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31 Dec 21, 18 tweets, 8 min read
2021 for me began with a lockdown edit of 3x films I made with @TheopiSkarlatos for @rosaluxglobal - "R is for Rosa" - about the ideas of Rosa Luxemburg. Start here...
I spent the rest of Q1 working with a few others on this DIY movie about the Paris Commune… (and learning motion graphics)….

vimeo.com/525100262
... then I did the revised edit of How To Stop Fascism. Here's the moment I pressed send on the completed book... (the big green thing on my desk is Losurdo's massive takedown of Nietzsche)
How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance came out in August... here's a summary of the argument...

We held numerous Zoom calls around the launch, including this one with the inspirational @lea_ypi hosted by @LSEnews
... and a discussion on @FRANCE24
Travel restrictions limited me to one foreign trip... to Berlin, to talk about antifascism at @Volksbuehne ...
...and to Wuppertal to give a lecture on Engels and Science - and visit his birthplace ...
Most of H2/2021 was spent on the road in the UK, speaking about the new far right threat… a good summary here given at Kenwood House/HowTheLightGetsIn…

iai.tv/video/paul-mas…
There’s 52 weeks worth of political journalism in my @newstatesman column - covering Capitol Hill, Kabul, Hartlepool and Batley, and the Ukraine crises… newstatesman.com/author/paul-ma…
I went to Batley - to campaign for Labour against George Galloway. It annoyed a few of his fans.
I've spent a fair amount of 2021 WFC (working from caravan)... the Wifi here is so good I could appear live from my beige tin box on Politics Live ... bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
I started a monthly column in the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau (thanks to editor @Bibliothomas ) . fr.de/meinung/kolumn…
I've been producing an irregular blog/newsletter via both Medium and Substack, for stuff I want two write freeform and outside the paywalls... medium.com/mosquito-ridge…
...And the prep for this members-only Zoom with me and @stephenfry plunged me deep into the score of the Ring Cycle, armed with only a pencil, and I’m gonna be in there well into 2022…

lfo.org.uk/event/paul-mas…
There were some inspirational demos...
... and the world's getting darker/tougher to be a journalist in...
So have a great NYE _ with solidarity and hope for 2022!

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19 Dec 21
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Tory Covid rebellion means Johnson, and any future leader, need Labour votes to uphold science-based public health strategy - here's why newstatesman.com/comment/2021/1…
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4 Dec 21
The US press this w/e is full of well sourced briefing about the scale of Putin's threatened invasion of Ukraine. What do we learn? Thread: 1/ from WaPo that the Pentagon sees 100+ battalion equivalents attacking on multiple fronts ...
2/ ... that State Dept has understood Putin's red lines are advancing ... to start heaving NATO-friendly countries in Nordics/Balkans...
3/ ... and that this is about a strategic outcome for VVP, not just another demonstration of power... and that USA is short of options. It's a kind of "wake up weekend" for US political pundits...
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3 Dec 21
Don't celebrate the "10% swing to Labour" in Bexley/Sidcup. In 2019 under Corbyn Labour scored 14,000 votes there; last night, with a corrupt, racist, incompetent Govt, we scored <7,000 - while the UKIP vote returned for Tice... 1/
2/ Around half the normally loyal Tory vote stayed at home - but in a by-election that's easier to do than in a general election where the stakes are existential ...
3/ Bexley/Sidcup shows why Labour has to win the North and Midlands... large parts of suburban southern England are genealogically addicted to racist Toryism and will never "swing"
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30 Nov 21
Labour's reshuffle. A thread. 1/ It's a move to the right - slightly across the whole team, but significantly in one area: crime, policing and security. @YvetteCooper will go toe to toe with Patel over her serially failing Dept, on a traditional Labour agenda...
...2/ and Cooper's politics are not my politics - as you can see from this exchange... but Labour needs to cut thru with Tory-Labour switchers, esp in northern England, and their #1 issue (for many) is crime and personal security - so I see the logic...

3/ Lammy for Nandy is a good swap, and promotion for someone who - again - has started to cut thru with Tory-Labour switchers via LBC... Streeting for Ashworth is basically Old Labour for Soft Left... but buries a potential challenger to KS in a tough portfolio...
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26 Nov 21
Tony Blair offering great solutions for Potemkin Village CLP here 1/ seeks unity with "non-Labour progressive forces" but no mention of Greens, SNP, Plaid ... and it gets worse ...
thetimes.co.uk/article/tony-b…
2/ ... yeah "longevity in office" - not committing the U.K. to an illegal war and a doomed occupation, or overseeing financial boom-bust, or the most aggressive adoption of FOM in Europe... Image
3/ ... now he sees the left as the source of "woke" politics - good job he's not been to an SCG meeting recently - and wants young MPs who are not "woke" - there'll be plenty in Potemkin Village CLP... Image
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