Will be posting live from court this morning where the trial of @PSCupdates & @STWuk continues in front of District Judge Daniel Sternberg who cleared Tommy Robinson of breaching a dispersal order at a London anti-antisemitism march in April 2024, as reported by BBC News. THREAD There are far more police irregularities in this case, so let’s see if he again rules ‘no case to answer’.

Trial resumes after lunch: new video: police explaining to each other what kind of cordon they are running at the top of Whitehall. Mark Summers defence KC to Winnard, Silver command: your officers don’t seem to know what they are doing.

In Westminster Magistrates court for the 3rd day of the trial of @stwuk @ChrisNineham and @PSCupdates @BenJamalpsc for organising a peaceful Palestine demonstration. Live reports here 🧵 Prosecution to conclude examination of Met police senior cmdr Adam Slonecki about his decision to ban the Palestine coalition demo at the BBC on Jan 18 2025.

Back for the afternoon in the court hearing of @STWuk @ChrisNineham and @PSCupdates @BenJamalpsc where defence KC Mark Summers is cross examining Met Commander Adam Slonecki 🧵 Mark Summers: where did you get the idea that the BBC adjacent synagogue was the only one tourists could go to? Slonecki: was told by Jewish reps. Summers: but there are 15 they can go to.

Mark Summers KC for the defence now cross examining Cmd. Slonecki from the Met. Suggests that his previous account was a fabrication. Rejected by Slonecki. Slonecki asked why Zionist counter protest allowed in line of sight of Palestine protest when Palestine protests were allowed anywhere near BBC because of synagogue.

Met Gold Commander in charge of policing on the demo now being examined by prosecution in the trial of @STWuk vice chair @ChrisNineham and @PSCupdates director @BenJamalpsc for organising a peaceful protest. Prosecution walking Met Gold Commander through imposition of ban on assembling demo at the BBC

The scheme being promoted by Owen Jones and James Schnieder to push the new left party (even before it’s founded!) into an alliance with the Greens can only work to blunt it’s radicalism. 1/7 Firstly, there is absolutely no reason to believe that a party which already has 500,000 supporters and is polling at 12 percent needs to ally with a party that after 35 years of existence has 65,000 members and limited electoral success….2/7

I am very sad to have lost a great friend and comrade in @johnpilger. I talked to him only a couple of weeks ago when he was in hospital but I hoped his great fighting spirit would see him through. Sadly he lost this last struggle. He was a great investigative... 🧵

https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1741419322449215716

journalist as the world knows. He was an unrepentant socialist, naturally a radical. And he was a loyal &warm friend and comrade. I knew him first through my great friend and his Paul Foot, the only peer John had as a journalist. When Paul was ill John was his great champion 🧵

From my BBC R5 interview this morning it’s clear what the govt./right wing response to the demo is. 1. Pretend it was only 300k, the police figure, not the 800k figure of the organisers. The Met stopped giving figures for many years cos it….🧵 …was ‘too controversial’. They have only begun again for these demos. We should as why. I did on R5 but we should ask them directly. 2. Try to confuse the fascist demo & the Palestine demo. The police keep using the word ‘counter-protesters’ to refer to the far right fascists.🧵

The road to Jerusalem lies through Cairo has long been a saying on the revolutionary left. It means that victory for the Palestinians is bound up with a wider rising of the Arab masses in the region, most importantly in Egypt where the working class is strongest and the…🧵 state is central to the imperial architecture of the Middle East. That general statement is now specifically and urgently true. The plans for a second Nakba in Gaza may depend on the Sisi dictatorship being willing to host permanent refugee ghettos on the 🧵