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Some kind of communist. Co-author of Fractured: Race, Class, Gender & the Hatred of Identity Politics, published by Pluto Press ⬇️ Part of @56aInfoshop . oy vey.
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with the intention to shed further light on the phenomenon and the role it plays in justifying the ongoing oppression of Palestinians, I'm re-sharing this piece i wrote last year for
@NewSocialistNS
on philosemitism.
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sorry, i don't make the rules, but your twitter @ tells me that you deserve this
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we're watching a nuclear, colonial power pulverise 2 million dispossessed ppl (half of them children), trapped in a strip of land less than a quarter the size of London, while the world's "democracies" fall over themselves to offer Israel more weapons. it makes me physically sick
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Stormzy stated something so incontrovertibly true - that Britain is a racist country. It is the sickest of jokes that this is even treated as something that can be "debated."
And then white Brits flood the internet and airwaves in their thousands to prove how right he is.
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well this jew is going on the march in the no-go zone again tomorrow, along with thousands of other jews, so it's either not a no-go zone at all or we're not jews
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Saying "anti-capitalism is anti-semitic" is...anti-semitic.
It reinforces the racialisation of Jews as the capitalist class, erases the long and proud history of proletarian struggles by Jewish workers & tbh the people hawking this shit don't even believe it themselves.
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I rarely do personal on here but I've noticed a phenomenon which mixes personal and political.
I'm divorced, and on a couple of dating sites (feels very odd but it's the way it's done nowadays). I noticed a few weeks after October 7 that some profiles started to show the 🇵🇸 flag
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terfs and zionists right now, like, "hmmm, this form of oppression that i overwhelmingly identify with and benefit from was much better served by an overtly fascist president" 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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amazing to see pictures of hundreds turning out to prevent an immigration raid in Glasgow. solidarity is the most beautiful thing in the world 😭
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fascists cannot be defeated by "satire" or "debate". you have to make it impossible for them to organise, to speak, you have to cow them, have zero tolerance for those who enable them & you have to combine this with an equal assault on racist & patriarchal violence of the state.
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moved almost to tears by the outpouring on my street, showing the PM how much we're with him.
#ClapForBoris
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tfw you rly wanna salute your fuhrer but quickly remember it's not quite socially acceptable yet to do it at the RNC
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*some* people get stopped and arrested by covid-ridden cops for sitting alone in parks or on train platforms
while *others* are celebrated as a heartening puff piece by the state broadcaster (yes) while helping to guarantee a second peak of infection
this country is wildddddd
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no oppressed people in history ever got free by listening to how their oppressor defined their experience
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really nothing has substantially changed in the discourse since Edward Said wrote this in 1979.
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a society that cares more about a 96-year-old dying after a long life of the most extreme privilege and power than an unarmed 24-year-old being executed on the street by the state is a sick society
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JEWS ARE NOT HERE TO BE YOUR HUMAN SHIELDS, FOR YOU TO PLAY AT ANTIRACISM. WE ARE DAILY MADE OBJECTS OF WESTERN REACTIONARY POLITICAL PROJECTS. WESTERN NATIONALISM IS NOT OUR SAVIOUR, IT HAS BEEN OUR PRIME TORMENTOR FOR CENTURIES. FUCK EVERYONE WHO LET THIS HAPPEN.
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so in the last 24hrs the police have told women whose "confidence in the police is shaken" that if stopped by a policeman, they can:
- run away
- wave down a bus
- call...the police
this shit is untenable
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No platform has done more to aid the rise and mainstream convergence of the far right in the last decade.
We stand in solidarity against racism and violence. When members of our community hurt, we all hurt. We’re pledging $1M in support of efforts to address social injustice.
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we will never forget.
We condemn the appalling strikes on a supposed 'safe zone' in Rafah.
@UKLabour
have opposed an Israeli offensive in Rafah for months. Israel must now comply with the ICJ's orders.
We need an immediate ceasefire to end this war, get all the hostages out and get aid into Gaza.
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this is the revolution too.
from each each according to their ability, to each according to their need.
As riots in Minneapolis continue, a center for low-income housing put out a call asking for food donations.
This is how people responded.
There was so much food it became a distribution center for anyone — at all — who needed it.
Humanity.🌎❤️😇
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and here's a violence that zionism does to jews & our own understanding of ourselves. jews have struggled to survive & struggled for freedom for themselves & others over centuries. jews took part, often disproportionately, in countless revolutionary & liberation movements.
The problem is that until 1948 the Jews never fought back and were periodically massacred. After 1948 they fought back and that is what western liberals cannot stand. Jews can’t win.
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lmao my dad said Corbyn canvassers came to the door today and are being followed everywhere by one guy draped in an Israeli flag shouting 'don't vote for a terrorist sympathiser'. fully unrelenting mad shit.
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bbc staff:
going to pride marches ❎
going to white pride marches ✅
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of course the Jewish Chronicle invite Douglas Murray onto their pages to tell us Hamas are worse than the Nazis, as the SS were actually really very troubled when carrying out the mass slaughter of Jews.
amazing lengths Zionists go to to justify the genocide they're committing.
Why must Jews watch their backs as London mobs cheer?
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all the leftists out there still planning to vote labour when your leader thinks Israel is a woman but that trans women aren't 👍
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huge turnout, this is about a quarter of the march on this road. London wants a
#FreePalestine
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good morning and godspeed to this champion, may it happen to us all
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yeah really racking my brains here to think of any other faces of antisemitism in Germany
“Antisemites in Germany have two faces above all. An Islamist one and a radical left one” - deputy head of the Federal Police Union
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oh is it
BREAKING: President Biden warns, "If you harm an American, we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.
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do not listen to a SINGLE word the police say. every time they kill someone, especially someone Black, they start lying as soon as the bullet leaves that gun. we all must fight for some semblance of justice for Chris Kaba, his loved ones, and for all those murdered by the state.
Chris Kaba, who was in his 20s, died in hospital after being shot by police following a car chase in south London.
His fiancee's mother said Mr Kaba was studying to become an architect. "He was so loved, he was so funny and he was super kind," she added.
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say "Britain First", i dare you
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in 1987 the Thatcher government repurposed a Channel ferry, turning it into a floating immigration prison. the majority were Tamil refugees escaping Sinhalese oppression in Sri Lanka - which Britain supported. conditions on board were disgusting, suicide was rife.
This is the point. It just feels deeply deeply “ unBritish”. We used to be great at compassion.
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Everyone who's followed me for more than five minutes knows I'm not a Corbynite, and I hate the Labour Party. But I'm an antiracist Jewish communist and I'm fucked if any of these racist reactionaries are gonna try to use me to help the Conservative Party stay in power.
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yrs ago i was proud to commission 2 essays by Mark Fisher. a lot of ppl have read Good For Nothing on his experience of depression. But this from an earlier piece he wrote on affective labour has stuck w me. i think "negative solidarity" speaks to something deep in this society.
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our society is dotted w concentration camps where state violence, sexual abuse & self-harm have always prevailed. the everyday lives of the majority is co-constituted by this mostly hidden, often arbitrary violence, structured by logics & divisions of labour going back centuries.
🚨 An “attempted mass suicide” took place at the UK’s largest immigration removal centre in March.
The full horrors of the incident are laid bare in papers released by the Home Office to Liberty Investigates and openDemocracy under FOI laws ⤵️
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Jewish anarchists in late 19thC East London & New York, or Bundists in early 20thC Russia, Lithuania & Poland would've been very confused to discover that their opposition to Zionism was actually invented by the Soviet Union decades later. 🤔
Antizionism, by contrast, is the product of Soviet propagandists.
Its ideological home is thus on the fringes of the far left, not in a party of the mainstream centre-left.
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these nazi stickers are everywhere in my area. this one was outside my house, where I live with my Jewish mum & my Black fiancee. i promise you i will beat the shit out of anyone i see putting these up. so many of us are constantly reminded ppl in our own streets want us dead.
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my overwhelming feeling this morning is one of deep shame and embarrassment. i feel mortified at what my jewishness is used for in this society. i feel ashamed of how some jews have conducted themselves. i feel like i have to be apologetic about how i am racialised.
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at a London vigil for Al Ahli, a German man who assumed i was gay because i had a rainbow umbrella, told me i would be killed in Gaza for holding that umbrella.
we told him we'd be killed by israeli bombs or blockades. he didn't care. neither does Hadley Freeman or her feminism.
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Arsenal legend
@Lauren12arsenal
with better political economic analysis than anyone in the British press.
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Nah, the better analogy here is with Churchill as Home Secretary sending in Met Police and the British Army to crush striking miners in Tonypandy, South Wales, in 1910-11.
Wonder what
@Twitter
would have done if Churchill had tweeted "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..."
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you're a fucking posh bigot who wants to use anti-Muslim, anti-migrant racism to get yourself into parliament. keep me & other jews out your fuckin mouth, you don't give a shit about us, you're just using us as an instrument for a kind of racism that used to be used against us
On the other side, the British Jewish population has faced a 324% in antisemitic incidents. Damage to property and abusive behaviour have risen. Again we have allowed it to happen, opting for the easy option of pretending a dark underbelly doesn't exist.
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ACAB isn't about individual cops being bastards (though they are). It's the recognition that policing serves a particular function in maintaining the violent "order" of this capitalist, imperialist society and all that entails.
Most police are reasonable people. Some are idiots. No different to the rest of society. We hope that the police will soon join with the rebellion, either passively or actively, in a move that would force the government to the negotiating table.
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it's important for us to remember that there will be people in our community who are hurting today. and it's important if you see them, to laugh at them.
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all the comrades are coming out for The Jews!
with friends like these...
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pick it yourself you cunt
"If we are to harvest British fruit and vegetables this year, we need an army of people to help."
The Prince of Wales has shared a message in support of the
#PickForBritain
campaign. 🍓🍏🍅
@DefraGovUK
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You don't get to do this. What the Charles family would want is for you to not have murdered their loved one.
Officers have been subjected to abuse & violence. Whatever the frustrations, this is patently NOT what the family of Rashan Charles wanted.
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the founding of tel aviv is inseparable from from the centuries-long existence of the nearby Palestinian port city of Jaffa, which tel aviv planned to & did swallow up & cleanse through "population transfer".
I love this photo of the founding of Tel Aviv.
It demonstrates perfectly why nobody really cared about the British Mandate prior to Jews living there: It was sparsely populated land with no natural resources.
It also demonstrates that terrorists are lying when they talk about
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young girl got manhandled by cops, dragged into a police van. so many protesters crowded the van screaming "LET HER GO!" and eventually they did. Solidarity is beautiful ❤
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Give them anything they fucking well want you spineless, sniveling posh bellend. Give them your wallet, your keys and the clothes off your back and walk naked down the empty motorways hitchhiking to no-one until a wild herd of sheep stampede you.
'Now is not the time to discuss pay rise for nurses', says health secretary
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this is Brexit. Mostly white, mostly older, mostly non-urban English, mostly economically secure. Suffused with postcolonial melancholia. Bathed in nostalgia and pastiche for nationalist signifiers of things you've never lived through or have ever really existed.
The Rising Sun pub in Kettering are celebrating Brexit with a rendition of "we'll meet again".
#BrexitDay
Follow the latest updates here:
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Reeves is quoting Nancy Astor, first woman MP to sit in the Commons. She often quotes & idolises Astor, as did Theresa May. Astor was part of the Cliveden Set, a group of powerful politicians, aristocrats, owners of the Times & the Observer, who supported the Nazis & appeasement.
I want to smash the glass ceiling and become the first female Chancellor of Britain.
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national journalist and her cabinet minister husband proudly show off book about Nazism written by holocaust denier David Irving. And the racist screed The Bell Curve. Impossible to imagine there ever being consequences for Conservative Party racism. Or for anything they ever do.
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probably the two most prominent public historians in my lifetime have been the Powellite hate-machine David Starkey & a man now comparing Palestine solidarity marches with the Nazi pogroms of German Jews. a public history suited to a putrid public discourse.
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so important to centre the role of the british empire in all of this 🙌
BREAKING: Actionists spray the Foreign Office in London, 106 years after Britain signed away the land of Palestine to the zionist colonial project.
Since then, Britain continues to arm apartheid Israel's ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. BRITAIN IS GUILTY!
#Balfour106
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this is characteristic of a mendacious, reactionary and frequently racist campaign by a number of prominent Jews and non-Jews for years now. The arrogance, chauvinism & tone-deafness to remove the context of the anti-apartheid struggle and make it into a t-shirt is breathtaking.
I didn’t feel comfortable knowing my workplace was to be full of racists tonight. I don’t endorse Boris, but I do endorse
#NeverCorbyn
. Please see my pinned thread if you still don’t understand why.
#LeadersDebate
#LabourAntisemitism
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if you're not Black, just try to imagine for one second what it must be like to be Black and live in a place like this.
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none of these ppl ever say this about the 1000s of men, women and children who have been imprisoned in britain's immigration detention centres, often for years at a time, without being convicted of any crime.
but sure, it's all about defending the rule of law in the abtract now.
Russell Brand is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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also Portillo was only born in England because his left wing Republican father was given asylum from Franco's Spain. On arrival in England, Luis Gabriel Portillo Perez worked at a refugee camp for Spanish children.
What awful politician children that generation of leftists bore.
This is hilarious: Michael Portillo a BBC presenter making a series of political points about why Gary Lineker, a BBC presenter, shouldn’t make a political point.
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Legionnaires disease was spreading on the prison barge. Diphtheria broke out in the Manston barracks used to imprison migrants last year. Covid was allowed to rip thru all the detention centres. There is no "humane" or "safe" way to imprison ppl. The violence is the whole point.
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no police officer has been successfully prosecuted for a UK death in custody since the murder of David Oluwale in 1969. in that time hundreds & hundreds of ppl have died.
British politicians try to silo this off as an "American problem". If anything, the "problem" started here.
I was appalled by the death of George Floyd and welcome this verdict.
My thoughts tonight are with George Floyd’s family and friends.
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waking up in this country, that invented modern racism, that is deeply antisemitic across the board, and seeing fascist Sun, Mail, Spectator pages and all manner of reactionaries crowing about racism, positioning themselves as antiracist makes me feel sick to my stomach
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people need to stop with the Eugenics = fascism/Nazism.
Eugenics long predates them. It's Enlightenment ideology used to justify the colonialism that long predated it and to prove the existence of "races". As such, early European socialism was also full of eugenics fans.
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@paulmasonnews
what makes you think it's remotely acceptable ethically or useful politically to publicly taunt Jews about pogroms? to make out that you care about pogroms and these Jews don't? like what is wrong with you?
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"we all got a bit carried away with the anti-Irish bigotry yesterday but it was the Irish woman's fault"
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Communist Grandmas could remake this world
”they reopen factories and put us in danger for their profits. the rich are our mortal enemies” ✊✊
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this kind of formulation fits into a longer tradition of European anti-blackness. It acknowledges the more intense state violence suffered by black people but largely in a way that says: "this sort of violence should not happen to whites."
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just casually quoting the fascist, chauvinist Jabotinsky is it? founder of the Irgun, who carried out the Deir Yassin massacre - the worst of the many atrocities against Palestinians during the Nakba. Also a big fan of Mussolini. I guess Jake probably would've been too.
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imagine if some of the high paid, high profile cis staff members resigned in solidarity from the reactionary cesspit of a rag that is the
@guardian
? instead of leaving it all to isolated trans workers?
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gotta rate Big Karl's preternatural gift for wangling cash out of his bourgeois connections. In 1851 an old friend wrote in his diary "Marx, the notorious one, asked me for a loan of £30. He's a communist; if his writings were applied, I'd lose property & family...I sent him £15"
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rolling around trying to decide who he hated more out of Muslims and Jews
This isn’t a pro-Palestinian rally in London now, it’s a pro-Hamas rally.
Churchill is probably rolling in his grave.
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while the booing of taking the knee is obviously racist, the laughable excuse of "BLM is Marxism" is its own form of white supremacist logic
Black people were having to fight for their lives to matter for centuries before Marx was born.
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can't tell you how damaging it is for such a prominent boycott action against "Jew hate", supported by such a rogues gallery of reactionaries & racists, gov ministers, Islamophobes & anti-immigrant shockjocks, to be focused around the figure of a Black man.
#NoSafeSpaceForJewHate
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Fuck this racist, reactionary, bootlicking, white supremacist shithole of a country. Fuck any cunt that voted Tory. Love and strength to those that deserve it but I feel such hatred and contempt right now.
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@AyoCaesar
it really is of no benefit to liberation or anti-oppression politics overall to join in discourses against pejorative floating signifiers like "identity politics" or "wokeness". There are ways to describe the phenomena you're talking about without bolstering this discourse.
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been reading Sylvia Pankhurst's account of the suffragette movement. one thing that strikes you is the sheer number of times Prime Ministers/Cabinet Ministers - Asquith, Lloyd George, Churchill, Herbert Gladstone - get repeatedly heckled, stoned, horse-whipped, attacked, spat on.
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not to be outdone by the Jewish Chronicle, the editor of
@JewishNewsUK
wants you to know that Douglas Murray is correct, and that not only are Hamas worse than the SS but so is Rivkah Brown
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calling for a "General Election Now" just means, in this system, "Starmer's Labour Party in Government Now, it's their turn."
it's wild to me how many people i'm seeing where this is the only demand and rallying cry right now.
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as someone who has studied and written about pogroms, can i tell you why idiots like paul mason & the Board of Deputies are wrong to call October 7th a pogrom? they seem to think they can just call any attack on jews a "pogroms".
@paulmasonnews
what makes you think it's remotely acceptable ethically or useful politically to publicly taunt Jews about pogroms? to make out that you care about pogroms and these Jews don't? like what is wrong with you?
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the squad from gogglebox representing the true level of state failure, inaction, culpability and acquiescence that has led to tens of thousands of deaths better than any of the newspapers, broadcasters, blue tick twitter and "opposition" political parties put together
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On
#HolocaustMemorialDay
it's incumbent upon us to remember what was in effect the near-total destruction of the Jewish working class in Europe & its revolutionary tradition, culture & Yiddish language. A culmination of capitalist European nationalism & intensifying antisemitism.
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'Astor wrote... that Hitler would have to do more than just "give a rough time" to "the killers of Christ" before she'd be in favor of launching "Armageddon to save them. The wheel of history swings round as the Lord would have it. Who are we to stand in the way of the future?"'
When Nancy Astor became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, our country and our democracy were changed for the better.
I was proud to unveil the
@LadyAstorStatue
on the centenary of her election
#Astor100
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big up the courageous comrades in Bristol out on the streets night after night Portland-style. facing the kinds of militarised, counter-insurgency style policing Britain is known for among those who are highly policed, even if many are still surprised by it.
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So not only did the audience groan at the mention of how climate change affects ppl in the Global South, they also booed at the prospect that ppl might work a day less per week? This protestant work ethic, racist ressentiment, bootlicking death drive leads straight to oblivion.
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Jewish Chronicle journalist congratulating a Jewish politician who's standing for the Brexit Party, a political formation that is riding the wave of a far right international, whose members and representatives rail about "Soros" and "rootless cosmopolitans".
Must say Mazel Tov to
@YosefDavid9
who is now set to stand for the
@brexitparty_uk
in Islington North against
@JeremyCorbyn
. He will make an excellent candidate and tells me he is 'honoured' to stand up for the community against the
@UKlabour
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