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Literally less than 2 hours apart...

📢📢📢 THREAD - What is happening in Turkey right now and why it should matter to the world Today in Istanbul, police barricaded the main opposition CHP’s HQ after a court annulled its 2023 congress. This is not routine repression. It is a soft coup against the opposition. ++

"The fable of self proclaimed reasonable managers is over", says Mathilde Panot, the president of the radical left group at the Assembly I think this is felt beyond France. And yet, they refuse to hear it and instead use the far right as a diversion, legitimising it as they do..

*by obviously, not my! I have no claim to Macronism thankfully! 😅

"a different, more critical approach to the rise of the far right, which accounts for the central role of mainstream elites, can help us not only better understand this rise, but offer alternatives beyond the current hegemonic defeatism."

Another political crisis engineered my Macron(ism), another opportunity for no lessons to be learnt and another step towards the far right getting into power I wrote this in December and I think it still applies too well unfortunately... https://t.co/D0KipNbUTI

We can't seriously claim to be concerned about the rise of the far right and racism without being willing to confront its systemic nature Things didn't go wrong in 2016 or 2024. What we're witnessing today is baked into this system. It's not dysfunctioning, it's in survival mode

I wrote this after the previous protest and once more, today showed the top down nature of the rise of the far right https://t.co/vbgXZb5h8i

Another low turnout for the far right in Bristol, dwarfed and blocked by counterprotestors Despite having their politics amplified and legitimised in the mainstream media and politics, they do not represent the people "There are many many more of us than you"

It is secondary to what is happening in Gaza, but the behaviour of the Labour government on this issue plays right in the hand of the far right and authoritarians more widely The damage done to whatever is left of democracy is incredible

Ask yourself, who will be on the right side of history: these people protesting against genocide or the government enabling it and who is passing laws to intimidate and arrest those who protest https://t.co/J5nJAX7RLK

This is why it is particularly problematic to see the lenient coverage Reform receives from the newspaper whose readership is supposedly likeliest to oppose it This is breaking down resolve and resistance, while the right-wing emboldens those already espousing far-right views

This may seem trivial but editorial choices matter & play a key role in agenda setting In particular, they create a sense that Reform is an inevitability and its rise is democratic, ignoring how skewed our current political system is I explore this here https://t.co/vbgXZb4JiK

Reading the headlines, not everyone seems particularly concerned about Reform... It's not like we don't know the danger they pose or their politics behind the glitz The revolution will not be televised but the rise of fascism will...

The Met Police destroyed the life of a young mother and teacher - for obvious satire. They (& CPS) placed her on trial while she was nine months pregnant. Yet one wealthy white man faces a minor fraction of that experience and the Met immediately calls for a change to the law.

No, this cartoon is not racist obviously... What it does is tap into the false ideas that the resurgence of the far right is huge and comes from below and this is what the media on the left should counter, pointing to those elites who stoke division https://t.co/vbgXZb4JiK

In the last 24 hours Elon has -retweeted a notorious Nazi account and said the west should be a white ethnostate -said immigrants should be ethnically cleansed -agreed that there would be “revenge” on immigrants -called for for the execution of British government officials

Make that 11%

Is she "risking" or is she hoping for? Considering the track record of this government on anything fat right related, I think it is more likely to be her goal