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Jul 14 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"I saw the news today, oh boy.." #torybeatles
"Don't let me drown" #torybeatles
"Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party" #torybeatles
"Happiness is a Warm Bum" #torybeatles
"Ticket to die"
"When I'm sixty-four..." #torybeatles
"I'm only sleeping." #torybeatles

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Jul 14
Open letter from the Trotskyists of @socialist_app to comrades of @yclbritain!

As Marxist-Leninists, you fight for world proletarian revolution & seek to build a revolutionary party ✊

But are your leaders worthy of these goals? And what did Marx & Lenin really stand for? 1/8 Image
"In a letter to the Morning Star earlier this year, a member of the YCL argued that discussions over differences between Stalin and Trotsky 'are wasting our time'... a 'distraction from getting real work done'... He asks if we are not bored by talking about our history." 2/8
"Prioritising 'getting real work done' over understanding Marxism seems to be the method of the YCL leaders. [The] focus... has been on banner drops, setting off flares, waving flags, chanting their own name on demos (as well as Stalin’s!), & collecting for food banks." 3/8
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Jun 29
So, with Keir Starmer's continual race to out-Blair Tony Blair, I see Andy Burnham is being touted by some as the saviour of the Labour Party 'left'.

Hoo-boy! Think it's time for another 🧵on the guy's real record... 1/11
As an MP, he voted for British involvement in the Iraq War, refused to oppose Tory welfare cuts, and helmed NHS privatisations as Gordon Brown’s health secretary. 2/11
The level of NHS privatisation on Burnham’s watch was allegedly twice as high as under the subsequent Tory-led Coalition government. 3/11
Read 11 tweets
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May 10
Keir Starmer's 'honesty and integrity' - a history... (gonna be a long one). 🧵1/24
While he was DPP:

CPS refused to revisit wrongful convictions resulting from policeman Mark Kennedy unlawfully infiltrating activist organisations by seducing members. 🧵2/24
Declined to indict the officers who shot Brazilian immigrant Jean Charles de Menezes.🧵3/24
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Feb 22
Putin claims “modern Ukraine was completely created by Bolshevik Communist Russia.” Accuses Lenin of doing it “in a crude way, alienating Russia’s historical territories”.

Lenin's real position on Ukrainian national question was FAR from crude, & worth reading in full. (🧵1/16)
Lenin is crystal clear in this 'Letter to the Workers and Peasants of the Ukraine', written in 1919 during the Russian Civil War: (🧵2/16)
"Soviet power in the Ukraine has its own special tasks. One of these special tasks deserves the greatest attention... the national question..." (🧵3/16)
Read 17 tweets
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Feb 21
The witch-hunt of Paul Holmes.

How a cabal of Kirklees council bosses, Blairite councillors, right-wing union bureaucrats & petty cynics (including past & present members of the Socialist Party) conspired to get a socialist trade unionist sacked & sidelined. Read on. (🧵1/16)
Paul has an unblemished 48-year record at Kirklees council. A shop steward for 46 years. Runner up in Unison's last Gen Sec election. Elected president of the union.

He's been a thorn in the bosses' side for decades - so they set out to destroy him. And they had help. (🧵2/16)
To show much the bosses HATED Paul, at a 2015 management away-day event, 50 senior managers from Kirklees Council reportedly chanted: “We’re going to break Paul Holmes! We’re going to break Unison!”

Very normal. (🧵3/16)
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Feb 11
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the EHRC has NEVER been fit for purpose, it has NEVER been truly fair or independent, and it's ALWAYS been an establishment instrument. Here's a handy thread! (🧵1/11)
Commission was established in 2006 under Tony Blair, absorbing & replacing three previous bodies. The move was heavily criticised by activists who pointed out that there cannot be a ‘one-size-fits-all approach’ to inequality & discrimination. (🧵2/11)
First Chair was Trevor Phillips (for whom Mandelson was best man at his wedding). One ex-commissioner described Phillips’ leadership as “better suited to a political organisation rather than a human rights one”. Lately, his Islamophobia has been well documented. (🧵3/11)
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