Tristan Strange

'In all seriousness, It's eco-socialism or eco-fascist barbarism'. Pick a side. Swindon based.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I recently heard a leading public figure claim that high-income countries need more GDP growth in order to increase innovation in things like renewables, EVs, and life-saving medicine.

This makes little sense:

Why do we need to increase *aggregate* production, indiscriminately, from an already very high level, in order to get these specific innovations? Why do we need continued growth in fast fashion and industrial beef in order to innovate better energy systems and medicines?

We don't. This is massively inefficient and unnecessary. Instead, we can use industrial policy and public finance to target necessary innovations directly.

And this does not require high-income countries to achieve even higher levels of GDP. It can be done right now.

Look at China. China has led major innovations in exactly these technologies - renewables, EVs and life-saving medicines, as well high-speed rail, aerospace engineering, microchips etc - with a GDP per capita that is 70% less than that of the US. How? By leveraging industrial policy and public finance.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I spoke yesterday in Paris about how socialist policy can enable us to overcome social deprivation and ecological crisis, by aligning investment and production with democratically determined objectives.

I noticed that some people assume socialism necessarily means 100% public ownership, but this is not the case. Yes, for many important reasons, we need public ownership of public services, utilities and the commanding heights, and yes we need a public finance system, industrial policy and credit guidance...

But there's no reason we cannot have private firms producing consumer goods like watches, beer, etc - the key is that they should be democratically owned and managed, by workers or communities empowered to determine the objectives of investment and production.

We know that when people have democratic control over production they are more likely to align it with social and ecological needs.

Socialism is ultimately about economic democracy: extending the principle of democracy into the realm of production. Cooperatives are an important step in this direction.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Mr Justice Johnson also banned the defendants from putting forward documents “which relate to the defendants’ reasons for believing that Elbit supplied Israel with weapons and that Israel’s military operations in Gaza were unlawful”

https://t.co/fOCGhcZxjw

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time.

It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day.

It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7.

Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

SHOCKER

The Filton6 retrial judge who:

• Removed all defences
• Threatened defendants with contempt if they mention Israel, etc
• Lied to jurors about their rights
• Is to elevate sentences to include a “terrorist connection” (kept hidden from jury)

Receives a promotion…

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer.
In fact we won 9.7 million votes, over 3 million fewer than in 2017 and half a million less than the 'disastrous' 2019 poll.
We won because the Tories imploded in 2024.

[Clare Hinchcliffe (Rogers) @Subversivite]

Zoe is acquitted of all charges, but there is no joy in this home tonight.

My thoughts on the outcome of the Filton retrial as Zoe's mum... 🧵
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[Real Media @RealMediaGB]

Real Media’s ongoing coverage of the ‘Filton 6’ trial

Six activists are charged with criminal damage, and one, Sam Corner, is accused of grievous bodily harm with intent. Our coverage has been updated with the first eight days of the trial, including Sam’s evidence, as well as news of the policing of protests outside the court.

Trudi Warner, an activist and retired social worker, was one of two people arrested after sitting in silence outside the entrance to Woolwich Crown Court last Thursday with signs reading: ‘Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience’ and ‘Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth’.

All coverage in one place, with daily summaries: https://t.co/MSqKWGgRPb

Sharing this coverage helps support our reporting.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The government has spent the past two years turning a blind eye to war crimes in Gaza.

Now, the Foreign Office unit that tracks Israeli breaches of international law has closed altogether.

This is the last stage of British complicity: pretend it never happened at all.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Corporate Welfare

Drax claimed £999m subsidy for burning trees in 2025 to produce electricity.

£8.7bn since 2012, more to come.

Its electricity is the most expensive.

Company made operating profit of £947m in 2025.

Biggest single polluter in the UK.
https://t.co/Wc5l0eN2jS

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Zarah Sultana MP calls out draconian new last minute anti protest laws that went through the commons with very little debate last night - there was a related protest that took place outside yesterday in which the police denied the protestors the right to use microphones or megaphones on threat of arrest.

[Tristan Strange @trisss]

@dpaudits What, because you and your boys are around? Fucking Sicko:

https://t.co/tLwrtj0RYl

[Alice Haven @Alice_1971_]

@dpaudits I've seen worse messages tbf

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING: Filton Activist’s Mother ACQUITTED after Parliament Lock-on

Emma Kamio, mother of Ellie (Leona) Kamio has today been acquitted in a one-day trial at City of London Magistrates Court.

She locked on to the gates of Parliament while the vote on proscription took place.

[Save Oasis Swindon 🏊‍♂️ - Pool, Slides & Hall @SaveOasis]

Great show

[Rangzen @revoltinghippie]

Under the new law this will happen more and more to anyone involved in the peace movement.

They posted photos of us, luckily I said "I do not consent to having my photo taken " so they pixilated it.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience.

Defend Our Juries sign-holders are outside Woolwich Crown Court with a message to the public as the Filton 24 re-trial gets underway.

The jury decides, irrespective of the judge’s direction.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth.

https://t.co/A0dGoJ0u4I

[Tristan Strange @trisss]

Great comms from @labourlewis. When is he going to jump ship though? By now though the geezer's just a useful idiot being used to convince centrists that there's still some lefties left in Labour. Surely he knows any of the good work he tries to do will just be drowned out?

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The right to protest isn’t a gift from government. It’s a democratic principle, hard-won and easily lost.

Last night the government tried to smuggle through a “cumulative disruption” power that would let police ban protests simply because other people had protested in the same area before. Think about what that means: your right to march could be extinguished by someone else’s march on an entirely different issue.

They knew this wouldn’t survive proper scrutiny - so they denied MPs the time to give it any.

I supported the cross-party motion to oppose the cumulative disruption amendment. The government used its majority to force it through regardless.

Protest is supposed to be disruptive. That’s the point. From the suffragettes to the anti-apartheid movement, it was cumulative, persistent, inconvenient protest that changed this country for the better.

One of the most authoritarian political parties in modern British history is leading in the polls. As I said in the chamber when the government proscribed Palestine Action - a progressive Labour government should be building firewalls for our democracy, not tearing them down and pitch-rolling for Reform.

This Bill isn’t law yet. It now returns to the Lords, and this fight is far from over.

[Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis]

The right to protest isn’t a gift from government. It’s a democratic principle, hard-won and easily lost.

Last night the government tried to smuggle through a “cumulative disruption” power that would let police ban protests simply because other people had protested in the same area before. Think about what that means: your right to march could be extinguished by someone else’s march on an entirely different issue.

They knew this wouldn’t survive proper scrutiny - so they denied MPs the time to give it any.

I supported the cross-party motion to oppose the cumulative disruption amendment. The government used its majority to force it through regardless.

Protest is supposed to be disruptive. That’s the point. From the suffragettes to the anti-apartheid movement, it was cumulative, persistent, inconvenient protest that changed this country for the better.

One of the most authoritarian political parties in modern British history is leading in the polls. As I said in the chamber when the government proscribed Palestine Action - a progressive Labour government should be building firewalls for our democracy, not tearing them down and pitch-rolling for Reform.

This Bill isn’t law yet. It now returns to the Lords, and this fight is far from over.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

BREAKING - @zarahsultana exercises Parliamentary Privilege to expose the unjust nature of the Filton 24 re-trial.

UK press has been court ordered not to publish these details.

“If convicted, they and 18 others will be sentenced as terrorists, but the jury will not be told that”