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The story of what it's like to be on the frontline of the NHS crisis, as told by three striking clinical support workers.
This is one of the most difficult but important articles I think
@NotesFrom_Below
has ever published.
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Every teenage boy who thought religion was evil in the late 00s now believes one of two things: a) we need to seize the means of production or b) we can tell your IQ by measuring your skull
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NEW: 400 schoolchildren are marching along Cambridge Heath Road chanting 'Free Palestine' and 'stop bombing Gaza'
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When my mum told me that my grandad had died, I was in a socially distanced supermarket queue. I started crying, but I couldn't wipe away the tears because that would mean touching my face. A week later, I missed his funeral, because I was worried about getting my family sick.
Taking care of your wife and young child is justifiable and reasonable, trying to score political points over it isn’t.
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British journalism is when you do an investigation to find out a series of very obvious things that have been widely known and discussed for at least seven years
I spent a week as a Deliveroo rider. And learnt a lot.
First up, Deliveroo likes to claim you should earn at least the minimum wage of £11.44 while working. Me?
I worked for 22hrs 50mins, rode 105 miles, did 27 drop offs and earned £120.38.
That works out at £5.28 an hour🧵
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You can directly ring the airline responsible for the Rwanda deportation flight (Privilege style) and tell them what you think. As of a minute ago they're still picking up the phone.+34971408985
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Molly Mae got a 500k deal to be creative director of Pretty Little Thing. PLT is owned by Boohoo, which subcontracted to sweatshops where workers were paid £3.50 p/h. Perhaps those workers might express a different opinion on who has really ‘worked their ass off’ for her success.
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2,000+ kids at the Brighton youth
#ClimateStrike
are shutting down the centre of town to the sound of 'Oh Jeremy Corbyn'
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If I were leading a right wing government which desperately wanted to save capitalism at any cost by sending everyone back to work, but realisesld it would be politically impossible to do so openly (because of the associated death toll), what would I do...
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New aesthetic of the late 2020s just dropped
A Kellogg's worker on strike last night holding down the picket line through torrential rain in Omaha, Nebraska
via
@Kelloggstrike
Facebook page
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Interesting slippage in today's Times leader - Corbyn's Labour was apparently so beyond that pale that it "forfeited its right to be heard by the public".
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The headlines say there's no racism in Britain - but school kids at Pimlico Academy have walked out of lessons to oppose an attempt by the headteacher to ban afros and colourful hijabs.
I wonder who's right🤔
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Yes I'm sure this is due to a lack of parliamentary convention and not *checks notes* four years of establishment warfare against a left wing Labour party that represented young people
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This absolute whopper has been welcomed into Starmer's Labour with open arms. It's an insult to every member who campaigned against crap like this in the 2019 election.
Did you know that Jeremy Corbyn plans to introduce a new Homes Tax 🏡
Under his plans the average home in England would pay £375 more a year.
Can you afford to risk Corbyn?
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A real-time demonstration of the far-right to BBC pipeline
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Members with household incomes under £20k: 83% agreed with 2019 manifesto, 62% thought it was wrong to not restore whip to Corbyn, 55% think the party is headed in wrong direction.
The factional divide within the Labour Party is also a class divide.
EXCLUSIVE: New poll shows Labour members deeply divided over Jeremy Corbyn whip decision, with 48% saying Starmer was "wrong" not to restore it and 46% saying move was "right":
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The two striking Spoons pubs were so well picketed that they were almost empty & closed early. When strikers went to march back into work at midnight, they were told by their managers that they'd be getting paid in full for their shifts & there would be no victimisation!
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A Polish fascist has just murdered the pro-refugee, pro-LGBT mayor of Gdansk. Jo Cox, Heather Hayer and now Pawel Adamowicz are just the most prominent names on a growing list of the victims of resurgent fascism.
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If you want a good indication of how broken our media is, the
#PoliceCrackdownBill
is not on the front page of a single major newspaper this morning
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The right have identified trans issues as a way into an otherwise unsympathetic audience of older female voters, and they're hammering it. Makes me sick.
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"Outside Will Shu's house [Deliveroo CEO]"
From a strike WhatsApp group
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And they're back again. It's way more than 400 kids. Seems like there are a few different groups winding their way around Bethnal Green. Almost every car honking in support.
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A sweetheart partnership deal that sells out all the workers who have spent the five years organising to build power. This is an embarrassment to the trade union movement.
BREAKING NEWS 🚨:
@Deliveroo
and GMB Union announce a new joint agreement for Riders.
It's official - we're the union for Deliveroo Riders.
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Well, I could think of worse strategies than communicating a new set of distancing rules so badly that lockdown collapsed, then when a second death spike starts, I could blame it on individual non-compliance.
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Farage used his latest GB News show to attack
@ChannelRescue
.
It costs £600 a day to keep their boat at sea. Every donation we make directly contributes to ensuring there is a humanitarian presence in the channel 💰
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Got a mate who works the door in Brighton. Last night he was at a student club. DJ put on 7 nation army. Guess what they chanted?
People in Bassetlaw react to Keir Starmer.
"Bring Jeremy back."
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Just had a manager come to our table at spoons in a panic, asking our table to not 'entice workers to join a trade union' when we're ordering beers 😂
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He'll never have to rely on the NHS. This could never be his kid. That's why he just doesn't care about the crisis in our health service.
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So many of us gave up so much to stick to the rules, to try and keep each other safe - meanwhile, the people writing those very same rules drove around the country doing whatever the hell they wanted.
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This would be a particularly attractive option if I had a really compliant media class who I knew would subject me to zero scruntiny and basically communicate whatever line I wanted.
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All intellectual property rights related to medical treatment should be immediately abolished
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Every single person who dropped everything to put their all into the six weeks of this campaign is an absolute hero.
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Thread 🧵 We’re on the eve of the biggest food delivery strike in London for years. This is what it’s about, and how you can help.
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Trade union density in the accommodation and food services sector has increased 72% between 2016 and 2020
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And yes, the chant is 'fuck Theresa May'. The kids are alright. ✊
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The police attacking protesters in Bristol whilst the Labour establishment systematically purges left councillors = two wings of the state cooperating in the same authoritarian crackdown.
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That way the government didn't end lockdown, the public just stopped following the rules
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Does anyone seriously think this is a coincidence? Massive strike yesterday, repressive policing today. The Met are trying to intimidate and discipline migrant workers.
19:05 Massive cop operation on upper street by Amazon Fresh stopping and confiscating bikes off delivery drivers
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This is obviously not to say that any actual government is pursuing this as a conspiratorially-organised and deliberate strategy. But if I was a minister who wanted to speed up reopening I could imagine this train of thought acting as an incentive to muddy the waters.
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You fuck with one of us, you fuck with all of us.
RMT pledges to fight Tory plan to ban strikes in the transport sector
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Amazing scenes at SOAS after management attempt to impose job losses on casualised staff. The union movent was founded by precarious workers - and now it's up to us to do it all over again. Solidarity 🙌
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The independent group is a progressive centrist alternative that stands up for its values.... like reducing migration, cutting welfare, expanding the free market, and opposing the working class and 'left wing intellectuals' 🧐
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Looks like they marched to the office of Rushanara Ali MP (Labour) after she refused to vote for a ceasefire last night
Tower Hamlets students now marching to
@rushanaraali
’s office after she shamefully refused to vote for a ceasefire last night.
#SchoolStrikeForPalestine
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
#CeasefireNOW
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Liberals just cannot compute that they joined forces with the right to accelerate our decline into a managed democracy. You were very successful guys, just own it!
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'People are in poverty so we can't go on indefinite strike' > 8% real terms pay cut > 'people are in poverty so we can't go on indefinite strike' > 8% real terms pay cut, rinse and repeat until the sector is destroyed
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Increasingly convinced that immigration control is like 'The War On Drugs', in the sense that's it's a completely ineffective spectacle that serves primarily as camouflage for a aggressive ruling class initiative to reorganise a set of social relations by force.
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The reaction of covid denialists to escalating daily death tolls goes a long way toward explaining why research showing that austerity killed hundred of thousands never cut through to Tory voters
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I lost a friend because when he returned from Rojava he was relentlessly hounded by the security services. He fought for freedom and women's liberation and I'll never forget him.
Compare this to how the UK government harassed and punished British volunteers who volunteered to fight alongside the Kurds against ISIS.
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The only way of redeeming 2020 = The return of workplace occupations
Debenhams workers are inside occuping the Henry street store and we are not leaving ✊
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Coyne was relegated to third in the Unite GS race and every national OMOV election since Starmer became leader has been won by the left. Our movement is nowhere near as weak as the nihilists would have you believe!
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Forest Hill dark kitchen shutdown ⛔
There have been no deliveries in or out for hours. The picket is totally solid ✊
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On boxing Day my little nine year old cousin and I were playing around with the keyboard he got for christmas when, suddenly, he went quiet, looked around to check his parents couldn't hear him, and whispered to me: "I'm going to play the Soviet anthem now."
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Pundits: please, you can't just make everything free
McDonnell: *points* free
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Two more numbers to contact - these teams both use the company in question for travel. Athletico Madrid +34 91 726 04 03, Sevilla FC +34 954 53 53 53.
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Thinking back, my memory has conflated hearing that he'd broken his hip and was heading to hospital (before op from which he didn't recover) with hearing he died which was a few days later. Point stands though, fuck these jokers
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Whatever happens, I feel lucky to have been part of a historic socialist movement, shoulder to shoulder with tens of thousands of comrades old and new. A movement that looks the manifold crises of late capitalism in the face, and demands that everything be for everyone ✊🌹
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This is the reality of what Austerity has done to the NHS. The next winter crisis is looking on track to be the worst ever. It might be your gran stuck on a trolley in a corridor - while Tory donors cream profit off the top.
#NHScrisis
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Now the Labour right are gunning for Seamus Milne (the senior member of staff Streeting mentions here). These anti-socialist opportunists have sensed they might have one final chance to crash party before we get into government. Time to stand up to them.
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Riding for Deliveroo is out TODAY! 🚴
It's a up close and personal account of class struggle in the gig economy.
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In June I'll be starting work at
@PeoplesMomentum
as the new communications officer! Excited to get stuck in. For the many not the few ✊
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More details on the company and additional contact details here:
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The sheer boring dystopia of Patel wearing a "home secretary" badge whilst watching an immigration raid
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Oh probably best to contact the
@athleticomadrid
Comms team directly via this number instead: +34 91 366 90 48. And when talking to Sevilla make sure to mention how much Betis are than them
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Totally melts my brain that some people on here both claim to care about antisemtism *and* want cross channel migrants rounded up and detained
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We didn't win today but we will can organise, strike and win by other means. We don't have the luxury of giving up.
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Spare a thought for all the Starmer Stans who are about to see their FBPE human rights lawyer transform into a blue Labour British nationalist
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How any new group that is supposedly built on an opposition to antisemitism can spout this kind of crap about 'left wing intellectuals' is beyond me. It's only a few short steps away from 'Cultural Marxism'.
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On the long history of Times editorials, see this from Ralph M on their justification of the fascist Pinochet coup
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The next delivery strike has been announced: Wednesday February 14th, Valentines Day ♥️
It looks like it could be even bigger (🧵)
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If the socialist left wants to win, it will have to refuse to fight a Brexit culture war on Johnson’s preferred terrain, and instead fight a class war for a transformational program. Me for
@novaramedia
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Yet again Starmer's Labour is turning to the digital sweatshops of platform capitalism to give them ideas for the future of work.
(Note the exploitation-washing General Secretary on the panel, too)
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If you're a minor party, you can either stop Brexit or stop Corbyn, not both - and the liberals have made their choice.
However, in response:
🔸Lib Dems have immediately dismissed the idea, saying too many MPs are unwilling to work with Corbyn
✳️ Greens say a second referendum must be held *before* a general election
So we’re far from any stage where all parties are bought into this alliance.
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Multi-millionaire 'man of the people' Tim Martin proves his everyman credentials by refusing to talk about poverty wages. This is beyond a car crash - it's a full-on kamikaze.
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What it's like to work as a rider in 2024, as told by one of the organisers of today's delivery strike.
They describe a job defined by low wages, constant insecurity, and total exhaustion.
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Ran the 43 miles of the Ouse valley way in 8hrs 14 mins 😁 bit sore this morning
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So after Labour conference I'm going to begin a postdoctoral research position at Oxford (
@oiioxford
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Look, we all know that Starmer has done the establishment a favour by dismantling the democratic alternative to the capitalist consensus, but the Spectator giving him a shiny award for it is a bit on the nose
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If the commenteriat had any dignity, rather than spending the morning moaning about Owen Jones pointing out empirical truths, they'd be following up on
@simonchilds13
investigation into fascist Tory council candidate, Darren Harrison.
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no jobs on a dead planet is starting to sound less like a slogan and more like the silver lining
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They missed out 'professional' from my bio, classic bbc bias 😡
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Last day at Momentum today. I've been here for a third of the organisation's history, which really puts the timescale of Corbynism in perspective 🤯
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Machines guns on the borders of Europe.
Anyone who thinks politics will go back to 'normal' over the next decade is off their rocker. The choice is still socialism or barbarism - only now we can see a little more clearly what exactly barbarism means.
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Let's have a citizen's assembly of workers and pesants, maybe we could call it a soviet
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Day 4 of a wildcat strike at a Royal Mail distribution office. This is what insurgent resistance in the UK logistics sector looks like. Solidarity!
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Food delivery platforms are planning to replace their delivery workforce with drones ASAP. Workers aren't keen on the idea.
Neo-Luddism is going to be fun 😂
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Wetherspoons strike rally starting now in Brighton. These workers are standing up against their multi-millionaire bosses, fighting for ten pound an hour and union recognition
#FFS410
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Never been so proud to
#VoteLabour
as I am today. It's us against the billionaires and the bosses - and we're going to win
#PollingDaySelfie
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Far-right blue ticks have successfully conned their base into thinking one of their own was murdered on Saturday. Alongside the fantasy 'threat' to war memorials, their mobilising narrative is becoming completely detached from reality.
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The community is attempting to block a large scale immigration raid at the Circus Street development (Central Brighton) and being met with police violence. 10+ arrestees. More support needed now.
@AntiRaids
@antiraidsBTN
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Have it 👊
The strike is our most powerful weapon. If we want to turn the tide on disaster nationalism, we're going to have to re-learn how to use it.
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The Labour right claims we lost in 2019 because socialism is unpopular. But now they've taken the reins, we're polling three points worse. What's their explanation?
TIMES EXCLUSIVE
Tories *14 points* ahead of Labour with YouGov: their biggest lead this year AND since last spring.
Usual caveats apply, but these numbers would confirm Starmer's fears of a vaccine bounce.
Full analysis in
@timesredbox
this morning:
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