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@IanSMcNee
Feb 27, 2020 • 6 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
#BernieSanders is now the front-runner to be the US #Democratic challenger to #Trump. He is popular because, like #JeremyCorbyn, he is serious about social democratic reforms #ForTheMany at the expense of the billionaire class... /1
#BernieSanders2020
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...serious action to address the #ClimateEmergency & reigning-in US military adventures. For the same reasons the US ruling class are out to destroy him politically, either in favour of one of his #Democrat rivals or, if that fails, if favour of #Trump. /2
#BernieSanders2020
Like the campaign against #Corbyn they are using every smear & dirty trick available to them. However #Sanders has shown he has learned from Corbyn's mistakes in capitulating to his dishonest critics:
"His campaign has also been rather sure-footed in the..." /3
#BernieSanders2020
"...face of a constant barrage from almost the entire #mainstreammedia. He has been accused of sexism (including by #HarveyWeinstein!), #ClimateChange denial (for rejecting policies formulated by Big Oil), accepting that #Cuba has made enormous strides..." /4
#BernieSanders2020
"...in #education (which is factually correct), and #antiSemitism (even though he is #Jewish). On the latter point, it is clear that this vile accusation is because #Bernie is a supporter of #Palestinian rights. His response, to make no concession to the..." /5
#BernieSanders2020
"...charge, has been highly effective."
Now it is time for the left in the #LabourParty to learn from #Sanders and stop capitulating to right-wing smears and reactionary #IdentityPolitics. /6
#BernieSanders2020 #RLB4Leader #Richard4Deputy #JoBird4NEC #Lauren4NEC

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Feb 5
Even as parts of the British left escape the activist bubble to engage in mass politics thanks to the huge peace mobilisations organised by @PSCUpdates & @MCB for a #CeasefireNow, they remain myopic & inward-looking on critical issues.

@AyoCaesar is a prime example. Here... /1
@PSCupdates @mcb @AyoCaesar ...the @NovaraMedia commentator rightly points out that the witch-hunts being orchestrated against pro-#Palestine activists like @NizMhani must be resisted. But Ash seems not to suffer any cognitive dissonance over her participation in similar witch-hunts against #feminists... /2
@PSCupdates @mcb @AyoCaesar @novaramedia @NizMhani ...who understand the social significance of biological sex & campaign for that to continue to be recognised in law & civil society. Women like criminologist @JoPhoenix1, social worker Rachel Meade, barrister @BluskyeAllison & development consultant @MForstater all faced... /3
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Sep 25, 2020
It is deeply disappointing that @UKLabour (my party) has allowed this racist & utterly regressive #Tory government to present itself as the protector of women's rights & children's safety. The current #Labour stance is wrong in so many ways it is hard to know where to begin. /1
Firstly we must be clear that for the Tories this is a risk-free & cynical act of political expediency that fits with their petty nationalist narrative that presents the left as an aloof "metropolitan elite". The same Tories have impoverished & marginalised women over the... /2
...past decade of austerity and they have failed to act upon the growing tide of male violence & sexual exploitation faced by women & girls. Anyone drawing the conclusion that a vote for the Tories is a vote for women is sadly mistaken. /3
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Sep 21, 2020
At the exuberant 2017 @UKLabour conference I was privileged to attend a meeting addressed by @ruthserwotka & @cwknews discussing proposed changes to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act that would effectively erase women's & girl's limited & hard-won legal protections. /1
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The mood of the meeting was in contrast to the rest of conference: the venue had to be kept secret until the last minute as other recent events where women had the temerity to meet with other women to discuss their political, legal & social rights had been harassed & attacked. /2
Not only that but this reactionary proposal from the Tory government, paralysed by the insurgent & radicalising #LabourParty under #JeremyCorbyn's leadership, was tacitly supported by large sections of the labour movement & many other public institutions. /3
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Jun 27, 2020
So far I've not commented publicly on the @PeoplesMomentum #NCGvote. both @ForwardMmtm & @Mom_Renewal have good people on their slates but both groups *collectively* have failed to make a strong political case for their slate. Neither has publicly stood against the false... /1
...accusations of anti-Semitism that divided the Labour left and undermined the only genuinely pro-working class, anti-racist & internationalist leader our party has ever had: #JeremyCorbyn. This is critical because part of the left capitulated to the smears, sealing our fate. /2
Anyone on the left who believes that if we keep our mouths shut about atrocities perpetrated by #ApartheidIsrael, if we quietly back away from #BDS & #Palestine solidarity, if we silent while those falsely accused of anti-Semitism are silenced & expelled is DELUSIONAL. /3
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Jun 26, 2020
The right-wing of @UKLabour, led by @Keir_Starmer & cheered-on by the anti-Labour press are very publicly sticking the knife into the #Labour left by sacking #RebeccaLongBailey. What do the sectarian left do? Silent: @workersliberty, the @Clarion_Mag, @MomentumInt_. /1
Some of their supporters give the game away, dishonestly claiming that #MaxinePeake (and by association @RLong_Bailey) peddled an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. No surprise as the #Islamophobic @workersliberty have been giving left cover to false claims of AS all along. /2
This organisation and their assorted fronts are not part of the left. They act solely in the interest of their own organisation and as a result not only aided the downfall of #JeremyCorbyn but also scandalously British imperialism's military intervention in Syria & beyond. /3
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Jun 22, 2020
Thanks @MADooceyGroup
- your contactors have just DELIBERATELY cut off electricity to the whole of our street, Allen Road in #Wolvehampton, without warning anyone or letting us know when it will be back on. Absolutely rubbish. @ExpressandStar
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Workers from @MADooceyGroup have been in the street ALL DAY - why have you not put a note through resident's doors warming them about a planned powercut? Why have you caused a powercut when people are preparing their evening meals? Would this have happened in Tettenhall or Penn?
I doubt it. But Whitmore Reans has large black communities. Perhaps @MADooceyGroup don't give a damn because we're a poorer part of town with migrant communities. It seems #BlackLivesMatter hasn't been heard by Doocey. Did @WolvesCouncil or @wolvespolice has a say in this action?
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