philippa clark

[MarxMemorialLibrary @MarxLibrary]

We can’t wait to showcase our trade union history collection at a special MML fringe event @BFAWUOfficial conference tomorrow 📚✊

[Scottish Land Revenue Group 🔰 @agr_slrg]

Why does this matter?
Vast Scottish (and UK) deadweight losses accompany taxes on productive activity (wages, trade and capital investment). Urgency to avoid the compounding damage is absent from ScotGov thinking.

[Scottish Land Revenue Group 🔰 @agr_slrg]

Ms Robison states in the article that Scot-Gov went as far as it could with devolved Income Tax powers. IT DID NOT (see chart): It has full powers over IT rates and thresholds (2016 Act) and could effectively zero them in favour of a local levy on land rental value (1998 Act).

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

‘Dizzying revolving door of corruption’ - Campaigners slam conflict of interest over top health official's Palantir ties at time of NHS bidding
https://t.co/YcQzr6prbL

[philippa clark @ClarkPhilippa]

Definitely. A tax which will raise plenty of revenue for public services, taxing wealth not work.

[Scottish Land Revenue Group 🔰 @agr_slrg]

"Scotland 'definitely' needs land tax", former finance secretary says | The National, 7 June.
Shona Robison's views on this have been in the public domain for years. We agree; and yet as Finance Secretary she fell silent on the matter and nothing happened.
https://t.co/2JaVyJ5Slr

[philippa clark @ClarkPhilippa]

Andy Burnham says land in the UK is ‘undertaxed’

Land Value Tax applies to the wealthy. It does not punish working people https://t.co/ENK2ZsS9s8

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

“I don’t think you and I are very closely related, however, if you are capable of trembling with indignation each time that an injustice is committed anywhere in the world, we are comrades, and that is more important.”

-Che Guevara, Letter to María Rosario Guevara, 20 February 1964.

Note: Che wrote these words in response to María Rosario Guevara, who had contacted him asking whether they were related because they shared the surname “Guevara.” His reply suggested that a shared commitment to opposing injustice was more meaningful than any possible family connection.

[philippa clark @ClarkPhilippa]

Where we saw police - posing as miners, stickers, T shirts etc - inciting a peaceful march, many children with us, to “storm” the barriers at Trafalgar Square. When it all kicked off they were standing alongside the police pointing people out to be photographed or pursued.

[Miners Strike @Miners_Strike]

At the end of the march violence flared when miners were penned in by police in Parliament Square. Among those arrested included Dave Nellist, Labour MP.

After miners pushed against police lines mounted officers arrived to ironic cries of ‘Seig Heil’ from miners.

[Miners Strike @Miners_Strike]

At the end of the march violence flared when miners were penned in by police in Parliament Square. Among those arrested included Dave Nellist, Labour MP.

After miners pushed against police lines mounted officers arrived to ironic cries of ‘Seig Heil’ from miners.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

26 year old Langston Hughes at Lincoln University in 1927 (he attended 1926-1929)

—Born in Joplin, Missouri February 1, 1901 James Mercer Langston Hughes had already spent two years in Paris working as a busboy in a Montmartre restaurant owned by WWI pilot Eugene Jacques Bullard. It was in that club he first heard the music of Black American jazz greats who fled to France following the war. One of the earliest innovators of “jazz poetry”, Hughes is best known as the Poet Lauréat of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes died May 22, 1967 in NYC.—

[King David @Aaron710David]

A hidden photograph from the Kovno Ghetto preserves a quiet moment between two young brothers whose lives were lived under extreme fear and uncertainty during World War II.

In 1944, five-year-old Avraham Rosenthal stood beside his younger brother Emanuel inside the ghetto, where daily life was defined by hunger, strict control, and constant danger. Even the presence of children was deeply fragile under Nazi policies.

Despite the risks, their uncle helped arrange for a secret photograph to be taken by ghetto photographer George Kadish, who documented life in hiding. Creating and preserving such images was dangerous, but it became an act of silent resistance and memory.

Not long after, both brothers were deported along with their family to the Majdanek concentration camp, where they were killed. The photograph survived the war and was later recovered, preserving a trace of lives that were nearly erased.

Today, the image stands as a reminder of how even the smallest records can hold the weight of entire lives and histories.

#HolocaustHistory

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."

Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.

https://t.co/nC3WWbwgt6

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Southern Water apologises after Winchester milestone removed."

So there's a mile stone on the Andover Road just outside Winchester, it's been there for 100s of years, guess who digs it up and then dumps it along with a load of other building waste in the local landfill?

Yep, step forward Southern Water.

https://t.co/ebnmnOoDAn

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"South East Water hunts for £100m to plug its finances."

Why in God's name would anyone want to lend South East Water £100 million?

Put it this way, once we've nationalised Thames Water guess who's next on the list?

https://t.co/gKWN2FtZec

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Welcome to sewage-on-sea: Britain's most fashionable tourist hotspot Whitstable is being despoiled by floods of effluent pouring into the ocean, just as the taps in homes and businesses run dry."

People in Whitstable and Kent really do get it from both ends, your sewage is dumped on to local beaches and your tap water gets cut off simply because the water company can't keep your supply running. Bloody hell.

Brilliant state of the nation piece by David Jones, @DailyMail

https://t.co/0sHmAWYWMv

[Revolutionary Blackout Network @RevBlackNetwork]

We have more slaves today than any other time in history

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

‘Vice-president and state department look to push far-right idea that mass migration is causing civilisational decline’.

Trump team back far right narrative in the wake of the tragic murder of Henry Nowak.

https://t.co/kem2yVLXdX

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

Trump ‘escalates conflict’ in Cuba after fresh sanctions
https://t.co/EKMAHXGLQY

[philippa clark @ClarkPhilippa]

Much needed hope for the future. Great stuff MML and RMT

[MarxMemorialLibrary @MarxLibrary]

A pleasure to welcome @ASLEFunion young members to MML this afternoon for a special tour & to discuss collaborative work on trade union history and political education ✊

[philippa clark @ClarkPhilippa]

“ A parcel of rogues” R. Burns. So many in thrall to this person and goodness knows why. Burn’s “ To a Louse” is apt.

Scottish Secretary thanked Mandelson for help with bid to become MP https://t.co/lV5edmcJge