UPDATE: 5 pro-Gaza Independent candidates have now been elected. More MPs than Reform. Shockat Adam MP for Leicester South Iqbal Mohammed MP for Dewsbury and Batley Adnan Hussain MP for Blackburn Jeremy Corbyn MP for Islington North Ayoub Khan MP for Birmingham Perry Bar

She’s talking about Muslim men constituents btw angry at her position on the genocide in Gaza! With the election result still fresh, she went straight to back to her racist, Islamophobic dogwhistles

Incredible pro-Palestine independent win in Leicester South! Labour had a 22,675 majority here in 2019.

Thank you to the person who reshared this - I was looking for it. A warning here about holding the electorate in disdain.

Shockat Adam winning in Leicester South.

This is who Keir Starmer is, after the killing of Mark Duggan, he pushed through 24/7 courts, maximum jail times and incarcerated teenagers, all to target people rebelling against the murder of the racist state.

Europe & the UK have been deeply structured by anti-Muslim racism, going back centuries. It comes out in many ways, from attacks on the street to laws passed in parliament. The far right is a sign of this racism, but fighting it means acknowledging it goes far beyond that.

The reason I became a youth & community organiser so young was precisely because of how rampant racism was, the presence of EDL on our streets, threatening our ends with violence, ‘bomb threats’ etc. if we want to really dismantle racism we need deep community organising 1/

We’re living in the mass embodiment of the hostile environment designed by Theresa May. When you make universities, hospitals, landlords, workplaces etc into border guards, you rope in the public into being ‘migrant hunters’ This is the violent conclusion of violent state policy

Pogromists handed their rhetoric by government, genociders handed their weapons by the West, the state here seizes the excuse to expand police powers and the media mock and shout down a Muslim woman worried about mosques under attack. We all win or some of us burn.

I know we know this, but it’s still so wild how the prison population are seen as totally unworthy of protection. As there’s a drive to lock up racists quickly and in large numbers (pointless) notions of protecting the public invisibilise folk inside. The many PoC inside.

There are now waves of callouts to protect sites in London from the fash across the next two weeks. Many of these are essentially grassroots callouts, and will need backup from everyone in left and antifascist activism in London.

British fascism’s oldest handmaiden, the Daily Mail. “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!”, 1934. Oswald Mosley’s fascist Blackshirts marched on Cable Street in 1936. They did not pass. This fash shit doesn’t happen overnight. And the same Rothermere family own the Mail today.

No place is safe. No space to breathe, repair. Relentless, indiscriminate murder. Genocide.