Tony Caffery

Socialism. Trade Unionism. Manchester City. All views my own.

[Tony Caffery @TonyCaffery]

At the Sunday morning AQA @NorthWestUNISON picket line supporting our members on strike

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Brilliant, brilliant exposé by Alex Thomson @alextomo on @Channel4News last night, blowing the lid of the corrupt, and it is corruption of the @EnvAgency allowing water companies to walk away from criminal charges, jail time, unlimited fines and all for nothing more than a slap on the wrist and some blood money paid to local charities.

It's time to put an end to this nonsense, it's time to hold people to account, it's time to send the fat cats to jail.

https://t.co/ph5PFXUph5

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Feargal Sharkey, "Water companies... The fines don't work, it's time we actually started upholding the law, and sending some of these executives and directors to jail"

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "You think we should put them in jail?"

Feargal Sharkey, "If we put one water company boss in jail for six weeks the whole industry would transform itself"

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Geopolitics of the Iran War: An analysis of the wider significance and long-run impacts of Trump’s war of choice

“The United States may be on the brink of a calamitous strategic defeat” — me on the @DemocracyCollab blog

https://t.co/lVVyIEvkMr

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Israel should be completely isolated and sanctioned by the rest of the world as a rogue power seeking to create a nuclear incident.

[UNISON North West @NorthWestUNISON]

*TODAY* Strike Action at St Mary's School, Marple (part of Nottingham Catholic Diocese) over proposed pay cuts and restructuring.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Scandalous. Today’s Europe, through its institutions, seems to cynically exploit the memory of 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust to shield Apartheid Israel and silence those who demand justice.

*Had we truly absorbed that lesson, we would not be facing such a moral abyss.

[Football Fans Against Fascism @Class1Action]

This asset stripper lives in Monaco & pays no income tax in the UK, but feels entitled to opine on how OUR taxes are spent, while badmouthing immigrants as ‘invaders’ & benefit leeches. This is the same guy who expects the government to cough up OUR taxes to rebuild Old Trafford.

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

Walney showing the sort of extremist, disgraceful, immoral, fact free-position on Israeli war crimes that makes him a perfect fit to be an advisor to this government. The fact that he remains an advisor shows how far the government has to go to have any credibility

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would punish countries for supplying oil to Cuba, escalating an illegal, decades-long attempt by the US to strangle the island nation’s economy.

Under the new order, issued Thursday, any country can be hit with tariffs if it “directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba”, though it does not specify how high the tariffs would be.

Trump also declared the so-called threat from Cuba a “national emergency” and accused the country of “policies, practices, and actions… designed to harm the United States.”

Those actions include support for “hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors,” the executive order said.

Cuba is among the most tenacious and long-lasting opponents of US imperialism, and has perhaps been the most successful at enduring aggressive policies from successive administrations aiming to install a compliant government there.

The US has imposed a blockade on Cuba with varying intensity since the early 1960s, creating shortages of food, medicine and fuel while badly damaging the economy.

“The US regime is waging an extreme campaign of economic terrorism to try to destroy Cuba,” Ben Norton, editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report, wrote on X on Friday.

Despite the blockade, and with help from non-US allies, Cuba has developed a world-class healthcare system that many argue is better than that of the US, not least because Cuba’s is free at the point of use.

Cuba also has a highly ranked, completely free education system and a 100% literacy rate. In the US, where higher education has burdened millions with crippling debt, the literacy rate is 79%.

The Trump administration has for weeks been pressuring Mexico, a major oil supplier to Cuba, to halt shipments, which last year averaged about 20,000 barrels a day.

It appears the pressure is working. Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has confirmed that state oil firm Pemex has paused shipments, though she insisted the company will continue to fulfil its contractual obligations to Cuba and may offer oil for humanitarian reasons.

[Cuba Solidarity Campaign @CubaSolidarity]

Hands Off Cuba!

[Tony Caffery @TonyCaffery]

@NathanEvansTeam @MoaningManc101 @erics_collar @MENnewsdesk @TomWRoss Nathan Evans pictured today. How has he got the brass balls to blame anybody else after 14 years of Tory austerity took a wrecking ball to council services up & down the country?

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Official statement of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on US aggression

https://t.co/FiGzhQXLOK

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

Beyond time. This is a devastating judgement for this pernicious organisation . It effectively accuses them of conduct that is " vexatious, abusive, misleading " and dishonest. It is outrageous that they have charitable status to protect their noxious agenda .

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

A typically anodyne @BBCWorld headline that completely masks the reality: that Israel is accelerating its illegal annexation of the West Bank and ite terrorising and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinians

[UNISON North West @NorthWestUNISON]

Wirral Evolutions staff on strike today outside the Wirral Council building demanding fair pay for services they provide adults with disabilities across the Wirral ✊

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

There has been a lot of talk about BBC bias today. Its a good moment to remember the BBC Gaza Report @cfmmuk by the Centre for Media Monitoring, just to remind ourselves of the scandalous bias against Palestine @BBCNews in the face of the Gaza Genocide
https://t.co/2I53DdYZoh

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

“Most of us have the best job in the world but so often we have to tell people we cannot do certain activities because we do not have the staff."

Care workers in Wirral 'don't want' to be on picket line as striking 'last resort' https://t.co/1uW4LOpEwZ

[Ben Jamal @BenJamal48]

Beyond satire. You are now defending the rights of a fan base with such an egregious track record of racist violence that they are banned from the city of Amsterdam. Starmer wants Birmingham to host people who chant for Palestinans to be raped and their villages burned.

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

Wirral care workers to continue strikes over grading dispute

“It’s time for the local authority to work with staff to implement a fair grading system that ends this dispute.” UNISON
https://t.co/bN2pkH3oRV