Coventry SWP

✊Socialist Workers Party✊An anti-capitalist revolutionary party.

SWP Coventry branch.

[Unite Against Fascism @uaf]

Best to Salma Yaqoob & family who have suffered an appalling targeted attack outside their home.
A burning car!
Echoes of KKK burning crosses in the States.
#StandwithSalma

@Searchlight_mag @AntiRacismDay

[Marxism Festival @MarxismFestival]

🥁🥁....🥁 The timetable for Marxism 2026: Britain's biggest left wing festival is here!

100s of sessions over 4 days: rallies, debates, cultural events and sessions digging into theory ! Don't miss out!

📆 2-5 July
📍Ldn
Check it out ➡️ https://t.co/rOfhRkDSwC

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

Fascist Tommy Robinson was at the centre of the violent far right led protest in Southampton last night.

He tried to use the tragic death of Henry Nowak to promote his own agenda.

He has no place at the Oxford Union.

Join the protest, don’t legitimise fascists.

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

The story of last night’s riot in Southampton shows that the far right are not seeking justice for Henry Nowak & his family - they are using the tragedy to promote their own divisive agenda.

Don’t let fascist Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage & the far right divide us.

[Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @alex_callinicos]

https://t.co/nEEy7gKPkN

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Labour’s dystopian AI plan to clamp down on refugees
⭐️Labour is legitimising the far right and racist lies about refugees, says Stand Up To Racism national organiser Samira Ali https://t.co/PhlzbnbuVS

[Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @alex_callinicos]

Congratulations to the comrades of the Communist Party of Britain for an unexpectedly astute intervention! A Trotskyist interpretation appended.

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Children abandoned as private firms cash in on care crisis
👍Unqualified providers are flooding into the children’s care home sector, fleecing local councils and providing terrible care for children
https://t.co/aHx0KRJniB

[Matthew Puddister @mattpuddister]

The postwar boom was a historical anomaly only made possible by the destruction of World War II, but its duration convinced generations that this was "normal" capitalism. In fact capitalism is now merely returning to its normal state of chronic crisis and insecurity for workers.

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Build resistance in workplaces as government ramps up attacks on trans+ rights
🏳️‍⚧️With the government backing guidelines that will further establish transphobia across public institutions, trade unionists need to organise in their workplaces to defy them.
https://t.co/0uHEHvlSE9

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that no serious historian, academic or anyone who has spent even minutes looking at Nazi Germany agrees with this. Hitler locked up the left, denounced the left. He was not a 'hardcore socialist.'

The only people who say this are... Nazi sympathizers & the far right.

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Anger erupts as Chinese coal mine’s ‘illegal violations’ kill 82 workers
⭐️China’s state capitalist economy is not concerned with workplace safety, prioritising profit above all else
https://t.co/AZVdaq7GUt

[The Rev. Anton Mittens 🌹👮🎓 @MittensOff]

Cllr Michael Bannister (Reform Warwickshire) using homophobic name calling to members of the community. Well done to local Green Party Councillor Becky Davidson for calling him out. Will Bannister's boss George Finch act? Probably not. #ReformUK 🏳️‍🌈

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Andy Burnham stands in Labour’s history of betraying migrants
⭐He backs the home secretary’s crackdown on migrants—just like he backed New Labour’s scapegoating in the 2000s. Socialist Worker looks at the rotten legacy
https://t.co/fuvBqzqXC3

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Samsung workers in South Korea threaten AI boom with a mass strike
⭐The multinational firm makes billions in profits and its South Korean workers want their share
https://t.co/ojJdQ7rOkh

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Two of this farmer's workers had already died from his beatings. The missionary holding the camera knew that. He'd reported the farmer to the police, and he was photographing these wounds for court.

Ludwig Cramer was a failed coffee merchant from Hamburg. He moved to German South West Africa in 1906 and bought a farm. He tied workers up for days, whipped a pregnant Herero woman until she miscarried, and beat workers bloody. His wife Ada helped by cutting the clothes off female victims so he could strike harder. Two of his workers died.

In August 1912 a German colonial court sentenced him to 20 months in prison. On appeal the next year, the sentence was cut to 4 months and a 2,700 Mark fine. It was one of the only times any German settler was punished for any of this. And the worst was already over.

Between 1904 and 1908, German forces had killed an estimated 65,000 to 80,000 Herero, about 80% of the Herero population, and 10,000 Nama, around half of theirs. Historians now call it the first genocide of the 20th century. It started when Chief Samuel Maharero led a rebellion against the seizure of Herero land. General Lothar von Trotha's October 1904 extermination order declared every Herero in the territory was to be killed.

Survivors were driven into the desert to die of thirst, or shipped to concentration camps. Shark Island killed between half and three-quarters of its prisoners. Women there were forced to boil the heads of dead inmates and scrape them clean with shards of glass. The skulls were sent to German universities, where researchers tried to prove white Europeans were biologically superior to Africans.

One of those researchers was a scientist named Eugen Fischer. In 1923, while Hitler was in prison, he read Fischer's textbook on race hygiene. He cited Fischer in Mein Kampf. Fischer's work later helped shape the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, the Nazi race laws that stripped Jews of their rights. When Hitler took power, he made Fischer head of the University of Berlin. The institute Fischer ran trained the next generation of Nazi race scientists, including Josef Mengele's PhD supervisor. Mengele went to Auschwitz, where he experimented on prisoners and sent body parts back to the same institute.

Germany formally apologized in 2021 and offered Namibia €1.1 billion (about $1.3 billion) over 30 years in development aid. But the agreement avoided the words "reparations" and "compensation". Those words could be used against Germany in future lawsuits. Most Herero and Nama leaders walked away from the deal because they were shut out of the talks. Many of the skulls are still sitting in German universities and museums.

Cramer himself died in 1917 in a blasting accident on his farm. His wife Ada wrote a book defending him, arguing that Africans needed to be beaten for their own good. Historians now read it as an early blueprint for the "master race" thinking. That thinking would become Nazism.

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Starmer’s long list of failures
⭐️With a long list of failures, Starmer has turned even the most ardent Labour supporters against him
https://t.co/G8MxAnZxyO

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Why the CWU union leadership is wrong over anti-racist strategy
✊️There were sharp debates at the CWU union conference
https://t.co/hJkoH5lMIg

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Expert says ‘government rhetoric feeds Islamophobia and racism’
⭐Socialist Worker spoke to Dr Syra Shakir, Associate Professor at Leeds Trinity University, who researches the impact of Islamophobia and misogyny
https://t.co/NpbXZWwlHJ