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I wrote this 'primer' in October 2023 in defence of the From the River to the Sea slogan, explaining its history, and roots in a vision of Arabs, Muslims, Christians and Jews living together in a shared democracy with equal rights instead of apartheid.
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Never seen images of Palestinian flags fly like this in St Peter's Square, Vatican City, Rome, as the Pope delivers his traditional Christmas message.
This year, he blasted the arms industry and its "instruments of death" that fuel wars.
Palestine is our generation's Vietnam.
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1/2 From a Bristolian:
Protesters were being peaceful, people were sat in front of police station, as in literally sat.
Police pushed people, kicked people on floor. People pushed back. Police in riot gear batonned people in head, sent in attack dogs & horses, people kicked off.
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Fascism struggles to hit double figures in Cardiff
Around 10 fascist protesters, mainly from England, turned up in Cardiff today
Visibly demoralised, they were seen off by around 450 local residents who dislike racists and fascists.
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We did it!
THE SENEDD, THE WELSH PARLIAMENT, HAS JUST VOTED TO CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE NOW!
Long Live Palestine!
Long Live Gaza!
Long Live Wales!
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Yesterday a rough sleeper in Cardiff had his tent set on fire with him inside. He has minor burns to his hand. All his belongings & everything he owned is gone. He has a bed for 3 nights & grassroots groups are sorting out clothing. The police must treat this as attempted murder
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No far right street movement in history, whether Blackshirts, National Front, BNP or EDL was ever stopped by government or police who have their own history of racism.
They were defeated by people-power, mass counter-protests of everyday people, trade unions, our communities.
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"I do not consider that the Israeli flag should be flown at the Senedd when people in both Palestine and Israel are now suffering." Elin Jones, Presiding Officer of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament.
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Israel's longest running paper blames its Prime Minister for violence by 'establishing a government of annexation & dispossession..while embracing a foreign policy that openly ignored the existence & rights of Palestinians'
Such views censored in UK media
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Benjamin Zephaniah R.I.P: "When I was young, there were two things that I really wanted to see; a free South Africa, and a free Palestine." The poet in Gaza, Occupied Palestine.
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2/2 Every step of the way police escalated. Every step of way they knew that is what they were doing, but were just perhaps bit surprised at how many of the crowd were willing to go from a sit down protest to fighting back rather than allowing police to attack them with impunity
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150,000 people marched in London yesterday to stop the massacre in Gaza. Not a single Labour MP attended.
Unprecedented in the history of the Palestine solidarity and anti-war movement in Britain for Labour Left MPs to boycott a major protest.
History will be unforgiving.
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Tenby North Beach, South West Wales:
'Afghanistan. Refugees Welcome'.
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Rebel Culture.
Swansea, Wales.
Coronation Day. 06.05.2023
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The BBC has been forced to concede that in the capital city of Wales there were more republicans out in Cardiff City Centre today than royalists.
Metres away from where people were celebrating the Coronation in Cardiff Castle, hundreds of people gathered to protest
Chants of 'not my King' drowned out cheers from the castle
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@kathkelloway
@huwthomas_Wales
Cllr Kelloway it is the policies of your party, the Conservative Party, who have created the biggest rough sleeping and homelessness crisis in this country in a generation and it is your evil party who need to be torn down.
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CNN on Royal Tour: Cardiff "Possibly the most hostile of his visits this week". I am so proud!
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1/2 Riverside and Grangetown declare an Anti-Fascist Zone.
Around 40 new road signs like this appeared in part of Cardiff last night put up by a group of neighbours who wished to demonstrate community opposition to racism and fascism.
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@kathkelloway
@huwthomas_Wales
This photograph is a criminal posing at the scene of their own crime...
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✊✊CARDIFF AGAINST THE CHARLES III CORONATION ✊✊
We are assembling a mob to march against monarchy in red republican rebel righteous revolt & resistance against the rich–A people's proletarian punk protest against power & privilege with educational egalitarian entertainment👇
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📢💥BREAKING: WELSH PEACE ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN 3RD ARMS FACTORY, DEMANDS ANSWERS
Early this morning on January 3rd, over 60 activists from the Cymru Peace Coalition have shut down BAE Systems PLC Glascoed site, one of the UK's largest munitions factories.
THREAD:
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1/3 Tal Mitnick, the first Jewish-Israeli jailed for refusing compulsory military service in Gaza.
"I will refuse to enlist. Refuse to take part in the criminal war in Gaza. I believe a massacre cannot solve a massacre. Violence cannot solve violence. Therefore I refuse."
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Wales has proud traditions of peace, internationalism, and solidarity.
The Senedd is one of only three parliaments in Western Europe - Wales, Catalonia, Ireland - to call for a Ceasefire Now.
Let's show a solidarity with Palestine now that history books will write about.
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Hatfield Colliery stands with Palestinian workers and against genocide on the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1984/5 Miner's Strike.
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STOP THE CITY! Cardiff City Centre now blockaded by antiwar protesters stopping traffic
#SaveRafah
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Cardiff Central Railway Station Occupied!
There can be no business as usual when there's a genocide in Gaza. Chants of "Ceasefire Now" and "Free Free Palestine".
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Israeli flag put up today on UK Government building in Cardiff City Centre immediately removed after PCS union raised that there had been no health and safety risk assessment. A trade union rep said was quickest PCS victory in history. Tory Secretary of State for Wales unhappy.
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Black and White Unite and Fight!
Paul Robeson and Aneurin Bevan
National Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale, August 1958
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@The_TUC
A mark of DISRESPECT towards working class people who are facing the harshest winter in generations. Important motions such as coordinating strikes by different unions were to be discussed, has the other side called a truce?
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They don't represent us!
Wales has the oldest population and the worst rates of fuel poverty in the UK.
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Lest We Forget.
As politicians and media propagandise this weekend about those who made the 'ultimate sacrifice' for 'our freedom' a reminder that many who fought in the trenches thought they had been used as pawns by our rulers:
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@CaelanConrad
Thank you. It was a letter I sent to the Western Mail (a Welsh newspaper) during Israel's 51 day war on Gaza in 2014, I recall I was off the grid camping at the time & was surprised when a friend texted me & said your letter has been shared tens of thousands of times on twitter.
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@stephenpollard
Shooting dead three people receiving medical treatment in a hospital one who was paralysed with a spinal injury, while they were asleep, is hardly bravery. It is a war crime under international law.
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Defend Our City
Cardiff is proud to have some of the oldest Black communities in Europe & oldest Muslim communities in Britain.
In the 19th century, Irish immigrant labour built the docks that brought workers from 50 nationalities to our city.
Don't let the racists divide us!
URGENT CALL TO ACTION! 🚨🚨
After out numbering the fascists 400 to 20, they have organised ANOTHER demonstration in Cardiff tomorrow (Sunday), at 5PM. 📣
We NEED to be there 4PM. These are our streets. We do not tolerate fascism in Cardiff.
BE THERE! 🫵
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Some patients walked out of wards at University Hospital Wales today to stand with their nurses on strike on the picket line.
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"I made this design for some flags to take to London on Saturday. The Arabic is the line “Despite everything and everyone [every person], we are still here”. Happy for it to be used freely. Can provide hi-res version if needed." - Menna Wakeford.
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@YousefMunayyer
Thank you. This was a letter I sent to my local newspaper, the Western Mail, in Wales, UK during the 51-day war on Gaza in 2014. I am sorry to say tragically it is still relevant.
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#Justice4Mohamud
#BlackLivesMatter
Hundreds of people laid siege to Cardiff Bay Police Station this afternoon.
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1000s opening up the second front of the Palestinian resistance to war, occupation & genocide on the streets of the Welsh capital today.
Charlotte Church also sang a setting of a Palestinian poem by Mahmoud Darwish reminding us of importance of creativity to political struggle.
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The 'guide' leaked to a Welsh newspaper, the Western Mail, during Israel's 51-day war on Gaza in 2014, was doing the rounds again on social media last night. Please share widely.
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From the River to the Sea
With tabloids accusing
@charlottechurch
of antisemitism for using this phrase, my old
@voice_wales
article on the history and true meaning of the slogan & its vision of Arab-Jewish equality in one democracy seems timely again:
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ROLL OF SHAME!
Senedd Members who voted AGAINST extending free school meals to all families on universal credit or with 'no recourse to public funds'
Over half of children in poverty in Wales are currently not eligible for free school meals.
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The Beautiful Game
Celtic fans today show support for Palestine, and striking RMT railway workers, whilst chanting "F**k the Tories".
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Right to Food in Medieval Wales
In Wales, a thousand years ago, under the laws of Hywel Dda, someone hungry who passed through three towns without being given anything to eat could not be prosecuted for stealing food.
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A moving Ceasefire Now vigil by Welsh Women For Gaza at the Mother and Child Statue on Queen Street.
I spoke with a local Palestinian mother who had suffered 18 members of her family in Gaza exterminated in the genocide on Gaza.
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Thread of upcoming protests against Racism and Fascism coming up in Wales, including in Cardiff, Swansea, Abergavenny, Tenby and Aberystwyth
Cardiff
Friday 9 August
Counter-protest
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100s of restaurants, cafes & pubs across Wales will have food stocked in fridge that will go to waste now while 10s of 1000s of people are in food poverty. Is there a way to get the surplus food into the homes of the poor to help them celebrate Christmas & survive a harsh winter?
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CNN Journalist: Will people even notice your anti-monarchy protest?
Me: Yes, we're on CNN!
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Ceredigion Constituency Labour Party has become the first Labour CLP in the entire UK to vote to call for Keir Starmer to resign over Gaza.
Due to boundary changes, the Welsh constituency is expanding and will soon become Ceredigion Preseli.
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Cardiff Council just voted to remove statue of Thomas Picton slave-owner, sadistic torturer & colonial governor from City Hall. Well done
#BlackLivesMatter
demonstrators.
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Tory politician Natasha Asghar gets angry reception from student audience tonight after voting against a ceasefire in the Senedd last week and to continue the genocide.
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God willing, I shall be on C4 news tonight at 7 pm talking about necessity of the democratic Republic & emerging new protest movement, Real Democracy Now.
We will be building for biggest protests in history of Wales when, or if, the investiture of Prince of Wales takes place!
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A message of peace for Hanukkah, festival of lights, from Wendy Elisheva Somerson, an artist, healer and activist who helped found the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.
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This is not a homelessness crisis.
This is a community crisis and that's a profound difference.
Because when we talk about a homelessness crisis we talk about “those people over there.”
But when we say “community crisis” we include ourselves
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A Cypriot friend told me this news from Wales this week has gone viral in Cyprus.
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@HeuRol6727
When I said 'Palestine is our generation's Vietnam' I meant that in the way Vietnam became the no.1 anti-imperialist struggle in the world & a defining issue for the left, peace movement, and an entire political generation around the world so Palestine is becoming.
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Did you know just 2% of the fruits & vegetables we eat in Wales are grown in Wales?
We need radical change in our food systems.
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As a Unite Wales member I am not aware of there being any membership vote on this and not sure why a trade union endorses politicians who don't stand on picket lines with striking workers and who support Keir Starmer and Labour's return to being an austerity party?
Unite Wales is nominating Vaughan Gething as the next leader of Welsh Labour.
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The march for independence from the British state in Cardiff in three weeks time takes on a whole new dynamic now...
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Statement of Naples dockers refusing to load arms onto ships bound for Israel: "We won't stain our hands with blood for your wars".
Because the Italian government wouldn't impose an arms embargo workers took matters into their own hands.
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First ever protest in Welsh history against Prime Minister Starmer during his Cardiff visit. Not huge, but TV mentioned our noisy Palestine protest. May the mass graves of Gaza haunt Starmer wherever he goes.
Ceasefire NOW.
Arms embargo and economic sanctions on Israel NOW.
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First ever knitting protest against Jo Stevens MP (Cardiff Central, Shadow Welsh Secretary) has begun! Knitters are demanding she call for an immediate ceasefire and ends all support for the bombing of Gaza. Hot tea and coffee here too! It's cold...
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Cardiff Yemeni community is over 100 years old. Given these long-established connections between Wales & Yemen, noticeable Cardiff MPs
@SDoughtyMP
@JoStevensLabour
@KevinBrennanMP
@AnnaMcMorrin
are silent about Britain dropping bombs on Yemen with no debate or vote in parliament
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Not ONE Welsh Labour MP voted against the cruel means test for Winter Fuel Payments! In a nation with the oldest population and worst fuel poverty in the UK, they’ve sold out their own people. A betrayal of the old, the poor, and the cold. Shame on every single one of them!
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If you can't make the historic million march in London, the now seemingly weekly marches in Cardiff continue with a likely big turnout.
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Ahead of the Palestine march we've picketed the office of our local MP, the Shadow Secretary State for Wales who supports Israel's war on Gaza. The Welsh National March For Palestine begins at 1 pm outside Cardiff Central Railway Station
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There is a mass homeless solidarity protest on Sunday at 3 pm on Queen Street called by Left Outside Alone, a grassroots group formed by former homeless. The protest was planned before this terrible hate attack, but makes it more important than ever that we all show out en-masse.
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@stellacreasy
Thankfully 10,000 people in Walthamstow ignored their MPs advice to stay home!
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Vaughan Gething's main controversial financial donor owns a firm prosecuted and fined under the 1974 Health and Safety Act following the death of a worker. Astonishing high paid union officials allying with this.
Todays vote was a desperate gimmick to distract from the Tories & Plaid Cymru’s faltering election campaigns
With two Senedd members on the sick, this was always a cheap political trick
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Home Office in Cardiff: People 'disappeared" with no warning, no access to a solicitor, without being allowed to contact their family to tell them they are being taken.
Daily week day picket of Home Office on Newport Rd between 10 am - 4 pm as deportations to Rwanda begin
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The Basque Country Stands With Palestine
Donostia/San Sebastian this weekend. One of many huge protests globally demanding an end to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
The Basque people who witnessed Guernica know how important solidarity is.
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"JO STEVENS! SHAME ON YOU!" Hundreds marching tonight against against our local MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Wales who opposes a ceasefire.
The names of our Palestinian dead were plastered across her office.
We are building an anti-war movement in Cardiff Central.
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Justice for Palestinians - the key to peace:
Stop the bombing of Gaza.
End the military occupation.
Lift the siege.
End apartheid.
Let the refugees return.
#Cardiff
#Protest
#Palestine
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Welsh Politics At The Crossroads.
Out of 40 Welsh MPs, only 5 voted for a ceasefire (3 Plaid, 1 Labour, 1 Independent)
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No Platform for Fascists: World's oldest record store (in Cardiff) bans Morrisey's records following his support for 'For Britain' party, Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage.
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Given ongoing scandals, why do the mainstream media still use the police line on events uncritically? Why are mainstream media relying on the police, rather than local people, as their primary source for coverage of Ely, Cardiff this evening as if they are an unbiased source?
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My statement on being arrested at the Cardiff Arms Fair protest yesterday morning. Please RT!
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2/2 Their are many creative ways such as this to assert an anti-racist presence in your neighbourhood to boost people's morale and make fascists feel less confident.
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Daily Mirror journalist &
@CardiffJomec
alumni assaulted by police in Bristol. This is the 4th journalist I've heard of in Bristol targeted by an out of control police force.
Police assaulted me at the Bristol protest even though I told them I was from the press. I was respectfully observing what was happening and posed no threat to any of the officers. I have muted the latter part of the video to spare you all the pain of hearing my shrill voice.
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As hospitals in Gaza are bombed and denied electricity, Aneurin Bevan, Founder of our NHS, draped in the flag of Palestine in Cardiff.
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Biggest Palestine march in Welsh history.
1000s laying siege to The Senedd, Welsh Parliament. Biggest demo I've ever seen there.
Our First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, must stop towing the Starmer party line and call for an immediate ceasefire NOW
@PrifWeinidog
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Names of the 13 Welsh Tory MPs who voted against extending free school meals in England.
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Nelson Mandela, Cardiff Castle, 1998 - I hope one day we welcome to Wales, the leader of a Post-Apartheid Palestine-Israel, where Arabs and Jews enjoy equality.
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All the Bishops of the Church in Wales have collectively issued a statement calling for a ceasefire:
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Following Wales, a second parliament in the UK (Scotland) today voted to call for an immediate ceasefire, increasing the pressure on the UK Government to break with Washington.
BREAKING: MSPs have voted to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza
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Cardiff Student Union AGM has tonight voted to call for an immediate ceasefire & to lobby Cardiff University to call for one too.
In 2009 Cardiff University became 1st in UK to divest from arms companies supplying Israel after a 3-day student occupation in solidarity with Gaza.
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HUGO BLANCO R.I.P
A contemporary of Che Guevara, launched Peru's first agrarian reform with armed 'Land or Death' uprising, became a Trotskyist, later Campesino leader & activist for indigenous rights. I had great honour to organise large public meeting with him
A Thread🧵
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Today is the 193rd anniversary of the execution of Dic Penderyn, first martyr of the Welsh working class.
In 1831, the Red flag was raised on this island for the first time as a symbol of workers-power.
I wrote this a while ago on the Merthyr Rising
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100s march in Cardiff tonight, led by the youth, to stop the bombing of Gaza, for the liberation of Palestine:
“We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.”
– Frantz Fanon
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VICTORY?! CARDIFF ARMS FAIR..
Website for the 2019 Cardiff Arms Fair today changed it's location from the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff where it's been held 3 times after it was kicked out of Bristol to NEC, Birmingham.
Welsh govt minister no longer listed as keynote speaker
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Once
@JoStevensLabour
had principles. Then she climbed the greasy pole, putting career above human lives. 10 years ago, she was for a full arms embargo on Israel. Today, she opposes one. 10 years ago, she stood for justice. Today, she stands for nothing. Hypocrisy at its finest.
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Around 50 businesses on City Road committed yesterday to participate in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement to isolate Israel as we isolated apartheid in South Africa until everyone has basic rights.
1/9 APARTHEID FREE ZONE CITY ROAD Official Launch. Business after business on the street publicly pledged to join the boycott in solidarity with Gaza today
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My personal journey from being a liberal supporter of Israel, vaguely concerned about Palestinians, to a supporter of a free Palestine from the river to the sea. May be useful for someone starting on the same journey...
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@eiecampaign
@AndyBurnhamGM
Andy Burnham as an MP voted FOR the invasion of Iraq, but didn't vote AGAINST Tory welfare reform savaging the poor and disabled...400,000 people signed up for mailings from Enough is Enough looking for radical change not for centrism and Labour Party love-in.
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Today is the 192nd anniversary of the execution of Dic Penderyn, first martyr of the Welsh working class.
In 1831, the Red flag was raised for the first time on this island as a symbol of workers-power.
I wrote this awhile back on the Merthyr Rising
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The Senedd reportedly has joined the Scottish Parliament in declining to fly the Israeli flag or illuminate in the colours of the Israeli flag.
Israeli flag put up today on UK Government building in Cardiff City Centre immediately removed after PCS union raised that there had been no health and safety risk assessment. A trade union rep said was quickest PCS victory in history. Tory Secretary of State for Wales unhappy.
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