Andre Pusey

Prog Lead for BA Sustainable Futures: Arts, Ecology & Systems Change at Black Mountains College Researches social movements, urban commons & postcapitalism.

[Institute for Social Ecology ☀️ @InstSocEco]

How do Freire and the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) help us think about the importance of dreams or utopias? And how do they envision the central role of education in the fight for them? To address these questions, sign up for our new course: https://t.co/8ggTmCDiCu

[Dave Smith @DaveBlacklist]

#Spycops inquiry hearings restart on Mon 2nd Feb. The 1st witness to give evidence is former #union rep & anti-fascist campaigner, Joe Batty. The undercover officer Carlo Soracchi, attempted to incite Joe & other activists to petrol bomb a charity shop run by an Italian fascist🧵

[UCU @ucu]

The University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff.

Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for.

This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless.

https://t.co/u9ziRinqk8

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Filton Trial: Judge tells jurors that "bias, emotion, sympathy, prejudice... political views" should not feature in their deliberations.

Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their CONSCIENCE.

Another judge misleading a jury.

https://t.co/rOqmkgNNSS

[rob evans @robevansgdn]

MI5 has said that it started “investigating rightwing, leftwing, anarchist, and single-issue extremism in 2020”. The exact scope of these investigations, and the identities of the groups being monitored, is not known. https://t.co/auBzpg7XLG #spycops

[rob evans @robevansgdn]

Most of #spycops clandestine reports were sent to MI5, helping the Security Service to build up large files on peaceful protesters who were engaged in democratic protests for an array of causes. https://t.co/auBzpg7pW8

[Andre Pusey @andrepusey2]

https://t.co/0n7YWw9jQ3

[Jon Silver @InvisibleMapper]

I am sickened but not surprised to see this ghoul appear amid an ongoing genocide.

"Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority"

https://t.co/wdkMndDazL

[Nicholas @_nic_beuret_]

Just one week to go until my book launch!

Come hear me, @chilledasad100, @meadwaj, @ER_Roberts_, and Harpreet Kaur-Spannos get stuck into the green economy and where we take the fight from here!

23 Sept, free to register - https://t.co/bNbtCT0aAp

[James B @piercepenniless]

Yes: Robinson has also been flaunting a cross lately. The rally also had a schismatic 'bishop' flaunting a weird nationalist crozier and growling out a bizarre speech. Pretty unusual for the British far right, historically.

[Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert]

If you're wondering why leftists are gleeful at Starmer's problems, it's important to understand that the way he treated Corbyn, dozens of left MPs, hundreds of aspiring parliamentary candidates and thousands of members has been despicable, and 100% unprecedented in UK history.

[Andre Pusey @andrepusey2]

https://t.co/RwpAg7U0lB

[Bertie Russell @alterurbanist]

Over 150(!) people have signed up to attend this event next Friday. It's capped at 200. Don't miss out, register here:
🔗 https://t.co/GDMLjArAUb

It's followed by the Pelican House summer party, a fundraiser for the West Indian Centre in Leeds (https://t.co/HRUWB9Hry7).

[COPS @copscampaign]

New details about #spycops released today by the Undercover Policing Inquiry. More than 10 years after the Inquiry began, it has today given a list of groups spied on by key officers Mark Kennedy, 'Lynn Watson', 'Marco Jacobs' & 'Rod Richardson' 🧵

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

[Gyll King Post Skip Diplomacy @GyllKing]

A Kent police spokesperson said: “Under the Terrorism Act it is a criminal offence to carry or display items that may arouse reasonable suspicion that an individual is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation such as Palestine Action.”
https://t.co/XygjuW52Vt

[Neil Gray @NeilGray00]

Only 9 Labour MPs voted against proscribing Palestine Action as a 'terrorist' organisation. 276 Labour MPs voted in favour.
https://t.co/govOQtLL5a

[Nicholas @_nic_beuret_]

For a long time it was assumed that climate activism was a rich-world form of politics

Turns out the wealthier the country, the *less* citizens engage in climate activism and the less they think it will impact them

Its a climate aristocracy

https://t.co/gTbQ5OG5Jk

[Keir Milburn @KeirMilburn]

New Labour had a deeply authoritarian streak but the proscription of Palestine Action goes far beyond their stated intentions. The current anti-democratic turn is common to centrism and the far-right. Its roots lie in the lack of answers to climate change and economic stagnation

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Now available for pre-order - The Long Heat by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm

"If you still believe or hope that climate catastrophe can be averted through technological rather than political change, I urge you to read this book." - Sally Rooney

https://t.co/Kqa2niEgyF