🚨HAPPENING NOW: over 1,000 workers blockading UK Trade Department in London & BAE Systems’ arms factories in Scotland, Wales & Lancashire.

“If arms company bosses & Britain’s political elite won’t impose an arms embargo, we, the workers, will continue enforcing it from below”🇵🇸

Amazing.

Labour's last transformative package of policies left standing was workers' rights.

They've now gutted that, too.

Important to remember at this juncture that the encampment that triggered this confrontation was small, yesterday maybe 50 students tops from what I could see and it was not getting bigger because it was sealed to new entrants. A wildly disproportionate escalation.

HAPPENING NOW: Palestine activists have blocked the entrance to the Department of Business and Trade to protest the government’s refusal to suspend the sale of UK arms to Israel

'I could not protect her': A dad mourns his child killed in the Channel - BBC News

Such a sad & difficult read. The family left Iraq at least 14 years ago, so during the Iraq war following our invasion & yet we deny them safe passage. bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

Just reflecting on what happened last night. How terrifying it would have been for the at least two people moved in those vans, at high speed, in the middle of the night. All for Tory political propaganda.

This mass round-up of vulnerable people is intolerable.

A doddering President who thinks Israel can do no wrong, a corrupt charlatan cop mayor, an out of touch neoliberal university administrator...it took the whole Democratic coalition coming together to make this moment happen

A massive army to mass arrest students protesting genocide. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal - Aaron Bushnell

I don’t think Columbia University will ever recover from this. This will be their legacy — a full out war on their students for peacefully protesting a U.S.-backed ethnic cleansing campaign that has systematically murdered nearly 40,000 people.

Thinking about late 20th c. military dictatorships in Latin America & elsewhere, a common feature was universities being overrun by cops or troops to violently shut down dissent.

Anyone justifying this draconian crackdown, no matter the reason, is literally siding w/ fascism.

ON BROADWAY 113TH

We need to understand, urgently, that we either divest from imperialism or we get fascism. The ruling class is eagerly ushering in fascism at home to defend their fascism abroad. And we have to reject all of it, right now.