organising a Transforming Finance conference with @GPERC_UOG on 16 February 2019! Follow the link for the Facebook event. Full line-up of speakers and tickets to be announced shortly. Please share with finance types! facebook.com/events/3181585…

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.Anti Raids Network Deptford Antiraids we're thinking of organising a debate about immigration raids in deptford. Are you interested helping to organise?

.4 Day Week Foundation a sub-campaign for Mondays to become a new weekend day informally dedicated to sport? I miss sportsing..

We're creating a community learning space in Deptford. We wanna hear from you. Please Read the link + share widely! goo.gl/forms/6S8n59oL…

Website is up and running! Join the campaign to demand a 4 Day Week. Thank you Evening Class for the design: 4dayweek.co.uk

STRIKE+ the Learning Cooperative DIY Space for London @consenteduk Really enjoyed running a Queer Warriors workshop at this great event. Here's to taking back pedagogy. Thanks STRIKE+