Noel Douglas

"The sign is the most sensitive index of social change” ⚡️Artist ⚡️Designer ⚡️ Musician ⚡️Writer ⚡️Educator ⚡️ Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure ⚡️

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

Posters for Grenfell Next Of Kin
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[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@andyburnham Yeah and she made sure pregnant women were handcufffed to their hospitals beds
No one deserves to be murdered but she wasn’t on our side she was truly awful

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW:

🇺🇸The head of NATO Mark Rutte

"NATO is a platform for the United States to project power on the world stage."

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"En EEUU, me discriminaban en el ejército por ser negro... aquí en la República Española, soy comandante de un batallón".

Oliver Law, comandante afroamericano del Batallón Lincoln de las Brigadas Internacionales, caía en combate un 9 de julio de 1937 mientras luchaba contra el franquismo en Brunete, liderando a sus tropas al grito: "Avanzad, a por ellos".

Como dice el poeta Miguel Hernandez: "Hay hombres que contienen un alma sin fronteras".

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Lo que ocurre dentro de las prisiones de Israel, es que son un cementerio. Desde que entras no paran de agredirte, me agredieron desde que me arrestaron delante de mis hijos. Tras las palizas no pude recordar la imagen de mi hijo y perdí la capacidad de respirar".

Mujahed Bani, un periodista palestino de 37 años, que fue brutalmente torturado por "Israel" hasta perder la memoria y no poder respirar, por las torturas sufrió un derrame cerebral y perdió parte de su craneo.

Ni siquiera tenían pruebas contra él, solo era un periodista que denunciaba los crímenes de "Israel"... cosa que no hacen los mercenarios de la prensa occidental que ocultan estas barbaridades y tenemos que ser nosotros quienes las denunciemos.

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@Channel4News We shouldn’t be banning kids from using it we should be regulating the companies

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@ValerieEBradley @Prolapsarian It’s completely to do with the family visa rule change that’s what’s cause the drop

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@samuel_leeds @DanNeidle A grifter writes…

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?

A Palestinian farmer tending his land in the occupied West Bank refused to leave for an armed Israeli settler.

So the settler took him hostage, blindfolded and humiliated him while IDF soldiers stood by, guarding and protecting the abuser.

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@DanNeidle @JamieJBartlett Oh get over yourself why you have a profile of any kind is beyond me

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

If you have a heart, I dare you to watch this without crying. 😔

She carried what was left of her son in her arms after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Deir al‑Balah that rescue teams couldn’t reach. This is Gaza’s mother’s love confronting the unbearable Genocide.

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@ChathamHouse May is scum

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Two important, maybe contradictory take-aways from this.

The first is that this is a change in tone that has been forced by the left exercising its power inside but mostly outside of the Labour Party. Burnham is in office because the Greens helped destroy the Labour Party in May's local elections, which has scared MPs and empowered parts of the Party that wanted a change of approach. So to the extent that this an improvement on Labour's position, it is a reflection of how an electorally relevant and competent force to the left of Labour does impact on our national discourse and forces Labour to humanise its messages. And a change in tone from an incoming Prime Minister does have some, at least limited, impact on shaping our national discussion on Israel's genocide.

The second point is that it is just tone. It's a three minute video for social media. It's not even set-piece for the cameras or in front of the national media. In the context of genocide, it's pretty thin gruel that many will undoubtedly find flippant and incidental.

Certainly, the contrition obscures that on substantive policy, this is no different to the Starmer government's approach. No significant increase in sanctions, strongly implying that there will be no ending the F-35 carve-out from existing arms license restrictions, hiding behind (and effectively misrepresenting) international court rulings to not call out genocide or war crimes, and certainly no steps towards accountability for complicity for domestic actors. It is little different to what Hamish Falconer has been telling Parliament for months.

And it is nowhere near enough. Doesn't even approximate being near enough, which will have to include a total and complete arms embargo, deproscribing Pal Action, and taking the concrete steps to prevent a genocide as required by the ICJ.

So the left must now organise and use the power it has gathered to itself in order to continuing demanding and extracting the concrete changes that are needed to end this genocide and secure justice and accountability. If Burnham wants to cohere an electoral left-alliance to save his skin, some hand-wringing and watery eyes won't cut it.

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@samuel_leeds @DanNeidle Dan is an associate of Luke Akehurst and is therefore not a reliable voice for change

[Jacobin @jacobin]

"Socialists not only understand economics just as well as capitalists... but can solve their years of mismanagement through an embrace of our principles." — @ZohranKMamdani

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@HugoGye @TheEconomist Haha joke article

[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@DavidMcNab17 Mate mmt theory is wrong

[David Harvey | @davidharvey.org on Bluesky @profdavidharvey]

Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears.

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[Noel Douglas @signsofrevolt]

@andyburnham Good to see you setting out policy behind a Murdoch paywall Andy, all part of that new politics we keep hearing about

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

One of @andyburnham’s first steps on “national security” is to publish an article in the Times (ultimately owned by Rupert Murdoch) behind a paywall.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Riots in Lviv over the brutal forced conscription financed by NATO.
- The majority of Ukrainians want immediate negotiations to end the war. They are obviously not in the minds of our political-media establishment, who claim to "stand with Ukraine", while boycotting diplomacy and pushing for a long war.