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Prince Charles announces the government's top priority is to "help ease the cost-of-living for families," with a promise to "level up opportunity in all parts of the country"
All the "leftists" gloating over this seem to be forgetting that if they ban Trump from holding the PGA Tour they could ban the leftist golf course owners next.
Breaking: PGA will be cancelling all tournaments and instituting a lifetime ban of ever holding events at Trump Courses including stripping Trump of hosting the 2022 PGA Championship, insider says. A sport governing body doing more than Congress.
On this day Dec 4th, 1969 Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party was murdered by Chicago police working with the FBI.
BREAKING: Tommy Robinson's former camerawoman Lucy Brown accuses Robinson and his associates of spending thousands they've received in donations on cocaine. 👃❄️
Ferguson protester Joshua Williams has already been in prison for four years, and is sentenced to eight. Assange is up for a maximum of five years if convicted but there will have been more tweets today than there have about Josh in the past five years.
There is no politics tonight. Just people getting sick in detention centres and prisons he won't release. In the building sites, warehouses, and call centres he won't close. On the hospital floors he failed to supply with PPE and tests. No politics though.
Grim news. Was evident earlier that things were a lot worse than No 10 was letting on. There is no politics tonight. Just best wishes for a fellow human being struck low by this dreadful virus.
Following excellent sleuthing from
@Limerick1914
looks like it's confirmed that yoghurt grandad shot an unarmed civilian in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and was let off by a judge.
If global warming continues without mass action, the result isn't extinction in 30 years, it's decades of increased state repression, much of it carried out at borders.
The threat to America is not socialism. It is not capitalism. It is corruption. Our system is rigged to enable a handful of rich and powerful people to exploit the rest of us. Donald Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of this problem, but it has been with us for decades.
Leftists arguing with centrists over who fucked it, who triangulated incorrectly, who was too pure or too compromised. All forgetting one fundamental thing: that we lack a working-class movement, a socialist infrastructure, woven into the daily lives and struggles of our class
Can people stop saying Jean Charles de Menezes ran? That's a lie put out by the Met to justify why they shot a man minding his own business on the tube
There is massive campaign by the government, police, and media to blame people going to parks and staying 2 metres apart for spreading coronavirus while people are being forced to work in call centres.
The temporary visas aren't a U-turn, having foreign workers with no proper employment rights, unable to settle or look for other work, was always the goal of dropping freedom of movement.
Imagine thinking Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth would be revulsed by Trump, when Churchill was putting hundreds of thousand of Kenyans and Malayans in internment camps the year of her coronation.
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, has been served by 13 Prime Ministers. The first was Winston Churchill. Imagine her revulsion and sadness when her dignity is assaulted by the presence of an American President who represents a spectacular degeneracy of the virtues she embodies.
Used to be consensus that WWI was a completely fucking pointless imperialist conflict that resulted in needless death. Now it's 'defending democracy and freedom'.
Today we remember all those who sacrificed their lives to defend our freedom and democracy.
While we cannot gather together to mark
#RemembranceSunday
, we will never forget.
We are forever in their debt.
This kid is braver than this whole pack of shit-for-brains inferiority complexes dressed in racist ideology put together. He knew what he was getting into and did it anyway. These pricks were just acting out their roid rage. Respect & solidarity to our boy ✊
The dataset used for this study categories mass rioting with molotovs and even bombing campaigns as non-violent, as long as the overall movement they were a part of didn't become a military conflict with over 10,000 combatants killed.
fun aside regarding Richard Spencer's life going down the toilet is it coincides very nicely with him being chinned and humiliated, despite a lot of people going "noooo this is just going to make things worse/win him support"
Always fun when people take an idea put forward by multiple 19th century anarchist thinkers and Marx, the Paris Commune, the IWW, the black liberation movement, entire Mexican towns, and try to associate it with teenage stoners.
@__HMYS__
@LoafyToasty
@theserfstv
Think the issue is we live in a society where an extremely wealthy man can use the promise of a tiny fraction of his wealth to put non-wealthy people through emotional/physical stress for his own entertainment (and the entertainment of others, which he then makes more money from)
Abortion was illegal in the USSR again by 1936. Exceptions were added from 1924. In 1920 they were putting sex workers in work camps for labour desertion.
@GabrielGlickman
Should have followed your own advice here. Now we know that your opinion is that no-one should say anything about mass bombing of civilians and far right street violence.
There's a reason that the trade unionists blocked the TERFs from their may day event in London -- because they're reactionary af. If you your liberation doesn't include everyone, it's not liberation, it's bullshit opportunism.
The IPCC report doesn't say it can't be stopped. It says some changes can't be stopped but a fuck tonne of others can.
This is what climate denialism looks like now.
Global warming will get progressively worse and cannot be stopped over the next 30 years, a major new UN report has concluded, because the world's nations delayed so long in curbing emissions. A hotter future is now essentially locked in.
This previously slipped my attention because it's a very thin book, but Michael Gove and Sarah Vine also own 'Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedom' by Alan Benoist, a central figure in the European New Right and Third Positionist movements. Just a couple over from Ruth Rendell.
#OtD
20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy
Nel pomeriggio di oggi arriverà nel porto di Livorno la nave Asiatic Island. Al suo interno vi sono contenitori carichi di armi ed esplosivi diretti al porto Israeliano di Ashdod.
Just a reminder that Andy Ngo was the author of the massively Islamophobic WSJ article which claimed there was Sharia law in Tower Hamlets because he saw an 'alcohol restricted' sign.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread. - Anatole France
Starting today it will be a crime to sleep on state-owned land in Missouri. That includes streets, parks and underneath bridges and overpasses. You will be fined $750 and face 15 days in jail.
@GlasgowNPolice
fuck me that's a relief wouldn't want any children getting their hands on it. What's the street value of all that white stuff like 30 quid?
RTing this again because imo its one of the most important campaigns going at the moment. We all need to be boosting the
@BAmazonUnion
as much as possible to help them win this union election in a deeply anti-worker state
NEW: Amazon workers are exposing what's happening in Alabama.
They say Amazon is forcing them into anti-union meetings, texting them up to 5x daily, putting messages in bathrooms, even changing traffic light patterns to harm union organizing.
This is getting ratioed by people who claim American police routinely fire live rounds into groups of protesters. It has happened maybe 2-3 times in the past fifty years.
#OTD
in 1870 notable counter-revolutionary Vladimir Lenin was born. Lenin went on to lead a coup which seized power from the Soviets. He is also known for ordering the massacre of sex workers in 1918 and telling British communists to offer electoral support to the Labour Party.
'we are not an alternative to capitalism, we are in capitalism' is a very good one sentence answer to the question of workers co-ops within capitalist society.
Shame AJ+ social media person can't get anarcho-communist the right way 'round.
The predicted famine of biblical proportion is going to come right after all this food dumping. Because famines have very little to do with how much food there is.
Haven't watched the whole thing, but main problem here seems to be that both the socdems and Chomsky put loads of stock in voting or not voting as if it's of massive importance and not the least consequential activity it's possible to engage in.
Feels like a lot of column inches and podcast minutes were used to discuss the recent electoral victories in Peru and Chile. Now it's important to also think about the significance of police violence in those countries, now under left-wing governments, within a week of each other
Millions of people marched against the war, thousands stormed military bases, hundreds of thousands of school children ran out of school and blocked roads.
I think its really underestimated how easy it would had been to fall for 'Iraq has WMDs' as a leftist. I think there are vast swaths of left twitter today who if active back then would had wholeheartedly bought in, paying lip service to anti-imperialism but going along anyway.
Socialists’ hope (mine, anyway) for the slogan Defund The Police was that it would convey the need to divert money from police budgets and also tax the rich to fund more public safety alternatives and general stabilizing social services. Seems to me like this meaning didn’t stick
@JohnCleese
When John says London is 'not really an English city any more', do you think he mean because of the:
a) Irish & Scottish?
b) Spanish & Italians?
c) black and Asian people who were actually born in London?
🤔
This is the stuff that really shows the Brexiteers' hand: because he doesn't mean the Spanish and Italians (who mostly weren't eligible to vote in the referendum) when he says it's "not really an English city any more". He means the black and Asian people who were born here.
@theresa_may
@ladyastorstatue
"Nancy herself held some unsavoury views, and was strongly anti-Catholic, anti-Communist and anti-Semitic. In a letter to US Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Nancy speculated that Hitler could be the solution to the “world problem” of Jews"
Abortion in the USSR was made illegal again in 1936. Restrictions started being applied to the 1920 law as early as 1924.
The comparison with Texas is annoying, but so is pretending a 1920 law survived 70 years instead of 16.
BREAKING
@XRebellionUK
activists have blocked all major entrances to
#Farnborough
Airport
Protestors are calling on the world's super-rich elite and governments to ditch private flights.
#Farnborough
caters to the 1%. Private flyers cause half of aviation’s global emissions.
If the 'dirtbag left' were actually dirtbags or left, and not middle class poseurs, they would be glassing fascists in pubs. Not attacking anti-fascism, pushing shitty reactionary politics and pretending to be proles. They're basically class enemies.
Skidmarxists Amber A'Lee Frost and Anna Khachiyan trash feminists, liberals and Antifa in an interview with Spiked (And did I mention the transphobia?) .
Norton and ex-colleagues at the Grayzone spent years pushing Tulsi Gabbard as a 'left wing, anti-war' candidate, in full knowledge of her links to Hindutva. Now she's filling in for Tucker Carlson and speaking at CPAC, Norton's claiming he was bait and switched. No, you did that.
XR ought to mention that the study they base this on counts non violent as 'less than 10,000 fatalities', and one of the case studies is the 1979 Iranian revolution.
"Unlike the anarchists, the Marxists recognise struggle for reforms, i.e., for measures that improve the conditions of the working people without destroying the power of the ruling class. At the same time, however, the Marxists wage a most resolute struggle against the ...
Fun fact: most of Mark Fisher's Exiting the Vampire Castle was about how cool and left wing Russell Brand was, and that it was terrible some people had pointed out he was sexist.
I see we're doing this again. 1956 in Hungary had a Communist reformist element (Imre Nagy, the Budapest chief of police amongst others), anarchists, and workers councils in the factories. It wasn't 'straightforwardly fascist'.
People are going to die of cold this winter and you're cancelling strikes because of a 96 year old whose police and military have massacred workers across the planet.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams says there's a key message to take from devastating Bronx fire: "Close the door."
"If we can drill that in, we can save lives...This painful moment can turn into a purposeful moment."
People in my mentions literally yesterday arguing that abolish the police is too esoteric and we need nice reformist demands the normies will understand. Well the normie slogan is fuck 12 and the politicians are trying to abolish the police now so🖕
Imagine you're born at the height Italian fascism. Spend your life as a communist militant active in some of the most famous struggles of the 1960s. Then you die a year before thousands of American liberals insist the title of your best known work is a psy-op by Nancy Pelosi.
"White working-class boys are being left behind at school! I'm appalled. It's a travesty!"
"Should we at least provide free school meals then?"
"Fuck no. I just meant they should be angry with black people and feminists"