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submitted 11 hours ago • 188 comments

Donald Trump replacing a black four-star general with a white three-star general as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is everything MAGA claims they hate about DEI: giving a less qualified person the job based on their race, not their resume.

submitted 8 hours ago • 146 comments

In the UK they acknowledge Israel's US funded war crimes and Netanyahu's close friendship with Trump and Putin. Protestors carried a banner reading: "From Ukraine To Palestine, Occupation is a Crime" (📷 @UkraineSol ) #3E #EndOligarchy #EndImpunity #UKprotests #StandWithUkraine

submitted 15 hours ago • 31 comments

A former Trump adviser just claimed on #Newsnight that the US pays 70% of the NATO budget. This is completely untrue - the actual figure is 15.8%. The BBC really needs to up its game on challenging such "alternative facts". www.reuters.com/fact-check/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 569 comments

Oh joy! 😊

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

Great news! @labourlewis.bsky.social's Water Bill will have its first debate on 28th March. This is our unmissable chance to put public ownership of water back on the table. Ask your MP to be there and back the Bill: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

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The US may be turning its back on Europe, but could this open a door for Britain to rethink its future? A choice is coming. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

More evidence of harms inflicted by private equity on US healthcare. Usual pattern: profiteering, hiking debt, low investment, poor patient care and safety. Yet UK NHS being handed to private equity without any evidence, 30%-40% public money vanishes in profits. Money buys less.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

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"Bankers roll in cash as pensioners freeze and children forced to go hungry" 'Campaigners slam the Chancellor after Britain’s four biggest banks made a record £45.9bn in profits for 2024' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bank...

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Military bases are colonial outposts, posing as defense but usually there to exploit poorer nations and generate profit for capitalists and arms manufacturers. worldbeyondwar.org/closebases/

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Propaganda posters for our new fascist oligarchy boingboing.net/2025/02/20/p...

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Domestic violence charity Refuge's CEO Abigail Ampofo says that the Government's decision to end rehabilitation courses for some offenders is 'deeply troubling'

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Breaking: Bannon’s NAZI Salute? – When Fascism Stops Hiding thetonymichaels.substack.com/p/breaking-b...

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#Farage endorsing #Trump - a man who has taken sides with the enemy #Russia #Putin at the expense of his ally #Ukraine️ #Zelensky Time for the UK to wake up & align itself with our European friends & allies. Neither Farage or Trump can be trusted #RejoinEU #Brexit #FarageRiots

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Nigel Farage is friends with fascists who do Nazi Salutes on stage. He is in no fit state to be anywhere near British politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

UK energy industry made £483bn profit since 2020. OFGEM's marginal pricing rules guarantee profits to the most inefficient/costly producer. 1 in 5 of all deaths are people in fuel poverty – including 110,000 pensioners. No curbs on profiteering. Real wages cut. WFP cut. Cost of living soaring.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Poverty kills. Cancer death rates are 60% higher for people living in deprived UK areas compared with those in more affluent areas. 28,400 extra deaths due to deprivation, people seek comfort in smoking. Poor healthcare, late diagnosis, 'must work pressure' punishes the poor.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Israeli forces in the illegally-occupied West Bank have stepped up their assaults on Palestinian communities and vital humanitarian organisations. All governments must condemn these attacks and the ethnic cleansing in Gaza, and end arms sales to Israel.

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UK banks paid “advance commissions” to car dealers, encouraged them to push costlier loans to consumers. Now banks face a possible compensation bill of £44bn, which govt is trying to obstruct. Anything that banks have not mis-sold, as execs chase bonuses but bear no responsibility.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Pinched from the other place for #SocialistSunday ✊️

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Stop these flights and stop arming Israel.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Spending £205bn replacing Trident nuclear subs is like bolting a spoiler & big bore exhaust to your otherwise unmodified Nissan Micra, & painting the sides with flames to go up against hotrods at the local drag meet - except you starved your children in order to do it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

God Smite The King.

submitted 3 days ago • 984 comments

UK inflation rate as measured by CPI rose to 3%. RPI hits 3.6%. Price of food, energy, water, rents, internet, phones rising at higher rate, hitting the less well-off the hardest. Govts can control inflation - end corporate profiteering, but they hit people. Need people-centred policies.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

@chenx064.bsky.social @msmichy.bsky.social @retcw3.bsky.social @deaconbluez.bsky.social @carole24.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

If you do not oppose Israel in thought and deed then I do not give a flying fuck how much fascism you condemn, you are no comrade of mine

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Professional bollard Sir Keir Starmer & little Wesley Streeting want to increase private sector involvement in the NHS. Is that because gas & electricity privatisation went so well? Is that because water privatisation went so well? Is that because rail privatisation went so well? Is that because?

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

Brexit has obliterated a large chunk of trade between Ireland and Great Britain. And - no real surprise, surely - it has hurt the UK significantly more than it has hurt Ireland. The greatest act of self-harm in our history just keeps on giving. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

An important point to keep in mind.

submitted 5 days ago • 633 comments

So sad to see Labour joining Tories, Reform and the heirs to the British Union of Fascists in a racist race to the bigoted bottom

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

How despicable the hypocrisy of politicians pretending to care about anxiety & depression amongst the younger generation while continuing with policies which worsen hunger, poverty and inequality of wealth the fossil-fuel driven climate emergency the genocidal slaughter of children

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A few decent ex-Labour socialist MPs worth a hundred #ItWasAScam Thatcher-praising Starmer clones

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Britain's two-tier justice system: Environmental activists who merely discuss non-violent protest tactics to highlight climate breakdown get smashed with an iron fist. Meanwhile landowners who repeatedly cause disruption, motivated by their own entitlement and greed, suffer no consequences.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

No-one risks their life in the Channel in a flimsy boat unless they have no choice. Labour’s cruel move to block refugees from citizenship — bypassing Parliament — shows a dangerous rightward shift, ditching human rights & international law. It must be reversed.

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Hi President Trump Want to save money? Close all US bases in UK "There are over 750 US military bases worldwide, it is not surprising there are so many wars In the UK alone there are more than 10K US military personnel The US occupation & blood shed must end Free the world of tyranny" via Ron Allen

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Neoliberals say Rachel Reeves has three options to dodge an economic crisis. They ignore other choices. Help the less well-off - Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cut std rate of VAT, increase personal allowance by £1,000, Tax the rich. QE for infrastructure.

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

No amount of divisive hate-filled bigoted rhetoric from inadequate politicians all seeking their 15 seconds of fame can change the fact that we are all equal- equally fed up of inequality, corruption, needless poverty and perpetual erosion of our rights. #SocialistSunday

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

£15,000 pay rise for OFWAT CEO. Must be for performance - water companies dumping sewage in rivers, unplugged leaks, record hike in customer bills, permitting companies to pay dividends Will probably get a job with a water company, previous CEO is director of Thames Water.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Trump administration fires 20 immigration judges with no explanation. US Congress, constitution, civil society, press, unions ineffective in curbing his cabal's power. Trump quotes Napoleon - "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law”. Striking parallels with the rise of the Nazis.

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Little “Dickie” as The Poundland Eva Braun fondly calls him (well she should know)…..seems to have a few “Pork Pies” in his own fridge. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments