This is the budget now being discussed by Westmorland and Furness Council - a £4OM hole that "will impact on staff", where "services will close", and will require "repeated difficult decisions". Or, more to the point, that residents will "pay more to get less".

It seems the argument is about where the Westmorland and Furness Council £40M cuts are going to fall - and how much they will hit a deprived town like #Barrow. Arguing about the wording of a letter to the Govt, but not about mobilising a serious fight to stop these cuts. Westmorland Gazette

Penguins don’t live in Greenland. But ignorance lives in the White House.

The repression will be televised. All of the angles available make it clear that this was murder. He was set upon. He was a nurse. He had no gun in his hand. C'mon people, strike again, but this time properly - union locals step up, everyone out, you need a real #GeneralStrikeMN

90 years on from his death, just a reminder to all those #YourParty members who have been told that #dualmembership has never been part of our movement, Saklatvala was elected in 1922 as both the Communist AND Labour MP for Battersea North:

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Still not sure if #ReformUK in #Lancashire backing down on care home closures. But, either way, papers show they've still got £Millions of other cuts lined up. Don't be fooled, #Reform is just another pro-cuts party - who want workers to blame each other for it, instead of them.

Let's translate "let the country down" into what it really means: #Mandelson has badly 'let down' the capitalists that he had so well represented by creating 'New Labour'. Now his 'indiscretion' has helped to lay bare the corruption and exploitative nature of that global elite.

"Starmer is trying to portray #Mandelson as an aberration. But he was at the heart of Blair’s transformation of Labour into New Labour, an out-and-out capitalist party; a man "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich"- starting with himself ofc! socialistparty.org.uk/articles/14754…

Definitely a chance of échelons if the #crosswinds blowing across the bottom of the Lyth Valley today come back for #TdF2027 - you heard it here first ;) Tour de France™

Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why the dictatorial, bureaucratic Stalinist regimes foundered, allowing capitalism to be restored. It fuelled an offensive against the ideas of #socialism, one that still weighs on consciousness today. mpdnut.com/2026/02/the-co…

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Don't be fooled into thinking Reform UK are any different to the other parties who promise they'll help the working class - then cut and privatise our services once they've been elected! We need our own workers' party, not these chancers from Reform - or Restore either!

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Clearly the term #reckless is one to be selectively applied by these experts in hypocrisy ... #Iran