Rehad Desai

documentary filmmaker, eco-socialist activist, foodie, latest film How To Steal A Country

[Rehad Desai @RehadD]

https://t.co/kowlVYp3wF screening in Den Hague 23rd March

[Patrick Corrigan @PatrickCorrigan]

Northern Ireland does not have an ‘immigration problem’.
We have a racism problem.

[SAFTU @SAFTU_media]

SAFTU GENERAL SECRETARY TO JOIN ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO MARCH TO GAUTENG LEGISLATURE AGAINST PIE ACT.

SAFTU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi will join Abahlali baseMjondolo in a mass march to the Gauteng Legislature to defend the right to land, housing, and human dignity.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson: Like it or not, Iran are uniquely standing up for Palestinians and the people of Lebanon.

"The rest of the world is watching this in horror and no one else is doing anything about it."

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

White men are hunting down Black people in Belfast to exact collective punishment because they share the same race as the perpetrator. Regardless of ethnicity, faith or nationality - Black people are being terrorised for the horrific crime committed by 1 Sudanese man.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”

It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.

[Socialist Worker @socialistworker]

South Africans organise against xenophobic attacks
⭐️'We are busy organising to show that it’s only a tiny minority of South Africans who are xenophobic,' says South African socialist activist
https://t.co/f4vUYXmxJg

[Rehad Desai @RehadD]

https://t.co/XeG0cx2Xo7

Very strong reflections on 1976 Uprising in South Africa and what it means for today.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel is using dogs to rape Palestinians.

There are multiple testimonies about this crime.

When I first reported on this obscenity, it triggered a firestorm.

The New York Times has now, finally, reported on it - and Israel's systematic use of sexual violence.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 ITALY JUST SHUT DOWN FOR PALESTINE! 🇮🇹🇵🇸
Nationwide general strike in 75+ cities! Millions flood the streets of Milan, Naples, Florence & Turin.
Country completely paralyzed for 24 hours transport, schools, ports, logistics ALL stopped.
Port workers blocked arms shipments to Israel. Police fired tear gas in Milan after clashing with protesters near the central station.
Why? Meloni refused to recognize Palestine → the people said NO MORE.
Their demands:
1️⃣ Recognize the State of Palestine
2️⃣ Halt ALL arms sales to Israel
3️⃣ Sanctions on Netanyahu’s government
4️⃣ End the genocide in Gaza NOW

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Professor Norman Finkelstein:

“Israel is now a madman.”

“It didn’t get its way with Iran, and so it is totally destroying Lebanon now.”

“It is in a state of catatonic lunacy.”

“I’ve said this for years. Now it’s the consensus.”

“Israel is a lunatic state. A lunatic society.”

[aNNalog @unmannedfuture]

@jasonhickel @anthonyfenton Heard him on conjuncture - really incisive on critical reexamination of archives and survival v freedom tropes

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This is a really powerful, important podcast episode with Prof David McNally -- I strongly recommend it. It nicely debunks the myth that plantation slavery in the Atlantic was some kind of “pre-capitalist” mode of production – a favourite claim of those who try to sanitize capitalism of some of its most heinous crimes.

The claim shouldn’t need debunking – world-system analysts have long established that capitalism is a 500-year-old system that relied very heavily on bonded labour for centuries – but it absolutely bears repeating.

Plantation slavery was very clearly capitalist: it was commodity production for the world market (not for the consumption of the owner, as in pre-capitalist forms of slavery), geared toward profit maximization, capital accumulation, competition, and reinvestment in the expansion and intensification of production.

There are some Marxists who claim that Atlantic slavery doesn’t fit Marx’s definition of capitalism, because enslaved people were not paid wages and therefore could not produce surplus value. McNally shows this is an incorrect reading of Marx, and an incorrect view of how plantation production worked.

It’s also crucial to understand that enslaved people were at the forefront of resistance against capitalist exploitation. The British ruling class likes to claim that Britain “abolished slavery”, as though this was some benevolent gift handed down from above. Far from it. It was slave rebellions and revolutions that abolished slavery!

Specifically, the Haitian revolution in 1791, Bussa’s rebellion in Barbados in 1816, followed by the Baptist rebellion in Jamaica in 1830- some of the earliest general strikes in working-class history! This eventually forced Britain to understand they would not be able to sustain the system.

And then there was the general strike during the US Civil War, described by Du Bois, when up to 500,000 enslaved people refused to work and fled to union lines, totally crippling the plantation economy. 200,000 of them took up arms on the union side and fought the slavers, contributing substantially to the defeat of the fascist confederacy. Heroes one and all.

Teaser to the episode here: https://t.co/NmOr4XRVFE. The full episode is available via Patreon subscription to @UpstreamPodcast (worth it!).

[Waterways Protection 💙 #EndSewagePollution @WaterWaysProtct]

Ash Smith (@WindrushWasp, Windrush Against Sewage Pollution / #DirtyBusiness) and environmental barrister @paulpowlesland discuss the #ThamesWater crisis on the People vs Sewage podcast. PA Media release:

https://t.co/L9d3wdHxTF

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

[DonkConnects ♻️™ @donkoclock]

Usha & JD Vance getting Olympic BOO Birds at the opening ceremony.

Drop a 💙 for Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy!!

[Rehad Desai @RehadD]

https://t.co/Q5EJJZKpC2

[Corruption-Hater 🦅🇿🇦🦁 @MadiBoity]

Honestly, I won't mind if their offices are petrol-bombed. This is a terrorist organization in this country; a public enemy.

[Rehad Desai @RehadD]

@AsaTokwe @RealMbombo @HistorySAZAR @PatriciaDeLille @AldrinSampear Sure

[Rehad Desai @RehadD]

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[Rehad Desai @RehadD]

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