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Ronan Burtenshaw

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Sustaining the old cause with the old weapons.

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6 months

Last day as Tribune editor. Thank you to everyone who read us, worked for us and wrote for us in the past 5 years as we rebuilt a great institution. Glad to be leaving it to my friends @taj_ali1 and @karl_fh . I’ll be announcing a new media project soon – but first, a break 🍺

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Facts.

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Clapping for NHS staff is great. Now let's give them a pay rise, properly funded hospitals – and make sure every cleaner earns the real living wage. #ClapforNHS

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“The real war is a war on class. It's about how much green you have in your pocket… You are innocent until proven poor.” Michael K. Williams, presente

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Here’s a good one: Facebook has prevented us from promoting our article on record rents today because it’s “discriminatory” against… landlords. We appealed as well: no dice. Big Tech censorship is off the wall.

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Nothing sums up Maradona better than the streets of Naples. Every working-class district has its homage to him, decades after he left Napoli. The People’s Champ.

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Gilberto Malvestuto was the first Italian Partisan to set foot in Bologna after fighting to liberate it from the Nazis. A few days ago, a crowd celebrated his 100th birthday with a chorus of ‘Bella Ciao’ outside the nursing home.

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“Trade unionists are greedy for wanting a pay rise? The profits of the top FTSE companies have gone up 73% since 2019. When are we going to ask if they’re greedy?” - @RMTunion ’s Eddie Dempsey

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Manchester Cathedral absolutely packed. Huge overspill outside to be addressed by speakers. Feels like a movement now. #EnoughlsEnough

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“Who’s your political hero?” “James Connolly, an Irish socialist republican”

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First coronavirus case: Norway - Feb 26th Denmark - Feb 27th New Zealand - Feb 28th All three of these countries have produced comprehensive support packages for jobs and wages. The UK still hasn't. First case here? Jan 31st.

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“Those of us on PAYE can’t avoid tax, it’s taken out of our wages. But there are many people in this country who avoid tax like it’s some kind of disease.” - @RMTunion ’s Mick Lynch

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It’s not “against everything America stands for” to launch a coup, it’s just a novelty to try it at home.

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The BBC has just written a story about research showing that *88%* of Tory adverts this election are misleading or lies, while none of Labour's are. How have they framed it? 'General election adverts are dishonest.' Beyond ridiculous.

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These 'rubber bullets' now maiming protestors in US cities were pioneered by the British army in Northern Ireland. They killed 17 civilians. 8 of them were children. That's the history they don't teach in schools.

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'So what, you think *every* worker who doesn't get a proper pay rise and decent conditions should just go on strike?'

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Gabriel Boric has named Maya Fernández Allende as Chile’s new defence minister, putting Salvador Allende’s granddaughter in charge of the military that overthrew him in a coup in 1973. Never let them tell you that we can’t overcome history’s injustices.

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Even by the standards of British politics, the speed by which 'key workers' went from being celebrated every week to being irresponsible carers, sacked council workers and disposable migrants again is pretty staggering.

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“The general public know they’re being mugged. Profits are through the roof, corporate pay is obscene and the only ones being asked to tighten their belts are working class people.” - @RMTunion ’s Eddie Dempsey

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“How a government treats refugees is instructive – it shows how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.” - Tony Benn

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“What’s happening is the rich are getting richer, profits are accelerating, while workers are getting poorer. That cannot continue.” - @RMTunion ’s Mick Lynch

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“We’re not going to let them take the piss anymore. We’re going to make sure our old people are warm in winter. We’re going to make sure our kids are fed.” Eddie Dempsey of @RMTunion addresses the massive overspill outside our Manchester rally. #EnoughlsEnough

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“I'm not going to listen to a Lord, who probably won't know the business end of a shovel, telling my members about being modern when they're working 24 hour shifts.” - @RMTunion ’s Eddie Dempsey

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“Price rises are caused by profit. The big shots in this economy, who live on dividends and shareholdings, are raking it in. We’ve never had more billionaires, the super-rich have never been richer.” - @RMTunion ’s Mick Lynch

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There’s more than 100,000 workers in Royal Mail being denied a proper pay rise – and they’re not having it. We’re heading for the second major strike of the summer 👊

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“We’ve got millions of people in work who have to take benefits. That’s an outrage. The reason they have to take benefits is they’re not being paid enough.” - @RMTunion ’s Mick Lynch

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Wage rises for posties, firefighters, nurses, rail workers and teachers. Or higher profits, dividends and salaries for corporations and executives. That’s the choice, forget the noise.

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In Preston, Labour’s left-wing council has retained all of its seats. Their plans for the next twelve months include a worker co-op for taxis, a publicly-owned cinema and a council-run bank. There is an alternative to defeat and desperation – it’s called socialism.

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On this day in 1984, eleven workers in Dunnes Stores, one of Ireland’s corporate giants, refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa and went on strike. They spent 3 years on the picket, just £21 per week. But in the end they forced the government to boycott apartheid.

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Samuel L. Jackson, a union man, sports a @Bectu t-shirt today to support unionised TV and film crews.

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In Derry in 1972, people were marching against a system which denied one community access to voting rights, housing and work. It was not “religious bitterness” or “sectarian conflict,” it was Britain’s Jim Crow. You’ll never understand Bloody Sunday unless you understand that.

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David Koch is dead. Forget the fawning obituaries: the man spent his life funding campaigns to dismantle unions, drive down wages, slash benefits and destroy the planet. He was a monument to the grotesque greed of the billionaire class - and why we need to defeat them.

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Lula would have won today’s election in Brazil. Instead, the country’s elite was so scandalised by mild social democracy that they locked him up and elevated Bolsonaro to defend their interests. That’s what fascism really is: property showing its teeth.

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Less than half a day. That's how long it took the BBC to turn a story about a four year old with pneumonia forced to lie on the floor of a hospital for hours due to NHS funding cuts into a story about Labour activists being thugs. The media in this country is a rigged game.

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Israel is an apartheid state which murders journalists and attacks their funerals for no other reason than they tell the story of Palestinian oppression. It is the exact moral equivalent of South Africa in the 1980s, and anyone who tells you different is a liar.

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Just like the weekend.

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Get back to work, buy your lunches. Sit beside your colleagues for 8 hours - but don’t bring them over to your garden. But do go to the pub with your family, and whatever strangers are there. Work and spend. That’s what the medical advice says.

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Annual salaries for essential workers: Hospital cleaner - £16,551 Bin collector - £17,093 Retail worker - £19,094 Nurse - £22,654 Social care - £25,692 Instead of the platitudes, let's fight for higher wages.

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"The logic in the world at the moment, and football is not outside of this, is that the rich get rich at the expense of the poor... And then they demand more privileges." - Marcelo Bielsa

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Energy prices: up Rent costs: up Food prices: up Price of a pint: up Level of debt: up Wages: still the same If this is you, 2022 is the year to join a trade union.

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Eddie is a lifelong anti-fascist who has organised to shut down the EDL in working-class communities. He has spearheaded the organisation of thousands of migrant cleaners into the @RMTunion and helped them win higher pay. You tweet for a living 👍

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Every time you see a catastrophe like the Amazon fires, remember that the rich have the resources to stop it. Tomorrow, if they wanted. But instead they're living a life of luxury and lining up behind fascist goons like Bolsonaro as the world burns.

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“There isn’t a train that moves in this country, not a bin gets emptied or a shelf stacked without the kind permission of the working class.” - Eddie Dempsey of the @RMTunion

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Workers who are quarantined over the coronavirus will not be entitled to sick leave. This tells you two things: 1) capitalism is not fit to respond to major social crises; 2) join a goddamn union.

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Coronavirus: Wages, sick pay and time off explained

As many people see smaller pay cheques, we explain wages and sick pay during the coronavirus crisis.

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A society that celebrates its colonial history with statues in its major cities but refuses to include the atrocities its empire committed abroad in its school curriculum is lying to its people on an industrial scale.

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“Housing, and the basic needs of society, should never have been left to the marketplace.” @PresidentIRL is one of the only public figures anywhere in the West prepared to speak this obvious truth.

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Every Western leader who issued one-sided, carte-blanche statements about Israel’s “right to defend itself” in recent days should be made to own what happens in Gaza for the rest of their lives.

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The rail strike isn’t only about rail workers. This strike is coming first because the RMT is the frontline of the organised working class. If they win, millions of workers will feel emboldened to fight for a pay rise. And the establishment knows it.

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The situation facing Travellers in Britain and Ireland: 50% not living to 40 years of age; 1 in 5 losing children in childbirth; 65% of kids not completing basic schooling. It is not an inconvenience, it is shameful and a scandal. That’s the only acceptable left-wing position.

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The Labour right has no ideas, it stands for nothing beyond electability. It has constructed a myth around its own competence based on the fact that its leading lights wore suits and ties to social gatherings at 15. Tonight, seems that myth will come into contact with reality.

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Capitalism is a luxury. We're all socialists in a crisis.

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Biggest Palestine demo in years coming up to the Israeli embassy in London.

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Aneurin Bevan was a Marxist who was expelled from the Labour Party for being too left-wing and demonised by the press for building the NHS. If he was still alive today he’d be condemned as a dangerous radical - by the same charlatans who lavish praise on him on days like this.

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‘Both sides are wrong’ isn’t going to cut it this time, I’m afraid. The US pulled out of a nuclear deal that had widespread international support, imposed sanctions and then assassinated a leading government official. They are the aggressor. This is not ambiguous.

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If your candidate isn’t getting baselessly smeared on the front pages of the billionaire press, they’re probably not a threat to anyone with any power. That’s the reality.

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NEW: Opinium poll shows how @RMTunion has turned the tide of public opinion in favour of the rail strike Support - 45% (+7) Oppose - 37% (-6)

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A sad day. Manolis Glezos, who tore the swastika down from the Acropolis in 1941, has died. Glezos was a lifelong socialist, from the anti-fascist resistance to the movement against the Troika and austerity in Greece. 98 years. Almost a century in the struggle. Go well comrade.

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Combined vote of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil: 1977 - 81.1% 1989 - 73.5% 2007 - 68.9% 2020 - 44.6% The era of right-wing domination is over.

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"People should be aware that Network Rail spends more servicing its debts from the privatised era than it does on actually delivering maintenance…" - @RMTunion ’s Eddie Dempsey

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The Tories refusing to close the schools in case it’s labelled as a u-turn. Labour refusing to back it in case it’s seen as a concession to the unions. Our political class is treating a public health crisis as if it’s a public relations exercise.

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Historic breakthrough for Sinn Féin, powered by younger and working-class voters. To put it in context, Ireland is the only country in western Europe never to have even had a centre-left government. The sun is setting on decades of right-wing rule. Not a moment too soon.

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Tory MP: "You'll have to put prices up to fund pay rises. Where does the money come from?" @RMTunion ’s Eddie Dempsey: "There’s plenty of money in the industry. It’s going to profits and leaving this country to tax havens."

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Channel 4’s Dispatches programme reported that Peter Mandelson called Jeffrey Epstein *while he was in prison for child sex offences* to ask him for a favour. Now the Labour leadership wants to make him a public figure again – while complaining about “Tory sleaze.” Beyond belief.

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Britain is the biggest Covid-19 disaster in Europe because it’s the place where neoliberalism progressed furthest. For decades, state capacity has been systematically dismantled – between 1980 and 1996 it alone accounted for 40% of all privatisations in the OECD.

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50 demonstrations that stretched from Aberdeen to Ramsgate to Cardiff. Supporting 200,000 on strike – and it’s only the start. Nurses. Teachers. Firefighters. Lecturers. Civil servants. All balloting for strike action in the coming weeks. The fightback is on. #EnoughIsEnough

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Ireland has become the first EU state to recognise Israel’s de facto annexation of Palestine in contravention of international law. A landmark on the road to isolating an apartheid state as we did in the 1980s. Next stop: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.

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After weeks of undermining Rebecca Long-Bailey’s efforts to stand up for teachers and their unions, Starmer sacks her to protect the reputation of the Israeli occupation. You would call him a coward - but a man who stands for nothing never has a need for courage.

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Hospital workers and rail workers showing solidarity for each other’s picket lines. This is what we need to win: unity in struggle!

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We are days away from Israel annexing the West Bank – one of the most significant breaches of international law this century. And what is the 'human rights lawyer' who leads the Labour Party doing? Defending the people who enforce the occupation. That's who Keir Starmer is.

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Football fans: choose your fighter

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Will there be an apology to Sally Rooney from those who defamed her yesterday? No. Because the story about her refusing to publish in Hebrew was a deliberate distortion designed to paint support for Palestinian human rights as antisemitic. That’s how it works.

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NEW: Opinium rail strike poll - 70% support inflation-level pay rise - 62% believe govt should intervene - 70% against cuts to rail staff - 84% say invest rail profits in maintaining staff - 59% say workers right to strike if talks fail

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“We’re rushing into a situation like 1930s Spain or Italy where they curbed the right to protest, civil liberties and attacked trade unions. It’s headed towards a very right-wing society.” - @MickWhelanASLEF

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Corbyn's home CLP in Islington North has voted 73-0 tonight in favour of a motion calling on Keir Starmer to fully reinstate him into the PLP. Similar motions should be tabled in every CLP in the country.

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The solidarity demo for the @RMTunion up in Glasgow is incredible. This fight back is only beginning!

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“The biggest reform we need on the railway is to take profiteering out of it. The government seems quite comfortable paying for those profits, but they don’t want to pay workers decent wages.” - @RMTunion ’s Eddie Dempsey

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It’s called the *Labour* Party. If you’re not prepared to back trade unions when they’re defending members’ lives, you shouldn’t be in it.

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Pedro Castillo is indigenous, a trade unionist, a teacher and actually proposes to fight inequality in Peru – so it makes total sense that Labour MPs hate him.

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Perú is a wonderful country but it’s depressing that voters were left with a choice between Fujimori and Castillo. Sadly the new cabinet looks set to take the country down a failed Marxist route.

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The passive voice is not enough when it comes to Bloody Sunday. It didn’t ‘unfold,’ it was perpetrated by British soldiers on behalf of a British state which refused to grant the protestors their civil rights. Britain’s political leaders have to recognise that.

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50 years ago, the horror of Bloody Sunday unfolded in Derry. The victims left behind families and a community that grieved their loss and struggled for decades to have the truth told about what happened. I send them my deepest respects on this poignant and significant day.

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Leak a massive plan to quarantine the elderly for four months to ITV instead of doing a press conference. Make a statement about how people should protect lives behind a Telegraph paywall. It's almost like the interests of sympathetic media comes before the public good.

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NEWS: My Telegraph article on the next stage of our #coronavirus plan: We must all do everything in our power to protect lives

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London Palestine demo is *massive*

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Why are @CWUnews on strike today? Last year, BT made £1.3 billion profit, gave its CEO a 32% pay rise – and at the same time, set up a foodbank for its own underpaid workers. Enough is enough.

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If you told Labour members that within months Keir Starmer would suspend Corbyn, drive every left winger out of shadow cabinet and split the NEC, he never would have won the leadership. His personal approval ratings are tanking with Labour supporters because he lied to them.

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Next time some media talking head questions a trade union's right to go on strike, remember this: Today, the @CWUnews got a higher turnout in its 115,000-member Royal Mail ballot than any general election since 1992. And 97.6% voted yes.

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"The right-wing of the Labour Party would rather see it fall into perpetual decline than abide by its democratic decisions." - Nye Bevan

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Another one bites the dust. They thought they’d bury rail workers, but he’s buried them instead. There’s only one Mick Lynch!

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The Ballymurphy Inquest has found that 10 people shot dead by the British Army in Belfast in 1971 were innocent and unarmed. It’s beyond time that this country came to terms with the brutality that successive British governments inflicted on the north of Ireland.

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Today will see the first telecoms strike since 1987 and the first national call centre strike in British history. Tens of thousands of workers will be on the picket line for the first time in their lives. Get out and show them they aren't fighting alone!

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It is now Monday morning. By the end of this week, millions of workers will have lost hours or jobs they need to support themselves and their families. The UK government hasn't announced any plans for this - but Denmark has. We urgently need to follow them. [Thread]

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“The ability to participate in society without shame. That’s what the minimum wage is about – and those who cut it visit poverty upon children.” @PresidentIRL making one of the all-time great defences of low-paid workers.

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Life-changing fines handed out to working-class people by a government that either doesn't know its own lockdown rules, doesn't abide by them, or writes them to suit grouse-hunters. They'll tell you we're all in this together. We aren't.

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Spent the final hours of my 20s watching that debate. Fitting, really - for a decade, my generation has been dealing with a crisis that landed on our heads after 2008. High rents, low wages, zero hours, student debt. At long last, there is an answer: a Corbyn government.

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Right-wingers have spent decades telling us that value in our economy is created by the stock market or the genius of billionaires. All lies. We now know what really keeps the economy going – the hard work of carers, cleaners, posties, binmen. Labour, not capital.

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Sixty years ago today Congo's first Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, was executed, cut up and dissolved in sulfuric acid by Belgian agents, with the support of the US and Britain, for the crime of demanding sovereignty over his country's resources on behalf of its people.

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Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated on this day in 1961. Sixty years later, his name remains synonymous with Africa's struggle against imperialism.

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If the Labour Party in opposition can’t back workers when they have overwhelming public support then it will do nothing for them in government.

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Andrew Adonis. David Blunkett. Alan Johnson. Three men who became ministers because of the labour movement, now using their platforms to attack unions when they need support most. Labour must never again be a career ladder for charlatans like this.

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Mick Lynch of the @RMTunion gives his support to @unisontheunion care workers on strike in St Monica’s Trust. The media has tried to pit rail and care workers against each other – but it’s the same fight. #StMonicaStrike

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35 years ago this month eleven workers in Dunnes Stores, one of Ireland’s corporate giants, refused to handle goods from apartheid South Africa and went on strike. They spent 3 years on the picket, just £21 per week. But in the end they forced the government to boycott apartheid.

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Modern football: capitalism with kits.

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2 years

Celtic Park says #EnoughIsEnough 🍀

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