Was on LBC today for
@wwkstandspal
talking about our Gaza Solidarity Encampment and demand for
@uniofwarwick
to end its complicit with Israel’s genocide
'We don't accept that there is any opposition between the freedom of Palestinians and the freedom of Jewish people.'
Warwick Stands With Palestine member Fraser Amos tells
@ShelaghFogarty
why he is supporting Gazans, who are facing 'war crimes of such terrible proportions'.
Don’t like who young members elect to represent them? Just obstruct their events, refuse to run their conference and then lock them out of their own accounts. A party which believes in democracy.
We regret to inform you that access to the
@YoungLabourUK
Twitter account has been restricted until further notice.
As an official channel for the Youth Wing of the Labour Party, we expect certain standards of behaviour from those with responsibility for this page’s output.
Just
@warwickuni
liking a tweet attacking leftwing politics and sharing an islamophobic article from a far-right blog site written by one of their fascist ex-students. Warwick University doesn’t just platform fascists it harbours them and their politics.
#ShameOnYouWarwick
Excited to announce that I’m standing for Chair of Labour Students 🌹
A system that puts metrics before mental health, money before learning and profit before livelihoods has pushed us to breaking point.
Let’s build a socialist Labour Students which leads the fightback 💥
whatever your thoughts on indyref2 scotland is not a colonised country and talking about it as if it's the subject of british imperialism is trivialising britain's imperial exploitation & violence in which scotland has always been fully complicit
Mortifying disgrace that the Labour Party has been outflanked by the Libdems in support for teaching staff. The NEU has half a million members and they are paying close attention
@Keir_Starmer
been the longest few months trying to do final year in two terms alongside everything but got 94 for an essay on marxism & postcolonial theory i loved and 100 for one on critical pedagogy and am very happy!
Joke that
@Keir_Starmer
has held a zoom with students the day his allies in the party postpone any NEC discussion of a democratic student wing.
@Keir_Starmer
if you really want to hear about the ‘challenges students are facing’ then stop disenfranchising us in the party.
Appalling authoritarian intervention by
@Keir_Starmer
threatening us for daring to exercise our mandate to represent young members.
@YoungLabourUK
isn’t a tool of the leadership and we won’t be silenced or intimidated by them.
Young members put their faith in me as Chair of Young Labour to represent them. As a democratic socialist I stand with young members and their right to engage with the Labour party’s long standing democratic traditions. Now, more than ever, young people's voices need to be heard.
There are now more than 500 covid cases across 32 universities. We urgently need:
👉 All teaching moved online
👉 Safe & managed ways for students to return home if they wish
👉 Rent suspension & contract releases
👉 Fees abolished & replaced with public funding
UCU has written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson* to urge him to make online learning universities' default position, protect students' education and stop any further damage to community health. 1/
Megan is an incredible socialist and trade unionist, she’s worked so hard for a socialist Labour government. This decision is a disgrace and a big loss.
The timing is blatant, suspended just before standing for CLP Chair and expelled right before internal election ballots open.
Sad and shocked to announce that yesterday I was expelled from the Labour Party. I disagree with this outcome to my suspension and will be appealing this decision. (1/
The NEC has agreed a working group including
@lara_eleanor
,
@micaelatr_
,
@nabeelamowlana
& me as Student Reps to consult student members on the creation of a student section of the Party based on one member one vote!
Well done to everyone that’s fought so long for this 🥳
Just started an MA in Global Political Economy at Goldsmiths, everyone i’ve met is lovely and i think i can get away with doing marxist analysis for a degree?
Very happy to have been published in this beautiful issue of
@tribunemagazine
on the student rent strikes & the crisis of marketisation at universities!
Very happy to be graduating from Warwick with a first class degree and a first in my dissertation!
Incredibly grateful for the work of so many brilliant academics and all the wonderful friends and comrades I’ve learnt so much from over the years 💕
Collective student organising works! Now we need to demand an end to this high-pressure, grade obsessed & stratified model of education which entrenches class & race inequality.
As many universities keep lectures online this year it’s really important we organise to channel student frustration at the fees and rents we’re having to pay into the fight for free education and away from demands to force staff to work in person
Since our election as
@YoungLabourUK
committee
@UKLabour
leadership & HQ have worked to undermine us - cancelling our youth conference, blocking our conference events & suppressing our solidarity with Palestine.
Sign our petition to defend Young Labour -
This decade I missed like 3 years of school, had to do an extra year of A-levels, dropped out of UCL and am now gonna have to defer my final year until October, so safe to say it could have gone better but I’ve got a decent political education along the way so we move I guess
For too long students have gone without support for grassroots organising from the Labour Party.
@micaelatr_
,
@nabeelamowlana
& I are standing to change that and build a democratic, liberated & socialist student wing that organises students in their workplaces & communities 🌹
Student members of the Labour Party have a massive opportunity this summer to refound Labour Students as a socialist campaigning student wing.
Me and Nabeela on the democratic organisation we've won for student members, the elections to it this year, and our hopes for it 👇
"This summer, student members of Labour will elect the national committee of the party's student wing for the first time."
Young Labour student reps
@comradefraz
and
@nabeelamowlana
on how the new ‘National Labour Students’ was won and how it will work:
Excited to announce that
@micaelatr_
,
@nabeelamowlana
and I are running for Young Labour Student Reps!
We're standing to build a democratic, liberated and socialist student wing that supports grassroots organising 🌹
Looking forward to LGBT+ Labour presumably now marching alongside groups like LGSM, opposing police presence at pride and welcoming communists like Sylvia!
Every June we mark a riot which fought back against police brutality towards our community.
LGBT+ people cannot remain silent on
#BlackLivesMatter
while celebrating
#PrideMonth
. It is our duty to speak up. We will do more than stand in solidarity, we will help you fight back.
Excited to launch Socialist Student Bulletin! A newsletter with updates on
@micaelatr_
,
@nabeelamowlana
& my work on
@YoungLabourUK
committee, useful organising resources, and student news, campaigns & events from a socialist perspective 🚩
Sign-up here -
Hard to feel much but heartbroken at all the suffering that’s about to ensue but taking some solace that we’ve elected a brilliant, tireless & unwavering socialist to represent the people of Coventry South in
@zarahsultana
. Was a real privilege to coordinate her campaign.
Sad to say that I was not elected Chair of Labour Students but incredibly happy that the left have won a clear majority on the new committee!
So proud of all the brilliant
@socialist_yl
candidates, the campaign we’ve run together and our vision for a socialist Labour Students 💕
🎉ON A ROLL: THE LEFT WINS LABOUR STUDENTS🎉
After victory in the Young Labour elections, today the Momentum-backed
@socialist_yl
slate have won a majority on the new National Labour Students committee!
The fight for free education is stepping up a gear 🔥
In particular, it has become apparent that the account has recently become actively detrimental to the Party’s core objectives: to promote Labour candidates and policies, and to win elections.
Hope anyone that’s disappointed by their results today knows that it says nothing about them and everything about a system designed to rank & discipline students before educating & caring for them
#AlevelResults
Was an honour to meet the Cuban ambassador this afternoon. We discussed the pandemic situation in Cuba and the urgent importance of the campaign to end the United States violent imperialist blockade. Viva Cuba 🇨🇺
Was a pleasure to meet with the Cuban ambassador and political secretary today, who thanked us for our statement of solidarity and discussed campaigning to end the blockade. Looking forward to working together in the future!
Proud to move this motion at our meeting today & to be part of a committee that stands in unequivocal solidarity with Palestine! Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians 🇵🇸
We are proud to be bringing this motion to Labour Party conference committing the Party to stand in solidarity with Palestine and support the campaign for the boycott, divestment and sanctioning of Israel.
The cause of Palestinian liberation is our cause as socialists 🇵🇸
So painful to think about what was lost but don’t regret a second of it, grateful to have met so many wonderful comrades and grateful to have
@zarahsultana
in parliament
.
@warwickuni
you're a complete disgrace! what world are you living in when you think you can actually withdraw someones offer after they've declined all their others??? ik you don't care abt students but have some sense of PR self-preservation and give Danie her place now, idiots
Ballots out from today for the NEC elections 🗳 Please please consider voting for the brilliant anti-racist & socialist campaigner
@hudaelmi_
& the other left candidates!! 🌹🌹🌹
Gutted that despite winning 31 club nominations, I didn't win Labour Students Vice Chair C&P 😔 tysm to everyone that supported my campaign &
@LeftStudents
, really appreciate it 💞
Won't stop fighting for a liberated, democratic & socialist student wing of the Labour Party 🌹✊
We’ve put together this step-by-step guide to launching a rent strike & some template resources on our new website based on experience & the guides from
@rentstrikenow
✨
Check it out here 👉
Grim to see the gensec of the NEU engaging in apologia for transphobic groups, these attitudes have no place in the labour movement. Also missed out the bit where women’s place activists poured litres of cold liquid down on us from a balcony.
I decided to come and see what the
@Womens_Place_UK
meeting was all about tonight.
The protestors outside are banging on the windows so loud that you can’t hear yourself think inside. That can’t be the right way to deal with the issue
#WPUKLab19
The british left has been shamefully outpaced by the US on policing. Momentum’s been making videos equating police spending with socialism where they could have been doing real political education work here. Would love to hear the thoughts & plans of NCG candidates on this.
The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves beyond reform.
It’s time to disband them and reimagine public safety in Minneapolis.
Thank you to
@MplsWard3
for your leadership on this!
This Thursday
@UKLabour
’s NEC will be discussing the development of student structures in the Party.
Sign this open letter to the NEC from Labour Clubs to demand a democratic student wing based on OMOV & no return to the old ‘Labour Students’ 👇
The way in which students are talked about as if we can't get seriously ill from covid is absolutely terrifying. We're being treated as a herd population and students are going to face lasting health issues and die as a result.
News of students admitted to hospital, including ICU, with coronavirus. Staff + students falling sick all over the UK. Long term effects being described as 'this generation's polio'... Still our bosses want us to accept their disgusting lack of leadership? No. NO.
#moveonlinenow
Starmer was elected on a pledge to abolish tuition fees. Now more than ever we need education as a public good accessible to all, not a product.
Make sure to nominate the
@socialist_yl
team for a Labour Students that will fight for free education in and outside the Party.
So many students are struggling at the moment. Labour should be giving us hope with a plan for free public education from cradle to grave, not promising us a lifetime of debt.
Sign our open letter to demand Starmer keeps his pledge to abolish fees 👇
Reports suggest Keir Starmer is planning to axe Labour's commitment to abolishing tuition fees.
As
@comradefraz
says, we can't let this happen. Education is a right, not a privilege 🌹
Sign
@socialist_yl
's open letter 👇
A statement on our future campaigning and canvassing.
Young Labour will no longer campaign, organise or canvass for candidates, Cllrs or MPs who fail to stand by workers, do not respect picket lines and do not support trade unionists right to industrial action:
This nearly doubles the number of student cases. How many other universities aren't reporting hundreds of cases? Do we even know the full extent of these outbreaks?
This is a catastrophe, nothing is being done and rent & fee income are being prioritised over student lives.
NEW: This is quite the Friday for news. Northumbria University has announced that they are dealing with a major Covid outbreak- with 770 students testing positive for the disease, 78 of whom are symptomatic.
Our *rule mandated* conference was cancelled by the Party this year only for the conference events they committed to deliver and we worked to plan blocked & be told we cannot have a speaker from Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Feels like Labour holds its youth wing in contempt.
This is a disappointing and difficult thread to post, so buckle up!
A few months ago, myself and
@lara_eleanor
met with David Evans once we were told the party would not be holding a young labour conference this year, despite it being a rulebook requirement.
Me at the start of the decade vs me at the end of the decade - been a rough few years, lot of things didn’t go to plan but did my best and just about survived it
I’m not happy with liberal gays dismissing queer people who haven’t had this uncomplicated relationship with ‘family’ to shamelessly defend a man facilitating widespread transphobia in the Labour Party.
I'm not happy with the hard-left exploiting gay men like me & other LGBT+ people to manipulate another reason for faux anger at Keir Starmer.
Get over yourself. Families come in all shapes & sizes. It's about community values & togetherness.
Palestine solidarity activists at Warwick have effectively been subject to a campaign of political repression designed to create an atmosphere of fear for anyone who speaks out against the reality of Israel’s settler colonialism and warwick’s complicity
Statement to
@warwickuni
The IHRA definition has stifled academic & political freedom for countless members of the Warwick community over the last year. Uphold the University Assembly vote that agreed with a 93% majority that the use of the IHRA definition must be suspended!
Thank you to everyone who nominated me and the
@socialist_yl
candidates for Labour Students ♥️
Really proud that we’re ahead in nominations but we’ve got much further to go before ballots open on the July 25th! Sign-up here to help with the campaign -
The shameless sectarian character of these suspensions is not lost on a broad section of labour members, the vast majority of whom in Warwick & Leamington, including candidates standing against Megan, refused to proceed with the election.
Yesterday evening, just two hours before I was due to attend an all members meeting in my CLP of Warwick and Leamington and stand in a by-election to be CLP Chair, Labour sent me a letter suspending me due to my ‘online conduct’, providing no evidence [THREAD]
I'm standing for the NUS Democratic Procedures Committee!
Check out my priorities & experience below 👇 and feel free to dm me to chat about why I'm running 😊
#NUSconference
#NUSNC2020
Excited to be launching my campaign for Labour Students Vice Chair Campaigns & Policy! 😊
I'm running to help build a democratic, liberated, socialist student wing of the Labour Party ✊
Like my page to follow my campaign & read why I'm running 🌹👇
remember crying at this sat on the floor of our unite office sorting road groups, nothing will ever beat the feeling of collective belonging & hope socialism can create
Just voted for Steve Turner in the Unite General Secretary election. If you’re a Unite member and want a union that’s more than an insurance scheme and refuses to retreat from politics, make sure you do too ASAP.
Call 0800 783 3856 if you haven’t received your ballot!
Labour has launched a consultation on a new student organisation!
Check out our template submission laying out a democratic student structure here 👉
And makes sure your club submits to the consultation by midday 5th March 👉
📣 LEARN HOW TO ORGANISE A RENT STRIKE 📣
Government & universities have put rents & revenues over student lives. It's time to fightback & rent strike ⚡
Join us for this
@rentstrikenow
&
@nusuk
training and share with student groups! ✨
⚡️Join our online training⚡️
Are you a student angry that your university is putting their profits over your health?
Get organised and fight back! We’ve teamed up with
@nus_uk
for this online training on Thursday @ 5:30pm.
Sign up here:
Nominations in the Labour Students elections close in just one week!
If you want to see a socialist Labour Students fighting for free education please nominate me & the incredible
@socialist_yl
team at ♥️
Student & staff working, learning & living conditions are under constant attack from a system which puts profit above education
But the incredible energy at the student strike yesterday was a reminder that if we organise we can win a free, decolonised, democratised education ♥️
Have finally got covid, most warwick students either have it, have just had it or are self-isolating, seems like the delta variant is racing through the student population
I'm standing for the NUS Democratic Procedures Committee!
Check out my priorities & experience below 👇 and feel free to dm me to chat about why I'm running 😊
#NUSconference
#NUSNC2020
Trans and non-binary Labour members have come together to launch the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights; we are fighting for trans rights and liberation through the Labour Party. We urge all trans Labour members and allies to sign our pledges here:
Really abysmal & exclusionary that
@UKLabour
set the deadline for members to verify their student status weeks before many courses start and students can get properly involved in their Labour Clubs. We need Student Representatives in the party to demand democracy & accessibility.
🚨PLEASE RT🚨
Today we’ve been picketing outside Trinity View with
@zarahsultana
, demanding that
@Prime_Student
#PayRebeccaBack
.
Apparently they’re more than happy to call the police on us, but not to respond our campaign.
Expect more from us soon!
Annnd he’s going to apologise? They understand the hurt caused and deeply regret etc? Anything at all? Do you have anything of any substance to actually say about this? Pathetic excuse for an LGBT+ affiliate.
We have spoken with the Leader of the Oppositions’s team regarding his visit to a church on Good Friday that does not align with our values on conversion therapy or LGBT+ equality.
Churchill was a genocidal racist and a fascist sympathiser leading a party riddled with fascists that only turned against Mussolini and Hitler when the empire was threatened. He didn’t win the war, colonised people and the working class that immediately voted him out did.
Monumental cowardice for the labour leadership to abstain on a bill that empowers the state to commit crimes in order to surveil & suppress the labour movement.
Nick Thomas-Symonds says Labour will allow the bill to progress to committee stage but will later press the government for "robust safeguards" in the form of "very clear limits and oversight". Also says it should not retrospectively apply to the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Just finished
@AmeliaHorgan
’s Lost in Work, a wonderfully lucid account how of work under capitalism dominates and distorts our lives and how we can wrest control over it back. Brilliant book from a brilliant writer that everyone should read!
Still dying that in my first year on exec someone tried to raise a welfare complaint against me for “doing too much organising for the UCU strike”. Some of the petty attacks were a bit much at the time but in retrospect they’re just absolutely hilarious.
Join us for this tomorrow at 4pm on what students can do now to organise against the covid crisis on campuses with
@zarahsultana
,
@DrJoGrady
,
@Larissa_Ken
🔥
Sign up here 👉
The libdems have never cared about LGBT+ people. They didn't care when they defunded our youth groups, cut our services, inflicted austerity on our community or when their leader was a homophobe, and they don't care now. They will throw us under the bus for power without fail.
The chair of LGBT Lib Dems quits the party in response to Philip Lee joining.
“A homophobe, a xenophobe, and someone who thinks people should be barred from the country if they are ill.
Fuck this.
Fuck this so hard.”
Today we remember everyone who has lost their lives to transphobic violence. Labour is committed to trans equality and a society free from hatred and discrimination.
#TDoR2020
the regularity with which some involved with LGBT+ Labour will erase the queerness of LGBT+ muslims and play on islamophobic coding of them as queerphobic with no accountability is disgusting!
We are in a second wave,
@ucu
branches across the country are calling for the suspension of face to face teaching as outbreaks begin and the government has announced new restrictions on everything but universities. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
Thank you to everyone who protested today 💞
We can't trust a neoliberal university to fight racism, misogyny, ableism and sexual violence - we have to take action ourselves.
@adeofthemoon
elucidates brilliantly how our struggles in this are indivisible ✊
#ShameOnYouWarwick