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"But the far right can mobilise working class opinion against 'equalities' because the liberal framework for advancing these has not empowered the working class." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/wome...

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these people are absolute freaks

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Why decriminalising prostitution puts women and migrants at risk - Wherever prostitution laws are ‘liberalised,’ the result is a surge in human trafficking and abuse, writes STELLA BAILEY morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...

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CARLOS MARTINEZ condemns Europe’s failure to develop genuine autonomy from US hegemony, as leaders like Starmer and Macron cling to a declining imperial order rather than building good relations with the emerging powers morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stra...

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You’ll never guess why a quick peace in Ukraine might be in the ambassador to Washington’s interests, writes SOLOMON HUGHES. Actually, of course you will – he stands to make a lot of money from his business links to Russia morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mand...

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passed my theory test so I'm now one step closer to driving very slowly around your neighbourhood with a loudspeaker playing michael parenti clips on a loop

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Trump’s policy on Ukraine has shifted the transatlantic order and the illusion of European power has been dispelled – leaving behind the harsh reality of the continent’s irrelevance and its inability to shift the geopolitical dial, writes PAWEL WARGAN morningstaronline.co.uk/article/empi...

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YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger. ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

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Sean P McCarthy and Angela Nagel discussing Trump etc. open.substack.com/pub/seanpmcc...

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ate so many pancakes last night I reckon I'll never have to eat again

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yes it's p p p p p p p p pancake day youtu.be/lS9J4vJ5K78?...

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OUT TODAY 🎧 we spoke w/ Ken Hammond about Chinese democracy, the process of democratic centralism and the mass line, socialist vs bourgeois democracy, and current geopolitical events viewed within a historical materialist context

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just listened to the cum town farewell podcast 🥲

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this event has been rescheduled! Sustainability in Action: China's Environmental Strategies - now on Thursday 27th March, 7pm, Central United Reform Church, Sheffield

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A quick rundown of the latest developments in Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank, which are the focus of last night’s Oscar-winning film No Other Land. Via @ Sam_Avraham on Instagram.

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Another day, another Labour promotion of the UK arms industry. www.gov.uk/government/n...

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🚨Israel is blocking the entry of ALL humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, while killing Palestinians by drone strikes. This is a continuation of genocide. 🧵(1/5)

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got my issue of Lumpen and it came with a sticker that seems pretty much designed for me

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guess who's been to the library

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Peace campaigners slam continued rise in British military spending morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peac...

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this is good “We are very good at talking about privileges – white, male or straight privilege. We rarely talk about class, though,” he said. “And that’s a lot of the reason that all the young lads are seduced by demagogues and psychos like Andrew Tate … ” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"The British state does not have a benevolent side determined to uphold national independence in Ukraine, and a malevolent one helping crush any prospect of that in Palestine. It is part of a belligerent US-led alliance whose wars have cost millions of lives."

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Starmer's dangerous delusions on Trump and Ukraine morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/st...

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end detention without trial, stop the use of counter-terrorism powers against pro-Palestine activists #freepalestine #filton18 chng.it/cdHMcR6L2C

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seem to be making notes on my phone these days, which I dislike despite it appearing to work better than paper and pen

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I miss my stove youtu.be/jPS4qsFtXrk?...

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The patreon is two years old today. I just posted the latest episode of the Deep Territory series. It is about Alasdair Gray's Lanark. Listen right now for free at this link: www.patreon.com/posts/deep-t.... It'll be in the usual pod places streaming places later. It's as brief as I could make it.

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not like I have tons of recent stuff out there (working on that) but I still like this story that appeared in @bigechoscifi.bsky.social a lot and wish more people had read it www.bigecho.org/bigger-farad...

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Kaja Kallas just pronounced that the EU opts for continued war in Ukraine, until the aggressor (Russia) is... defeated. Ms Kallas is the EU's phoney foreign minister (for we do not have one, really). Even so, who authorised her to make this pronouncement? No one. That's who.

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“Hi Susan. I was a bit bored so I dismantled my Corby Trouser Press. I can’t put it back together again. Will that show up on my bill?”

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dune is just canadian star wars

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Why have the BBC apologised for & removed the documentary 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone'? Because it went some way to humanising Palestinians. Here some young children flee in terror from Israeli bullets.

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if the determination as to whether I was real or not came down to whether I answered a work email promptly then I guess I'd not be real

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first draft of new short story nearly done

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Today's front page: 74,000 women a year lose work over pregnancy or motherhood Subscribe to the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe

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Germany’s crisis of working-class politics morningstaronline.co.uk/article/germ...

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Reform present themselves as an anti-establishment party whilst being financed by and ideologically wedded to elites. A populist agenda focused on taking back control from profiteering companies and improving living standards is the antidote. My latest. hyphenonline.com/2025/02/27/t...

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can't believe willy wonka is dead

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63 days until Evan Dando's autobiography is published

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the thing about being back on social media with lots of good writers, publishers, editors, etc. is that my tbr pile is expanding at an alarming rate

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rainy sunday afternoon

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