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There are now 16 protests in solidarity with trans people across Britain over the Easter weekend - find your local one and go! - full details below.

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"We stand in solidarity with all trans people for a better tomorrow and we will continue to fight." Statement from STUC (Scottish Trades Union Congress). Great to see unions standing in solidarity with trans people. An injury to one is an injury to all.

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Check out What the Trans for info about Supreme Court protests - happening so far in Nottingham, York, Swansea, Sheffield, Warwickshire and Glasgow. Very likely more to come.

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RMT transport workers' union are now backing Saturday's protest against the Supreme Court's attack on trans people - 1pm, Parliament Square, London (Westminster tube)

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Great action this morning against the right-wing, obsessively transphobic Telegraph by Trans Kids Deserve Better.

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Protest on Saturday after the transphobic Supreme Court ruling. Let's make this big.

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The Supreme Court attack in Britain is part of a global offensive - but trans people will continue fighting, with protests being planned right now.

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From the conference of the NEU teaching union - socialists on getting arms companies out of schools, organising support staff and creating a broader vision for transforming education.

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Sheffield bin workers have been on strike for a remarkable eight months. 1 in 3 is a Unite member, but multinational Veolia, which made £11 million in profit from Sheffield council in 2023, won't recognise the union.

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More making it up as they go along.

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2 days of discussion and fun in London in June. rs21, Black Lives Matter UK, Troublemakers at Work, Red Medicine podcast, Haymarket Books & Books against Borders. Tickets start from £10 for unwaged, £35 waged. Art, culture, stuff for adults and kids to do together. Book now!

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"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

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Almost certainly there won't be an election till 2029, but this is still hugely satisfying.

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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

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The business models behind mental health apps should be making us anxious all over again.

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China Miéville with, as you'd expect, thoughtful and intelligent things to say. And there's a big new book coming next year. 🎉

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Thus capitalism - on the one hand, investors require stability before committing billions for decades - on the other, at the heart of the system are stock markets so inherently unstable that they have something you can call a "fear gauge".

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Is Trump’s rule fascist, or becoming fascist? How can resistance be built? In-depth analysis draws on history to understand the current crisis.

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Great photos here from yesterday's Hands Off protests across the US.

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Pictures from #HandsOff protests in New York (NY), Chicago (IL), Salt Lake City (UT), and St. Paul (MN). The opposition is waking up!

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New York Fucking City. A full mile of people filled to the brim. Fascism is going to lose.

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Lambeth's Labour council is making tenants homeless with no-fault evictions after a decade of lousing up regeneration schemes.

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‘As Milei celebrated congressional approval of the IMF package in the Casa Rosada, a crescendo of songs, chants, trumpets, cymbals, drums and fireworks came from the growing crowd in the plaza in front of Congress.’ Forrest Hylton reports from Buenos Aires, on the blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

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Excellent, detailed analysis by @davidkr.bsky.social of Trump's relationship with fascism, and what it means for resistance.

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Far right American pro-natalists believe we need more white babies and women should stay home to have them - and that's just the start.

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Telegraph readers by now all know the line that the only reason far-right leaders keep getting convicted of crimes is because of a conspiracy by left-wing judges.

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Meloni was the only European leader at the inauguration and has claimed she can act as a "bridge" between the EU and Trump - but Italian cars still got hit by Trump's tariff.

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"Treating politics like soap opera often means characters and performance get criticised, but the script is never open to challenge."

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The Labour government is "talking to" the far-right Italian government about setting up something like its deal with Albania - a deal repeatedly judged illegal by Italian courts. The extent of the accommodation with Reform is startling.

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Sullivan believes she's on the left and has been cancelled, despite praising Trump, writing in the Sun and living in a house with what the article calls "extravagant Designer’s Guild wallpaper in her straight-from-the-pages-of-Living etc dining room" and a "bold moderniste kitchen".

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In a guest post on David Renton's blog I offer an analysis of the last few months of Trump and Starmer, the rise of the far right and the need for a response from the left in Britain that breaks with business as usual.

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At Trans Pride Scotland 2025 in Kirkcaldy. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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I think this Telegraph headline writer is new. Won't last long being accurate like this.

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The level of repression in the U.K. is now at alarming levels. A genocide has been taking place for 18 months, assisted by our government. We should all be taking resistance to the next level. Solidarity with Youth Demand and all who are. #FreePalestine

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🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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