michael

Some kind of communist. Co-author of Fractured (Pluto Press, 2022) & Fascism and the Women's Cause (Ebb, 2025). Part of @56aInfoshop. oy vey.

[michael @Sisyphusa]

mine and @steinosteino's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @Ebb_Magazine.

please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.

[Doerthe Rosenow 🇵🇸 @DoertheRosenow]

Please support Samaher and her six children in Gaza! I am in daily touch with her, I know exactly where the funds are going. Only 40h left! Every little help matters. https://t.co/Bhp2qhPjzP @sandeepbak @alanalentin @insurgenthought

[DyslexicJake @DyslexicCrit]

As @Sisyphusa & @steinosteino pointed out in Fractured, the whiteness riot sets priorities for state policy. Starmer is emboldening Fascism & but equally emboldened by racist protests and riots, which were in turn emboldened by the gov support for genocide. It's a single movement

[Tom Gann @Tom_Gann]

The British state would rather a political prisoner on hunger strike die than recognise her basic legal rights. There are details here of how you can put some pressure on the prison to try to stop this happening. https://t.co/8W4vSxIiaK

[michael @Sisyphusa]

As relevant this summer as it was last summer.

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

"Whiteness riots have familiar features: police partisanship, local and national media fomentation, moral panics about crime and ‘race-mixing’. They have also operated as significant flash points for constituting the public interest as white."

https://t.co/MJSMC6vdOS

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Anas was the world's eyes & ears in Gaza; a household name trusted by all & the most active journalist on the ground

Israel murdering him is about 3 things:
Creating a full blackout
Sending a message that no one is safe, everyone's a target
Destruction of evidence; a mountain of stories, names, pictures, scenes that Anas had collected, witnessed & documented. Thousands of victims he's spoken to & who trusted him with their most painful stories

He would've been one of the top witnesses to take the stand against Israel in any international tribunal

Israel declared its intention to murder Anas months & months ago. Mainstream media & Western Govs gave Israel the greenlight when they let the murder of Husam Shabat, Hassan Islih, Ismael al-Ghoul & hundreds others pass without any consequences

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

This statement is untrue - we have plenty of footage showing that at 2pm, when the vigil was due to end, many hundreds of sign holders left Parliament square, with hundreds remaining in place until arrest.

The numbers are quite simple: you arrested 466 out of 800+ sign holders.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING: Police confirm 466 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act today.

The largest number of arrests in history by the Met police at a single protest, was for people holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[michael @Sisyphusa]

@Tom_Gann I'm so so sorry for your loss, Tom. Sending you so much love. Please let me know if there's anything I can do ❤️

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Powerful writing from Nasser Abourahme. Every sentence of this:

"Zionism, actually existing Zionism, is possibly the most concentrated distillation of colonial racism and state excess in the contemporary world. Bar none.

It’s not just that it’s the inheritor of Europe’s colonial project in its most self-righteous form. It’s also the contemporary vestige of state racism and power in the kind of unrestrained form that elsewhere had to be disavowed.

A proud holdover of what everyone else in the West had to pretend not to like anymore. A state racism and power that frees itself from any self-repressive mechanisms, does away with any pretense or even hypocrisy, and wades directly into the unbridled cruelty and sadism that the bourgeois Western political order had to at least pretend it had overcome.

Zionism shouts its genocidal intentions from the rooftops; its state ministers openly call for the elimination of everything that stands in their way; its supporters all but explicitly declare that the mass killing of children is necessary for the state’s survival and they will make no apologies.

This is the allure of Zionism today. The more it descends into its own suicidal spiral of nihilistic hysterical obliteration, the more it openly celebrates its sadism and will to obliterate, the more it offers a vision of the future for those not interested in co-habiting the planet with what they deem are its subhuman surplus populations.

In other words, the allure of Zionism to the fascist new right is that it offers a model of a historical corrective to what they feel has been a long surrender in which Western or white supremacy has been afraid to speak its name.

They want to be able to speak its name; they want to throw a “sieg hiel” at a political rally and not have to pretend it’s an autistic gesture of affection. It’s in this sense that Zionism is at once both the past and future of the European racial-colonial project."

[michael @Sisyphusa]

and for in more depraved zionism as antisemitism not being new (and murderous British anti-migrant racism not being new) thanks to @wrkclasshistory for this post today

[michael @Sisyphusa]

"If these Jews won't be Zionist enough (that is, white supremacist enough) then we'll just have to lean into our alliances with evangelical Christians and the half of the fascists that pretend to like us."

- Zionist proverb

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

Zohran Mamdani leads among Jewish voters by a 17-point margin in the race to become New York City’s next mayor. Mamdani, a Shia “Twelver” Islamist, will bankrupt and Islamise New York and pose a threat to its Jewish community. With their Pavlovian reflex to support the Democratic party and its anti-west, anti-white, anti-Jewish ideological dogmas, it was entirely predictable that before long these US Jews would themselves become a threat to the Jewish people. That moment has arrived.

[michael @Sisyphusa]

@ProfSunnySingh Two years (and a century!) to come to this "realisation" and this is the weak piss he comes up with.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

there is no justice for this. a stain on humanity that will never wash out. i hope it haunts every politician who abetted it, every media person who laundered it, every university president who destroyed students for protesting it. even then, there is no justice. free palestine

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 1 Aug 1944 a mass uprising began in Warsaw, Poland against the Nazi occupiers. They took the city, but received very little support from the Allies, including the nearby Red Army. After 63 days they were crushed and 90% of Warsaw was destroyed https://t.co/99TLcHBetG

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

BREAKING: Permission granted for a full judicial review of the Home Secretary's decision to proscribe Palestine Action.

If the legal challenge is successful, the ban would be quashed and rendered unlawful.

This is a significant win against the state.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

What else is there to say?

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

The Israeli military had a message to the Handala freedom flotilla. @huwaidaarraf had a message back to them, explaining international law and their rightful and just mission to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza with a civilian vessel ‘Handala’.