David Ellison

Labour Member and Community activist in #Didsbury #Manchester Labour Councillor from 2011-19. Working in Architecture and Design . #RejoinEU

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.

You voted against banning fire and rehire.

You voted against day one sick pay for workers.

You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.

Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.

You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

👏 and sack the whole board of Ofcom while you're at it

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

You see these scenes from Belfast?

That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way.

Except this will be on a much bigger scale.

We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

HISTORY LESSON

The Nazi Party branded itself the 'National Socialist German Workers' Party' to appeal to working-class men. After staging massive 'pro-worker' May Day rallies on May 1, 1933, the very next day Hitler banned independent trade unions, seized their assets, and arrested their leaders.

On May 2, 1933, the SA (Storm Troopers), SS, and police occupied trade union offices nationwide in a coordinated action. They seized assets, records, and funds while arresting union leaders and officials. Contemporary U.S. State Department reports and other sources noted around 50 prominent arrests in the initial wave, including key figures like Theodor Leipart (chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation, ADGB), Peter Grassmann, and former Labor Minister Rudolf Wissell.

Many more local and regional leaders faced arrests in the following days and weeks. Large numbers endured beatings, imprisonment, or transfer to early concentration camps such as Dachau (opened in March 1933 primarily for political opponents).

Some officials were maltreated immediately, and the action extended to union banks and press offices.

This crackdown dismantled independent German trade unions (with millions of members, many aligned with Social Democrats or leftists) and replaced them with the Nazi-controlled German Labour Front (DAF). It formed part of the broader Gleichschaltung (coordination) process to eliminate independent organizations.

Over the period 1933–1945, thousands of German trade unionists, including leaders, activists, and officials, were arrested and held in prisons or concentration camps. Many suffered torture, extended detention, or surveillance after release. While outright executions of union leaders were relatively fewer in the early phase compared to other groups, many died later from camp maltreatment, disease, execution, or involvement in resistance.

The overall scale of persecution against labour organisers aligns with the regime's aim to crush independent working-class organising rather than immediately exterminate every individual.

This fits the documented pattern of political repression: by the end of July 1933, nearly 27,000 people (mostly political prisoners including communists, socialists, Social Democrats, trade unionists and left-wing activists and intellectuals) were held in early camps and detention sites.

The Nazis moved swiftly after seizing power to neutralise potential opposition from organised labor through mass arrests, violence, and forced integration into a state-controlled structure.

#JustSayin

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tommy Robinson was organising the riots in Belfast.

He should pay for them.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

It’s hard for Trump to end the war so long as his friends are making money from it.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

10 June 1944. 642 men, women and children were murdered by the German Waffen SS in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening episode of the classic ITV documentary series World at War.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

We're seeing a clear pattern from Reform now. We saw it in Southampton. We've seen it in Belfast. They're all over social media and the airwaves with inflammatory and provocative language. Then when violence occurs, they go to ground.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

There are only 8 Reform MPs and they have a combined wealth of over £70,000,000.

They have consistently voted against every single improvement to workers rights and plan to scrap legal protections left right and centre.

They are funded by the bosses to rip up your rights.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

There is no justification for the acts of violence and arson that we saw in Belfast last night. It is completely unacceptable.

I urge for calm. We must let the police get on with their work.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"If he paid his tax, we'd have more money to deal with these issues."

Reform deputy leader Richard Tice asks Starmer when he will resign after listing all his 'failures' as PM.

Starmer addresses his financial affairs, asking why Tice's companies 'aggressively avoided tax'

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

"You believe in dividing people and making your friends even richer"

Mick nails the Reform grift in a single sentence

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Unis pour l’Ukraine.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

As Trump screamed "Comey was a dirty cop" during "Meet the Press" questions about Trump's Jan 6 lies....

We should note:

1) Comey wasn't employed by FBI on Jan 6, 2021
2) The FBI worked for Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2021
3) Trump launched the Jan 6 prosecutions on Jan 7, 2021

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: Even on frontline, we have internet. They restrict internet in Moscow, they can’t use social media in their capital. We can use it on battlefield. Nobody stopped our soldiers. They can go online during pauses or whenever they want to speak with their children and etc.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

The Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, selected by @FIFAWorldCup and distinguished by CAF as the best African referee of 2025, was rejected upon arriving in the United States at Miami airport and deported back to Istanbul.

This World Cup is the worst.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

If you can't be honest about a basic fact in a confirmation hearing, you're not going to stand up for the truth when it really matters.

Michael Vance had a chance. He didn't take it.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

If the US is treating the players like this, imagine how they're going to treat the fans.