Finally recieved my physical copy of 'Theory and Struggle', the Journal of the
@MarxLibrary
, which features my first published article exploring the Kenmure Street Protests. You can download a copy courtesy of
@LivUniPress
here: โฆ.
They tell us, there's no money to feed the children or the poor. There's no money for new homes or transport. There's no money for our schools or our NHS.
There is, however, money for wars, bombs, and pictures of a King that nobody asked for.
This is your "democracy".
Invoice from the plumber who showed up to a 91 year old woman's house to fix a boiler. That she was ever left to pay for it any way shows how pathetic this country has become. But what a champion - love good humans, my brothers and sisters!
A woman starved to death in Glasgow. Unable to work due to immigration status, she fucking starved. A place she came to make a better life for herself and baby. Her name was Mercy; something the Tory government knows nothing of. It is systematic murder. Angry and heart broken ๐
They protest on roads, snooker, art exhibits and rugby - they're told they're doing it wrong.
Last week they disrupted Shell's AGM, nobody said a word because it didn't affect them. It's becoming obvious that this is approach is necessary.
Climate change WILL affect us all!
Sam Johnson, 40, a construction worker from Essex, said:
โI took action today simply because we have run out of time. Weโve got to tackle this now. We have known for longer than Iโve been alive what would happen if we kept burning fossils fuels and now we are seeing this
Growing up poor, you soon realise the snobs don't want you to have a single thing. They took away the youth clubs, then the football pitches to build a car park. Then the police gave us hassle for standing about doing nothing. What else was there to do? They allowed us nothing!
Not sure if Iโm seeing this right. A skateboard ramp under a bridge on a walk/cycle path? โฆ
@CllrChasBooth
โฉ
This is the bridge under Restalrig Road.
Maybe if he had joined a union he would have avoided working 7 days per week and could have spent more time on his family, to ensure his son didn't grow up to become a complete fu
#king
roaster. What a failure.
In the 70s working 7 days a week down t'pit my dad grew veg and kept chickens in our garden. That was our foodbank. My dad voted Tory for the 1st time in 2019. He will again at the next election. A great man. Comments turned off to send the left in to meltdown. But u can like ๐
@_JIMBO55
Your Gran is struggling because greedy and corrupt millionaire and billionaire business owners and politicians have failed us, not because poor people are fleeing war torn countries to seek a better life. I get your amger, we should be angry, but at those causing the issue only.
Something extremely ridiculous about an Irish woman needing to apologise to an English man about why she sung a song celebrating the IRA. No matter how you spin it, without the IRA, Ireland wouldn't even have been its own independent country.
Govanhill is class. Got my phone fixed by an Afghan, my coffee from a Romanian, my hair cut by a Kurd, and then C got her eyebrows done by an Indian lassie, all on the same street. A melting pot of cultures and different people all just trying to exist in the struggle.
1. Child rapist, five years.
2. Child rapist, spared jail.
3. Child rapist, spared jail.
4. Rapist, four years.
Illegally broadcast some football - a game created by the poor and stolen by the rich - you'll get six years average.
Welcome to the class war!
Growing with about 30 pals, only 3 of our scheme grew up with their Da. Most of us never knew them. For a lot of us, even our mas were headbangers through alcohol or the heroin era. Then, like angels, the Grannies stepped up. God bless Glesga Grannies, who saved a generation.
Got to ask yourself why you're taking girls back home with you when they are this intoxicated. Suspect behaviour taking a picture of it, but even more suspect that you never thought about how drunk she was before ye decided to taker her into bed with you.
Stop this!
Stop using ex-soldiers to mask your racism. The system fails us all - the same people shafting veterans, are the same people shafting refugees - we should be doing more for both, it should never be one or the other!
Fix the system as a whole, stop dividing our class!
Destroying families and ruining people's lives is one thing. But to film that misery, and to use it as part of the Tory propaganda campaign, is just f#*king abhorrent. Absolute vermin!
Queen or Pope, they're all the same to me.
Both draped in Gold, while doing nothing for my class. They preach charity while raking in billions from many below them who buy into their fables of a divine right to rule and imaginary Gods.
Their existence is outdated.
This guy is complaining about foreigners in his country, while posting a selfie with a foreigner in his country, and who is only in his country, to complain about foreigners in a country he is foreign to...
Only in America do you go to a restaurant and are expected to pay for your food AND a contribution to workers' wages through tips. An interesting dynamic that reflects capitalism in that it pits worker v worker, while bosses go unchallenged as they pay their staff poverty wages.
The notion that people with broad Glaswegian accents are incapable of achieving good grades is an anti-working-class myth.
Yet, they tell us that language and accent doesn't play a role in how the working class are identified - you're either a liar or detached to believe that!
I'm not from the Glasgow area, so I'm not quite sure how it works. But surely people who go to nice schools & get good degrees from Glasgow University don't sound quite as rough as Mhairi Black. It must be put on surely
Life expectancy in Glasgow is already incredibly low, and is worsening. For example, in Calton and Bridgeton, the life expectancy is only 67.8 years of age. Under this new agenda, the average person will not live until pensionable age. People will literally be working to death!
๐จ | BREAKING: The Government has PRIVATELY agreed to raise the state pension age to 68 to start in the 2030s, instead of the scheduled change in 2046. This means that those born AFTER 1970 will be asked to work longer
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@NatashaC
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This guy has never had an original thought in his life. Now espousing the "weak men" narrative like some Tesco Value Andrew Tate, and insinuating suicide is related to such weakness. Listen to professionals on the matter, not spray tanned podcasters, desperate to remain relevant.
Tonight's the night my Granda will sit with the
@UnionBears_07
for his last
@RangersFC
game. Pushing 80 year old, he wanted to go out with a bang so here's hoping the atmosphere is good for him. No had the best couple years, so he's looking forward to it.
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To the young lads and lassies out there, the Army is no computer game. There's no second lives or re-runs. You shoot to kill and are shot at to be killed. If you must fight, then do so for your class, not a country run by people who see the poor as nothing but cannon fodder! โ๏ธ
A pub centred in a city rife with poverty, addiction and violence, with many in the pub having probably scraped by day to day their entire lives, celebrating a billionaire family, because it is part of their 'identity'. Marx would have called this false consciousness; I feel sad.
Have a peek at the newly re-named Queen Elizabeth Arms in Glasgow.
More on
@Channel4News
in a bit as we ask about public appetite for
#PlatinumJubilee
celebrations in Scotland.
Ironically, it's people of Jack's ilk who are currently exploiting individuals through such rents. His type, his class, they are the problem, they create your misery!
To live on the Southbank in Central London, you'd pay ยฃ2,745 a month for a one-bed on average.
But immigrants in social housing, many of whom are unemployed, are paying ONLY ยฃ487 a month on average.
They are subsidised whilst you are extorted.
Not fair and must change.
Fash shouting "fenian bastards" to the antifacists. You dont need to be a "fenian" to oppose fascism or support basic human rights. You only need a heart and a brain. Dont let these bigots make this about Rangers v Celtic. Its NOT. Its pawns for the elites v the working class
Javier Mac Allister. Born and raised in Possil. Used to do a bit of gang fighting but served time in jail after a drunken street brawl which saw two men stabbed. A reformed character he now does talks for the VRU and trains the Harmony Row under 14s to keep them off the streets.
6 stabbings and 1 murder (potentially more) in Greater Glasgow in the last week. If that happens in London it is considered a crisis; there is uproar, and rightly so.
Who is fighting for our weans? Why is it just normalised up here!?
Weak government, weak leadership!
Now picture the response to young lads and lassies in tracksuits riding through the streets on bikes because there is nothing else to do. Now imagine them going out to kill animals, and the response that would gather from these snobs.
Wonderful scenes from the
#BoxingDay
meet for the Bicester Hunt with Whaddon Chase which was held in Winslow, Buckinghamshire, earlier today. Many thanks to Sam Nash for sharing this great footage.
'Working illegally'... on a construction site.
Not quite the 'coming here claiming benefits' nonsense you very often hear them chirping on about. We need workers. I'd much rather this man, here and contributing, than the fat cat politicians and bankers skimming from the top!
๐จ BUSTED: Last week Immigration Enforcement and
@Sussex_police
made an arrest at a construction site in West Sussex bringing to justice an Albanian man abusing the system by working illegally.
They took ยฃ20 from people on benefits.
They've added 1.25% to national insurance.
While Amazon, a TRILLION dollar company, who made ยฃ13billion in the UK paid just ยฃ6.3 million in corporation tax. That's circa 0.05%.
People ask why I'm a communist...
Why aren't YOU?
They hate Mick Lynch not only because he wants better wages for HIS workers, but because he wants them for ALL workers.
The bourgeoisie are terrified of a class conscious proletariat who might demand their worth too. They'll go to war with anyone who tries to make that happen!
I really can't fathom as to why and how people are still not terrified by this stuff. The planet we live on, is soon going to be a place we cannot live on. Still, companies continue to do as they please at our expense. To me, it is mindblowing that we are still allowing them to!
The people of Glasgow need to come together to end this ridiculous, anti-working-class drinking in public places byelaw in time for summer!
Too many are stuck up flats, and forced to pay extortionate pub prices for a wee drink in the sun. Bin the byelaw!
The irony of a man claiming that a ceasefire is wrong while wearing a poppy. Every year we hear how the meaning of the poppy is disrespected, but there is no better example than this.
To end all wars? Lest we forget?
... It seems some already have.
Forget the billionaires and their offshore accounts which mean our NHS and Education system are on their knees.
The real enemy is the single mother who sells her used clothes for a wee bit of extra income, as her low wage means she struggles to meet rent!
Shambles!
My wee Granda pushing 80 year old cutting about in a Tracksuit, Air Max, and a Maradona t shirt. Can take the boy out of Govan but not Govan out the boy ๐
Remember we had to wrap our jotters in wallpaper? Like some insight into how your gaff looked. Growing up with my grandparents it was a riddy because it was some really dull, weird material that was just asking to be slaughtered by richer weans who had fancy paper on theirs. ๐
The Xmas anti-isolation dinner and dance was a complete success. We had guests of all ages in attendance, who all had a fantastic time. Plenty of food, drinks, gifts and live entertainment, while picked up and dropped off at their home. A perfect day in many ways!
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As a Rangers fan who cares little for what the Green Brigade do, this is absolute bollocks. Every single person with a brain and some fucking pride should be challenging these neo-fascists in our city. At least they are out there doing it!
#solidarity
Red over Green and Blue!
I'm okay with this. Raises awareness for possibly the most pressing issue behind poverty that the world is facing, and doesn't actually harm anyone on a physical level.
Power to them, at least they're doing something!
๐ฑ NEW OIL AND GAS WILL SNOOKER US
๐ฆบ At around 7:20pm, two Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted the World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, interrupting play. The pair proceeded to cover the tables in orange powder paint before being removed by
Nothing screams 'loser' quite as loud as someone who acts like talking to a woman is some kind of skill to master. These mummy-issue turbo virgins are not going to help you pull on a night out, and if you try it in Glasgow, you are most likely going to get laughed at or battered.
Elf on a shelf is back. Weans waking up with broken toys, clothes cut up and chocolate eaten, all because parents want some likes for Facebook. Meanwhile, their weans are being fucked with PTSD due to thinking some demonic elf is out to destroy their life for no reason. Amazing.
The NMW is ยฃ10.40ph. So, according to the capitalist class, one hour of your life, your one and only life, is worth circa 1.3 bottles of Olive Oil. For a 40 h/wk, that's 48.75 bottles. That's what your time and life means to them. Remember it when they say you don't need a union!
A protest that gets no attention and causes zero disruption, is no protest at all.
When the river banks start overflowing and mass migration happens across the globe due to uninhabitable corners of the earth, we'll see how much of a disruption these protests are in comparison!
Ultimate Buzz live at the Tunnel Under 18s, Glasgow 1997. Courtesy of
Kappa Trackies, Mera Peaks, Inch Line Haircuts, and Hats 'tuned tae the Moon'. Brilliant!
#nedculture
#ravescene
#happyhardcore
Was quite surprised to learn that one of my friends who had a wee bit of a different upbringing to my own in Glasgow, had never heard of a dookit. I thought this was part of growing up in this city. Keen to see how many people don't actually know what this is.
Say what you want about
@HumzaYousaf
and his privileged background but this is powerful. He is clearly holding back tears. As brave as it is depressing. Depressing that our brothers and sisters with different skin colour still face this racism that does not belong in our society!
'I have no other home than this one, I never will, I never have.'
Humza Yousaf spoke about the impact of racial slurs he has faced during his time in office.
Live updates:
And so it begins...
Roast beef just marinating overnight. The soup is on the go. Turkey Crown chilling out. The Steak Pies all sorted and just 40 minutes to heat up tomorrow now.
Nervous, but here's hoping we give whoever shows up a nice wee day to remember.
Not a fan of the neoliberal SNP but if you're suggesting any actions Nicola Sturgeon takes to combatting the virus is comparable with Nazism - or suggesting you being unable to go to a nightclub is similar to the treatment of Jews in 1933, then you're a clown!
Happy Friday.๐
More war on the way thanks to the actions of a Prime Minister we never voted for.
Every one of those bombs dropped is money that could have built new homes for the homeless, funded our NHS, hired more teachers, and more carers for our old and vulnerable.
Why do we accept this!?
Blocked by the First Minister of Scotland, and why? I've never been disrespectful or abusive, simply questioned statements and claims as is my right as a citizen. Below is my last response toward the FM and why I was blocked. Accountability, ae?
Coppers doing checks at Silverburn today. Check your tyres and lights, make sure your fuel is clean, and be careful. They've already taken a motorbike and a car off someone, so watch yourself. โ๏ธ
Something sinister but striking about Patel, who is from an immigrant family, standing watching another immigrant being deported by her command.The only difference between the two is that she came from money. Class has no colour, this is what elitism looks like.
Left: Inside Fidel Castro's home (2015). A living room no bigger than the average, with very few commodities.
Right: Rishi Sunak's home, now equipped with a ยฃ400,000 leisure complex with a gym, pool and ballet barre.
Your image explains capitalism, not socialism, Paul.
The BBC have given Zoe Ball a ยฃ1million pay rise for equality. Equality is good, but it raises the question- why is ANYONE being paid millions for the BBC? People struggling to pay a tv license and you get the likes of Lineker and Ball on ยฃ3million between them? Is that equality?
ยฃ2.90 on the bus from Shawlands into Central.
@FirstinGlasgow
now one of the most expensive regional bus companies in the world.
Ever feel like you're being mugged off?
I don't think you're the fellow to be giving these kind of morality lessons. Hardly the pinnacle of masculinity - by even your own definition - with these behaviours.
Protest at McVities planned for a week on Saturday Tollcross rd. 500 strong workforce set to lose their jobs as a reward for working through a global pandemic. A company(Pladis)that has profits of over ยฃ3billion. Also took ยฃ1million off Scottish enterprise to offset the pandemic.
An incredibly rich man being driven around by a chauffeur, paying someone to film him telling people who to hate is peak elitism. Refugees are not the enemy, guys with this accent, with this attitude, with this belief that they are superior are!
@dickophrenic
@disco_Bolshevik
I was behind this until I read it. He was leasing a room out. Guy wasn't capitalist class either he was working class and had retired. Misleading headline.
This is far better news than the "world in chaos" narrative bleated about after Dundee last night.
School weans coming together, mocking this Nazi, before chasing him down the street in a show of antifascist solidarity.
Future ain't as bleak as the media would have you believe!
A Nazi supporter approached teenagers to apparently hand out leaflets, he threatened one boy, said he was a supporter of Hitler and then denied the Holocaust happened before being chased by students outside Larkhall Academy in Glasgow a few days ago.
This video is a trip back in time (I think circa 2005/6). A satirical account of an encounter between a Glasgow Ned and a Goth. Looking at it now, it is quite horrific, but at the time we would laugh at it. For those who remember it, do you still view it through the same lens?
My Granda and stepdaughter, Holly. The old and new generation, his first and her last match. Thanks to the lads among the
@UnionBears_07
looking out for the old boy the night too. He lasted 40 mins on his feet then had to sit but some effort give his age and arthritis. Brilliant!
Tonight's the night my Granda will sit with the
@UnionBears_07
for his last
@RangersFC
game. Pushing 80 year old, he wanted to go out with a bang so here's hoping the atmosphere is good for him. No had the best couple years, so he's looking forward to it.
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False. Kriss was my mate at Bella and the Shields. There was widespread media attention and even a song written about it. When the criminals tried to flee the country, a muslim politican ensured they were returned and sentenced to murder. Use something else for your racist bile!
A touch of class also from
@RangersFC
@RangersFCSLO
for this during half time. He was too caught up in the madness to hear it but was in tears when I let him hear it. He said "my bucket list is complete after that, tell everybody involved thanks for everything". So, thank you!
@Alanoleary21
Not find it a wee bit strange that you are complaining about foreigners in your country, while posting a selfie with a foreigner in your country, who is now complaining about foreigners in a country he is foreign to?
This is how they teach you to punch down. Here's a fact:
ยฃ1.3bn in benefit fraud accounts for less of a burden on taxpayers than the ยฃ4.4bn officially assumed to be lost by evaders.
Now let's see them make a video raiding mansions and super yachts...
Welcome to hegemony.
Your enemy arrives by limousine, not by boat!
Unite, fight, and redistribute the wealth. There is plenty to go around, the rich simply want it all for themselves!
@emilybastow_
He probably won't see the outside of a prison again, as he poses a risk to the public due to his mental disorder. Grim as it is, this is sometimes the consequence of such disorders when not treated.
Don't really speak to my Ma much due to the way she was with me over the years. However, after only a few months out of rehab, she started college today doing Social Care level 5. Proud of how she's turned her life round, from being on death's door to working toward a new career.
I wonder if today's youth who roam so freely and without care in Nirvana hoodies and Vans, realise the bravery required to walk through a scheme in these t-shirts, hoodies or pairs of trainers in the mid-2000s. The pioneers of the mosher and goth scenes don't get enough credit!
Below are figures for total crimes recorded by Police in Scotland from 1971 - 94, then 95 - 2019.
The worst year across the decades was 1991 when 572,921 crimes were recorded in comparison to 246,480 in 2018-19. As a decade the 1990s was one of the worst.
Your claim is false.
@Joey7Barton
So, now you're upholding British standards one tweet at a time? These guys were fighting for a country in WWII, for the downtrodden and many of those who could not fight, while you're doing the opposite - your ideas are the ideas they fought against. ๐
That refugees have become the scapegoat for all societal woes, has been intentional. The government wanr you blaming migrants rather than them or big business because it keeps us fighting amongst ourselves. This is a class issue. Look up at our problems, not at other port people!
Energy bill with the discount for a 78-year-old pensioner. How the fk are they supposed to afford this. All you supporters refugees are welcome here. Sitting lovely and warm, no bills to pay. Fkn great, eh. LOOK AFTER OUR OWN .
#NOTOREFUGEES
.
#GETTHEMOUT
. IT'S A FKN DISGRACE.
An old picture I found online featuring the 'Feegie Young Team'.
There is so much in this photo, from clothing, booze, background and more. If you were in this photo, get in touch!
I'm also keen to hear about the one guy who's been papped to one side!
@HermansBigshoe
Nothing to do with being poor? Wealthy kids have access to amenities, they have access to trips away and various forms of leisure. When you are poor, you have access to nothing that costs, so when they take away that in the community, kids are then persecuted for simply existing.
To be a man, is to be whatever type of man you are. There is no fixed male characteristic. You may enjoy the gym, you might like books; you could be muscular, or you might be slender; you may like football, you might hate sports; you may cry often, or never cry at all. 1/10
Double-barrel bangers like this amoral little weakling are the exact type of people we should expect on these brain-dead morning TV shows. These types will bang the drums of war with the knowledge that their families, their friends and their class will never be required to serve.
'Our youth would surprise us if it came to it.'
The British public will be called up to fight if the UK goes to war because the military is too small, the head of the Army has warned.
Is it time to bring back National Service?
These fox hunters are complete vermin and a few punches is nothing close to what they truly deserve. Ripping apart defenseless foxes is not a sport, it's a sickness. Up the sabs!
Punches thrown as violence erupts at annual Boxing Day Hunt in rural Wiltshire. Clashes and scuffles broke out at the Boxing Day Hunt in Lacock, near Chippenham. Several dozen protesters were demonstrating against the Avon Vale meet and least 2 were injured.
#BoxingDay