Simon Brignell ☭
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For the purposes of election: Promoted by Simon Brignell on behalf of the Communist Party, CPB Central Office, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon, CR0 1BD.
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@NorthWestFOI
@StagecoachGM
@greatermcr
"I feel intimidated", says the person intimidating a bus driver.
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@AndyPeacock999
It's such a weird thing to do and it's quite clear that the pro-Palestine groups don't really care about her presence.
It's literally this meme:
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@JD___8
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@RMTLondon
Sorry, but I disagree. This is exactly an issue with men. Plenty of us are still socialised from a young age to believe we can get whatever we want, and that we deserve to.
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I really like this quote from Marx on why the English working class are kept impotent by the bourgeoisie's promotion of racism:
"And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps...
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@discordspies
This stands in opposition to reality. The social essence of capitalism is that of alienation from humanity. That you believe what you're saying is a product of capitalism, not "leftism" or anything else.
Fascism exploits that alienation to make you feel otherwise.
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@samuel_leeds
The landlords' right has its origin in robbery. They love to reap where they never sowed.
Nowhere is the privilege that statement conveys any better demonstrated than here.
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@paulmasonnews
The audacity of you attempting to lecture others. You're not a socialist, Paul. You're the very definition of social-imperialist.
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@JakeWSimons
"Computational biologist Lior Pachter, himself Israeli, criticized Wyner's article.
The scientist suggesting that Wyner's use of cumulative sums in his graph- in other words, showing all deaths reported thus far rather than only the number of deaths reported on each given day-
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@giles_fraser
We all understand that, but why is it that Palestinians must suffer for something that they had no part in?
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Are we paying attention yet? Democracy and freedom of speech is now actually being stifled.
It's all a sodding game to the Tories.
#ToriesOut
#BorisJohnsonMustGo
Emily Maitlis - silenced
Chief Medical Officer - silenced
Chief Scientific Officer - silenced
Dominic Cummings - have a press conference in the Downing Street Garden
Don’t you get the feeling you’re being played?
Meanwhile 10,000s of our citizens die painfully & prematurely
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It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this."
The whole letter is worth reading for context:
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This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation.
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@Johnpaulelliott
@NeilDrysdale
Let's put this rubbish to bed right now.
In 2008 it was £72 a barrel and in 2022 it's £94 a barrel = 31% increase.
Fuel was 120p a litre and now it's 186p = 55% increase.
Fuel has gone up 24% more than crude oil.
Do you see why Shell/BP has made over £40bn now?
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@Mish_K_
Archeology is fascinating, isn't it?
"The first thing we encounter in most digs in Israel is a Palestinian village."
Israeli authorities never talk about the recent history. I wonder why.
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English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool...
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of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the “poor whites”...
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@SaulStaniforth
Beautiful. That last tweet comes across as pure faux-class solidarity.
"Oh, I didn't realise you were one of us! In that case, I apologise, friend!"
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...to the Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A.. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.
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@bostonbill1982
@NorthWestFOI
@StagecoachGM
@greatermcr
There's literally 3 minutes worth of footage above which shows her haranguing the bus driver.
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@BladeoftheS
NHS dentistry is the thin end of the wedge for healthcare privatisation. The privatised financial models that emerge in that sector will be the models in general for healthcare in the future.
It is imperative that we fight first and foremost for NHS dentistry.
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I hope everyone sees how clearly the state is using racism to legitimise its position on Palestine.
Regardless if you're white, black, or whatever, if you stand against genocide in Palestine, you're an "Islamist".
No Jew, Muslim, or Black person has ever done me any harm. But
In the run up to the election, they are using racism and Islamophobia, to further divide us. I will say this, no Muslim, no white, no black person regardless of religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, on civvy street, has ever done me any harm, but the Tories have.
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@TKispeter
The circular logic they must use is fascinating. Imagine the following conversation:
A: "Why is person x antisemitic?"
B: "Because I can construe something they said/did as such based on a political prejudice!"
A: "So why is it antisemitic?"
B: "Because it comes from person x!"
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@KingAdrock42
@ComradeStu
Nope. Access to resources is paramount for the survival of all countries regardless of their mode of production.
Cuba has very little in the way of natural resources so an embargo is obviously gonna hurt them.
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@JohnRentoul
John, genuine question: What is it about opposing war and its proliferation that offends you?
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@stephenpollard
No Zionists means "No Zionists". As you well know, not all Zionists are Jews and certainly not all Jews are Zionists. It'd be antisemitic to claim otherwise.
Besides, the political IS personal - what moral standards does it set going forward if my date endorses genocide, even
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@BawsmanJJ
@johnpilger
A million dead Iraqis, mate. You think these mere concessions are worth the lives of a million Iraqis?
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@TanyaGold1
@jeremycorbyn
You write for the same magazine that hosted Taki's antisemitic screeds which speak of world Jewish conspiracies.
Ironic.
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@Keir_Starmer
You are an imperialist. Until you call for a ceasefire and oppose the genocide, you deserve nothing but revulsion.
The price tag for a functional NHS should not be inked in Palestinian blood.
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@paulmasonnews
Yes, a social imperialist who enabled the creation of an NHS whose price tag was written in the blood of the colonised.
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@PhilipJCollins1
@OliverKamm
Oliver Kamm being a deceitful tool toward someone who can no longer rebuke spiteful claims made in a clearly hatchet-job article which ignores the bulk of Pilger's journalism?
Well I never.
Kamm will always be a spiritually small man.
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Wow. Everyone needs to read this thread.
Absolutely brutal.
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@KimCommie
That's gotta either be a genuine mistake or an attempt to defang a revolutionary and convert him into a harmless icon by associating him with the impotence of democratic socialism.
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They literally replaced a communist with a fictional space fascist.
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@kennardmatt
The benefits of a free market: Being able to decide which variety of bourgeois propaganda to consume
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Laura is correct.
As others have said, it beggars belief that speaking out against violence toward women is lauded as courageous. It should be a normal, uncontroversial act and one that everyone should be behind.
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Violence against women is wrong, full stop. Encouraging people to punch “terfs” in the face, esp when cheered by hundreds (as happened at Trans Pride) should worry us all. That many on the left look away is indicative of a fearful culture,silencing many basic feminist principles.
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@ConceptualJames
Urea breaks down in soils to ammonia, which can be good for plants.
Shame you didn't have the balls to actually take a whizz though. I imagine they were precipitated into shrinking away by Marx's sturdy visage.
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@jeremywhorebyn
Still love that a Rabbi writing in the JC dismantled Baddiel's nonsense book.
As the Rabbi points out, it's a book based entirely on Baddiel's feelings with little relation to reality.
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@medialens
There he goes again, talking about Jewish people as if they are a homogenous monolith.
Which Jews, Owen? Jewdas? JVL? Na'amod? Jewish Solidarity Action? The thousands of anti-Zionist and socialist Jews?
Liberals need to learn that identity essentialism is akin to racism.
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@zarahsultana
If they're getting paid for a second job, they're also getting paid to not do their first job properly.
It's no wonder so many across the country have little respect for politicians and parliament.
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@EylonALevy
"South Africa is the legal branch of Hamas"
Do you lot ever listen to the nonsense you come out with in your quest to justify genocide?
South Africa is still fighting racism - the racism of YOUR state.
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@LoudIsLadylike1
@FowlCurtis
@JHWeissmann
@JordanUhl
One was probably a military compass as below. Regardless, any communist who doesn't pilfer dead Nazis isn't doing their job properly.
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@EylonALevy
Honestly, this tropification of antisemitism and its blatant distortion by Israeli state actors is what is delegitimising actual antisemitism elsewhere.
This is not a blood libel. It's an observation that the IDF are shooting and murdering Palestinians.
We all can see what's
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@hoppy1848
@zei_squirrel
@LabGrassroots
EHRC also found Corbyn and Formby made a massive positive change to the way complaints were handled, clearly indicating that when he took office, it was not fit for purpose.
They also found that Labour wasn't institutionally antisemitic.
Fact.
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@BasileMoyaerts
@chenweihua
@Reuters
Yeah. They haven't pumped any arms into Ukraine to prolong the war and feed the weapon contractors whilst people at home suffer record inflation.
They haven't bothered to add a Ukraine flag emoji to their profiles!
Flippancy aside, what has NATO done to end the war?
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@Mish_K_
It's different because you'll still be allowed to walk whichever streets you choose, drive on whichever roads you choose, and you can do so without facing direct and violent discrimination from the military force that occupies your homeland.
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@BlueKnight1878
@Conservatives
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The state of this - "Anti-UK". Utter melt.
The CONservatives are about to break a treaty they just signed. Would you trust someone who did that? I wouldn't.
Aren't trust and loyalty supposed to be some of our most highly regarded values?
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@MilleniumDad
@giles_fraser
The Nakba was in 1948. Before then there was no need for a two-state solution, so I'll ask again:
Why did hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have to suffer at the hands of Zionists and other imperialists for something they had no part in?
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@thetimes
Thanks for giving us a platform.
The Communist Party says: Stop the war, start the peace! Hardly the Kremlin position.
You can listen to our podcast on the war below. Sources provided.
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@emmacpicken
This is grotesque fear-mongering towards Jews and should be considered antisemitic on that basis.
There was a literal Jewish bloc today and plenty were marching within other blocs.
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What Aaron Bushnell did was genuinely one of the most powerful and courageous acts I've ever seen.
I'm done with people policing language, especially in the face of such acts. None of us will ever get anywhere if we continue on this trajectory.
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@ProjectLiberal
When it came to politics, Russell always did espouse the most belligerently vacuous rubbish. Its petite bourgeois philosophy through and through, hence why he has no serious or compelling argument against to Marxism and resorts to petty moralism.
This sort of sophistry is almost
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@NotNellyB
@ThirteenFifty_
@maybethetimes
@frozeup
@Wil_McBrideX
@MsBlaireWhite
You didn't even make an attempt to read it.
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@bostonbill1982
@NorthWestFOI
@StagecoachGM
@greatermcr
False equivalence. The Israeli state is murdering Palestinians in their thousands.
The anti-Israeli apartheid movement seeks to end that. The BNP has traditionally sided with Israel. I wonder why.
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@QBallBrasil
@nypost
This is absurd and you know it. The octopus has long been used to represent evils, real or otherwise, including imperialism, capitalism, Yellow Peril, antisemitism, and beyond. It is not unique to antisemitism and nor does it uniquely imply antisemitism.
What is truly twisted
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@Serena_Partrick
@MetroUK
It drives interactions and therefore profit. That's all they care about
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@EwoksUnhinged
Vaush is a psyop, I'm sure of it. No one has horrendously bad takes like this by accident.
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Is the RCP anxiously conjuring up the spirits of the past to their service? Those comments that call this 'larping' aren't wrong.
All of us should be approaching people on their level and with the real issues of the day, not with flowery Marxist language, nor by cosplaying as
Comrade Anthony giving a barnstormer impromptu speech in South Kensington. Join the Revolutionary Communist Party!! ✊️✊️
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@JuliaHB1
Hand cranked chargers exist, Julia. So do batteries, power banks and generators.
It's also amazing how long a phone will last if you stop using it to chat rubbish and turn it off for once.
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@Daily_Express
Pretty much the entire political spectrum is telling him to fuck off in the comments here. At least we're unified in our disdain for Blair.
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@JasonReidUK
The same people concerned about "adult human females" will show zero concern about this particular adult human female:
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@TiceRichard
Well done for outing yourself as a spineless opportunist, Tice. Part of Reform's policy is allegedly higher wages, which is what junior doctors are striking for.
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@MFA_Ukraine
This happened three days ago and was caused by fragments of a Tochka-U missile that was shot down.
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@TheNewsRealBlog
@SistersUncut
"If the police hurt you at that protest, it's your fault!"
That sounds familiar...
"If you wear that and get assaulted, that's your fault!"
"If you walk down that path and end up dead, it's your fault!"
Ditch blame culture, consider the power dynamics instead.
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@HenMazzig
We can all see what Zionism means. No matter how you define it, reality has told a very different story for the past 75 years.
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Jeremy Kyle is a supine weasel for the bourgeoisie.
Has any CEO, director, banker or investor received this line of interrogation on his "show"?
Trade unionists like Dempsey and Lynch are worth every penny. They make sure the workers get their share.
CEOs and the such don't.
Jeremy Kyle clashes with the RMT's Eddie Dempsey over General Secretary, Mick Lynch's salary.
Jeremy: "He's on £124,000. Why doesn't he give £80,000 of his money to his trade union comrades?"
Eddie: "He doesn't earn more than the Prime Minister."
#JeremyKyle
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@RMTunion
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@SkyNews
Huh. I see his mouth flapping away yet the words "I'm a war criminal who belongs in the Hague" don't appear to be emanating from it.
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@mattromney2016
@Daninbelly
@MichaelBarden8
The other protests are just trial ones, to make sure you're right for the position.
What are you talking about, "that's unpaid labour"?
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@GeorgeMonbiot
@medialens
Where are the "falsehoods", George? This war objectively started in 2014 and its always been an open secret that the US wants Russia crushed out of international markets.
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@TTellr
@JD___8
@tiandemi
@kendallrowanx
@RMTLondon
I didn't. Stop dragging reasonable statements to reactionary conclusions.
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@FisherAndrew79
@theipaper
@STWuk
are correct.
If your anti-imperialism doesn't demand an end to wars orchestrated by and on behalf of the same imperialists who profit from them, regardless of their nationality, then how on Earth can you call yourself an anti-imperialist?
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@PhilRagged
@UKLabour
To clarify further for others, it's a tax on NET profits. That's profit after deductions such as employee wages, rent, office stationery and so on have been made.
What's left is working capital.
Labour really need to stop descending into this rabbit hole of economic illiteracy.
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@Keir_Starmer
Liar. This has long been disproved and the myth of a man-made famine equal or greater to the Holocaust is only kept alive by mere repetition.
That Soviet collectivization solved the centuries long cycles of famine is never spoken of.
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✊We need a united front of socialists across the country to stand up for working people; to oppose cuts, gentrification, and privatisation.
For Peace & Socialism!
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@PunishedKingB
@KingAdrock42
@ComradeStu
No, they need resources. All countries do regardless of their mode of production. This is a basic fact.
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The leader of the so-called Labour party is repeating state propaganda and anti-communist lies.
Holodomor is a myth kept alive by mere repetition. Cycles of famine extended back centuries in the USSR and were solved by Soviet collectivization efforts.
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Today we remember the victims of the Holodomor, the brutal man-made famine engineered by the Soviet regime which cost the lives of millions of Ukrainians.
We continue to stand united with Ukraine as they fight for their freedom against Russian aggression.
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This is just racism.
A white supremacist murdered three Kurds in France. The Kurdish community is merely responding in the time-honoured tradition French people have always responded to social injustices.
You wouldn't be saying this if they were white.
Import the third-world
Become the third-world!!
Kurds in Paris
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@PiersUncensored
@TiceRichard
@IsabelOakeshott
@RMTunion
@TalkTV
Steve's right, they are fascists. Both of them have deemed workers to be their enemies by attacking trade unions.
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@JohnMasonMSP
@Lonewolf1655325
@CMRScotia
@37fck
I think I speak for everyone when I state that we're yet to see an embryo or foetus express its political views on the matter.
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@JoshuaYJackson
As another comrade said, if there were a genocide, it'd be the first in history to not result in a mass displacement of people, a refugee crisis and the discovery of mass graves and abandoned homes.
The Western narrative simply doesn't make any sense.
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