Jay Sutherland
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@strath_occupied . Writes at @ConterScot . Previously at @MilitarismScot . Research: left critiques of identity politics. De fleuve à la mer.
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Spoke on
@ConterScot
about the relationship between identity politics and the apolitical trend of student politics in Scottish universities, in particular Strathclyde University. In regards to how campus identarians have come into conflict with workers.
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Today I confronted
@joswinson
in Glasgow - how ironic that’s she’s in one of the cities that is most affected by austerity that she enabled. I know many people who are suffering from what the Lib Dem’s done while in coalition with the tories.
#GE2019
#GeneralElection2019
Seen Jo Swinson in Glasgow and my pal confronted her about austerity’s impact here.
Glasgow wont forget what the Lib Dems did when they were in government!
#JayTellsJo
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Scenes at Edinburgh University are terrible. Some on the left gloating about it. What do we hope to achieve by disregarding a whole generation of older feminists/lesbians. They fought for me as a gay man and for radical causes in the 80s, their concerns should be listened to.
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First thing I see back in this exceptional Glasgow weather: an undercover police car driving around Glasgow Green (with both plain clothed and uniformed police) fining people for having a small drink, alone in the park. What a waste of resources…
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We have officially taken back
#GeorgeSquare
on
#InternationalRefugeeDay
. Who’s streets, our streets! Fascists can’t get near the square.
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Yeah I bet you do, me and many other students have been bombarded with your requests and to your displeasure - we all fully back
@ucu
, their working conditions are our learning conditions. Solidarity to all staff, from the vast majority of students
#UCUstrike
Are you a student in the
#Glasgow
area affected by the
#UCUstrikes
and not in support of them? ITV News wants to speak to you!
If you're willing to speak and in or around Glasgow tomorrow please get in touch!
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Scotland had the third highest Covid 19 death rate in Europe yet we're led to believe the Scottish Gov't has handled it well. Benchmark of success for the Scottish Gov't nowadays is "at least it's not as bad as England". And that applies to everything 1/2
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Something about massive headphones that go around your head that signal something very individualistic and neoliberal. A clear sign that you don’t wanna chat on the street or the bus. Small earphones less so. Blocking out the world doesn’t make it go away.
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@HumzaYousaf
My kind of republicanism keeps religion out of politics… a dangerous prescient whether Yousaf or Forbes…
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Protest starting in George Square against the SQA and classism across the education system. The system was rigged - abolish the SQA and exams we call for
#SQAResultsFiasco
#SQAResults
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“Radical simply means grasping things at the root” - Angela Davis. Today I wear a white poppy to remember all victims of war and to show resistance to the war machine which sends countless people to their death which only makes the world less safe. No more war.
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@FootballJOE
@RenfordsRejects
But Celtic are banned from showing solidarity with Palestinian people being massacred by Israel.. the west only shows solidarity when it suits them.
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This video puts it so well, public service workers are expected to show dedication without remuneration. The input from the wee Glasgow gran at the end is one you see a lot on the picket line too:
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Police kettle peaceful protesters in George Square, risking COVID. Where were they when the fascists took over and beat people up. SHAME ON POLICE SCOTLAND
#GeorgeSquare
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Not everyone on a picket line will agree with each other, certainly not on Brexit, Independence or on Self-ID. We should debate these matters in a comradely manner and with respect for older activists, shouting ‘TERF’ or ‘old hags’ does nothing for the left except embarrass us.
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In reply to that, I refuse to accept that a whole generation of older socialists and feminists became ‘bigots’ somehow over night. Gender, which is the social roles associated with patriarchy, should be critiqued!
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@Drusus2000
Jo and Willie were both extremely patronising, sickening to see that they completely ignored austerity and moved on to a topic that suited them. Glasgow and the everyone affected by austerity will never forgive them.
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Mélenchon calls for France to be a non-aligned nation, argues the republic must prepare for peace as a step to de-escalate the situation in
#Ukraine
. He is the candidate for peaceful dialogue, not only for Europe but the rest of the world as well.
#MelenchonMarseille
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Many on the left differ on the debate of self-ID, that’s ok. What is not, is the left/LGBT community being associated with objectification: ‘boy p****’ paraded to people, some of whom wished to speak about experiences of sexual violence at Edinburgh University. Peak culture war.
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We, the left, are handing massive amounts of people over to the right-wing over culture war issues like this. On a purely strategic level its ludicrous. We need to have a calm and settled atmosphere devoid of identity claims acting as arguments. Let’s get our act together eh?
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#Glasgow
: Remember the last time Farage came to Scotland, every time we have driven him out. Now he tweets behind a screen in the south of England to try and divide Glasgow. We won’t have it. Refugees are welcome and you aren’t!
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Streets being renamed by the people in Glasgow after
#GeorgeFloyd
and
#Justiceforshekubayoh
(not my photos)
#BlackLivesMatter
#protests2020
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@YSINational
If the youth wing of the SNP supports NATO, a vehicle for western intervention/destruction in the global south then the SNP have no chance of being part of the anti-war movement. This was the same organisation a couple of years ago that stopped military recruitment in schools.
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.
@DrJillStein
we in the in the Scottish Greens have been inspired by your revolutionary campaign to build a party for the 99%
#ItsInOurHands
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Also disgusting to see university’s UK bringing in Amazon to speak about ‘productivity’ and legit showing photos of an amazon warehouse as a model of how a university could be run. This at the end of the day is what our struggle is about.
#UCUstrike
#fourfights
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There are issues to be up in arms about in
#Govanhill
but Alex Cairnie’s claims aren’t one of them. Let’s follow the example of communal activism from
@Living_Rent
and not racist self proclaimed vigilantes. It’s slum landlords which are the problem of Govanhill not residents.
Right, screw it. Here's a thread on *that* FBLive by Alex Cairnie about
#Govanhill
. Lets do a watch-through shall we? (Mind, I'm a resident of Govanhill, and a sociologist. I'm also 5'3, and a visibly queer woman so if half his claims are true I should be living in terror)
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To all those who keep saying “I wouldn’t wish this on anyone” about Boris are forgetting the simple facts that it is precisely because of Boris’s inaction and plans for herd immunity that Britain is in this situation. Plus lack of PPE. Save me the tears please
#BorisTheButcher
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When I finished secondary school a couple of years ago I got predicted grades in many subjects at around a C, ended up getting an A in most - predicted grades undermine/devalue working class students. Now we have to rely on them
#SQAResults
#classism
@JohnSwinney
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Massive rally on Buchanan Street Glasgow with one clear message: the right to strike is a human right. “We cannot allow Sunak to finish the job Thatcher started”. Every trade union in the city out today
@GlasgowStrike
@strath_occupied
#SupportTheStrikes
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No doubt these plain clothed alcohol police are told to deliberately target working class areas of Glasgow and those who don’t fit into the young professional yuppy look.
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Michael Parenti predicting the depoliticisation of identity politics all the way back in 2009.
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Solidarity to Glasgow Uni rent strikers. They have locked in their vice chancellor’s office to show that what happened at Manchester Uni won’t be tolerated here in Glasgow. All power to the students across the city.
#ManchesterUniversity
@UofGVC
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Today was the first sham graduations since our universities have been refusing to negotiate. Students at
@UofGlasgow
have protested their empty certificates with signs and slogans in solidarity with the
@ucu
union and their marking boycott.
#ucuRISING
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For those just seeing this, please support
@strath_occupied
’s fight against the
@NUSScotland
’s pro-prostitution stance, which harms younger students by arguing that prostitution is a viable form of ‘sex work’ for students:
Nothing in
@NUSScotland
’s policy on ‘student sex workers’ that outlines how to help students out of prostitution. Instead they are subtly trying to paint prostitution as ‘just another job’. An affront to vulnerable students, see
@nordicmodelnow
’s handbook:
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Ukrainian officials called on NATO to enact article 5 over a missile explosion that killed two people in Poland. Now NATO/Poland confirmed it was from Ukraine, while Kiev denies. They want to drag us into World War 3 and we uncritically follow.
#ZelenskyWarCriminal
trending.
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And it often shows the lack of imagination or determination to actually achieve something radically different - we will never get there as long as the benchmark is simply ‘better than England’. 2/2
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Massive and noisy picket at Strathclyde University today. Workers and students united despite management coming up to us and telling us we are ‘unethical for striking during exams’, I’ll tell them what’s unethical, students/staff using food banks!
#StrathLife
#SupportTheStrikes
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Mike Lynch of the
@RMTunion
/
@RMT_Scotland
speaking outside Glasgow Queens Street « workers are the real wealth creators of this country » as
@ScotRail
workers go out on strike for the first time.
#SupportTheStrikes
🏴
@GlasgowStrike
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@EuanYours
That’s not very considerate of ‘neurodivergence’ and inclusion for a wee Green. What you trying to say, that it’s embarrassing for a young man to cry? How very entrenched in gendered norms Scottish Green Party members are…
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@TrinityPamela
Your right, I know many young feminists with concerns too. But it’s usually often our older comrades who are most vocal, whereas younger activists are scared of being cancelled by our peers.
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Clenched teeth and aristocratic inbred anger on full display. Do you really want this to be the next head of state? Imagine treating anyone like that.
#KingCharlesIII
#NotMyKing
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The irony of
#ChildrenInNeed
going on but Royals get a £369m refurbishment of Buckingham Palace.
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The amount of unhinged identity politics being used to justify being scabs at Strathclyde is unreal.
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Peak of neoliberalism. A LGBT logo then posting a NATO flag ffs
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@analytichegel
In Scotland and rUK, unlike the US, gender criticality is mainly headed by lesbian feminists on the left, such as
@bindelj
or Kathleen Stock. Gender criticality still does critique gender essentialism ofc, it views gender as the social norms associated to sex.
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So now if your a student in Glasgow University
@UofGlasgow
you can effectively work in a bar part time but you can’t get served in one or risk being kicked out of uni. Students are still getting the blame for the government’s failure. All work and no play.
#glasgowuniversity
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@PeoplesMomentum
When I tried to talk about austerity - just smiles and laughs from them......
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@YSINational
Did you forget that less than 10 years ago NATO starved Afghanistan and militarised much of the world for nothing.. how long are you going to pretend it is a ‘defensive alliance’.
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Bit of context before people start blaming refugees in
#Glasgow
, people suffering injuries also include refugees reports say - and its widely reported that people forced to stay in these hotels are kept in prison like conditions with terrible food.
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To all those in the SNP ‘Scotland’s Party of Government’ posting tributes to George Floyd, just remember Sheku Bayoh was brutally killed by Police Scotland just a few years ago. No justice & no proper response from Scot Govt who have allowed Police Scotland to continue and expand
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Robinson jailed over contempt of court (looks like Trump didn’t give him asylum) best news this year!
#TommyRobinsonBackToJail
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Went off twitter for the weekend and come back to seeing all this. Seen a lot of folk interpret it as me being sad because it’s somehow ‘harder to pick up women’… try another identity politics attack, because I’m gay ffs🥱
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Big turnout to tell Nicola Sturgeon (at her constituency office in Govanhill),
@Ross_Greer
and other key figures in the Scottish government to put a meaningful deal on the table to teachers. This can be your legacy Nicola,
#PayAttention
.
@EISUnion
@GlasgowStrike
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Beautiful rendition of ‘A change is gonna come’ on
#GlasgowGreen
today for the
#BlackLivesMatter
Protest
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Really hope
#GSOA
can be preserved, the building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and is one of the most iconic buildings in Glasgow. Just some of
#GlasgowSchoolofArt
’s features:
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@BBCBreaking
Yes she did some things wrong but apartheid could turn anyone into an ‘extremist’. Funny how almost all the negative comments about her are from white, middle aged men. Her contribution to the movement cannot be forgotten. Rest in power.
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So talking to someone on the street or the bus now seen as a complete invasion of privacy. They’ve clearly never been in or around working class old Scottish people then. Are they ‘cancelled’ for trying to exist in a community outside their smartphones?
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The police felt scared to actually make their presence felt. Not because it was peaceful - but because people were educated on their rights at protests + had someone to call in case or arrest. Let’s make this the norm in future
#GlasgowGreen
#blacklivesmatter
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My wee photo for 5 years finished at Strath, 6 years in Glasgow. Thanks in particular to the professors in Philosophy, maybe the last critical subject in the university despite Jim’s cuts to humanities. We in the Solidarity Collective tried our best to be contrarian when needed.
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Chants of ‘hey ho the SQA has got to go’ can be heard all across George Square
#SQAResultsFiasco
#SQAResults
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Both Living Rent & NUS Scotland have endorsed policies in defence of prostitution. NUS’s stance is that ‘sex work’ is now a legitimate way for students to cope with the cost of living crisis. Instead of fighting the commodification of our bodies, they are now endorsing it.
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GSA today, surprise action trying to get university’s UK to get round the table with
@ucu
@UCUScotland
, managed to try and speak to
@JohnSwinney
. Also got physically assaulted by GSA security, grabbed by the neck and swore at called a “f*cking stupid boy”
#UCUstrike
#fourfights
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Overhearing police bringing in a lot more horses as plenty anti-fascists take back George Square
#GeorgeSquare
OUR CITY OUR STREETS ✊
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Blocked by my old school over challenging them over military recruitment session coming up. Only pointed out that the military disproportionately targets working class areas and told them about my own experience being targeted in the school by the military.
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Ross (SNP digital strategist) used to follow me, after me retweeting critiques of the SNP’s independence strategy he blocked me. If the SNP can’t even listen to critiques within it’s own movement how will they ever have a diverse campaign for
#indyref2
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@EuanYours
I’m so glad I left your party… weird interactions with men like yourself who stalk my page, with no details about yourself, is one of the reasons why I left.
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Glasgow’s pink peacock ‘anarchist, queer Jewish’ café was an experiment in extremely niche identity politics. Instead of admitting the gentrified café wasn’t appealing they instead blame it on antisemitism, ‘sealioning racism/kyriarchy’. It’s a testament to how cry-wolf they were
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So to wrap this up, Alex Cairnies:
- doesn’t even live in Govanhill
- used to be muscle for dodgy landlords
- uses racist tropes and lives for fame
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This would have been Fidel Castro's 92nd Birthday. Cuba's fantastic healthcare and education along with many other successes of the revolution was down to Fidel and his comrade's vision. Rest in power. ''The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters''
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Students 🤝 Staff
Students will always stand with the workers of Glasgow and beyond. All out today, we will bypass any student presidents who chose to support the greedy bosses over our hardworking staff. Workers and students united against the fat cats.
#ucuRISING
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Btw he is also within reach of the second round… just a couple of points below Le Pen to get second place. Explained by his excellent manifesto putting people before profit, retirement at 60 and ending austerity in France.
#Melenchon2dTour
#presidentielles2022
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"It's time the council schemes of Scotland, not the playing fields of Eton determined our country's future"
#ScotRef
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Why don’t they want to speak to any students who are in support of the strike? 🤨
#UCUstrikes
@Jay_Sutherland_
@MCrilly
@StrathclydeUCU
Hi Jay - I'm getting in touch from ITV News. We're looking to speak to students who are against the UCU strikes. Is that you, and might you be around tomorrow to talk? Please do let me know!
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@Nigel_Farage
Remember the last time you came to Scotland? Aye you racists still aren’t welcome.
#Glasgow
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WATCH: Alex Cairnie’s racist rhetoric against working class residents of
#Govanhill
when the real culprits are slum landlords. He calls the Roma community in Govanhill uncivilised and unsuited for the area making up claims about the area being totally unsafe.
@Living_Rent
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We are still thinking of ‘fixing’ our economy in the context of the world we lived in months ago, that world and the ways of doing things then are gone now - the way our economy is structured means that it will always be profit first that’s why
#EverythingMustChange
@Common_Weal
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Glaswegian express anger at mass police funding for harassing protesters while our NHS goes unfunded. Calls across the square to DEFUND POLICE SCOTLAND NOW and invest in public services
#GeorgeSquare
#DefundThePolice
#BlackLivesMatter
#BLMUK
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#ScotlandAgainstTrump
demo today on the 27th anniversary of Mandela's release. Thousands saying no to racism & fascism. ✊️
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People really hate being called scabs when they are scabs. Keep doing it. So glad this word exists in our language.
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Identity politics in Glasgow has led us so far down a rabbit hole that a cafe that asks people to work without pay, is deemed as radical and edgy simply because of the social capital of their innate identities or because they put a ‘f*** the police’ bag on the window. Christ.
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@TheFatRucker
Take a fuc**ng look at Kelvingrove park right now mate or your precious V day celebrations then come back at me with social distancing. Racism and capitalism are bigger pandemics than COVID-19.
#GlasgowGreen
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I wear my
#WhitePoppy
because I find the
@PoppyLegion
's deals with arms companies disgusting and completely disrespectful.
#RememberThemAll
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.
@RMT_Scotland
/
@RMTunion
out in force with support from
@GlasgowStrike
,
@strath_occupied
,
@StrathclydeUCU
and
@UofGsolidarity
among many others. Lots of support from people passing by, clearly these city wide strikes aren’t backing down any time soon!
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Alex Cairnie also openly admitted he used to be a bailiff/hired muscle for landlords in Govanhill.
Says about as much as people need to know. Tried to make a name for himself talking about mental health and failed so now he’s turned to something he sees as marketable.
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If your on the left and more concerned with the
#SupremeCourt
ruling (rather than the mass strikes going on across Scotland) time to realign your priorities. This was simply a tool to further the SNP’s strategy of just more election wins rather than deliver a ref.
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@YSINational
These are the type of SNP careerists that attend their lectures in suits… where has the old anti-war, anti-trident movement within the SNP gone, the same group that once before opposed military recruitment against the will of NATO cheerleader
@StewartMcDonald
now in his pocket.
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Adam Smith building surrounded, business students learning a hard lesson in industrial relations.
#UCUstrike
#UCUrising
#SupportTheStrikes
@GlasgowStrike
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@Queer_Scot
Well if that law conflicts with the rights of another group, women and gay/lesbian people then yes you do need to ask for permission. Plus emphasising it distracts us from focusing on social class, the overarching cause of oppression.
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Strike solidarity:
@StrathclydeUCU
&
@strath_occupied
join
@PCS_Scotland
picket on High Street in Glasgow.
#SupportTheStrikes
#ucuRISING
@GlasgowStrike
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Half a million people on strike in the UK today, defying the tories trying to taking away away our
#RightToStrike
. Another 475,000 on strike also today in France. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters"
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After a year of anger & feelings of being unsafe in my own city I’ve won my court case against the person who violently assaulted me & tried to evict me out of my old flat. In a trial that closely resembled a film at points I was unsure of the process but justice feels good.
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Glasgow united in anger against
#UDT2018
. Shame on Glasgow City Council, Police Scotland and all those who allow these war criminals into our city.
#SinkUDT
@MilitarismScot
@SinkUDT
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@Queer_Scot
It’s debating the new proposal of Self-ID, which is fairly new. Many agree that trans rights should be solidified in law, you don’t need self-ID to do that.
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