Lancaster. Fri 26 April. 7.30pm - 12am.
1984-2024 Remember + Resist!
Miners Strike 40th Anniversary Event.
Speeches + Music + Songs

Due diligence is only for lefty socialists in the Labour Party, not for those on the Labour right hence why a vile racist such as this can become a Labour candidate

thenational.scot/news/24244665.…

After an exceptionally wet 18 months, UK food production is drastically reduced. 🌧

📉 Wheat production is down 15%
📉 Rapeseed oil down 28%
📉 Winter barley down 22%

This is the impact of climate change.

Pleased to have received my signed copy of this new book from this fantastic new author

The allegations that Labour has used its online voting system to rig parliamentary selections suggest that Starmer’s addiction to purging the left is corroding the integrity of Britain’s democratic system.
Cllr Martin Abrams 🕊️🍉
tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/starme…

CNN investigation of the Flour Massacre shows the IDF 🇮🇱 fired 600 rounds of bullets a minute at unarmed starving Palestinians 🇵🇸 murdering 118 people, injuring 760

Where are the arrest warrants?
Where is The Hague?

US 🇺🇸 has corrupted international law

2/2: I hope that this consultation will be completed by early May. If the local community wants me to stand, I will do so as an independent candidate and not as a representative of any political party or any one organisation.

This is strike breaking by Barnet Council. Bringing in agency workers to do the work of striking employees is the tactic of some of the worst employers in the history of industrial relations. I urge the council to halt this & to negotiate responsibly with the union.

No British politician paid price for complicity in the Indonesia, Rwanda, Bosnia or Myanmar atrocities. This will have informed Cameron and Sunak’s calculation that they can ignore International Court of Justice over Gaza. I write for Middle East Eye:

middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga…

Tory Reform Labour one party with 3 different colour ties offering the wrong solutions to the problems they and their funders have created. Vote for a better life vote against the Status quo.

If you are sick of the established parties supporting genocide in Palestine and austerity in the UK, join the campaign to elect Sam Gorst 🍉 in Liverpool Garston when the General Election is called 👇👇👇👇👇

Brian Clough and Jack Charlton were two working-class legends who stood up to the fascists in the 1970s and were in solidarity with mining communities under attack in the 1980s.

A thread 🧵

#Defiance #MinersStrike

In the bad old days when Socialism was in power we didn’t need to choose between heating and eating or wait for hours at A&E or have homelessness. Poor pensioners, Work meant wages met your needs. And benefits helped people not demonised them.

Brescia, Italy — #EnricoCalamai , the vice consul who rescued hundreds of people from Pinochet's regime in Chile and later from the military dictatorship in Buenos Aires, after the coup d’état staged by Jorge Videla, visiting our town today 👇
en.gariwo.net/righteous/dict…
#11aprile

Pensions are affordable.
The NHS is affordable.
The Post Office is affordable.
Schools are affordable.

Don't let them say otherwise.

From poverty wages and rip-off energy bills, to the climate crisis and a world at war. Let’s build an alternative to the misery faced by millions.

📣 Join Jeremy Corbyn at our #5Demands conference in London or online on Saturday 13 April: linktr.ee/5demands

Our Scottish comrades successfully campaigned & won recognition for miners convicted or cautioned during the strike. This will be a cracking event marking not just the 40th anniversary but celebrating a campaign hard fought & well won #MinersStrike40 #MinersStrike40 thAnniversary

'I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.'
The lifeless body of Jewish Italian WW2 partisan, author, Holocaust survivor #PrimoLevi was found at the bottom of the stairwell of his apartment building in Turin #Otd in 1987. His death was ruled a suicide.
#11aprile

Tomorrow's front page:

Sunak ‘making a mockery of law’ over arms deals – PM faces ridicule as Cameron flies to US to confirm business as usual with Israel

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📢Missed the joint event with Wigan Diggers Festival last month? Get tickets🎟️now for the event with Stop the War's John Reese, Saturday 11th May, Sunshine House, Wigan.
Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/wigan-digger… Ian Hodson Andrew Feinstein Naomi4LabNEC audrey White Merseyside Pensioners Association