UK parliament fails to make water company bosses criminally liable for sewage dumping in rivers/seas.

Tories voted against. Labour abstained.

Sewage dumped to boost profits, dividends and exec pay.

Ultimately people will bear the cost of clean-up.
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📽️ NAKBA: LIVE STREAMED. Tarneem Hammad

A new film reveals how at the height of apartheid, South African revolutionaries recruited and trained young British workers to assist them in the underground armed struggle to topple the racist state. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/britai…

⚠️ BREAKING | Israel Has Killed More Than 500 Medical Personnel In Gaza Since October 7.

Keir Starmer is desperate to become the next Blair — but it is delusional to think that New Labour's politics can succeed in a time of profound crises, writes Mark Seddon. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/02/the-bl…

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NEW REPORT: Unite has conducted the largest analysis of UK companies’ profits since the pandemic. We’ve uncovered systemic profiteering across the economy. Here is what we found:
theguardian.com/business/artic…
#profiteering #greedflation

🚨Unite Investigates - Profiteering Report 3🚨

This is why our #economy is broken, because of the choices of executives, investors & politicians who choose short-term profits & fat dividends over investing in our industries and public goods. #Proiteering
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Keir Starmer rejects Gordon Brown's plea to scrap the two-child benefit limit

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It’s been quite the week - I wrote about it for the The New Statesman

Ft. a shoutout to Surfers Against Sewage
newstatesman.com/diary/2024/05/…

Purpose Made Podcast
Ep 73. Grace Blakeley: Vulture Capitalism
Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts & the Death of Freedom

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - A Background To Grace
01:31 - Why The Death of Freedom?
05:30 - The Power of Influence (Greensill)
06:14 - 76

I couldn’t quite belief this when I read it. Our water industry has effectively stolen from all of us, with full permission from our government….

Here’s the full quote from the Financial Times

What a roaring success the privatisation of water has been. One of the richest countries in the world and we can't swim in our water or even drink it without getting sick? This can't go on. What will it take for this Government to act? news.sky.com/story/warning-…

'Hasan is the frontman and CEO of Zeteo, one of the most successful new media companies in the US...The site’s success has been remarkable'

Read the interview/profile with me in the The New Statesman magazine, from Harry Lambert 🌻:
newstatesman.com/encounter/2024…

Lots to celebrate about our latest print issue but extremely proud to contribute a long read on South Asian solidarity during the miners' strike. Important that we document and, crucially, learn from these stories of working-class unity. Tribune

A man who was a hero to Gaza’s Deaf community has been killed by an Israeli airstrike.

Hesham Ghazal was a disability rights activist – he was killed, along with his wife. Seven of his nine children are thought to have been severely injured in the Israeli attack.

The UK government has revoked the student visa of Dana Abuqamar, a Palestinian law student and leader of the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, following her speech in a university demonstration. Abuqamar said that her visa was revoked on the grounds of

Famed historian Ilan Pappe says he was detained Monday at Detroit airport, questioned by federal agents and had his phone copied. “am I a Hamas supporter? do I regard the Israeli actions in Gaza a genocide? what is the solution to the 'conflict' (seriously this what they asked!)”

A judge has ruled against Brown University's aims to charge 41 of its own students with trespassing for holding a December sit-in protest calling for divestment.
“I think this is a reflection of what nonviolent and peaceful resistance, frankly, is supposed to look like,” he said.

Was great to visit residents at Colson Way who needed council housing but also additional support too.

Our programme of new council housing aims to address a range of different needs, from larger units for families to fully wheelchair accessible homes