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Labour MPs. Do not vote to cut the winter payment.
We'll be watching Scottish Labour- Who turns up and who votes or abstains to make Scotland a colder place for our vulnerable pensioners.
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@kirstyjmcneill writetothem.com Which @ScottishLabour MP's will vote or abstain to make Scotland a colder place for pensioners on Tuesday? @DrScottArthur
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It's been interesting watching some quite popular left Twitter accounts and some comrades shift in two ways. Way 1- relief at the end of the tories, but organising to fill the vacuum left by a right leaning Labour party or way 2- a kind of capitulation to the beige Brownist/ Blairist nuLabourism. In the second way, I see people who have seen the destruction the tories have meted out over 14 years who are feeling a kind of relief, some of whom seem to be either suffering a kind of Stockholm syndrome as they see no escape from the relentless propaganda

Holyrude magazine accepts sponsorship from the ecological catastrophic salmon farming industry; Coca Cola, who as a corporation have been implicated in the murder of Trades unionists in Columbia, and directly profiting from tge apartheid of Israel's occupation Palestine; & US military (who are engaged in bombing Yemen, for example, and have provided support for Israel during tgeir opperations reulting in genocide in Palestine) tech providers, Leidos; and another company that has been accused of greenwashing. All of these companies get free

Condolences to the friends & family of Allan Armstrong of the Republican Communist Network , Emancipation & Liberation, a founding member of @The_SSP_ & @RIC_Scotland. He was a tireless fighter for socialism & an indefatigable Trades Unionist in the @EISUnion & Scottish Rank & File Teachers & the Scottish Socialist Teachers Federation. Allan was also the chair of the Lothian Anti-Poll Tax Federation. He has been involved in many campaigns, including the Radical Independence Campaign. He is also the author of two

We are launching a non-party campaign in Rutherglen & Hamilton West highlighting Labour's policies that have indebted our councils (and will for years) and their support for Tory policy/ Brexit etc.

If you'd like to help with funds, check our profile for paypal/kofi. Message us if you can leaflet or will write to press/articles for us re Labour support for two child cap/bedroom tax/ privatisation/ ppp/pfi etc etc.

Labour are a Westminster First party. Scotland -Rutherglen and Hamilton West -

"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself..." "...Yet if he should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own right and ours, and make some other man who was

This place we congregated for over a decade may be dying. It is certainly being scraped for data... and a ton of companies will be gunning for Msuk as their stocks are hit by "Blue" pretendy accounts.

Personally, Twitter has been a place that has been incredibly positive. It has been a place where I helped raise thousands of pounds for charities (eg after the Haiti earthquake, I helped a Glasgow charity raise £20k to help rebuild schools in Port au Prince); I led a political team who saturated the site with the left arguments

@women_could @BradfemlyWalsh "I" dont do that at all (hold myself up as the arbiter of what is acceptable). And we as Ungagged really do not claim any monopoly on socialism, the left or indeed truth. Our socialism and leftist as presented is a proposition- and one from which we platform differing views @women_could @BradfemlyWalsh from the left. Our recent podcasts have had Green Party
members, SNP, Republican Socialists and Labour Party members and elected representatives. However, we as a diverse left collective ( a spectrum ranging from centre left to libertarian left) are totally united in our

The economic policies of the current British government are not, as some on the left would have it, 'neoliberal'. I don't know what they are, but neoliberalism, despite its many short-term and long-term deficiencies, isn't about driving fiscal policies that almost obliterate currency and bond markets. Neoliberalism depends, hugely, on stability at 'opposing ends' - the British government don't seem to believe in, or know how to achieve, stability at any end. It's quite remarkable and what might baffle the far-left is that every

There's a genuine thing with these Tories where they now buy into the GB News/Talk TV narrative that all opposition to them is actually just a handful of Guardian journalists combined with twitterers who don't represent 'the real

theguardian.com/environment/20… England' etc. They think the polls are all fixed and distorted against them and, in reality, they're super popular and soaring on the waves like Britannia of old. It's Trumpism, basically. Just deny reality, invent your own one and operate

England, Wales and Northern Ireland... you've seen our First Minister in action this week. You hopefully can see that politics in Scotland are very different in Scotland than the rest of the UK at this time (and to be honest, have been for many years). Help us to independence. Once we go, your politics WILL change. Once people in England, Wales & Northern Ireland see what a good centre left Government can do, they will fight for the same. At present the rich, aristocratic Etonian minority who control your media narratives (& ours) are

If you've watched the video, here is the text version (via friend on FB).

"DO NOT refuse to pay your energy bill in October. Below is how you can make a stand & hurt your energy supplier without getting into debt/damaging your credit rating:

1. Cancel your DD & pay for what you use each month.

2. You then need to write a letter of complaint to your energy supplier. Once that complaint had been raised, your energy supplier can't take any debt collection work on your account, so they can't pass your details to the credit reference

On my way home from work today, I listened to BBC Radio Scotland. On one of their news bulletins, they reported on #fmqt , leading with a recording of a full question Douglas Ross, leader of the small Tory group in the Parliament. The reporter summed up the FM's reply in just a few words. The bias in reportage of the upcoming referendum has begun. (@nwScotty)

@BBCScotlandNews, we have defended you through most of the bbc bias allegations over the past few years, because we believe in public broadcasting free of political and financial

Superb to see the Scottish Parliament discuss and pardon the Miners after the aggression of the Tory Party under Margaret Thatcher during 1984-5.

If you doubt the power of a media over packed by the right and underrepresented by the working class, the Thatcher government's vicious attacks on the Miners, and the propaganda of a quisling press (and I don't use that word lightly), really should be an education. Our present media is as biased, as is the fact that presence on social media can be

If you have doubted those who have said that the Tories have been taken by the far right, the suggestion that the UK will legislate itself OUT of the ECHR and force ably remove people and dump them in Rwanda should be a HUGE wake up call.

The Tories are not afraid to provoke outright racism in order to deflect from the billions of pounds of wealth they are siphoning off to their sponsors. The fascism our grandparents fought against in 1936 and 1939-45 landed here, thanks to Cameron, Osborne, Clegg, Gove, May et al. They (and

We'll be hearing years from now, how the Jubilee brought the country together. Has beens & cap doffers on stage in front of a crowd of radicalised cultists, cheering a glitzy show of fascist propaganda, dressed up as a tribute to an old lady, whose riches allowed her happiness & contentment few will realise. Money was never mentioned last night. But money from a world of struggle, work, stress, death, suffering in war and terror was what she and her family were thanking us for.

Celebrating Monarchy is really celebrating inequality, and

There's no law broken by those seeking refuge. "Illegal" doesn't apply to refugees. It is not illegal to cross borders & requirements for passports & visas are unrealistic for those fleeing war or persecution.

The term "illegal arrival"is part of Johnson/Patel's racist politics. It's probably true as some media outlets are speculating that it is a populist fascistic distraction & that it may even be dropped at some point. But unless it's comprehensively defeated by mass action it's dangerous.

There needs to be mobilisation against it, including

I see the Alba Party feel that there is only one aspect of bigotry that should be allowed to be spoken of. Racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian,anti Irish/anti Catholic bigotry, anti Roma bigotry, sexism, misogyny, AND transphobia all exist, side by side, here in Scotland. ALL of these awful blights on our society coexist. At present, in our Parliaments, one of these groups of persecuted peoples are in tge process of possibly being legislated against- actual legislation being considered to roll back rights. And Alba Party members are

Imagine some unionists blaming Yes folk for Division?

This was The Herald after indyref. It has, pretty much, forgotten where the division and viciousness came from. Where the narrative changed.

And of course, this narrative is protected as

https://twitter.com/marrtoffee/status/1494670873709658116?t=1oCXvLIn-mAel6iUpCu-Kw&s=19

annually, these Loyalist groups march with official protection (and with some Councillors and other political and civic leaders in tow). They march through the very streets some of the same people seigheil'd, spat, punched and stabbed.

The links some in the press and politics

A few days after the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, and with Jean Charles de Menezes at the forefront of our minds after the resignation of the MET officer in charge of that operation, the Labour Party are being very shit re shoot to kill.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, a place where Thatcher ordered shoot-to-kill. A landscape of drumlins and winding roads with summary justice akin to @2000AD's Mega City One.

The Labour Party rightly slammed this vicious approach to "justice." And cover up after cover up ensued, as did tit for tat murder and

I have seen two distinct negative reactions to the satire of "Don't Look Up."

1 that of people who are old enough to remember and understand the satire explosion of the sixties, seventies and eighties and

2 those who have grown up with a mass media almost devoid of satire/A media in which super heroes are seen as superior cinema. (I may be being a little unfair).

I (@nwScotty), enjoyed it. I felt it was a modern remake of Dr Strangelove, with Mark Rylance playing a Steve Jobs Bezos Elon Musk hybrid capitalist with a god complex who doesn't