Wavertree Fights Back #annsan4wavertree

Group of local labour activists who have come together to fight for working class communities and build a socialist alternative to the Tories and their system.

[Wavertree Fights Back #annsan4wavertree @wavfightsback]

Join us each Friday at 12 outside the former #Wavertree One Stop Shop on Picton Road. We're protesting against Labour's austerity and Council cuts and fighting for the services we need. All welcome.

[Merseyside Pensioners Association @MerseyPensioner]

Why was #Mandelson prodigy @wesstreeting standing in front of the Battle of Cable Street mural talking about his 'working class roots' this morning? His leadership bid video? Those who united to defeat fascism in 1936 weren't #genocide enablers! Shameless!! @UKLabour

[Merseyside Pensioners Association @MerseyPensioner]

“I’m not going to walk away and plunge the country into chaos” It���s quite obvious @UKLabour can’t win the next general election. #austerity & #Genocide_in_Gaza are not popular with the electorate.

[Mary Whitby 🇵🇸 @19MW98]

@iDrSunny @Burnt2020 @implausibleblog @ZackPolanski @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting @BBCNews @ShaunLintern @Rebeccasmt @parthaskar @Parody_RCGP @medicalmodelbri @Medicalwhisp @Xeon4f145d96s1 @RobLaurensonD4P @robprogressive @DanNeidle @Megsenmumdr @Molly2323232323 @ExplosiveEnema2 @DrAsifQasim @DrLKVaughan @Shr_Nottingham @DrLukeCraddock @quackophage @PhilSmithIsBack @DrNeenaJha @Roddy_Neilson @cannula_service @ollieburtonmed @doctor_oxford Even when Thatcherite 'thinktank' says 2022 Act was ripping up NHS, saying it out loud on national radio/TV & yet nothing! Silence from unions, from so-called 'left', from 'Socialist Campaign Group' of MPs & cllrs (many of whom are now 'independents' & still silent. Tumbleweed

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

The establishment will be loving this - Pensioners, the poor and vulnerable not so much- what does this tell you?
Green conference votes AGAINST energy company nationalisation https://t.co/RQVJxXhtO8

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

No - They must go now!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The UK Ministry of Defence just confirmed the drone that hit their base in Cyprus was not launched from Iran.

Not Iran.

So who launched it?

A British base in Cyprus. A Saudi oil refinery. Turkey. Israel present in all three incidents.

Someone is attacking Western and Gulf targets and making it look like Iran — to drag more countries into this war.

This is a false flag operation unfolding in real time.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

RAPE. He raped a little boy.
Call it what it is.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Allowing British bases to be used in an illegal war of aggression is a catastrophic and historic mistake.

Britain has been dragged into another war because our Prime Minister would rather appease Donald Trump than stand up for international law.

War is not a game. This shameful decision makes Britain complicit in the devastating consequences ahead - and jeopardises the safety of us all.

[Merseyside Pensioners Association @MerseyPensioner]

The High Court has ruled that Labour's proscription of Palestine Action was ILLEGAL and must be quashed. We'll continue to campaign against this law until it's gone forever! Opposing genocide is not a crime! #PalestineWillBeFree #IsraelisGenocidalState #StarmerOutNow

[Nicola James @NAJ562]

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Why the Mandelson scandal exposes how power really works - and why Corbyn still terrifies the establishment

“Mandelson wasn’t an aberration. He is the system.”
- @Jonathan_K_Cook

Here’s what most still fail to grasp:

Jeremy Corbyn didn’t frighten the establishment because of radical rhetoric. Politicians spout radical talk all the time. Talk changes nothing.

Corbyn terrified them because he operated outside their networks.

His campaigns were funded by ordinary people, not corporations.
He didn’t seek establishment approval.
He didn’t trade favours for support.
He didn’t owe them anything.
He refused to play their insider game.

Which meant they had no leverage.

They couldn’t warn him off quietly.
They couldn’t apply pressure behind closed doors.
They couldn’t buy him off later with directorships, peerages, status.

That’s what made him dangerous.
Not his words - his independence.

They couldn’t manage him.
So they worked to destroy him.

And they said so openly.

In 2017, Peter Mandelson announced he was working “every single day” to bring Corbyn down. By 2023, he was out canvassing against him in Islington North.
Extraordinary resources were deployed to remove one backbencher from Parliament.

Now observe the contrast.

Some figures move through the system untouched.
Their mistakes get buried.
Their conduct goes unexamined.
Their claims pass without serious scrutiny.
Not because they’re more radical.
Because they threaten nothing.
They don’t disrupt power.
They don’t force uncomfortable choices.
They don’t interfere with how decisions are actually made.

That’s why they’re handled gently.


Keir Starmer is the template.

He wasn’t elevated for brilliance.
He was elevated because he poses no risk.

Cautious.
Status-conscious.
Instinctively deferential to institutions, donors, media barons.
Dependent on establishment validation for authority.

That’s the type the system rewards.
Not independence.
Not disruption.
Not backbone.

He can be managed.


Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador exposed this starkly.
Other candidates existed.

The choice was about what Mandelson represents - and how the system rewards loyalty to itself.

Continuity with wealthy donors.
Reassurance for markets and corporate power.
A known quantity for Washington.
A guarantee nothing fundamental would shift.

Yes, Mandelson is compromised.
Yes, his record stinks.

But more than that: he’s embedded in networks of money, influence and power that have repeatedly shielded him from consequences - including proximity to corrupt regimes, predatory operators and criminal allegations serious enough to have finished anyone less connected.

None of that outweighed what mattered most:���he could be relied upon to serve the system’s interests.

That’s why neither London nor Washington blocked him.
Envoys aren’t chosen for integrity.
They’re chosen for alignment, predictability and control.

From that perspective, Mandelson was familiar and manageable.
Everything else was detail.


Starmer himself is disposable - just quietly so.
If he stumbles or becomes a liability, he’ll be replaced.
The system won’t miss a beat.


Corbyn was different.
Even from opposition, he remade the landscape.

He mobilised millions.
He forced over 40 government U-turns.
He set the terms without asking permission - on wages, public ownership, peace and austerity.

He demonstrated that power could be challenged without playing by their rules.

That’s why he’s still being marginalised.
That’s why those genuinely aligned with him get smeared.
And that’s why louder, more theatrical, more divisive figures - who fragment movements rather than build majorities - so often get soft treatment and convenient amplification.

Continues…

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

I’ve been contacted by THREE Labour Party whistleblowers, inc. a former frontbencher, + been passed a sensitive Excel spreadsheet by a senior politician in Scotland.

The evidence is clear: Mandelson + McSweeney built a covert network of Labour MPs.

Here’s what they’re hiding:🧵

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is the racist video Donald Trump posted.

This is where we're at.

[Merseyside Pensioners Association @MerseyPensioner]

Through our live link with Trade Unionists in Italy today the MPA sent our solidarity to Dockers who will be striking against all those involved in the continuing genocide against Palestine. #PalestineWillBeFree #IsraelisGenocidalState #strike

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

Doesn’t the greed of this make you sick ? Doesn’t the cruel obscenity make you recoil in horror ? Let’s fight like hell to get decent people in their place but above everything the new party must have mandatory reselection procedures and automatic recall for MPs councillors and delegates. We won’t take it any more

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

Leading the fight for free speech are those campaigning to un proscribe Palestine Action- if you agree please join those of us summoned to court charged under anti terror legislation for holding a piece of paper Tuesday 11/11 at 9 am Westminster Magistrates Court. Stand with us.

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

Save the world from Israel

[Merseyside Pensioners Association @MerseyPensioner]

Support Audrey White & others who were arrested for peacefully opposing genocide. Join us at 9:30 am outside Westminster Magistrates Court on 11/11/25. Our basic human rights are being stolen from us by a government that's complicit in genocide. #FreedomOfSpeech
#HumanRights

[audrey White @RedRosa91940184]

We decided to go the night before for cheaper train tickets and have booked a premier inn for the night. It still cost us over £250 . But of course the post isn’t about me it’s about the discrimination against those who live outside of London, the elderly and disabled who cannot travel and I ask you, who wants to speak to the court to defend themselves against charges under the terrorist act by zoom ? our witnesses are discriminated against too and what about inclusion. Massive numbers of people, for all sorts of reasons have no access, or the ability, to use the technology for zoom etc? Does anyone give a jot that these people are excluded?

[Merseyside Pensioners Association @MerseyPensioner]

Every Friday, we campaign against @UKLabour cuts that are crippling our communities. We're fighting for pensioners & all generations that follow us! #StarmerOutNow @jeremycorbyn @zarahsultana #Palestine

[Wavertree Fights Back #annsan4wavertree @wavfightsback]

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