In the new PTO Alex De Waal describes how in the 19th century, under pressure from business the British authorities implemented entirely different sanitation measures for cholera in the metropole and in India - condemning millions of Indians to sickness and death:

🧵 Empirical trends indicating i) (state monopoly) capitalism is dying a natural death and approaching its final breakdown (as the evolution of production from mechanised to automated is abolishing the source of profit, capital’s theft of commodity-producing labour’s labour time)

Stop the genocide in Gaza.

Protesting against the mass slaughter of civilians is not a threat to democracy. The real threat to democracy is a government that crushes our rights and silences our solidarity. Our movement is made up of all faiths and backgrounds, united by a belief in a more peaceful world.

Israel tortured UNRWA staff into confessions, according to the U.N.

We must not be like some Christians who sin for six days and go to church on the seventh, but we must speak for the cause daily, and make the men, and especially the women that we meet, come into the ranks to help us. — Eleanor Marx, Speech on the First May Day, Hyde Park, 1890

The assault on Rafah is another utterly despicable war crime. As bombs rain down on a trapped and terrified population, we implore our government to find an ounce of humanity and end its complicity in this senseless massacre. Wake up. This is not war. This is genocide.

Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.

On this day in 1984, thousands of picketing miners were attacked by riot police in the Battle of Orgreave. 40 years on, we are still fighting for the truth, for justice, and for our right to strike. Workers had my support then, and they have my support now.

The only real one in Congress right now:

This is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing.

Following the ICC's arrest warrants, the Independent Alliance have written to the Prime Minister asking if he will comply with the ruling. The UK government must decide: is it on the side of Israeli impunity or international law?

The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

We will stand forever with the people of Palestine until they have justice, peace and freedom.

21 years ago, British journalist Tom Hurndall died after spending 9 months in a coma. Tom was carrying a Palestinian child out of range of Israeli army gunfire when he was shot in the head. We will never forget him, nor his vision of a free and independent Palestine.

A ceasefire is just the beginning. We will not rest until Palestine is free.

While apps like Uber rake in the profits, it's their drivers paying the financial, physical and emotional price. I stand with all drivers across the UK demanding change this Valentine’s Day! Join a local action, or donate to support the campaign: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/un…

Fund welfare, not warfare. My piece for Tribune. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/guns-b…

Workers of the world, unite!

Today marks 8 years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 people lost their lives in this preventable tragedy. Victims of corporate greed and institutional neglect.