Alan Lomax

socialist | vegan | MCFC | It's John Lilburne in the pic. | mostly soul | Humanist
GONE TO BLUESKY @allomax.bsky.social

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese once again nails it:

•It is not a ‘war’, there are not two armies;
•This is a settler, colonial occupation;
•It is a genocide and needs to end now.

Stop arming Israel 🇮🇱 today

Recognise Palestine 🇵🇸 before it’s too late.

[Alan Lomax @AlanLmx]

Those that have perpetrated or facilitated or failed to speak against this will be judged by history.

[Philippa Greer @philippa_bear]

Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his family. Women about to collapse, dragging bags over the ground, walking backwards, stopping and closing their eyes. A man on the ground in underwear, with soldiers near the checkpoint. A woman presumably crossing with him, stalled, distraught, in desperation. They passed by these ruins. #Gaza #CeasefireNOW

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Britain cries out for new economics. Labour has given it repackaged Tory ideas.

Employers and workers hit hard, renters hardly at all.

Poverty, inequalities won't reduce.

Deregulation, corporate subsidies, minimal investment in infrastructure.
https://t.co/qf8GC0uj6R

[Rachael Swindon @Rachael_Swindon]

“The state of Israel is there, it’s protected as a member of the United Nations. Does this justify the erasure of another people? Hell no. Not 75 years ago, not 57 years ago, surely not today.”

Absolutely on the money again from @FranceskAlbs

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

My two penn'orth, FWIW. And apologies for the language, but tough shit. If rude words are what upset you rather than people suffering and dying, you need to have a long look in the mirror.
We cannot, ever, rely on centrists to protect us from the Far Right.
They are, frankly, so busy smelling their own farts about how just and righteous they are, about how thick anyone who doesn't agree with them is, and about how the answer to the existential crises that face humanity - endless war, climate catastrophe, persecution, starvation - is to tinker around the edges a bit so long as the system that keeps them in Range Rovers is maintained, that they are incapable of even recognising the suffering of millions of ordinary people, much less doing anything about it.
We can see what has been happening in France, in the US, and blame the Far Right and Russian interference and the internet all we like. But Far Right parties have no qualms in lying to people about how good they will make their lives, if only they could get rid of the people who are not like them who are a drain on national finances.
And because centrists need to protect the putrid status quo on behalf of their corporate vampire sponsors, as we can see with Starmer and Macron, and the Harris campaign, instead of challenging the very worst racist, misogynist, ableist language head on, and changing the divisive anti-life rhetoric, they lean in to it, genuinely believing that they can win round extremists to their side if only they were a bit more extreme and divisive themselves.
We can also see from the examples in France with Melenchon and the UK with Corbyn that centrists will move heaven and earth, working hand-in-hand with the Far Right and enlisting their client journalists in their battle, to fuck over any politician, and any political movement, that threatens that status quo from the humanitarian Left.
I do not believe we can rely on the political system to help any of us. I said a while ago, the choice offered in the US election was a president who would fuck his own country or a president who would fuck the rest of the world. Looks like they chose the former. No amount of rattling on about "dark warnings" from centrists is going to matter now.
The only way forward for ordinary people is to look out for each other now, ignoring centralised politics, ignoring the Westminster bubble media. Let them keep sniffing their own farts, while we take on the mantle, at a local level, of looking after our neighbours, friends and families, and building resiliant systems on a micro level to protect them.
Educate.
Agitate
Organise.

[Alan Lomax @AlanLmx]

@FromSteveHowell Centrist are utterly clueless, they pave the way for this every time through their sheer inability to see politics as anything but career opportunities and a 'managerial' challenge.

[Alex Nunns @alexnunns]

I didn’t see this at the time. In the Corbyn period the bizarre and the unacceptable became so normalised so quickly that it’s only when looking back that it really hits you.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

I don't understand all the warnings to Israel that eliminating UNRWA will cause a humanitarian catastrophe. Israel is fully aware of the consequences, and producing a cataclysm is precisely why it has adopted its measures against UNRWA.

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. https://t.co/UUxYqpTF72

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

🎥 “Israel is waiting to see the international response to its actions, and in the absence of deterrence, Israel will move on to the next chapter of its crimes. The genocide is only possible because of impunity. Israel has crossed every red line, broke every rule, defied every prohibition. When is enough really enough?”

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

A UN-member intensifies genocide vs a people that a UN agency protects. Then it declares said UN agency 'terrorist' (along with its internal 'liberal' opposition). Can there be a more open&shut case for sanctions/expulsion of said rogue UN member-state?
https://t.co/DvpbKpE44J

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Concentration camps. They're talking about concentration camps.

[Alan Lomax @AlanLmx]

@D_Raval It's a con, Dev, like the management consultants that come in to get people to come up with ideas, the odd person will come up with some self-destructive thing that coincides with their awful cut-backs. Then they regurgitate it as though it was the finding of the "consultation".

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

🚨URGENT ACTION - Tell the Foreign Office - Stop the Massacre of North Gaza

Israel is intensifying its war crimes in northern Gaza as it escalates attacks across the wider region. Write to the Foreign Secretary to demand he #StopArmingIsrael

Write here: https://t.co/yJL61YbNEh

[Rohan Talbot @rohantalbot]

Ethnic cleansing.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

It didn’t start one year ago.

#CeasefireNow #StopArmingIsrael #EndIsraeliApartheid

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

The super rich are actually the easiest people to tax, if we choose to tax them

(and it doesn't matter if they leave or not).

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

Starmer has willingly made himself the sacrificial lamb entrusted to manage the British state on behalf of capital while the Tory Party sorts itself out.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Jonathan Reynolds and two senior staff went to Glastonbury as guests of YouTube. Until then, Labour was promising to increase the digital service tax from 2% to 10%. Literally the day after the festival, it emerged that Reynolds had ditched the policy. https://t.co/LaYgCyoYb5