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@ElwinWay
Chronic procrastinator
Jun 22 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Starmer and Lammy are both saying Iran needs to back down and show restraint, despite the fact it’s the US and Israel - AKA Genocide ‘R’ Us - who are the aggressors.

They should be treated as disgraceful international pariahs and in much of the world they will be. If there’s one thing we can take away from Corbynism, it’s that anyone from the Labour Party or movement who is supporting this should be excluded from any future left project. They have forfeited their right to move in those spaces.
Jun 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We don’t have to imagine any more lads. Said it before but my writing on war and imperialism over the last 20 years holds up.

The aesthetic and theoretical quality isn’t always great but the analysis and predictions are prescient.

Mainly because while you were out being normal, I was doing 12 hours a day research.
Jun 8 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Owen knows all about it because it’s behaviour he engages in himself.

Eg, remember in 2021 when he said it was right to expel Labour Against the Witch Hunt and others from Labour for having the temerity to say critics of Israel were being targeted?

‘Purity police’ indeed. When this predictably lead to Ken Loach - as a sponsor of LATWH - being expelled, he decided this was outrageous.

Hard to conclude other than Jones thought it'd only affect 'cranks' - as he called them - and not important people who actually matter.
Thread here:
May 11 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
The most obvious explanation as to what happened to Austin Tice IMO is that he was kidnapped and executed by rebel groups in 2012 after he’d started to write articles critical of them. But in 2012 it wasn’t politically convenient to admit he’d been killed by the rebels. A video exists of Tice being led blindfolded into some scrub land by armed men. He is visibly distressed and honestly it looks like the precursor to an execution.

The claim is this was staged by the Assad government who either killed Tice themselves or were holding him captive.
Mar 25 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
It was 14 years ago that Owen Jones was using his big platform to call for Muammar Gafaffi to be overthrown, ‘dead or alive’. It was 10 years ago that Owen Jones was using his big platform to implore people to vote Labour, who were at the time promising to be ‘tougher than the Tories’ on cutting benefits and pledging to bomb Iraq.
Nov 19, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Here’s Owen Jones saying he’s supported all weapons shipments to Ukraine until now.

This must mean he supported the provision of widely banned cluster munitions (because they’re inherently indiscriminate) and cancer generational causing depleted uranium shells. Shameful. Screenshot of a tweet by Owen Jones dated 18/11/24, which says: ‘on Ukraine I've supported all weapons transfers until this point. I just have concerns about an escalation for obvious reasons, and I find it slightly bizarre how sticking to what was the West's position until this weekend is now deemed wacky and extreme’. The other options are that Jones either didn’t know or has forgotten about the provision of cluster munitions and depleted uranium shells to Ukraine - both of which could kill Ukrainians for decades to come.

Which would be damning in its own way.
Sep 10, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
On the uses and misuses of ‘crank’ in the late Corbyn era. Loads of the Corbynites who work in media at various levels used to throw this word around like confetti. And then one day it just stopped. Largely disappears from their discourse almost overnight around mid-2020: The whole ‘Labour antisemitism crisis’ thing blatantly did have a chilling effect on criticism of Israel in the upper echelons of official and unofficial Corbynism. Here’s me talking about in November 2019. Israel was bombing Gaza and there was near *silence* from them:
Sep 8, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Owen Jones voted Labour in 2005 and 2010 and 2015. He is fine with supporting mass murderers and war criminals as long as they are Western bourgeois white men.

Fact. He presents a show with Mehdi Hasan, someone who is open about the fact he is going to vote for the genocidaire Kamala Harris.

He is very, very selective about which supporters of war criminals he thinks are persons non grata and which he thinks are good.
May 18, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
According to this New York Times article, Ukraine has barely any reserve forces left to deploy.

Once again: westerners who think it’s a moral imperative that this war continues need to be signing up to fight it.

nytimes.com/2024/05/18/wor…
Screenshot of a New York Times article stating: ‘As the scale of the Russian push became clear over the weekend, Ukraine's military scrambled to divert troops from other areas of the front, rather than deploying reserves. The reason, according to Ukrainian officials: There are few reserves to deploy’. You can apply to join the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine here. They are so desperate for bodies that unwilling Ukrainians are being snatched off the streets and sent to the front lines:

ildu.com.ua
May 4, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Owen Jones ‘supporting war crimes and the mass slaughter of civilians is my red line’ latest:

Iraqis still don’t count.


Screenshot of Owen Jones tweet, dated 22/03/24, stating: ‘That answer would be two things - honest, and absolutely appalling. As I texted her at the time: "I've always voted Labour, but this is it for me, I won't vote for you. We all have our red lines, mine is supporting war crimes and the mass slaughter of civilians."
Screenshot of Owen Jones retweeting Momentum on 04/05/2024. The Momentum tweet says: ‘Congratulations to @AndyBurnhamGM on a well-deserved third term. As private interests howled, Andy delivered a publicly-controlled bus system in Greater Manchester. Voters rewarded him and backed his vision for more council housing & a National Care Service @TeamBurnhamGM’.
Screenshot from They Work For You showing Andy Burnham voted for the invasion of Iraq in 2023.
Screenshot of an Independent article from 2010 about Andy Burnham. It says: ‘ Andy Burnham, one of four former cabinet ministers vying to be the next Labour leader, has announced that he is "proud" to be seen as the candidate who would carry on where Gordon Brown and Tony Blair left off. He defended the most contentious decision of the Blair years, to send British troops to war in Iraq, unlike his rivals, Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, who have distanced themselves from the war. "I don't back away from the original decision," he said. "I think it gave 20 or so million p... As I’ve been saying for years, the invasion of Iraq - one of the greatest war crimes of the modern age - is just a comradely disagreement among friends for too many people on the Labour left. You can have voted for it, defended it as late as *2010*, and still be one of the lads.
Apr 27, 2024 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
People are calling AOC an opportunist because she’s rhetorically opposing the genocide in Palestine, while practically working to empower the people arming and funding it. That simple. AOC isn’t naive. She must know that Joe Biden - again, a man who is arming, funding a supporting an ongoing genocide - is using her to launder his reputation and increase his chance of being elected so he can do more genocide.
Aug 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Still this tbh. If they have said anything in public I’ve missed it. All weapons are terrible but cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells are particularly nasty. Indiscriminate and toxic often long after the war has ended. A few different sources have said Ukraine couldn’t have continued their ‘counteroffensive’ without the provision of cluster bombs. I’d genuinely like to know wether they think sending cluster bombs to Ukraine was worth it to save the ‘counteroffensive’?
Jul 27, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The Washington Post says that Western officials have known for months that the Ukrainian armed forces simply weren’t equipped to launch a successful counter-offensive against Russian forces. They urged them to do it anyway:

https://t.co/hKSMAiZDkUwashingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
Article from the Washington Post stating: ‘In public, Western leaders are urging patience. Ukraine's counteroffensive is far from over. Yet Milley's skepticism about Ukraine's ability to achieve total victory appears to have been widespread within the Biden administration before the counteroffensive began. The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Michaels reported this week that "Western military officials knew Kviv didn't have all the training or weapons - from shells to warplanes - that it needed to dislodge Russian forces." That tracks: In April, The Post reported on a leaked U.S. int... Personally I think the casualty figures from this war are hugely inflated by both sides for propaganda purposes. But the toll is still genuinely horrific. Why would the West pressure Ukraine into launching a counter-offensive if they knew it wouldn’t go well for Ukraine?
Jun 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Remember 24 hours ago when helping sovereign states resist the occupation of their territory by hostile powers was Good Actually? Wonder what’s changed since. McDonnell, Lewis, Jones, Whittome, etc, will be producing a statement supporting Syria’s right to resist occupation - an occupation which almost certainly includes British special forces and fighter jets - and Iran’s duty to arm them any day now.
Mar 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Hard to see this as anything other than bad faith nonsense. As if ‘transforming Britain and saving the planet’ hinges on whether Corbyn runs as an independent in Islington North or not. It’s bizarre rubbish. It’s also extremely nasty tbh. As Lansman concedes, Corbyn has been treated despicably. And yet the suggestion is if he doesn’t just roll over and retire quietly, it’ll be his fault if Britain isn’t transformed and the planet isn’t saved.
Mar 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The socialist equivalent of TINA this. As if advancements can only be made via a party that, in the entirety of its history, has never been anything but social democratic / imperialist *at best*. ‘Oh, so you don’t want to be a member of a racist, imperialist and neoliberal party that thinks you’re scum who should be ground into the dirt? Well what’s YOUR plan, comrade?’.
Mar 21, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Here's the U.N.'s Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief saying a political solution is need to the war in Ukraine:

The argument against a political solution - an argument which is currently being pushed by the U.S. State Department and large sections of the liberal-left - is that it will cement Russian control of Ukrainian territory (Crimea, Donbas).
Mar 21, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
And yet 3 and a half years ago John McDonnell was disgracefully trying to launder the reputations of Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell by whitewashing their crimes in Iraq. He’s never properly apologised. I wrote about it here:

interventionswatch.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/joh… McDonnell also has lots of nice things to say about another of the perpetrators, Gordon Brown. Quoting a mildly critical speech from 20 years ago pales compared to normalising and rehabilitating the perpetrators now:
Mar 20, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Had this person in my mentions for two days giving it ‘I’m a proper Marxist and you’re a liberal’ because I said university professors are middle-class. Here’s what they actually think of working-class people. Vicious ableism and snobbery: Me: Professional middle-class people are not working-class.

Professional middle-class people / their children:
Mar 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Also supported the bombing of Kosovo and Serbia. People don’t see that war as straight forwardly problematic as Iraq. But I find the argument that it exacerbated, rather than prevented, atrocities and mass displacement - and NATO knew it would - very persuasive. Was also illegal. Thread outlining the basic contours of the anti-war case here:
Mar 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A reminder that an International Criminal Court investigation found that British forces had committed war crimes in Iraq - including torture and rape, for which there was impunity - but they decided not to prosecute for reasons:

amnesty.org/en/latest/news… In 2014, France wrote a draft U.N. resolution to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC. Under U.S. pressure - this was Obama and Biden, not Trump - they included clauses that would de facto protect the U.S. and Israel from prosecution:

nytimes.com/2014/05/08/wor…