So the talented & principled @MPeakeOfficial has got the #Labour right, centrists & the anti-Labour right in a strop because she told some uncomfortable truths: 1. Those who abandoned/attacked #JeremyCorbyn & Labour in 2019 are responsible for the deadly & racist mess we... /1
...are currently suffering under Johnson & Cummings. Your mess, you own it - end of. 2. That the apartheid Israeli state has been providing training in extremely violent militarised policing tactics not only to US police forces but also, for example, to the @metpoliceuk's... /2
...assassination squad who murdered Brazilian carpenter Jean Charles de Menezes - essentially for being black & running away terrified from unidentified men chasing him waving guns.
And no this is NOT anti-Semitic, it is simply the truth. #BlackLivesMatter#IStandWithMaxine /3
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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.
@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
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
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
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
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
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 @bbcwm
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?