Red Teacher

Socialist, Trade Unionist, former Engineer and Teacher. Fighting for a Socialist Society.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They were in Lebanon.

THEY WERE IN LEBANON.

THEY WERE KILLED IN FUCKING LEBANON, THE COUNTRY THEY WERE FUCKING INVADING.

I feel like I'm going insane.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

Josh Simons, one of Trevor Chinn’s hatchet men from Labour Together – embraces Andy Burnham after giving up his seat for him.

Do we imagine that this key Zionist operative gave Burnham a shot at being PM out of the goodness of his heart?

Or do we think there will be a price?

Are Simons (and his boss, Trevor Chinn, the effective leader of the U.K. Zionist movement), now the new handlers of the next Prime Minister?

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Congratulations to Andy Burnham.

But this isn’t a team of advisers which looks like challenging wealth and power.

The race for Greater Manchester mayor starts today and it’s Greens v Reform.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Zionist Minister of Defense:

"We have flattened the entire first line of villages in southern Lebanon, all the houses have been destroyed. The residents will never see them standing ever again."

Zionism and its enablers are the great evil of our time.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

The massive NATO-backed attack on Moscow demonstrates that our rulers have lost their minds. The reason for Russia's restraint is that once it retaliates against NATO, there will be no escalation control, and the conflict will likely spiral into nuclear war.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Josh Simons, one of Morgan McSweeney's hatchet men from Labour Together – the group that took Israel lobby money and secretly broke election laws to get Starmer into power – embraces Andy Burnham after giving up his seat for him.

Watch this space.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: The IRGC announces Closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon

"The conditions of the ceasefire in Lebanon and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the area have not been met by the United States

Ships approaching the Strait will be targeted"

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

The Trump regime is in non-compliance. Iran will not implement the MOU under these circumstances. The US economy is destined to fall over the cliff and the Zionist regime will be severely punished.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: Iran suspends negotiations with the United States indefinitely as Israel strikes Lebanon

Iran wants the United States to exert real pressure on Israel, as mere talk is meaningless

Iran will not tolerate any violation of the terms of the agreement

Meanwhile, the 60-day period for negotiating a final deal is running out without any negotiations taking place

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Just another reminder that Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq war - an illegal war that cost over a million lives.

He has refused to describe the systematic slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as genocide.

So what will change? Nothing.

Arms sales to apartheid Israel will continue.

Palestine Action will remain banned, and more pensioners will be locked up.

Welfare will be cut to fund more weapons.

Immigration detention will expand, and mass deportations will continue.

Andy Burnham is not the second coming. He's the establishment's last roll of the dice.

We've already seen racist pogroms on our streets. That danger has not gone away.

So we must organise, build solidarity, and create power from below. Fascism isn't at the door. It's already here.

Only socialism can face down this barbarism.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

They convinced you that 20 days holiday a year is generous.

That working until you're 67 is normal.

That one full time job just isn't enough to actually live on.

They're making you slaves so they can have 3 castles, 8 yachts and a spaceship.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

The israelis have been strategically dropping dozens of HIGHLY-lethal cluster munitions disguised as children’s toys & footballs into Lebanon

[Ranjeet Brar @Rango1917]

A message from Doctors against genocide.

Who would have thought that in 2026 such an organisation would have been necessary?

Who would have thought that being against genocide would lead to doctors being suspended from medical practice in the UK?

Welcome to Labour’s Britain.

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

Remember all the fake antisemitism thrown at anyone to destroy the Corbyn movement? I do. I fought back and between IPSO and a libel action against the Jewish Chronicle I won and proved it false. So now the new fake antisemitism charge is the fake terrorism charge. Fight these tactics, expose these lies every chance you can. Anti racists are not antisemitic and peace activists are not terrorists. Don’t give them an inch or you give them the red light for genocide.

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Remember those horrific pictures of Jews liberated from Auschwitz?

This isn't one.

This is a Palestinian man released after 26 months of Israeli "administrative detention." No charge. No trial. No legal rights.

"Never again" sounds noble. It just turns out it was never meant to apply to everyone.

The Israeli government currently holds roughly 3,500 Palestinians under this system, and has issued more than 100,000 such detention orders since 1967.

October 7th wasn't the start of this. It was a reaction to it.

Why don't we hear anything about this?

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

I've now had a chance to read this Bill. It is a genuinely alarming piece of legislation and typical of the draconian, authoritarian politics of the Labour Together Project, in which Mahmood has been a key player.

The Bill gives the Home Secretary nearly untrammelled power to designate any "group" working to advance a "foreign state threat." They are a "threat" if they pursue any objective that is inimical to the "interests" of the UK. Anyone who "supports" a designated group, like endorsing it or sharing its messages online, faces 14 years in prison.

This is so broadly written that it invites - almost guarantees - abuse. In the context of a potential far-right government, it is madness to put such draconian legislation on the books.

We already have two examples of how the state or political actors have effectively fabricated foreign state connections.

First, in manufacturing consent towards the proscription of Palestine Action, it was leaked to the press that there were links between the direct action group and Iran. But this was entirely false, as the government's Counter-Extremism advisor sheepishly admitted months later to Channel Four.

Second, I have personal experience of this. We now know that in response to my investigations into the unlawful conduct of Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney, Labour Together hired APCO Worldwide to investigate me, my colleagues and associates. The end result was a mad dossier alleging that I was a catspaw of foreign intelligence services, working to disrupt British democracy. I've now seen some of the "raw intelligence" on which this was based: literally everything I have seen was fabricated out of whole cloth, the thumb-suck of some swivel-eyed "intelligence" source. We now know that the most senior people in the Labour Party knew about this and didn't seem to bat an eye. Some of them even seemed to believe this web of absurd idiocy.

Anybody who has spent time at the coalface of investigating powerful people or standing up to militarism and forever-wars knows how legislation like this works. Secret intelligence is used to designate groups and people. That intelligence is classified, so the accused can't even see what they're accused of. Judges are given secret briefings where intelligence officials deliver doom-laden analysis, but they can't be cross-examined by the lawyers of the accused. Whispers and innuendo, the lubricant of the sort of "intelligence" that led to war in Iraq, are spun into concrete facts and grave national security threats.

This is not hyperbole - it is literally what has happened when campaigners have tried to challenge the sale of arms to Israel and Saudi Arabia, where campaigners themselves were not able to see, hear or test the evidence of the state at trial. In every instance, judges have then decided that they have no power to gainsay the State.

As this government collapses under the weight of unpopularity and scandal, it is now delivering for the reactionary forces that helped to put it in place through systematic and pre-meditated dishonesty. The result is a lattice-work of legislation and practice designed to criminalise and constrain dissent in the face of genocide, war, environmental degradation and the sort of corruption that turns state murder into money and misconduct into power.

There is every chance that within a week, Andy Burnham will be challenging Starmer for power. It is plausible Burnham could be Prime Minister by September.

His task, amongst many, will be to seek accommodation with progressive voters and movements that have abandoned the Labour Party. There will be plenty of discussion about the wisdom of that move from both sides. But it is likely to fail unless a Burnham government reverses course on the Starmer project's assaults on protest, jury trials, dissent, free speech and basic civil liberties.

And none of that is plausible as long as Mahmood, or any other Labour Together alumni, remains in post.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

They raped a man.
They gang-raped him.
They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized.
Doctors documented the injuries.
The video of the assault was leaked.

Now the rapists are free.

This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick!

#ThisIsIsrael

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨BREAKING: A Huge Battle Ongoing With An Enormous Amount Of Israeli Casualties In South Lebanon

Israel is advancing from three different routes towards the Ali al-Taher Hills area.

4 Israeli military vehicles completely destroyed, Hezbollah fires AD missiles at warplanes & bombards evacuation sites for the injured soldiers.

Non-stop med-evac helicopter flights, as Hezbollah engages soldiers directly at zero distance while also throwing waves of rockets & artillery at the invading occupation forces.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

👑🔥 AGAIN A WOMAN‼️ A QUEEN THAT STANDS UP.
Spanish MEP Irene Montero just torched the room in Strasbourg.
While EU leaders posture and celebrate, she looked them dead in the eye and asked:
What exactly are we celebrating?
Prevented a genocide in Gaza?
Stopped the illegal US-Israeli aggression on Iran?
Broke relations with Israel?
Ended the occupation of Lebanon?
No. We cannot celebrate any of these things.
Then she dropped the line that’s echoing across the internet:
“Happy Birthday, Mr. Genocide.” aimed straight at Trump.
The men in suits stayed silent or complicit.
She spoke.
Thank you, @IreneMontero.
Thank you, Spain 🇪🇸.
This is what moral courage looks like when institutions choose cowardice.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

A refinery in Moscow is burning, yet there is zero discussion in the media about the growing NATO involvement in these attacks on Russia. These attacks involve NATO weapons, intelligence, targeting, and even contractors, yet even discussing risks is believed to be "pro-Russian". If we still had journalism, then our chances of surviving would be much greater.