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Migrants have become the ever-convenient scapegoats. We need to stop punching down and start looking up.
Explore context, Bristol's migration history & interactive resources:
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#BristolCable #Migration #Bristol

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Murdoch. Rothermere. Musk. Marshall.

Then there's Bristol.

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🎧 NEW: Bristol Unpacked: what is positive masculinity?

Neil Maggs asks ‘masculinities educator’ Lewis Wedlock about his work in schools, the appeal of the manosphere and the importance of meeting young people without judgement.

Listen here: https://t.co/L6q1Z9xyVR

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The 43rd Edition of The Bristol Cable is now available in your nearest cafe. Get your copy today!

Link in bio: https://t.co/2t3FiBU9wj

#Palestine #Bristol #Journalism #LocalMedia

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"A hidden sentence."

When a parent goes to prison, the whole family serves time — but no one talks about it. Kerri Matthews joins Neil Maggs on Bristol Unpacked to shine a light on the children and families left behind. 🎙️

Listen here or link in bio: https://t.co/SoE1kZ7BgF

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Bristol Unpacked: what happens to families when parents go to prison?

Neil Maggs discusses the ‘hidden sentence’ carried by those on the outside with Kerri Matthews of Bristol charity EveryFamily, which supports families affected by imprisonment

Listen: https://t.co/SoE1kZ7BgF

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👏 FULL PROGRAMME RELEASE 👏

We are extremely excited to announce or full programme for this years festival, which will kick off in 2 weeks!!!

We'll have sessions covering a whole range of socialist topics, always with an aim of how can we organise to win. Covering party politics with the Greens and Your Party, fighting far right extremism locally & globally and looking at the state of Trade Union organising 100 years on from the General Strike. And be sure to make our closing session, where we will confront the biggest issue of our time, rising imperialism. We'll discuss how we can and must organise against it as socialists and how YOU can do it - for a liberated Palestine, Iran and and for the whole international working class ✊️ 🇵🇸 ⚒️

We'll be joined by a whole range of organisers - rank-and-file trade unionists, authors, academics, and leading activists in their fields - as well as organisations from up and down the country including: Palestine Youth Movement (@pymbritain), Greens Organise (@greensorganise), The Bristol Cable (@thebristolcable), Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone (@bristolafz), Workers For a Free Palestine (@workers4pal), Iskra Books (@read_iskrabooks), local union branches, and many more!

All of this comes with not only FREE CHILDCARE ALL DAY for the mini-Marxists out there (all ages welcome!), but for the first time this year a full youth programme aimed at 11-16 year olds interested in left wing and socialist politics. 16s and under all get in free for the festival (but still need to "buy" a ticket on headfirst!)

As well as hours of amazing educational content, we've got great evening entertainment lined up. We'll be kicking off on the Friday night with socialist Shark Tank (i.e. Marx Tank) and on Saturday we have a whole evening of entertainment lined up - a pub quiz, sea shanties workshop, bands, and DJ's late into the night.

Full details of the programming and sessions can be found on our website: https://t.co/MAmcuQVro0

Festival Tickets: https://t.co/Uh67lJq7P5

Afterparty Tickets (needed for Saturday evening entertainment): https://t.co/MqPIdhnIpY

Bristol Transformed is entirely volunteer run - all money goes back into socialist organising in our city and beyond. If you would like to get involved, sign up on the forms on our website.

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🚨 SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT - Why your campaign isn’t working (yet)🚨

The Bristol Cable (@thebristolcable) is one of the UK’s only independent, investigative local papers, and we are very excited to have them back at the festival this year, this time delivering a hands-on organising workshop: Why your campaign isn’t working (yet): power, strategy and organising beyond the usual tactics.

Look forward to a hands on participatory workshop where we’ll explore understandings of power, how to cut an issue, power analysis and strategy setting, delivered by Sam Kinch, community organiser at the Cable (@organising_cable)

Get your festival tickets here: https://t.co/Uh67lJq7P5

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The rise and fall of Bristol Patriots via @TheBristolCable https://t.co/U3MfTs6Adv

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Have you or someone you know experienced a health issue after consuming energy drinks? We want to hear from you.

To fill up this brief survey, click the link in bio or here: https://t.co/tV94j5Helc

#TheBristolCable #Investigations

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The far-right group’s latest demo claims to be about ‘religious unity’ but excludes Muslims. Bristol won’t fall for that.

Click here (or link in bio) to read Nikesh Shukla's latest column for The Bristol Cable: https://t.co/9iwdgMx5nM

#Bristol #AntiFascist #Column

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The Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist discusses mental health, masculinity and the challenges of thriving in a precarious creative sector.

Read one of our latest feature stories by Fran Pope here: https://t.co/67u0WtV8XH

#Bristol #Music #Arts

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As attacks intensify in northern Syria, Kurdish Bristolians Tara and Tanya speak to the Cable about betrayal, resistance and why the women-led revolution must be defended

Read this eye-opening story by Tom Anderson: https://t.co/a94kyXnzjN

#Rojava #Bristol #Protest

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🚨NEW: Bristol Unpacked with former Bristol Bears lock Joe Joyce chatting:
- social media beef after his recent signing for Gloucester
- class and culture in rugby
- how it feels to face the end of a sporting career

Listen here: https://t.co/yrajtsPmKt

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🚨NEW: This time out on Bristol Unpacked, @NeilMaggs2 asks Green councillor Ani Townsend why the time is right to be trying a universal basic income in Bristol – and why the creative sector should benefit.

Listen now: https://t.co/4lBaalI5CG

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Sean and Adam have been following the high-profile cases, read their report on what the verdict means — and how the trials unfolded.

Link in bio or click here:

https://t.co/PKCzhls0yO

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A jury has refused to convict six Palestine Action activists over a break-in at Elbit Systems UK near Bristol — the first verdict in the so-called Filton 24 cases.

Link in bio or click here: https://t.co/PKCzhls0yO

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If you're asking the tough questions about war and power, this is where you need to be.

See you there!

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We're rolling up to Declassified UK's first-ever summit - Challenging the War Machine // 31 Jan 2026

The summit brings together journalists, activists, academics, and anyone ready to dig into how the UK's war machine operates—and how we actually challenge it.

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