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Socialism or Barbarism ✊🌹

[Streatham Labour Left 🌹 @StreathamLeft]

This is essential viewing for anyone who cares about the truth in British politics #LabourConference2022 #LabourFiles @UKLabour

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

I urge people to watch this important documentary. It transforms our understanding of the narrative which destroyed Jeremy Corbyn. Meanwhile the silence from the media/political establishment is deafening.

https://t.co/JeP7iDyifs

[Aydin Dikerdem @AydinDikerdem]

It’s wild how Gaza is being erased from the narrative surrounding Starmer’s unpopularity. Over 50% of Labour switchers at the locals said it influenced them. It came up on the doorstep over & over again. It’s one of the greatest moral stains of our era. And yet media silence.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Local traders at a historic British market are in a race against time to raise £15m to stop it falling into the hands of private equity firms.

Brixton Market dubs itself “London’s most diverse and vibrant market”, with over 100 vendors representing more than 50 countries.

The market began life on Atlantic Road in the 1870s, with covered arcades built in the 1920s and 1930s.

In 2018 it was purchased by global investment firm TPG Angelo Gordon and property management company Hondo Enterprises, who put it up for sale last year.

Under their stewardship, traders have repeatedly complained that the market was being turned into a “ghost town” on the back of soaring rents.

The market is now being pitched to unnamed private equity firms for £50m as part of “a plan to drive £1.2m in increased profits by evicting tenants paying lower rents,” Londonist reported.

The original six-month consultation window was scrapped without warning, leaving only days before bidding closes on 22 June.

In response, the Brixton Traders and Community Association have launched a 'Buy Back Brixton' counter-bid, with support from The Advocacy Academy.

They have set a fundraising target of £15m to launch a bid to bring the market into community ownership.

"Brixton Market as we know it could disappear," the two groups said in a joint statement.

"Local traders actively create the wealth that is then taken out of the community by private interests, and yet are told time and time again that their needs don't matter and that they are replaceable by other businesses/chains who can compete with rising rents, despite being the ones to build this space into what it is.

"We now have two choices. We can either accept that the market will always be run by developers who don't live here, don't have any ties to the community, and only see our people as cash cows – or we do something about it. For us, the choice is clear."

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

lets take a look at some of the highlights

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

Labour candidate Andy Burnham has pledged to clean up the illegal Makerfield mega waste dump but can someone tell me why the previous Labour MP and Government Minister Josh Simons didn't bother to clean it up? https://t.co/kRRLZXzrgC

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Steve Reed, who helped co-found Labour Together, the organisation that ran a secret campaign to destroy the then Labour leadership & regain control of the party, allowing the Labour right to then purge its opponents, says a party that turs in on itself "doesn't go anywhere good"

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"EXCLUSIVE: Feargal Sharkey urges ministers to 'seize' Thames Water as nationalisation looms."

It's time to end it and that time is now.

https://t.co/SeAK3ZgN7O

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Mike Tapp: ".. if that agenda is too far from the manifesto its really difficult not to call a general election"

Like scrapping the Winter Fuel Allowance, slashing welfare, digital IDs, banning Palestine Action, stuff like that you mean?

[Rathi Guhadasan @rathisochealth]

300 emergency care deaths / week, waiting lists still over 7 million and an NHS funding private profits at the expense of staff & patient care.

We discuss the government’s record on the NHS so far and how this needs to change urgently: watch👇🏾

https://t.co/iNVavV7vba

[Zeteo UK @zeteouk]

“There are hills you have to die on. And [Gaza] for me was non-negotiable.”

Member of the UK Parliament @NazShahBfd discusses why she gave up a prominent role in the Labour Party to speak up for Gaza.

https://t.co/ET1VoHiAOm

[Andy McDonald MP for Middlesbrough & Thornaby East @AndyMcDonaldMP]

The govt is right to reject the proposed bailout of Thames Water.

I urge the govt to go further and to champion public ownership of water, in the public interest.

Customers should not pay the price for the private bailout.

https://t.co/66Zjk7uDMn

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

With private equity trying to buy up Brixton Village and Market Row, local traders face the threat of higher rents and evictions.

Amid widespread local opposition, they are launching an emergency counter-bid to bring the market under community ownership.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

82% of Britons support nationalising the water industry.

The public gets it, how come govt doesn't?

https://t.co/VgHEJLFCX1

[Streatham Labour Left 🌹 @StreathamLeft]

@AydinDikerdem Think the phrase for it is "doing an Abdi Duale"

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

David Lammy is asked about Darren Jones messaging Mandelson after he'd been sacked & he says whats fundamental in all this are Epsteins victims.

In which case why didn't you resign when Mandelson was appointed?

And its clear how much thought Jones gave to them (in private)

[Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @AndreaEganGS]

The EHRC Guidance on single-sex spaces is unjust and unworkable.

That's why UNISON are demanding MPs stand with trans and non-binary workers and oppose the guidance.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

Privatised water is such an obvious scam that it's achieved the impossible: getting 82% of Brits to agree on something.

The only issue to score higher was the public’s desire for Tony Blair to stick to retirement.

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

Wishing a happy Eid al-Adha to the Muslim community in Clapham & Brixton Hill and beyond!

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

Tony Blair has nothing to offer Labour in 2026.

His neoliberalism, backing of endless wars and acceptance of inequality are exactly what Labour must break from if it wants to rebuild support and defeat the far-right.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Natasha Devon: "This is about Palantir. I think there's probably a limited amount that I have time to say & can say on air about Palantir"

Palantir, the US surveillance company that supplies ICE & the IDF among others, should be kicked out of all our public services.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

It’s 2035, and it’s just hit 35 degrees C - in March.

The bees are confused, where are the flowers? Crops get ruined by a lack of water in the weeks that follow.

But in the Daily Mail comments still say “ITS THE SUMMER, ENJOY IT”.