Kieran Kelly

Scottish, socialist, scientist

[The Communists @CPGBML]

The scary pictures of balaclava clad men are not really the problem. It’s the Labour party MPs and apparatchiks in smart suits quietly passing draconian laws with the permanent bureaucracy, while they all want you to look at andy burnham and “hope” things will get better.

In the mean time…

Sir Keir Starmer has announced that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will be banned from the UK and formally designated as a threat to national security.

It is among three bodies that will be proscribed as state-backed threats under the new National Security Act, which became law last week.

The second group is fictitious, and likely a creation of MI6, and has been credited with false flag attacks on “jewish” targets across the NATO and 5-eyes nations.

The third group designated as a state-linked threat to the UK is Russia’s GRU Volunteer Corps, a formal group of volunteers and mercenaries who are controlled, co-ordinated and overseen by Russia’s military intelligence agency.

Of course the purpose of designating foreign military states as “terrorist” entities, is not to target the foreign states.

It is to target the working people of Britain who stand against imperialism and call out the NATO imperialists and British government as the real enemies of the British working class, and open the workers to charges of “Terrorism” and entrapping them in proceedings that will tie them up and send them to prison. Thus keeping the mass of the workers under the control of the British ruling class.

[The Communists @CPGBML]

Racist rioters set Spellow Lane library and community hub on fire in August 2024. Now they plan to descend on Liverpool's Walton neighbourhood again.

Our message to the people of Walton:

The ruling class has always sought to divide the working class. They strive to weaken our collective strength by turning our anger away from those responsible for the degradation of our material conditions and directing it towards our neighbours.

The workers of Walton have every right to be angry at the fall in their living standards, but blaming migrants helps nobody but our exploiters. Our communities will not revive if our migrant neighbours are deported; social housing will not return; our wages will not be magically restored.

The people responsible for the decline of our communities do not live in the terraced streets of Walton. They, the ruling class, sit above us and profit from our labour.

Our future will not be secured while we are divided. It will be secured when all working people stand together and fight for their common interests as a class.

Join us in fighting for a decent life for all!

https://t.co/jcr1MECNOR

[Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE]

Today Raúl Castro is celebrating his 95th birthday. He has held the banner of revolutionary struggle high for decades. Despite pressure from Cuba’s enemies, Comrade Raúl and his freedom-loving people embody the aspiration to win independence and the right to chart their own path.

[Kieran Kelly @KieranKelly7]

@BurnsGraem60651 @scotlandscoeff1 💉💉💉😍

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

as for people betting "Trump" won't use nuclear weapons - they still don't get "Trump" isn't in charge of anything.

This is an all-or-nothing bid by the US to maintain primacy over the planet before losing it permanently.

The unelected US corporate-financier establishment - pushing for wars since the inception of America as a nation - have ALREADY USED NUCLEAR WEAPONS - TWICE!!!

They considered using them on Korea, Vietnam, and even as recently as Afghanistan.

DO NOT let the US pin this solely on a single politician, or an administration or a US proxy. Make sure EVERYONE involved is blamed and held accountable.

This is called compartmentalization - dividing up your political fronts when dirty work is required so you can flush the consequences down with one or more of these fronts while keeping the political whole more or less intact.

The US literally does this every 4-8 years with presidents and scores of wars of aggression and other horrible foreign and domestic policies - and they will do it with this time as well.

It wasn't "Clinton," "Bush," or "Obama's" wars (although they are accomplices and equally guilty) - they are Wall Street and Washington wars - every single one of them - no matter who is picked to sell them and take the fall for them.

If you never expose and hold Wall Street and Washington as a whole accountable, they will continue their compartmentalization game forever without end.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Reeling from the news that dear friends @ftounifatima and @cheib1970 have been killed in an I$raeli strike in the south of Lebanon.

Heartbroken beyond words. And make no mistake that this was a deliberate, targeted assassination of journalists. A war crime.

We owe them a debt that can never be repaid. Words are not enough right now

Rest in power. We will continue our work in your honour.

[Kieran Kelly @KieranKelly7]

@eurofounder @EmanResu96287 By what metric is China losing to Europe lmao?

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

On behalf of humanity, thank you Iran for giving us a couple of weeks where it felt like something approaching justice was beginning to reify; when the most entitled, racist, bully-boy cry-babies on planet earth felt a slight taste of the fear they impose on everyone else. Iran has left a mortal wound on the body of Zionism. Tick tock. Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇮🇷

[The Communists @CPGBML]

EXPOSED Washington & Israel, specifically Bibi, have been claiming that Iran is “close to possessing a nuclear weapons” since 1996.

Here’s a collection of video clips released by CNN showing this.

But let’s not forget that:

1. Iran has as much right to develop Nuclear technology as any other state.
2. Iran has the right to defend itself.
3. Iran has the right to develop and possess nuclear weapons.
4. It is ONLY the possession of such weapons, along with the highest resolve and anti-imperialist understanding that can save a modern nation state from interference, destabilisation and war at the hands of imperialism.
5. Israel is no more than USA’s attack dog in the Middle East, Central asia and Africa.
6. Every crime that “Israel” commits, is a crime of Anglo-American imperialism. Could blooded, premeditated, mass-murdering, genocidal, and with a view to enslaving the populations of nations and regions.

[Alf @Alfering]

@BrianJBerletic Most people in the West won't know what and who lives in Iran.
These are people in the streets of of Iran. Nice to put a human face before trying to geno... 👇

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

⚡️ Very horrific and harsh scenes from the massacre committed by the occupation against those waiting for aid in the Tahlia area east of Khan Younis, which resulted in 60 martyrs and hundreds of wounded.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

All who care about #Africa must rally to the defence of Captain Ibrahim #Traore the visionary leader of #BurkinaFaso Don't let the west murder yet another African hero!

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

The passing of @Pontifex is a cause of deep sadness to @GayatriGalloway and I and we send our condolences to all who mourn him. Last year we had an audience with His Holiness and he was enchanted to hear of our mutual friend Ambassador @AliciaCastroAR and also by my wife's then famous fingernail painted in the colours of Palestine. No Pope ever before was so engaged with the agony of the people of the Holy Land. Indeed his outstanding efforts for the Palestinians - in the teeth of trenchant hostility both within and without the Vatican - will be a lasting memory of his Papacy. When most Heads of States cowered away he stood firm. Indeed no other world leader called Gaza every night at 8pm! It is quite likely if speculation is accurate that we also met the next Pope on that visit to the Vatican. Personally I hope so. Rest in Peace Holy Father, Rest in Peace with the Lord. #EasterWeekend #Pope ##Gaza #Palestine

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Israel made a mistake when they murdered 15 medics.

Then they made a mistake burying them so they couldn’t be found.

Then they made a mistake burying their ambulances so they couldn’t be found.

Then they made a mistake telling the world they traveled suspiciously with their lights off.

Until the mobile phone footage was found on one of their bodies…..

There were no mistakes.

This is the most obvious war crime you’ll ever see.

FUCK ISRAEL - DEPRAVED CUNTS

[Media Lens @medialens]

Whenever @BBCNews quotes Netanyahu, they should add that he is subject to an arrest warrant by the @IntlCrimCourt for crimes against humanity.

But the BBC protects Israel, so it’s simply not mentioned.

https://t.co/Cp6jAZqqes

[Chen Weihua （陈卫华） @chenweihua]

@vonderleyen @ZelenskyyUa If you have a bit guts, you would say something to Trump and Vance. No?

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Withdrawal of Israeli Brigades from Gaza Strip

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

BBC interview with Hamas deputy chief is a case study in state propaganda:

The BBC no longer bothers to hide the fact that its news service acts as nothing more than the British state’s willing propaganda channel.

Last night on the News at Ten, Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen secured a rare interview with Hamas’s deputy political chief, Khalil al-Hayya.

Anchor Clive Myrie introduced the segment by warning: “Many will find his comments abhorrent.”

But the only person making abhorrent assertions was Myrie himself, observing that, in the interview, the Hamas leader “claims the Palestinian people have faced violence at the hands of Israel for several decades”.

No, Clive. The world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, as well as every major human rights organisation, has concluded that Israel’s belligerent military occupation of the Palestinians’ territory is illegal and violent – not as a claim, but as an indisputable fact.

Israel’s refusal to recognise a Palestinian state and allow Palestinians self-determination; Israel’s building of hundreds of illegal settlements on Palestinian land and the transfer of Israeli Jews, often militia groups, into those settlements; Israel’s 17-year siege of Gaza; and Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinian people to force them to submit to these indignities, are all forms of structural violence. Again, that is not a claim. It is how international law judges what Israel has done and is doing.

Next, Myrie required Bowen to justify at length why the BBC was allowing a Hamas political leader – not a military leader – to be given air time. Note, al-Hayya’s boss, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated by Israel while he was involved in negotiations to bring about a ceasefire. Like some kind of gangster, Israel murdered the man on the other side of the table it was supposed to be talking to.

The BBC provided none of that as context, of course, for its interview. It was too busy placating Israel and the British government by issuing apologies and warnings before it offered a rare insight into Hamas’ side of the story.

So what did al-Hayya say that was so “abhorrent”? Here are the main points al-Hayya raised in the interview – you can listen to his precise wording via the link below – under Bowen’s mainly hostile questioning:

1. Hamas launched its attack on October 7 because the world had forgotten about Gaza even as Israel was slowly strangling the tiny territory to death through its 17-year siege. Hamas wanted to put Gaza back on the international community’s radar, and had decided it could do so only through military action.

2. Hamas fighters had been told not to target Israeli civilians on October 7, only Israeli occupation soldiers. Hamas does not endorse harming civilians. However, there were failings by individuals in sticking to that plan.

3. Israel, not Hamas, is the party responsible for destroying Gaza as evidenced through its bombardments of schools, shelters and hospitals. Hamas’ killing of 1,200 people could not be used to justify Israel killing more than 50,000 people in Gaza. Israel is “motivated by the lust to destroy”.

4. The accusation that Hamas uses the people of Gaza as “human shields” is not true. “They [Israel] destroyed mosques on the heads of their owners when there were no fighters. They destroyed houses and high-rise buildings when no one was in them… It is all Israeli propaganda.”

5. Netanyahu is the one obstructing a ceasefire. Even if Hamas surrendered today, Gaza’s next generation would take up the struggle because the Palestinian people want their freedom and have a legitimate right to resist the occupation. “People need to understand that Israel wants to burn the whole region.”

6. The Palestinians need a state and self-determination, and the Palestinian refugees a right to return to their homeland, if the region is ever to calm down.

7. It is Israel trying to eliminate the Palestinian people, not the Palestinians destroying Israel. “Give us our rights, give us a fully sovereign Palestinian state… Israel does not recognise a one-state solution or a two-state solution. Israel rejects it all.”

8. [Responding to a question about whether he considers himself a terrorist] “I’m seeking freedom and defending my people. To the occupation, we are all terrorists – the leaders, the women and the children. You heard what Israeli leaders called us: we are all animals.”

Now, one can debate whether al-Hayya’s statements are accurate or truthful, or whether he is being sincere. But nothing at all he says here can be viewed as “abhorrent” – unless you are shilling for Israel. He deplores attacks on civilians, he accuses Israel of bringing about Gaza’s destruction, he blames Netanyahu for blocking a ceasefire, and he appears to be ready to settle for a two-state solution, though he doesn’t believe Israel will agree to it.

In fact, his comments are far, far more moderate and far less inflammatory than statements regularly made by Netanyahu and most of the Israeli political and military leadership. Netanyahu, remember, is being sought by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, while the country he leads is on trial for what its sister court, the ICJ, considers a “plausible genocide” Netanyahu has incited and overseen. Not that the BBC ever mentions either fact.

And yet the state broadcaster never prefaces remarks from Netanyahu or other Israeli leaders – such as the self-declared fascist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich – with any kind of warning, let alone one that many viewers may find their remarks “abhorrent”.

And while we are at it, if al-Hayya’s remarks are the yardstick, how was Keir Starmer’s comment that Israel had a right to deprive Palestinian civilians of food, water and fuel – that is, to collectively punish them by starving them to death – not also deemed “abhorrent” by the BBC?

What becomes ever harder to deny is that the BBC isn’t reporting what is happening in the Middle East. It is aggressively framing it in such a way as to present Israel as the victim of events, and thereby assist it in carrying out a genocide in Gaza and beginning a second slaughter in Lebanon.

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