Martin Relph

Catholic, socialist and internationalist. Teacher of Spanish and Latin American culture in the community. Activist for intercultural awareness in society.

[Jesse Winney @JesseWinney]

I am not a Green Party member nor will I ever be. But I support this motion as I at least want the Greens to be an anti-Zionist Party. I’d want the Tories to be anti-Zionist, I’d want Labour to be anti-Zionist, I’d want Reform to be anti-Zionist. I want to make anti-Zionism mainstream.

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

A proper leader.

[Martin Relph @manurelph]

@JesseWinney @theseandiamond When Cristina Fernández was president, Argentina narrowed the gap between the rich and poor, only to be surpassed at a global level by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. Javier Milei has increased poverty on a grand scale. He has also developed close links with Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The Prime Minister has announced that this is "the end of his political journey".

Our campaign to expose his government's role in genocide has only just begun.

Complicity demands consequences — and we will not rest until there is justice for the Palestinian people.

[3. Dünya Savaşı @ww3mediaa]

🔴 Netanyahu:

"Dünya Kupası'nda Arjantin'i destekliyorum. Neden biliyor musunuz?"

Sunucu: "Messi yüzünden mi?"

Netanyahu: "Hayır, Messi'den önce Başbakan Milei. O gerçek bir süperstar. İsrail'in en büyük dostu."

[Martin Relph @manurelph]

Tell me who you hang out with and I will tell you who you are.

[Guille Vidal @eltemagv]

"Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres"

Con los que anda Lionel Messi:

• Donald Trump
• Benjamin Netanyahu
• Javier Negre

Difícil admirar a un personaje solo porque sabe patear un balón, mientras se reúne con los que buscan destruir a nuestra sociedad...

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Come on England!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Fuck FIFA Israel and South American Israel Argentina.

[رامین رضاییان @Ramin_Rezaian_]

En nombre mío y de todos mis compañeros de la selección iraní, quiero expresar nuestro más sincero agradecimiento y profunda gratitud a México por su cálida hospitalidad. Nos han llenado de amor, calidez y una amabilidad inolvidable. Gracias al maravilloso pueblo mexicano por su cariño y apoyo, que nos han hecho sentir como en nuestro segundo hogar. Todo nuestro respeto y aprecio para ustedes.

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

Latin America now unless the people take it back from the US of Epstein.

[Camila Lourdes Galarza @sovietwithsazon]

Petro did not usher in Colombia’s first left-wing government in history, the 2021 General Strike did.

And those same labor unions, students, campesinos, and militant pueblos from El Cauca to Chocó will rise again.

Las elecciones no salvan al pueblo, el pueblo salva al pueblo.

[teleSUR TV @teleSURtv]

#CARICATURA | La injerencia de Estados Unidos en las elecciones colombianas

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

When the final reckoning for 'israel' arrives, there will be no concessions. No immunity.

Only justice.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon.

The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it fine and normal to drop bombs on Muslim families overseas. The kind which sees starvation sanctions as a minor issue whose pros and cons are assessed solely on the basis of whether they will be successful or unsuccessful in achieving regime change. The kind which views imperialist extraction from the global south as the natural order of the world, with centrists and progressives squabbling only about how evenly that plunder should be distributed among westerners.

The unacceptable type of racism is the kind which affects other westerners. The kind whose consequences western liberals have to see.

If a white woman calls the police on a black man minding his own business in the park, western liberals will send her viral on social media, and she will be unwelcome in polite society until the heat dies down. If a celebrity is caught on tape uttering an ethnic slur, they’ll be unpopular for a while, and will be considered a liability by sponsors and film studios. This is the wrong kind of racism.

That’s what you’re seeing whenever the western press completely ignores a dozen Palestinians getting killed by western-made munitions on the same day the entire news media focuses on some allegation of “antisemitism” with no material consequences other than some western Jews feeling emotionally upset. The former is the right kind of racism, while the latter is the wrong kind. One is seen as acceptable and normal, while the other is a horrifying abuse.

Western racism falls into two distinct categories because our entire civilization is built upon the polite kind, whereas the impolite kind is useful to the powerful only as a wedge issue to keep western populations divided against each other. Mainstream western politics is often just a culture war between one major party which embraces both the polite and impolite kinds of racism against another major party which only embraces the polite kind of racism, thereby ensuring that no political energy goes toward ending the polite kind of racism.

The polite kind of racism is much more important to the powerful in the 21st century, because it’s an absolutely foundational component to their rule rather than merely a useful tool. Without the imperialist extraction of labor and resources from the global south at extortionate prices, you wouldn’t see sprawling megacorporations turning millionaires into billionaires and trillionaires who then use their wealth to manipulate western politics to promote their own agendas. Without nonstop military expansionism and the abuses of the western intelligence cartel, the managers of the western empire could not dominate our planet.

That’s why every few years westerners get to vote on whether or not to advance the impolite kind of racism in their society, while the polite kind of racism never appears on the ballot. You’re allowed to vote on whether or not your government will become more abusive to immigrants and other marginalized members of your society, but you’re never allowed to vote on whether or not war, militarism and imperialist extraction will continue. This expression of racism (or white supremacism, or xenophobia, or western supremacism, or whatever you want to call it) is considered too important to be left to the will of the electorate.

And you see this reflected in the consciousness of the western mind. Even relatively aware westerners who would place themselves on the far left of the political spectrum will often spend a lot more energy on domestic issues than the abuses of the western war machine.

Earlier this month the discourse on Left Twitter revolved around whether or not it was a “privileged take” to say that people shouldn’t serve in the US military, the argument being that many US military personnel come from disadvantaged backgrounds. I saw a lot of US progressives who furiously disparage ICE agents and American cops falling all over themselves to defend those who enlist in the US war machine, which is quantifiably far more murderous and oppressive than domestic American law enforcement.

The only way to see things this way would be to view those who live in the global south as less human than people who live in the United States. That’s the only way it could possibly make sense in your mind to see the abuses of your country’s domestic police forces as worse than the demonstrably more egregious abuses of the US war machine. You’d have to view a school full of Iranian children being blown up by the US Navy as less worthy of attention and opposition than an American being beaten by a police officer in the United States. You’d have to assume those Iranian lives don’t matter.

And those are some of the more awake members of western society. Most westerners are a lot less conscious and compassionate than that.

Westerners live in the most savage and murderous civilization on earth. We don’t feel like we are savage and murderous because we outsource most of our violence and slavery to overseas operations, but that’s what we are. We go about our lives consuming products made by wage slaves under an oppression machine that is defended through constant mass military slaughter, and then we wag our fingers at a viral video of some schizophrenic saying racist things in order to feel nice feelings about ourselves. That’s what western life is, right there.

We’ve got a lot of growing up to do. We are in need of drastic, revolutionary change, more extensive than probably most of us can imagine at this point in time. We’ve got a long, long way to go, and a whole, whole lot of wrongs we need to make right around the world.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Every time I spoke on the BBC and uttered the word genocide, the host rushed to dismiss its very legitimacy. Each one of them has blood on their hands.

[Colombia Oscura @ColombiaOscura]

#ALERTA 🚨 Preocupante presencia de personas armadas con bates en inmediaciones de Plaza Mayor, Medellín, tras conocerse victoria de Abelardo de la Espriella. Ciudadanos denuncian en R/S un ambiente tenso y hacen llamado urgente a las autoridades para garantizar los escrutinios.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE UNMASKING OF THE HOSTS.

Look at the reality on the ground in Mexico—the stadiums are packed, the atmosphere is peaceful, and the country is opening its arms to the entire world without fear or prejudice. This is what the World Cup is actually supposed to look like. Mexico is showing true global hospitality, letting the beautiful game unite people across borders, and completely shattering the negative propaganda the Western press loves to spin about the Global South.

But look at the staggering, hypocritical contrast just across the northern border.

While Mexico creates an open, vibrant celebration, the United States is running a calculated policy of systemic exclusion. They are weaponizing their borders to humiliate the CAF Referee of the Year, Omar Artan, turning him away at the tarmac on completely fabricated, vague "security" whispers. And it’s not an isolated glitch—they’ve mass-denied visas to Côte d'Ivoire’s entire home-based supporters' club because they openly signaled they "do not want to see them" there.

The mask has fully dissolved. The U.S. wants the prestige, the global spotlight, and the billions in broadcasting revenue that African talent and fans bring to this tournament, but their deep-seated imperial hubris prevents them from treating our people with basic human dignity. Mexico is proving it can host the world with class and honor, while Washington treats a global tournament like a segregated, private club. The world is now wide awake to the fraud

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

Polls opened today at 7 AM in Peru, as the country votes in one of its most vital elections in decades.

After years of political chaos, protests, coups, & economic uncertainty, Peruvians are at the precipice of enduring a fate like Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina with right-wing, US-Israel backed Keiko Fujimori, or taking a chance at sovereignty with left-wing candidate Roberto Sánchez.

The election follows a first round marred by delays, logistical failures, and voting irregularities, further eroding trust in the system.

I hope Peru chooses sovereignty over becoming a colony of the United States of Epstein.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

There is a growing push inside Parliament for widespread sanctions on Israel.

It's what the public wants. And a new poll shows more than two-thirds of Labour members want tough sanctions too.

This is a fight we are going to win!

[The Vibes Ruiner™️ @BrainsNGrenades]

"Cuba’s infant mortality rate for Black children is the same as for white children. Its Black population has life expectancy equal to its white population. No other nation in the Americas can make that claim...

[David Adler @davidrkadler]

Beware the premature coronation of
Colombia’s far-right candidate ☢️. The numbers tell a more complicated story – and more hopeful! – story: Ivan Cepeda, the candidate of the Pacto Histórico, won the largest first-round vote of any left candidate in history – surpassing Petro.