For almost 100 years since the time of Keynes and FDR we've known austerity is counterproductive. It reduces effective demand and disincentivises production. Why do the politicians inflict it on us? Because private investors who have bought the politicians - the 'creditor

Oligarchs turn to authoritarianism when democracy fights back. The excesses of neoliberalism embraced by our main parties is nothing more than an addiction to wealth accumulation. We must get on with reinstalling what has been stolen from us. Healthcare Food Education Housing

#OtD 3 Aug 1929 19-year-old communist Yetta Stromberg was arrested with six others for having a red flag in California, one of 24 states which banned socialist/anarchist flags. She took her case to the Supreme Court and won, overturning the ban stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10159/…

“Complete absence of metaphysical knowledge, negation of all knowledge that is not scientific, and arbitrary limitation of scientific knowledge itself to certain particular domains, excluding the rest”. Guénon on modern thought. winteroakextra.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/quo… orgrad.wordpress.com/a-z-of-thinker…

"Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you - Ye are many - they are few." Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets, was born #OnThisDay 1792.

Flora Drummond, a suffragette who was imprisoned 9 times for her activism, was born in Manchester #OnThisDay 1878. Drummond was nicknamed ‘The General’ for her habit of wearing military style uniforms while leading suffragette rallies, marches and demonstrations.

Peter Kennard’s Gaza exhibition in Edinburgh – in pictures theguardian.com/uk-news/galler…

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The Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner wants to sell off allotments. If you want to stop her, vote for the new party Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have created. Corbyn won't allow it to happen. You can sign up to the party here yourparty.uk.

Do you think you could share this for me please? skwawkbox.org/2025/08/04/a-s…

Tomorrow's front page: British Jews tell PM to lift ban on Palestine Action Subscribe to the Morning Star: morningstaronline.co.uk/subscribe

I am writing this from the grave. Do not look for me. There is no body, only dust, and the smell of what once was bread. We spoke. Oh, how we spoke. With the tongues of children choking on smoke. With the tongues of old men whose homes turned to ash before their afternoon tea

A British A400M military transport plane has just flown from RAF Akrotiri, the UK airbase on Cyprus, to Tel Aviv The A400M can carry 116 fully-equipped troops - and a payload of 81,600 lbs UK government refuses to say what these planes are carrying But you are paying for this

Downing Street urges people not to take part in protest in support of Palestine Action They’re begging you not to defend your own rights and freedoms in the UK. That’s the state of things. theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

Well Angela Rayner has really lost the plot & her working class credentials over her bonkers allotment sell off. Gardens give such joy to millions but allotments give those who live in high rise flats and homes without gardens a sense of pride and purpose. The Workers Party of Britain is

Lobbying against Palestine Action by former head of the British army, now a member of the upper house of Parliament, on behalf of US arms firm (supplier to IDF) which PA targeted. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/a…

The government is asked by Jeremy Corbyn about Israel's possession of nuclear weapons. Yet again, it defends Israel by refusing to say what it knows. #DCUKparliament

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