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Feb 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My employer sending out email on a strike day inviting people to a discussion of a new 'People Strategy' *on another strike day* says it all, really, about 'People Strategy'. Talk to the Union--they've got some ideas on 'People Strategy' #ucuRISING #UCUstrike
The bigger the Pay & Pensions Deficit, the louder the People PR talk.
The more you offer a 'Strategy' for 'People', the less of a sh*t you give about them. Spare us HR blather.
"Please, sir, I can has Pay and Pensions?"
"No, but here, you can nibble on my delicious People Strategy".

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Feb 16
We know who will win the British elections in 2024: Britain's governing class.

Ordinary British people have already lost whether they recognise this now or not.
It is in this context that we have to repeatedly deal with the fatuous sub-juvenile question: 'why, do you want the Tories to win?'
Personally, grateful to Keir Starmer for his clarifying statement making clear that Labour Party's allegiance is to power & profit. From now on, the sacred democratic duty of holding power to account will have to be undertaken by millions of ordinary people. The duty of protest.
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Feb 15
Who will form a party of protest? Protest, challenge, interrogation, opposition, questioning--those things are the lifeblood of real democracy. Not the 'service' of the rich.
Anyway, glad to know I don't have to vote for Labour assuming they will carry my protest to Parliament. At least we are agreed on that.
"Service" is the classic bullshit term used by the rich to pretent swanning around and throwing a few crumbs here and there is the way to keep society running (See, e.g. Royal Family 'service'. 'Service's' main point is to keep the majority of us 'servile'.
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Feb 15
Heard some fascinating things on picket today. One student's lecturer was teaching today, & when the student pressed him on why, the lecturer answered: 'I'll participate in industrial action only if it become truly disruptive'.

The pickets are insufficiently radical for them.
Another person, white male but not a student, crossed the picket, saying 'I'm a foreigner, it doesn't concern me.'

That's not how it works, but you do you.
It was an incredibly polite picket, anyone who wanted to get through was simply offered a leaflet. Didn't stop one individual posting an outright lie anonymously online claiming 'militant strikers' were on that pickets not letting them return books. If this is militant, dear god.
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Oct 19, 2022
So pointless reminding the likes of Suella that if it wasn't for the 'wokerati', she wouldn't be in the UK, be educated, be a lawyer, enter the professions, be able to vote, be able to stand for elected office & be a minister. All we can do is to stand up to the lies.
This is the tragic burden of those who fight for change: clearing the path for hypocritical dross. Still we persevere, there's no other moral choice.
Many I know are personally heartsick at having helped cleared the path for institutional collaborators who never took a single risk themselves. But the alternative is silence.
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Oct 19, 2022
Braverman's despicable & authoritarian Public Order Bill need not remind us of Russia, Iran or Egypt.

It is the British Empire's response to any form of resistance. Harsh, violent anti-protest & sedition measures kept by postcolonial states--& now coming home. Warned against.
Other countries, including Nazi Germany, took inspiration from the Empire's playbook. Again, imperial amnesia means the familiar is not recognised & treated as alien. So we can perpetuate the myth that Britain is the home of democracy & freedom.
British dissidents--one thinks of Frederic Harrison's Six Letters on Martial Law--repeatedly warned that harsh measures to clamp down on protest in the colonies would come home.
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Oct 16, 2022
Hmmm, no, not colonialist and racist undertones.

Full strength race bigotry drunk neat.

"Europe is indefensible"
h/t @_vajra
So hilarious, complete with 'garden' v 'jungle' tropes they used to decimate landscapes
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