“If you don't think collusion with the security services will advance the class struggle you're possibly not understanding social democracy correctly from a Marxist viewpoint.”
Do not forget that Nicolas Maduro, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is still being held hostage along with his wife by the criminal Trump regime.
I spent a hundred hours with Fidel. He was the greatest man I ever knew. There will never be another. He was the complete man. Brilliant brave and kind. As keen a listener as talker, as interested as interesting. Forensic. A details man as well as a broad brush visionary. He inspired hundreds of millions of people. He is a sprig of white heather in the future’s lapel. 100 years with Fidel. Here’s to the next 100.
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100 yeas of solidarity: From Havana to London – On Castro's centenary birthday, diplomats and activists celebrate Cuba's undying revolution
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📢 One week to go! Shut down US bases!
Join us at RAF Fairford next Saturday to demand that Andy Burnham revokes permission for the US to use British bases to attack Iran.
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The editor that rejected Regev’s article was me :)
For context the article was submitted ahead of the 2019 Labour Party conference. Jeremy Corbyn was leader and a general election was a matter of months away. Debate was set to take place on the issue of Palestine, with Corbyn backing recognition of a Palestinian state.
Our newspaper was placed on every seat in the conference hall and distributed to delegates and supporters outside. Regev’s assistant called every ten minutes or so demanding the article was published in the following day’s edition. I said it would be reviewed and considered in the same way other unsolicited submissions were.
I did indeed eventually read the article, the thrust of which was why Labour Party members and socialists should support Israel. It was ahistorical crap, promoting the mythical role of the kibbutz movement as a bastion of socialism in the Middle East.
Of course this entirely stripped kibbutzim of its context as central to the zionist project of Palestinian land theft and occupation, framing it it as some kind of progressive utopia. The article was subsequently rejected as not suitable for publication.
I received an angry call soon afterwards and ended up putting the phone down. The shock and indignation at the rejection was reflective of relations with the majority of the British press which bends at every request to change headlines, amend articles and publish op-eds as they wish.
Instead I consigned it to the dustbin of history where it rightfully belonged.
The funeral of 112 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from under the rubble in Gaza .
200 families couldn’t bid farewell to their beloved because their bodies couldn’t be recovered.
Trump talks about prosperity while the US military keeps its boot on the neck of the Middle East.
This isn't diplomacy. It is a stay of execution. The US has a history of tearing up agreements the moment the wind shifts.
No to gangster diplomacy.
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Burnham urged to increase tax on banks as Barclays pre-tax profits for the second quarter soar to £3.3bn, up 31%.
Banks making record profit, closing branches, cutting staff, involved in scandals.
Chance for the Govt to show whose side they’re on
https://t.co/qOLpdgUYCH