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"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
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Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

"In July 2024 the ICJ recognised beyond any reasonable doubt that the occupation that Israel maintains is unlawful.. the occupation is unlawful because it prevents the Palestinians from enjoying the right of self determination" UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Berlin today

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"Only 11% of young people would fight for the UK" Charged tuition fees. Never able to buy a house. Trapped paying exorbitant rent forever. Public services hollowed out. Defined benefit pensions scrapped. Retirement age increasing. And they don't want to fight for that?

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments

She speaks truth.

submitted 13 days ago • 1237 comments

Incredible that an entire article (an exclusive, the Guardian says) can be written about air pollution and only mention one cause in passing (airport expansion) and not two key others: vehicle emissions and wood-burning stoves www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

“In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth & an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it”. Spot on @johnharris1969.bsky.social People deserve better than a government with no conviction, no hope & no vision

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

"For more than 2 weeks the Israeli military has laid siege to the occupied West Bank... more than 35,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced... Israeli forces accompanied by bulldozers are demolishing homes & destroying water & sanitation networks"

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

A study by the University of Oxford has recommended setting VAT rates of food based on its climate impact to produce. It would mean charging full levies on meat and dairy, and zero-rating fruits and vegetables. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?

submitted 45 days ago • 86 comments

Albanese telling it how it is: youtu.be/fxsj4wxcl7w?...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

The so-called "centre-right" has collapsed. The cordon sanitaire which existed to separate the "centre-right" and radical or far right has collapsed. My column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 51 days ago • 25 comments

May 2025 bring victories to all workers who struggle against exploitation, and to all peoples who struggle for liberation from colonial power.

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The last hospital in North Gaza is burning. Its heroic doctors are missing, dead or displaced - along with their patients. Resigned to its complicity, the West is turning a blind eye. The genocide continues... www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 57 days ago • 9 comments

Israel massacred five journalists in Gaza, burning them alive. This on the same day that reports emerge of Palestinian babies freezing to death in the displacement camps. Every day this regime charts new depths of barbarism.

submitted 57 days ago • 10 comments

"The situation in Gaza is apocalyptic for all children. Its not just the bombs and the bullets that kill them, its also the living conditions..." Rosalia Bollen from UNICEF on what families and children are facing in Gaza right now.

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

"The Global South’s workforce provides a staggering 90% of the labor to power the world economy, yet gets only 21% of global income." www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 61 days ago • 9 comments

#BrexitReality

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Nationalising essential utilities – like water – should not cost taxpayers anything at all youtu.be/TlVbKVBLOiM?... Labour claims taxpayers would face a massive bill for nationalising the water industry. But that’s not true.

submitted 72 days ago • 14 comments

Labour & the Tories actually working together in Oxfordshire now. 🤷‍♀️

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

Powerful new report from Amnesty International finds Israel has perpetrated 3 acts against Palestinians in Gaza which are prohibited under genocide convention. A full ban on UK arms sales is essential to prevent further complicity @amnestyuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 80 days ago • 11 comments

Amnesty International report today is really necessary - the Government must recognise what is happening as a genocide. End arms sales to Israel. Now. #EndGazaGenocide

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

Hugely significant report from @amnesty.org finds Israel has perpetrated 3 acts against Palestinians in Gaza which are prohibited under genocide convention Overwhelming case for full UK arms sales ban & for UK to fulfil duty to prevent further genocide vimeo.com/1035909869 @amnestyuk.bsky.social

submitted 80 days ago • 20 comments

Even the former head of Israel's army says Israel is perpetrating ethnic cleansing and war crimes. Everything opponents of Israel's genocidal onslaught said from the start has been proven hideously right. The cheerleaders face total moral disgrace. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-is-...

submitted 83 days ago • 8 comments

The #GreatParasite - doesn't pay taxes, doesn't pay workers enough to live on, treats them like robots and leaves the NHS to pick up the pieces novaramedia.com/2024/11/29/m...

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

#ClimateEmergency - on a planet profoundly out of balance www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning or "Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. Learn about Indigenous resistance in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com...

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

UBI saves a ton of public money, but its lack of cruelty sends certain people into a rage, so it’s hard to put into practice.

submitted 89 days ago • 76 comments

#OtD 25 Nov 1865 Mississippi passed a Black Code to reintroduce slavery after the civil war. They prevented Black people from renting land, required them to work for whites and barred them from changing jobs. Violators could be jailed & enslaved legally stories.workingclasshistory....

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

The ICC arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif make clear that to continue selling arms to Israel is to aid and abet war crimes. It is utterly indefensible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 93 days ago • 15 comments

Amsterdam's mayor was one of those who described events there as a 'pogrom'. She has now publicly renounced what she said, and offered regret for erasing Maccabi violence - and how the narrative whipped up anti-Muslim and anti-Arab violence. The story continues to fall apart youtu.be/4H_ozYgHpoM

submitted 96 days ago • 82 comments

Another reminder: offsetting is a con. We need to BOTH care for nature as a carbon store AND stop burning fossil fuels #COP29 #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 96 days ago • 10 comments

#GoodNews - what great ideas for #PublicHealth in the #ClimateEmergency "Trees and shade structures such as gazebos will offer residents respite from the sun and help lower surrounding air temperatures" #ClimateAdaptation www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year. It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land. It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells. Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.

submitted 96 days ago • 104 comments

British surgeon Nick Maynard talking about working in Gaza: "One child I'll never forget had burns so bad you could see her facial bones. We knew there was no chance of her surviving that but there was no morphine to give her. So not only was she inevitably going to die, but she would die in agony"

submitted 97 days ago • 5 comments

This is happening under 1.3 degrees of heating. We are headed for 2.5-3. Every fraction of a degree matters. Every single drop of oil & gas must stay in the ground. We need emergency global climate action - and to keep speaking truth to power. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments