
Karl Hansen
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Editor-at-large @tribunemagazine | socialist | former political advisor on trade unions and workers’ rights
London/Istanbul
Joined July 2017
“I find it bizarre that we’re talking about the Israeli military like it’s a persecuted minority group. It’s a powerful army committing genocide.” I spoke to Nick Ferrari about the absurd attempt to charge Bob Vylan with ‘hate speech’.
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lol everything they do to hide or erase it makes it look more poignant than the original
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As Israel's President is due, the UK govt refuses to see Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide. We have witnessed hospital destruction, aid blocked and mass killings of Palestinian civilians. That's why we have written to the PM - the UK must uphold the Genocide Convention.
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Maurice Glasman, the philosopher king of Blue Labour, whose raison d’être is declaring everyone else out of touch, has made 15 trips to Ukraine in three years and insists its militarised sea drone industry is a pressing concern for the British working class.
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Maurice Glasman’s big idea to reconnect with the concerns of working-class people is “doubling down on the relationship with Ukraine”. He’s completely delusional.
“I think Keir Starmer is a genuinely tragic figure.” Labour will “go the same way” as the Conservatives if it doesn’t reconnect with the “concerns of working class people”, says Labour peer Maurice Glasman. @afneil | #TimesRadio
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Today a Palestinian gunman killed 6 people in Jerusalem and Israel killed more than 40 people in Gaza. Our Israel-lobby-funded foreign secretary is "horrified" by only one of these.
I am horrified by the terrorist attack in Jerusalem. My thoughts are with the victims and their families at this awful time.
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Arrested by the Met Police, RAF veteran Steve was among more than a thousand people demonstrating to support Palestine Action and oppose the genocide in Gaza.
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“I’m associated with Chinese takeaways” is a phrase that’s going to be echoing around my brain for a long time.
"People that are working here shouldn't be targeted like that, nobody should be targeted like that." Social media content creator and “proud Englishman” John Fisher, aka Big John, on the flag debate. #Newsnight
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Every police officer in this video has put more effort into arresting pensioners for opposing genocide than they’ve ever spent solving a mobile phone theft.
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After Graham Linehan’s arrest, Keir Starmer told the Met to focus on issues that “matter most to their communities.” Apparently he thinks prosecuting pensioners as terrorists is a community priority.
BREAKING: Police start to arrest protestors under the Terrorism Act for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" Over a thousand people are risking arrest today, despite the state's best efforts to deter us.
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This is the same blind and disabled man we saw police arrest at the last Palestine Action protest. The courage and decency of these demonstrators in the face of authoritarianism is inspiring.
Mike Higgins, who is blind and wheelchair bound, has joined the Parliament Square protest, to once again oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban. He, and over a thousand others, face a 'terror arrest' because of the draconian proscription of a direct action group.
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A reason Rayner was so vulnerable to being taken down by the Labour right because she stood by while they purged the all people who would have supported her. Not just unprincipled but also very naive. Did she not realise they’d eventually come for her too?
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There’s something pathetic about Labour members falling over themselves to defend a politician who didn’t lift a finger when they were under attack.
One from the archives: "Do you think it's a purge of the left?" Angela Rayner: "I don't think Keir is acting in a factional way. You do have factions in the Labour Party. You get it in all political parties, but our party will only succeed if we're a broad church"
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In this new piece I argue that the climate crisis cannot be solved within capitalism. I think we need to take this fact seriously and consider what it means for the climate movement. Link in the reply.
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David Lammy has been a disaster as Foreign Secretary and Yvette Cooper has been as disaster as Home Secretary. Starmer’s solution to that is… giving David Lammy’s job to Yvette Cooper and making David Lammy the deputy PM??
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Keir Starmer’s big reshuffle is just a few failing ministers swapping jobs with each other. It has only been a year and the government is already exhausted and out of ideas.
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I know what I’m talking about because I was Andy McDonald’s political advisor. Most of the transformative workers’ rights and trade union policies agreed under Andy were scrapped when Angela Rayner took over.
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Angela Rayner didn’t actually write any of Labour’s workers’ rights policies. Andy McDonald did. Her only contribution was massively watering them down.
Get lost. She did more for workers in 14 months than any politician for a generation! These people really hate working class women getting above their station
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