John Healey's call for more weapons and war illustrates why the international anti-war conference is so necessary. Make sure you're there. @unisontheunion@STWuk@counterfireorg
Wait, is Mark Rowley claiming Iran and Russia are inciting fascists to carry out pogroms against Muslims and migrants in the UK? Or has he just mentioned them totally unrelatedly in an attempt to avoid naming Nigel Farage and Elon Musk?
Lower Your Guns and Raise Our Wages!
With Healey's resignation over arms spending, it was a fitting day for a Westminster Bridge banner drop to promote the International Anti-War conference
#WelfareNotWarfare#WagesNotWeapons#AlltoLondon20June
Arms spending is the issue of the age. John Healey’s resignation as defence secretary is the military industrial complex announcing its programme for the next Labour leader
Acc to @Ipsos, 55% of the UK don't want an increase in defence spending. Yet try to find these voices in the media. Nowhere to be seen. My latest for @LRB in response to John Healey's resignation & the forthcoming international @STWuk anti-war conference https://t.co/7nvH5cg6On
Packed Stop the War meeting tonight in Newcastle to discuss how to stop the growing drive to war. Lots coming down to the international anti war conference next Saturday…
14 national trade unions plus union branches and trades councils - 115 in total 😍 supporting the International Anti-War conference ✊
🎟️https://t.co/kbkg3MfBaL
I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”
It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.
"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.
29-year-old Dillon Crawford has been jailed for three years for violent disorder during the Southampton riots.
He threw objects at police officers, including a bin and a metal item.
Dillon has 19 previous convictions for 33 offences, including multiple domestic abuse offences. In one incident, he punched a partner unconscious, knocked out her front teeth, and told her he had put bleach in her drink when she regained consciousness.
He also has previous convictions for burglary, robbery, theft, drug offences, drink-driving, and shoplifting.
Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country.
Time for him to pipe down.
Belfast riots : Immigrant family rescued by Police after rioters set their house and car on fire while the family was still inside.
This is an attempted murder.
Those poor kids will live that trauma.
Summer pogroms are becoming a tradition in the UK, and are clearly planned.
Reports from Belfast say the homes of known non-whites were systematically visited and attacked - which suggests information was gathered in advance.
This is not just spontaneous anger.
It's not just Belfast. It was in Glasgow. It comes after Southampton. The online fascosphere is abuzz with calls to make this another summer of violent, racist agitation. And the UK prime minister mouths platitudes with no plan of action to stop organised pogroms.
More than 30 UK charities are found to have funnelled millions to illegal Israeli settlements. ‘Labour’s Melanie Ward said that if gift aid were claimed against the donations in the usual way, it would mean taxpayers had subsidised illegal settlements to the tune of £5.6m, a situation she described as deplorable’ - @guardian@melanie_ward
BREAKING: First image from the ongoing hearing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya before the Israeli Supreme Court in occupied Jerusalem. The image shows signs of severe exhaustion, as well as apparent marks of torture and ill-treatment.
This is one of the most heart-wrenching videos I have ever seen. It shows the immediate aftermath of an Israeli soldier shooting a 7-month old Palesinian baby in the head, stealing his life.
It shows that the car with the Palestinian family had stopped. Yet the Israelis shot.
The father is holding his infant son in his arms as he bleeds to death from the shot to his head. It tears you apart.
This is the daily life of Palestinians under Israel's US-supported occupation.
You never know when you will be shot in the head. It can happen any time, for any reason.
And the world approves.