
Michael Chessum
@michael_chessum
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Socialist writer and activist /// 📕 This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left /// Work for a union /// Personal account, all views my own.
Joined July 2013
RT @michael_chessum: Having pledged to keep Corbyn's legacy, Starmer barred the left from selections, told us to leave, adopted Tory policy….
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RT @michael_chessum: Look, on the one hand the emergence of big left alternatives is great. On the other, it is incredibly depressing wat….
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Welcome to the world of Melanie Phillips, in which Cultural Marxism (a Nazi conspiracy) is fine, but a progressive Muslim mayor is a threat to Jews. Here she is in 2009:
Zohran Mamdani leads among Jewish voters by a 17-point margin in the race to become New York City’s next mayor. Mamdani, a Shia “Twelver” Islamist, will bankrupt and Islamise New York and pose a threat to its Jewish community. With their Pavlovian reflex to support the Democratic
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RT @jemgilbert: It is really a devastating pity that @jeremycorbyn didn’t take this view while he was Labour leader, despite many of us mak….
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RT @piercepenniless: Some v quick morning thoughts on the New Left Party (hereafter NLP) and the Greens. These prompted by Corbyn's warm co….
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RT @michael_chessum: Today is the LAST DAY to join the Greens to vote in the leadership election. This election is pivotal. A leftward-mov….
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Today is the LAST DAY to join the Greens to vote in the leadership election. This election is pivotal. A leftward-moving Green Party, led by @ZackPolanski, will be a crucial part of a winning left electoral bloc. If he loses, the only winners will be Reform and the Labour Right.
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RT @ZackPolanski: This last minute critique of our campaign is right about one thing: the choice is clear. Timid incremental change or bol….
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Exclusive: Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns say party could slide into irrelevance if it chooses new leader with ‘polarising’ approach
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RT @owenjonesjourno: Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It said it was starving Gaza over and over again. It has done so….
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The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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This truly is hilarious coming from someone who invested considerable political capital building an alliance with George Galloway.
The scheme being promoted by Owen Jones and James Schnieder to push the new left party (even before it’s founded!) into an alliance with the Greens can only work to blunt it’s radicalism. 1/7.
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RT @mattzarb: As someone who worked for Jeremy Corbyn when he was leader, and being a big fan of Zarah Sultana, I wish their new party the….
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RT @owenjonesjourno: This is really silly. I just supported a call for electoral pacts so that left-wing candidates don't stand against ea….
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RT @jemgilbert: If were an agent of the state trying to ensure that a new left wing party didn't become any kind of threat, I would simply….
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