When you have conversations with people they will tell you from their own experience that the state is violent and oppressive and given the chance they would opt for something else and that they are in support of building something else. When A and M have talked about the ‘left’

Let me chat to you about abolition. A young mother was having issues over the summer with young people riding on motorbikes near her home around her kids bed time. The kids weren’t sleeping / waking her up and it was causing all kinds of stress to her. She rang the police

Just for the record, things with Novara Media have been bad with respect to trans issues for a really long time, but this takes the cake. I'm not going to support them on trans issues and I don't recommend anyone else does either for the foreseeable, unless they deal with this.

Cost: Putting myself and the people I organise with at risk and potentially compromising the thing we're organising for What I get: Twitter clout Not worth it I'm afraid

Join us this Sunday at Edinburgh's Radical Bookfair for a wee 1 hour version of our Know Your Rights workshop. 🎟 Tickets available from Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop ' website! Free or by donation. Scotland-specific.

Awful scenes in Manchester, of young Traveller people being manhandled and forced onto trains basically at random by GMP, after being racially profiled and barred from the Xmas markets, for no good reason. As always, mobs of police treating kids like animals.

Ava-Santina when kier starmer gets home from work he stands still next to the coat rack until its time to leave again

Urgent update: About 150 people outside KCC at the moment, six vans including TSG, helicopter too. People being snatched from the crowd one by one. If people can get down to support, it's definitely needed now (received 15:48 27/11/24)

We stood with the people of The Kurdish Community Centre as they faced harassment, assault and arrests by the police. The people have formed an encampment and are on hunger strike. If anyone can please help, they need sleeping bags, blankets, hot water bottles, teas and coffee.

CALL-OUT FOR TESTIMONIES SCALP is writing a report on the policing of the Palestine solidarity movement in Scotland, and we need your help! 🇵🇸 🔗 Visit our website (link in bio) to find out more about the report and how you can submit your testimony.

For all the folk that like to post the meme that anarchist groups are impossible to infiltrate because of our obscure beliefs, that isn't the case.

I love anarchists. Every time I faced a descent into the void over my life there was always, specifically, an anarchist. I don’t know how to explain it. They snatched me back from cults, hunger, homelessness. Somehow there was always an anarchist.

Last year, SCALP provided a total of 91 days of legal support for actions & protests in Scotland. Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time to support activists' legal rights. ✊

hey americans friends! do u see how her comrades physically did not allow police to lay hand on her??? write that down <3

the explicit liberal take is that you should vote for labour because although their policies are racist, the MPs themselves are secretly not racist on some sort of spiritual level

My take on the Elon Hitler salute thing is that it was unintentional in the sense that he intended to make it a more ambiguous hand gesture with plausible deniability but completely fucked it up

the thing about Labour politicians is that, like journalists, if you spend decades pretending not to understand things for the sake of your career then eventually you wind up just genuinely not understanding anything

but Americans told me this wouldn't be the case

hot take maybe idk but he's one million percent correct