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Labour MP for Norwich South: “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently” David Graeber

Jan 30, 2023, 5 tweets

1/5 The attack on the freedom of workers in the Anti-Strikes Bill is part of a longer-term project.

That project aims to take political and economic power away from the many so that it is held only by the few.

This is why the Government is really attacking trade unions.

2/5 This legislation puts beyond a shadow of a doubt whose side this Government is really on.

It's not the side of the public. Because this Government is taking away the public's democratic rights. #RightToStrike

3/5 It's workers, not the Govt, who are defending public services.

Workers fight for safe and accessible railways, a strong NHS, and an education system with good conditions for students & teachers.

This Govt sides with the practitioners of poverty pay and a race to the bottom.

4/5 The Anti-Strikes Bill is just the latest addition to a long raft of anti-democratic legislation passed by the Tories.

It is part of a project to transfer power away from workers and citizens, and eliminate the limited rights and freedoms we have in the workplace and society.

5/5 This Government wants us to believe that there is no alternative.

That NHS crisis, water pollution, food banks, and political corruption, are inevitable.

This is a grim 50 year-old ideological experiment, and it is in tatters.

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