Mark L Thomas

'where the chains of capitalism are forged, there they must be broken'

[Linkswende jetzt! @LinkswendeJetzt]

Neues Buch: „Breaking Our Chains – Women, Marxism and the Path to Liberation“. Gespräch mit den Autorinnen Sarah Bates & Judy Cox in Socialist Worker – jetzt als übersetzte Kurzfassung: https://t.co/L2e40GAK5f

[Ralph Darlington @irrelations]

This is a significant increase in trade union membership (up by 192,00 to 6.6 million) and density (up to 22.4 percent from 22 per cent) - but a more combative union movement against the employers and government could massively improve on this

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

BREAKING 🚨| The number of people in a union in the UK has GROWN by 192,000 - to 6.6 million.

There has never been a more important time to be a member of a union.

When unions do well, working people do well.

It pays to be in a union.

[Izquierda Web Noticias @IzquierdaWeb]

Bolivia: un inmenso ascenso de lucha y huelga general exige la renuncia de Rodrigo Paz

Caravanas de decenas de miles de personas se acercan desde todos los puntos de Bolivia hacia La Paz como parte de las inmensas jornadas de protesta para que renuncie Paz.

Desde su asunción, Rodrigo Paz ha tenido como política de "normalización" economíca del país el ajuste y descargar las consecuencias de la crisis sobre las mayorías populares, obreras, campesinas e indígenas.

Su triunfo electoal el año pasado fue más por la catástrofe y el desastre de los últimos años del MAS que por adhesión ideológica de la mayoría. Y ahora, con la crisis económica descargándose sobre las masas populares, éstas responden con movilización y huelga de masas para que Paz se vaya.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

Huge protest in Vienna against Israel’s genocide and Eurovision’s sanitizing of it.

[Shareefa Energy @ShareefaEnergy]

52 years ago in May 1974, a South Asian woman working at the Imperial Typewriters factory in Leicester was mistakenly given the pay-packet of a white colleague. She was shocked to see her white colleague was paid more. A legendary 14 week strike took place demanding equal pay

[Bookmarks Publications @BookmarksPub]

Nakba Day, 15 May: The horror never stopped - nor did Palestinian struggle for liberation
https://t.co/vxflznQz9y

[Ralph Darlington @irrelations]

The General Strike did not end when it was called off by the TUC, many rank-and-file workers across the country defied their employers and union leaders for quite a few days

[Europe Elects @EuropeElects]

Greece: left-wing to centre-left SYRIZA reaches an all-time record low with 1.0% in the latest Interview poll, which also includes an upcoming party led by its former leader Alexis Tsipras.

If repeated in a national election, the party would lose parliamentary representation for the first time. The electoral threshold is 3%.

➤ https://t.co/efSoqem2HA

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

BREAKING: A prominent British-Palestinian activist, Professor Kamal Hawwash, has won a seat in the Birmingham City council elections.

Hawwash stood as a candidate for the Green Party and won convincingly in Stirchley, making him the first councillor of Palestinian heritage to ever hold a council position in Birmingham.

[Resolute Reader @resolutereader]

100 years ago British workers got a glimpse of our power

[Bookmarks Publications @BookmarksPub]

Great interview with the authors of Revisiting the General Strike of 1926:

https://t.co/LPOMDcn4Yz

[Keir Hardie Society @KeirHardieSoc]

New musical tells story of Greenock's Lee Jeans sit-in women. The events led to one of the most extraordinary chapters in Scottish industrial history as the mainly-female work force occupied the factory for seven months. https://t.co/kqyhiuOuab

[Leo Zeilig @LeoZeilig]

The Winter Circus ‘… an amazing tale of life, living and revolution’ Issa Shivji. Soon be released (see post for pre-orders). @YusufSerunkuma @RadleyBen @ROAPEjournal @HeikeBecker14 @M_Star_Online @nytimesbooks @Guardian_Bkshop

[labournet.tv labournetTV.bsky.social @labournettv]

In April 2026 a wave of strike and riots swept into the industrial outskirts of Delhi. It was a response to massive price increases. Workers demanded massive pay increases and a reduction of working times.

More on the strike wave here: https://t.co/PrtVRZHfuu

@WorkersAngry

[Mark L Thomas @MarkLThomas1]

This Friday

[Bookmarks Bookshop @Bookmarks_books]

May Day! Come and discuss the 1926 General Strike - and its legacy 100 years on. Book a place here: https://t.co/xmeYZQh02T

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

The double murder of Rosa Luxemburg
🖊️Sally Campbell, author of A Rebel’s Guide to Rosa Luxemburg, reclaims her revolutionary legacy from a web of lies being spun by the Your Party leadership
https://t.co/0KtqmaqtvT

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place on this day 1932, organised by Manchester communist leader and Jewish anti-fascist Benny Rothman, secretary of the British Workers' Sports Federation. The Peak District was designated the UK’s first national park in April 1951.

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Fun fact: in the 1974 BBC series 'Fall of Eagles', directed by John Elliot, some of the main characters were Lenin [played by Patrick Stewart] and Trotsky [played by Michael Kitchen]. What's more, the Lenin portrayed in the series often quotes the real Lenin from his 1904 work 'One Step Forward, Two Steps Back' during his conversations with Trotsky

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

Southall ’79, when the police killed Blair Peach
✊The Nazi National Front came to the heart of the Asian community in West London on 23 April 1979. Rampaging police arrested scores, injured many and murdered Blair Peach.
https://t.co/xlD5EDEbmw