bobfrombrockley.bsky.social
Middle aged anti-fascist and left libertarian in South London. In to: dub, country and western, critical theory, Yiddish, black history, internationalism, trade unions, salt beef. Fan of: Omar Aziz, Bayard Rustin, Hannah Arendt, Cesaria Evora.
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Basically, and SDF leadership appear keen to regularise that with new Syrian government, who have made positive sounds, which would be big problem for Erdogan
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Erdogan’s logics aren’t always obvious! Turkish comrades tell me it could be this (and other acts of repression) are to strengthen his hand in PKK dialogue OR that the peace talks are a smokescreen for an attempt to really shut down the Kurdish struggle.
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*I messed this up. Was meant to say “repression against leftist and Kurdish activists”
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I hate to say this after nearly 40 years of going on protests for various causes, but close to zero protests are planned with any theory of change in mind beyond “we have to do something”.
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Not wrong:
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🙏🏼
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Thanks. Have corrected
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UPDATE/CORRECTION:
The account in the screenshots here is NOT run by Dugin but by a random fan/impersonator. (HT @travisbrown.dev and @thosswans.bsky.social.) That obviously doesn’t make Galloway’s engagement with it any less reprehensible.
@leahmcelrath.bsky.social @pabloite.bsky.social
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A beautiful soul. May his memory be a blessing, and may humanity somehow find a way to follow his path and turn from the path of nationalism, dehumanisation and war that it is set on now. bsky.app/profile/rima...
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(PS credit for screenshots to @leahmcelrath.bsky.social and @pabloite.bsky.social.)
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Cc @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
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Thank you. Trust the old RCP to run point for right-wing authoritarians…
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A trivial anecdote but a reminder that loving abstract humanity is no guarantee of empathy towards individual humans.
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I used to commute on a train where I shared a carriage with an elegant woman who read the Guardian, LRB, modern fiction, & a grumpy man who read the Daily Mail. Once an African mother + disabled kids got on, very harassed. It was Mail bloke who found them space while LRB lady spread her paper wider.
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I don’t think he says both sides does he?
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Found it now (thanks Daniel). He doesn’t actually impose a condition: www.instagram.com/reel/DGA7yt8...
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Has Corbyn commented on Ukraine lately? (Genuine question: I’m interested in how similar/different his position is from StW nowadays.)
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I fuxking hate craft beer. Why does anyone think it’s a good thing?
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Good question. I don’t know, but would love to.
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Very few people, but a sizeable chunk of our union dues. Twelve unions (Aslef, Community, CWU, FBU, GMB, NUM, POA, RMT, TSSA, Unite, Usdaw & BWAFU) all subsidise it.
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Ok fair enough but I think support for Putin is a minor position on the hard left (and not uncommon among centrists).
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The logic of the two “plans” seems pretty similar to me: let the aggressor establish the facts on the ground. I guess the difference is which oligarchs will profit from the real estate and resource extraction…
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Disagree. Lots on the hard left take a strong anti-Putin, pro-Ukrainian view. John McDonnell for example. But most obviously the Ukrainian hard left.
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Our trade unions subsidise the paper heavily, because of the perverse belief its “the left’s” paper. It also reflects the campist/tankie geopolitics still common beyond the CPB and popular on the Labour left
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Exactly. They were wrong to support Stalin, but at least there was an underlying logic in thinking that his regime was on the side of the global proletariat. No such logic with Putin, just pure campism and maybe some residual vicarious pan-Russian colonial mentality.
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Clarifying in case I phrased that badly: obvs Labour didn’t support the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact; the Daily Worker (as the Star was then called), on the orders of the Communist Party of Great Britain did, the parent party of the CPB that still controls the paper.
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Now the Morning Star is praising Pete Hesgeth’s appalling Ukraine comments, saying that his “peace plan” [sic] is what Stop The War have been calling for all along, and calling for Labour to endorse it. (Just as they backed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.)
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That’s very scary
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Stopped clocks are right twice a day. See @geraldroche.bsky.social: positionspolitics.org/gerald-roche...
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There’s a longtime far left view that USAID is a CIA front - and indeed in the Cold War, it was used in some nefarious ways. But the claim that it’s bad because it’s “woke” is new territory!
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Correction: Aaron MATE
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Yeah it’s almost like Musk and Trump *aren’t* actually dismantling US’s imperial reach, but are waging a war on behalf of the ruling class against the more positive things the Federal government does! Who knew?
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Consider this: maybe, just maybe, USAID is indeed a soft power tool, but it ALSO literally keeps millions of the world’s neediest people alive so defunding it is a bad thing (and doing so because it’s “woke” even worse)?
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I added that to the thread. The Wikileaks post is of course untrue. threadreaderapp.com/thread/18883...
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And I hadn’t realised that the Grayzone’s Aaron Musk and Max Blumenthal are directly feeding targets to Musk/DOGE.
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I said last ones but this extraordinary thread details exactly how a Russian disinfo op about USAID support for Ukrainian independent media was brought to the English-speaking world by Ivan Katchonovski and Grayzone, and then reached Elon Musk.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/18883...