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ONLY new government spending can increase private sector’s net savings. Taxation does the opposite.
Every £ comes either from government spending (adding to total government debt until taxed back) or from bank lending (creating deposits but no extra wealth overall).
Today Israeli authorities barred me and other European elected representatives from entering the West Bank to meet Palestinian students and civil society leaders, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
We knew that by crossing into the occupied Palestinian territories, we risked being detained, interrogated and turned away by Israeli authorities. And that, alas, is exactly what happened.
For more than eight hours, we were held, interrogated and made to feel as though we had done something wrong simply by attempting to enter.
The simple truth is we had done nothing wrong. We went to show our support for the Palestinian people and highlight the terrible injustice and violence being perpetrated against them. We want to ensure that people back home do not look away from the reality of what is happening.
Ultimately, we went to show solidarity. But we left with an even greater determination to speak out. We will not be silenced, and we will not look away. None of us should.
It’s not unusual for a racist to only see things as black or white… corporatism, fascism, oligarchy, kleptocracy take your pick - cos it sure as heck wasn’t socialism
In the mid-1930s, the regime did transfer ownership of certain state-held firms and some public services to the private sector—against the prevailing trend of nationalization in other countries. These transfers often went to regime-aligned industrialists (such as Fritz Thyssen in steel) and served both financial goals (raising funds for rearmament) and political ones (securing support from big business). At the same time, Jewish-owned businesses were systematically seized via Aryanization and frequently redirected to loyal private owners or party interests. https://t.co/gM1elw0aiC
This was not free-market privatization. It occurred inside a system of growing state direction: compulsory cartels, price and wage controls, foreign-exchange and raw-material allocation, and investment priorities set by the regime (especially after 1936 under Göring’s Four Year Plan). Private firms retained legal ownership and some operational autonomy in many cases, and widespread nationalization of industry was avoided, but strategic decisions were subordinated to state goals of rearmament and autarky. The Reichswerke Hermann Göring was a major exception as a large state enterprise. https://t.co/KmQg66Qkzc
The structure has clear parallels to Putin-era oligarchic control: private (or nominally private) actors accumulate wealth and manage assets under regime patronage, with ownership contingent on loyalty and ultimate direction from the center. It was neither pure Soviet-style state ownership of the means of production nor classical liberal free enterprise. Hitler’s own statements generally favored private ownership subordinated to state directives rather than blanket nationalization.
Just listen to this.
Then consider these polls:
76% of Jewish Israelis think there are no innocents in Gaza (Aug 2025)
82% support expelling Palestinians from Gaza (May 2025)
47% support killing all inhabitants of conquered enemy cities (May 2025)
@Feargal_Sharkey@RolandBasilides A few years ago there was a £550,900 bonus for the chief executive of Southern Water just 2 months after they had been fined for pollution for the third time in 2 years.
Now my water bill has increased by over 50%.
@Davidreesrj0b@jeremycorbyn PR will change everything.
Earlier 2026 More in Common PR modelling (when Reform was higher) showed Reform receiving a large FPTP boost that disappears under PR systems, while the Greens get a big relative boost because their support is geographically spread.
@Davidreesrj0b@jeremycorbyn A few years ago I had a zoom meeting with the regional director of the Green Party she said that the people joining weren’t just Labour but many were ex UKIP.
Seven years ago, Lula was in prison serving an unjust conviction.
Today, he is the re-elected president of Brazil.
In 2018, he said “there is no point in trying to end my ideas, they are already lingering in the air”.
Lula’s ideas don't just linger. They live!
Viva Lula!
Israelis heard three Druse speaking in Arabic in a Tel Aviv club. They beat them so badly all three were hospitalised. Now the Druse are protesting and blocking roads. Not least because all three were serving in the Israeli military. The Druse are drafted in Israel and often end up in elite formations.
It's quite remarkable that they were attacked in hyper liberal Tel Aviv. But it shows you where Israeli youths are politically. The older generation of politicians often refer to Druse as blood brothers. The younger generation is just rabid.
Something has to give surely?
Union Membership as percent of employees:
* Iceland 91.8%
* Sweden 67%
* Belgium 55.1%
These countries have a Higher Level of Happiness, Security and almost No Poverty
* 2019 -24% 🇬🇧 workers were in a union
* 2021 -10% 🇺🇸 workers were in a union
Something has to give surely?
Union Membership as percent of employees:
* Iceland 91.8%
* Sweden 67%
* Belgium 55.1%
These countries have a Higher Level of Happiness, Security and almost No Poverty
* 2019 -24% 🇬🇧 workers were in a union
* 2021 -10% 🇺🇸 workers were in a union
@oddhanfoo@Thomas__Weber@elonmusk Furthermore, Mussolini’s corporatism was the opposite of socialism - it’s much closer to the policies of the current libertarian right in Reform and Restore or Putin’s Russia - supporting a corporate oligarchy.
Why are you so stupid?
Lol - Mussolini as “lifelong socialist” is inaccurate. He was a leading revolutionary socialist (editor of Avanti!, active in the Italian Socialist Party) until his expulsion in November 1914 for supporting Italy’s entry into World War I against party policy. He then shifted toward nationalism and founded fascism, which explicitly opposed Marxism, the Socialist Party, and class struggle (e.g., he later said the program was “to smash the heads of the Socialists”). He sometimes claimed residual socialist roots or that corporatism was a form of “feasible socialism,” but he was not a lifelong adherent of socialism as an ideology or movement.