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Democratic Socialist / Ex Labour 🌹 Vegan

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

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[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Jeremy Corbyn MP to voters of Gorton & Denton:

‘Vote for Hannah’
‘The Greens are best placed to defeat racism’
‘To defeat the far right’

True leadership:

Principled
Unselfish
Offering hope

Jeremy gives us all a vision of a future left alliance

Admire this man

Please.

🤝 👏

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @SuellaBraverman fan club - so let me be clear.

This women sows hate, lies and division. She is wrong.

She does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Contrived self-employment.

Drivers at Amazon, Evri, eCourier and elsewhere are persuaded to be self-employed. They pay income tax and Class 4 NIC but lose out on worker rights - e.g. minimum wage.

Companies don't pay employers’ NIC.

Must end this dodge.
https://t.co/AWUVrBrWFk

[CrémantCommunarde #GreenTransitionNow💚 @0Calamity]

I cannot say this strongly enough:
If a person is working full-time and has to be on Universal Credit, the "benefits scrounger" is the employer.
We are subsidising companies to accrue high levels of profit while underpaying the value of their labour.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear.

This man sows hate, lies and division.

He is a grifter and a conman.

He does not represent the vast majority of Britons.

RT if you agree

P.s. multiculturalism is great.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The same swivel-eyed detractors who once sneered at the NHS are now sneering at universal public services.

We shouldn’t settle for crumbs from capitalism’s table; we deserve the good life.

And if free public transport is good enough for their favourite tax-haven, Luxembourg, it’s good enough for us too.

[Eddie Burfi @EddieBurfi]

“Why is it a ‘better choice’ to pit pensioners against the disabled…rather than taxing some of the richest in our society?”

Unite’s Sharon Graham is spot on.

#bbclaurak

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Do you remember Lubov Chernukhin? Wife of Putin’s former minister who bought and influenced the Tories under Johnson (even after Russia’s invasion)? Well look who she’s influencing and giving gifts to now… Tice.

“But they’re anti establishment”

https://t.co/BtInzN5fES

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.

They could only do this because the West facilitated it from start to end.

But there will be a reckoning.

And those who did this will pay for what they did.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna.

Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.

Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Yesterday the first British political figure in recent times was sentenced to 10½ years for Russian collusion.

It was on barely any front pages, covered for a day and was ignored when it broke besides @carolecadwalla’s fearless reporting.

Why? Because he was a Reform leader.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Chancellor Rachel Reeves hints at welfare cuts.

Why do govts not cut corporate welfare?

Subsidies for auto, steel, oil, gas, biomass, internet, shipbuilding and others, without any equity stake.

Profiteering by energy, water, phone, care home companies
https://t.co/FbL6zDR8Zm

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

No think tank should appear on prime time political programmes unless the public knows who funds them. Otherwise we're just platforming paid lobbyists ludicrously pretending to be neutral experts.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

The significance of the then-Home Secretary Yvette Cooper proscribing Palestine Action as a “terrorist organisation” on 5 July 2025, goes beyond even the profoundly grave issue of the genocide in Gaza. This Tuesday, 25 November, the proscription is being challenged at the High Court by way of a Judicial Review.

Nigel Farage, who may well be prime minister after the next election, will hope the Government successfully defends the case. This proscription sets an extremely useful precedent for a future repressive regime: Don’t like an annoying protest group? Use the Palestine Action example and proscribe them as “terrorists”.

A leaked Home Office document shows that Cooper was indeed warned that the proscription may be seen as “a creep of terrorism powers into the realm of free expression and protest”.

There is a great difference between being regarded by the state as a “terrorist” as opposed to as a “criminal”. A “terrorist” has far less rights at every stage throughout the police, prison and court process. Furthermore, anyone else who shows support for the “terrorist” is themselves liable to arrest and imprisonment.

Six of the members of Palestine Action in prison awaiting trial, are on hunger strike now over their conditions. Human Rights organisations, UN special rapporteurs and author Sally Rooney have all appealed to the UK government to address the “shocking mistreatment” of these six and of all the Palestine Action members in prison.

Cooper’s proscription was extraordinary. Until then, being proscribed as a terrorist group had been reserved for organisations which use terror or the threat of terror against civilians to seek to obtain their aims: like the IRA, Al Qaeda or ISIS.

Palestine Action were a totally different kind of organisation. They were a non-violent direct action group. Their aim was to stop the genocide in Gaza. They did not target people; they targeted arms factories and a RAF base. In particular, Palestine Action targeted factories in the UK owned by an Israeli company, Elbit Systems. They damaged weapons and planes that would be used in Gaza.

They committed criminal damage and associated crimes, and just like the Suffragettes, Martin Luther King and the civil rights activists, and many others, they would have expected to be sent to prison for those crimes. They accepted they would be treated as criminals.

In the middle of the night of 20 June 2025, Palestine Action did something audacious and humiliating for the British government. They cut through the fence at RAF Brize Norton, the largest RAF base in the UK. They then jumped on electric scooters and sprayed red paint on two Voyager aircrafts, which had been used in relation to the genocide in Gaza.

Three days later Cooper announced that she was going to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Cooper has since sought to justify the proscription by saying she has information which is not in the public domain that Palestine Action “is not a non-violent organisation”. In effect, she is saying “trust me”. Trust is in short supply when Cooper’s government has supported and enabled the genocide in Gaza. In a democracy, the authorities need to be transparent particularly when people’s liberties are at stake.

The UK’s two largest human rights organisations, Liberty and Amnesty, have been granted permission by the High Court to take part in the hearing this week. They will argue that it was not reasonable to proscribe Palestine Action.

Private Eye has reported that a baseless story that Iran was funding Palestine Action was placed in the Times and the Mail by a PR firm working with Elbit Systems.

Since Palestine Action was proscribed, a remarkable campaign of civil disobedience has taken place. Over the last few months at locations across the UK, people have sat quietly and held up placards with the following words, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”. They know that under the terrorism legislation, they are liable to arrest and a maximum of 14 years in prison.

It is humbling and inspiring to observe these protests. They have been extremely dignified. A large proportion of those arrested have been in their 60s, 70s and 80s and most have not been arrested before. The total number of arrests is between 2,000 and 3,000. People are highly motivated in a just cause.

If the court finds that the proscription was unlawful, all these arrests and later detentions will also be found to have been unlawful.

The paucity or complete lack of media coverage of the hunger strikes and the protests is all of a piece with the media’s general failure to report the genocide in Gaza. The genocide continues after the so-called ceasefire. Every day Palestinian civilians are still being murdered in Gaza.

Lord Peter Hain made a powerful speech in the Lords against the proscription. As a young man he led protests against apartheid South Africa.

“In 1969-70 I was proud to lead a militant campaign of direct action to disrupt all-white racist South African rugby and cricket tours.
No doubt I would have been stigmatised as a “terrorist” today rather than vilified as indeed I then was.
Mandela was labelled a “terrorist” by the apartheid government, by Thatcher, by the US and other Western governments …
Suffragettes attacked shop windows, government buildings, and political party offices, sometimes using hammers, stones, or iron bars.
They also set fire to unoccupied buildings such as churches, railway stations
Suffragettes cut telegraph and telephone wires. They even hid small homemade bombs inside mailboxes and attempted to bomb Westminster Abbey.
Frankly Palestine Action members spraying paint on military aircraft at Brize Norton seems positively moderate by comparison.
Now look at real terrorists: Al Qaeda and Islamic State.
Our Labour government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong.
Frankly, I am deeply ashamed.”

In a few years, a Farage government may proscribe as "terrorist" a non-violent protest group and say we should trust them as to the justification and use Cooper's proscription as a precedent.

For right now and also for that possible future, I hope the court finds the proscription of Palestine Action unlawful.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

History will remember we banned Palestine Action for putting graffiti on planes.

But never stopped supplying Israel with bombs to drop on children.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

At least 28 covid contracts, worth £4.1bn, went to people with known political connections to the Tories. As the US political aphorism puts it, never let a crisis go to waste.

[Daniel Grigg @Daniel_Grigg]

Funny how every time Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves want a good policy, they have to use one of Jeremy Corbyn's.

https://t.co/WPbSyxOqKd

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Curse of Private Equity.

Four of UK's biggest dental firms have raked in £1.2bn gross profit over the past two years,

Market controlled by My Dentist, PortmanDentex, Rodericks Dental, and Bupa Dental Services.

Prices 3.5 times more than NHS dentist.
https://t.co/v8Ukv9z4eK