maria exall

@CWUnews socialist ✊️🇺🇦
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[maria exall @MariaExall]

Check out the @CSANonline 'Dignity of Workers in the 21st Century' publication https://t.co/lkw612nfBr

[Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @UkraineSol]

This Sunday 7 June, if you're at the @GMB_union congress, join our Ukraine solidarity fringe meeting!

GMB already has pro-Ukraine policy and is affiliated to USC, but a solidarity motion has also been submitted to Congress.

[Dave Ward @DaveWardGS]

Really sad news that Fred Jepson passed away yesterday after a long illness.

A former President, NEC, Postal Executive and Mt Pleasant Branch member, Fred was a lifelong trade unionist and a larger than life advocate for our members and working class people.

He will always be remembered as one of the true characters of our Union and the movement. Our sincere condolences go to Cherry and the family.

Rest in peace Fred.

[maria exall @MariaExall]

That's more or less it

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

I think Trumpists are just neoliberals who don’t like foreigners.

[maria exall @MariaExall]

This is the new reality for us 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://t.co/5FSoT65FyU

[THE A TEAM @ExNetSec]

@5Pillarsuk

[British Ambassador to Ukraine 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @UKAmbUkraine]

Another night of terror for many Ukrainian civilians, with cities under attack.

Russia fired over 70 missiles and 650 drones at Ukraine last night.

The death toll is rising and over a hundred are injured. Still here. Lots to do to help our Ukrainian friends.

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

It’s not just a rainbow, it’s a symbol of pride, hope and security. Happy pride🏳️‍🌈

[maria exall @MariaExall]

Big priblem but solvable with more investment and public control https://t.co/NHrmwWzFix

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Fortunately, Britain has a Bermuda-registered mass circulation newspaper owned by a French-domiciled billionaire, a television station owned by a Dubai hedge fund and a political party backed by a Thailand-based crypto tycoon to remind us of the importance of patriotism

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

A glorious day with the team in Makerfield supporting @AndyBurnhamGM @andy4makerfield 🌹☀️

[maria exall @MariaExall]

Lovely service @StChadsDurham for Durham Pride today

[ITUC @ituc]

AI must advance human dignity, decent work, and democracy.

Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas challenges the idea that technological change is inevitable and beyond democratic control. Workers deserve a voice in how AI is designed, deployed, and governed.

Technology should serve people—not the other way around.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/Dex47nLc2h

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV enrages MAGA by formally apologizing for the Church's role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries, calling it a "wound in Christian memory."

This is truly historic and Republicans are furious...

“It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord. For this, in the name of the church, I sincerely ask for pardon," Leo wrote in “Magnifica Humanitas,” his much-anticipated first encyclical.

While previous popes have apologized for the Christian involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, none has ever delivered such a direct apology for the broader role that the Church played in the survival of that deeply evil institution.

The Vatican at times gave European monarchs express permission to colonize and enslave foreign peoples, slathering their brutal crimes against humanity in a veneer of Christian piety. In the 15th century, Pope Nicholas V went so far as to give the Portugese throne authority to subjugate and rob “Saracens, and pagans, and other infidels, and enemies of the name of Christ” as well as "reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.”

Leo took that history on head-first—

"Already in the early modern period, the Apostolic See of Rome, responding to the requests of sovereigns, intervened several times in order to regulate and legitimize forms of subjugation, and, in certain cases, including the enslavement of ‘infidels,'" he wrote.

"In the development of her doctrine, the Church has gradually come to a deeper awareness of the gravity of these issues," Leo stated. "It is true that past events cannot be judged anachronistically, as though the moral criteria that matured over time had always been available. Yet neither can we deny or diminish the delay with which both society and the Church came to denounce the scourge of slavery."

He added that it "took eighteen centuries" for the Church to "explicitly" recognize its "full incompatibility with slavery."

“This constitutes a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot consider ourselves detached,” Leo added.

The pronouncement has already been met with outrage from many members of the online right, who believe that the Western world should never apologize for anything it's done, not even slavery. Social media is aflurry with MAGA accusations that Leo has succumbed to "suicidal empathy" and "white guilt." These are the same people who believe that the Civil War was fought for "states' rights" and that the Confederacy was an admirable endeavor.

“For descendants of enslaved persons, this is once again a much needed apology from the pope,” said Anthea Butler, senior fellow at Oxford University's Koch History Center. She added that the apology empowers Leo to “speak to the current issues of technological enslavement.”

The Pope's slavery apology was part of a much lengthier document whose title translates to "Magnificent Humanity." It's largely focused on humanity's roles and responsibilities as artificial intelligence reshapes the world around us. Leo connected the topic to slavery by warning that these emergent technologies are leading to new forms of human exploitation and debasement, as neocolonialist labor practices are implemented to provide the rare minerals necessary to build AI chips.

The situation in the Congo is particularly dire, with untold masses of men, women, and children being paid next to nothing — and in some cases nothing at all — to work in inhumane, unhealthy conditions mining cobalt.

While so many of our world leaders are failing to confront the challenges and evils of the modern world, Pope Leo is boldly leading the way.

Please ❤️ and share if you're a big fan of Pope Leo!

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

If you can't get a job, they tell you you're a scrounger. If you've got a job and complain about the cost of living, they tell you to get a better-paid job. And once you get a well-paid job, they tell you greedy train drivers earn 'too much money'. See how it works yet?

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Say you can't manage on the minimum wage and you get told to cancel Netflix and learn to batch cook. Say you can't manage on £100k a year and you get sympathetic coverage in the Daily Telegraph.

[AFL-CIO ✊ @AFLCIO]

Pope Leo’s choice to issue his first encyclical on the threat of unregulated AI is a testament to the urgency of this issue for working people.

America’s unions have and will continue to answer his call to defend the dignity of working people. https://t.co/aD8rTWnV9q

[Tony Annett @tonyannett]

“The pursuit of greater profits cannot justify choices that systematically sacrifice jobs, because the human person is an end, not a means, and the economic order must remain subordinate to human dignity and the common good.” - Pope Leo XIV.

[Rich Raho @RichRaho]

“The way society treats migrants, reveals whether its sense of justice is driven by fear or by the spirit of fraternity.” @Pontifex in #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Yet, a bright possibility emerges: that of building together, of transforming diversity into a resource and of making listening and dialogue the common ground upon which to cultivate justice and fraternity.

[LGBT+ Labour @LGBTLabour]

Our statement following the publication of the EHRC's updated code of practice.