🚨 BREAKING: Following Canada’s decision last night to halt arms sales to Israel, trade unionists are blockading arms factories in England and Scotland demanding Britain does the same.
These sites produce components for F-35 fighter jets being used to commit genocide in Gaza
🚨HAPPENING NOW: hundreds of NHS workers blockade London office of US spy firm Palantir, saying no place for war profiteers in our NHS.
Palantir’s been given a £330 million NHS contract despite its complicity in Israel’s genocide & systematic targeting of Gaza health facilities
HAPPENING NOW: over 1,000 trade unionists simultaneously shut down 4 UK arms factories which help produce Israeli fighter jets being used to bombard Gaza.
Over 600 people blockading 3 entrances at Bournemouth factory. Hundreds of others in Glasgow, Lancashire & Brighton 🇵🇸♥️
🚨BREAKING: After destruction of al-Shifa, hundreds of NHS workers are blockading
@NHSEngland
demanding an end to its contact with surveillance technology firm Palantir, which profits from Israel’s war on hospitals & killing of health workers.
Genocide profiteers
#HandsOffOurNHS
HAPPENING NOW: Kamala Harris arrives for meeting with Rishi Sunak to cries of “ceasefire now” and “shame on you”.
We only found out an hour ago but hundreds mobilised. We will follow politicians wherever they go demanding an end to complicity in Israel’s genocide.
#FreePalestine
The Labour Party is suing me and four other former employees involved in producing the report that was leaked while taking no action whatsoever over the racism, sexism, abuse and toxic factionalism that the report documented among the Labour Right.
What on earth is Keir Starmer up to?
This week's column explores the self-destructive folly of Labour's lawsuit against Corbyn's team, in the context of the leaked report and The Labour Files.
🚨BREAKING: BAE factory in Kent which arms Israel lshut down by 400+ trade unionists chanting ‘BAE what do you say, how many kids have you killed today?’
Workers around the world answering Palestinian trade unions’ call to stop Israeli war machine.
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
Chris Kaba’s cousin says Chris’ fiancé was supposed to be planning a baby shower, not a funeral. Unspeakably heartbreaking.
#ChrisKaba
#JusticeforChrisKaba
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Palestine Solidarity Campaign occupying Parliament during
#PMQs
&
#AutumnStatement
calling on UK Government to back a
#CeasefireNow
.
You can’t pause genocide. It’s now more important than ever to pressure for a permanent ceasefire &
#FreePalestine
@PSCupdates
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: huge sit in at Charring Cross station. Police have closed every entrance so hundreds more outside can’t join us.
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
#FreePalestine
HAPPENING NOW: embarrassing response from police to peaceful Waterloo station sit in calling for
#CeasefireNow
&
#FreePalestine
.
It was rows of police who pushed protesters to the station entrance and police who blocked it when cosplaying as a military regiment
🚨HAPPENING NOW: over 1,000 workers blockading UK Trade Department in London & BAE Systems’ arms factories in Scotland, Wales & Lancashire.
“If arms company bosses & Britain’s political elite won’t impose an arms embargo, we, the workers, will continue enforcing it from below”🇵🇸
It’s a big deal that the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestinian Territory has called out Keir Starmer, along with other politicians, for supporting Israel committing a war crime in Gaza.
And yet not a single mainstream media outlet has reported on it
It is extremely concerning that a senior politician expresses support for the commission of war crime and, potentially, a crime against humanity: such is intentional starvation of civilians when part of a widespread or systematic attack on a civilian population.
NEW: Labour is discontinuing its legal claims against Corbyn's ex-staffers.
The Party had accused them of leaking a controversial document exposing racist messages and factional hostility to the previous leadership.
By October, the party's legal pursuit had cost almost £1.4m.
Wow. Martin Forde questions the Labour Party’s decision to sue us over the Labour Leaks report, telling Middle East Eye it’s a “terrible shame”.
He says that he thought the authors of the report were doing “their absolute conscientious best”.
No wonder the Party didn’t respond!
Ivan Lewis resigned a month before his disciplinary hearing, meaning it couldn’t take place.
The fact they’d even consider making him a Lord while complaint unresolved shows yet again that Labour doesn’t take sexual harassment claims seriously & why many feel unsafe in the Party
In New Statesman, Kevin Maguire tips peerages of PM Starmer:
Iain Anderson, Margaret Beckett, Luciana Berger, Mark Drakeford, Michael Dugher, David Evans, Harriet Harman,
Margaret Hodge, George Howarth, Ivan Lewis, Gary Lineker, Deborah Mattinson, Feargal Sharkey & Sharon White.
🚨Massive rally outside Parliament tonight. I was standing on a high wall but couldn’t even see the whole protest.
Although 293 MPs shamefully didn’t vote for a
#CeasefireNow
, polling shows the masses who mobilised in the streets are the ones who represent the British public
🚨HAPPENING NOW: protesters outside Egyptian Embassy London calling on Egyptian government to open the Rafah crossing as people in Gaza face relentless bombardment by Israel & are in desperate need of food, water, medicine and fuel.
#OpenRafahCrossing
#CeasefireNow
#FreePalestine
Palantir’s co-founder recently boasted about the company keeping Israel “armed & ahead”.
More health workers have been killed by Israel in last 10 weeks than total number killed in all countries in conflict globally last year.
@NHSEngland
is allowing Palantir to profit from this
NHS England awarded a £330 million contract to Palantir to manage NHS data despite widespread objections over patient privacy and NHS outsourcing. Amnesty International also said Palantir’s bid should have been rejected because of its involvement in “serious human rights abuses”
Women don’t feel safe to make complaints because Labour’s leadership keeps protecting powerful male harassers.
By trying to make me & others sign NDAs and by ignoring complaints for years Labour signals it sides with the accused men, making staff fear reprisals if they complain
@NHSEngland
Health Workers for a Free Palestine is demanding NHS England cancel Palantir’s contract, ensure no other contracts are given to companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza, bring data management back in-house and end the privatisation of NHS services
@NHSEngland
Our NHS data has been effectively sold off to Palantir, whose chair described British affection for the NHS as “Stockholm Syndrome”.
This grubby deal went ahead despite widespread opposition over concerns about patient privacy and asset stripping and privatisation in the NHS
"Many Britons are unaware of the fact that weapons used to murder Palestinians are manufactured in anonymous, nondescript sites in towns and cities across the country."
@AmeliaHorgan
explains the importance of
@Workers4Pal
shutting down UK arms factories
Palantir, which specialises in AI-powered military and surveillance technology, signed a new deal with the IDF in January to support for Israel’s “war-related missions”. CEO Alex Karp says he’s “exceedingly proud” of Palantir’s role in “operationally crucial operations in Israel”
Palantir’s chair even said British affection for NHS is “Stockholm Syndrome… in theory, you just rip the whole thing from the ground and start over”.
@GoodLawProject
recently announced legal action against NHS England for failing to disclose details of the contract. GLP says:
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are occupying and shutting down access to the Department of Business and Trade, demanding that the British Government immediately stop arms exports to Israel and end UK complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
#FreePalestine
Wow. The 7 aid workers were killed by a British made weapons, manufactured by Elbit Systems. The British Government helped arm the execution of 3 British aid workers. They are directly complicit.
Surely Labour will now finally be forced to call for a ban on UK arms to Israel
The 7 aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza, which included three Britons, were hit by a Hermes 450 drone strike manufactured by Elbit Systems.
The Hermes 450 is powered by a UK-made R902(W) Wankel engine, produced by Elbit subsidiary UAV Engines Limited in the UK.
@Martin_Abrams
@NHSEngland
@Workers4Pal
Thanks Martin! I’ve added some more info as a reply to original tweet and there’s a helpful explainer carousel on Health Workers for a Free Palestine’s instagram here:
Astonishing how much Labour is spending by dragging us through the courts.
Half a million on one hearing alone, and that’s a fraction of the total costs.
Even a Starmer ally on the NEC calls it a “monumental waste… pursuing what appears to be a pointless political vendetta” 🧵
@Secul8r
@jeremycorbyn
@DoughtyStPublic
@DoughtyStIntl
Lol do you actually know anything about the case? Suggest you read my dad’s article about the trumped up charges against Lula & his exoneration in both Brazil’s Supreme Court & the United Nations’ Human Rights Committee. And FYI he acted for Lula pro bono
Heartbreaking speech from Chris Kaba’s mum saying she still doesn’t know what Chris’ last words were.
“Chris was alone with the police. I want them to tell me… did he ask for me? Did he call for me?”
#JusticeforChrisKaba
@UFFCampaign
The Guardian reports rising concerns about the lawsuit and quotes a legal source who says “Labour will be facing a bill of several million by the time this saga ends and a media-fest airing Labour’s dirty laundry just before or during a general election.”
@Seanchuckle
He says he’s chuffed he was played by you and very sorry not to have seen your performance and bets it was brilliant. He’s still holding out hope that they will release it one day 😂
We must not be complicit in Israel's war crimes.
But Israel uses British-made arms in Gaza & our government still sells it weapons.
That's why today – alongside 134 MPs & Lords from Labour, the Conservatives, SNP, Lib Dems & more – I have called for arms sales to be suspended.