David Bell

[David Bell @BellChimed]

Democratic ownership of production would allow us to meet the challenges of new technology in a way that benefits workers. Economic democracy is vital to transcend the restrictions of capitalist domination which steer us on course for future social and ecological catastrophe. https://t.co/1OjLcJB3n6

[Richard D. Wolff @profwolff]

Do new technologies (self-driving cars, AI, etc.) cause job loss? Technology ups profits if capitalists install machines and fire workers. Alternative: install machines, keep all jobs but at reduced hours. Profits for the few vs more leisure for the many: the choice is ours.

[Richard Seymour @leninology]

Nearly two decades of wage stagnation. Fifteen years of public sector neglect and infrastructural decay, while taxes on profits were slashed. Yet it is we, the public, who are living beyond our means.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private equity has devoured UK town centres.

It controls airports, seaports, hospitals, care homes, football teams, housing, GP surgeries, vets, dentistry, pubs, restaurants, energy, water and more.

Everything financialised.

What future for the UK?
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC

[David Bell @BellChimed]

https://t.co/eFiiLRiXBK

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Here's an example of a European country successfully applying food price controls to support households against food price surges - link to article below.

Stresses transparency (supermarkets have to publish detailed prices online) and fines for breaches of controls.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

China has achieved extraordinary things in recent decades.

But it’s still nowhere near the USSR’s arc from 1920 to 1957.

A backwards autocracy, with remnants of feudalism, descends into civil war & almost fragments. 37 years later it launches humankind’s first satellite.

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

If Polanski was accepting big donations from corporations & foreign donors,denying climate change, spent his youth goose stepping & bullying Jews or was currently supporting genocide he’d be getting an easier ride from our media.I don’t know what to do with that, it’s just sick.

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

If he's given people money back, why have aggregate demand, consumption and savings declined sharply since 2024? People are burning through savings to buy basics and eat donkey meat. Only luxury consumption has increased, which tells us who is benefitting. Total shitshow.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Energy companies made £125bn profit from UK operations for 2020-25.

They get subsidies. During high winds, turbines are turned-off because the UK does not have adequate energy transmission and storage.

Profits will rise from Iran war.

Nationalize energy
https://t.co/O5cd2GaYEf

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts.

Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners.

£1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses

Health service “taken for a ride”.

Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity.
https://t.co/OFnfTFOSLk

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Massive reality check. An expert politics professor reveals 21 percent of the UK lives in poverty. Shockingly, without London, the UK's GDP would be lower than Mississippi, the poorest US state. Decades of underinvestment have completely destroyed the North.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

It’s shocking how openly and repeatedly the Western media tells you that they simply don’t consider brown people to be human.

Among the first casualties of this war were 160 Iranian schoolchildren, but it takes a lost US pilot to bring a human dimension to the slaughter?

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

An unproductive hedge-fund parasite speaks. Too stupid to understand that the financialised capitalist economy, divided society, soulless commercialised culture and warmongering imperialist geopolitics he supports are behind the West's inevitable decline.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

GB household energy bills could increase by £290 a year to £1,929.

Govt can help:
Abolish VAT on domestic fuel.
Transfer green kevies to general taxation
Decouple price of electricity produced from gas from the rest.

End profiteering, nationalise energy.
https://t.co/VghBdK7zVz

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

Yet another example of the privatisation of vital services becoming a national disaster.

This is what happens when essentials are handed to the market: failure, neglect, and profits put before people.

When will this country learn the lessons of this failed Thatcherite ideology.

How many more failures do we need before we finally say: enough is enough?

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by UK Tory Govt between 2010 and 2024 produced only 36 days of gas.

Tories, Reform selling fantasy of endless gas reserves.

Energy security needs more investment in renewables, nuclear, better insulated homes.
https://t.co/wnHPSRRCes

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills.
https://t.co/B50EZdDrJJ

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

“A toddler in Gaza released from Israeli custody has been returned to his family with suspected torture wounds.”

Read that again.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

America imposes 60 year embargo on Cuba: “Why is Cuba poor?”

America imposes sanctions on Venezuela and does a coup: “Why doesn’t communism work?”

Israel blows up Gazan infrastructure including airport & blocks development: “Why isn’t Gaza Dubai?”

CIA imports drugs & GOP opposes gun regs: “why is there urban crime?”

Bipartisan duopoly criminalizes protests: “Where have all the protestors gone?”

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Privatisation of utilities and services. It's just not working, is it? Declining functionality, crumbling infrastructure, insecure employment and free money funnelled into the pockets of parasitic investors and financiers. Private wealth, public squalor. Renationalise now!