In case anyone wanted to know where the future of the active left is in Scotland, @niallchristie1.bsky.social got nearly twice as many votes for the Your Party executive committee as Ross Greer got for co-leader of the Greens.

The balance of coverage, save a few outlets, of the illegal bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president has been so bad that saying this is almost a defiant act. Read many news outlets you will see the words captured with few mentions anymore of the indiscriminate bombing of innocents.

Without a background in international law, on the surface what Trump and the US government have done in Venezuela is an even more blatant violation of international law than what Russia committed in Ukraine. Happy to be corrected. If so, should isolation and sanctions be appropriate?

Venezuelans have suffered enough at the hands of a corrupt government and Western Imperialism. Now we have open warfare, civilian deaths and illegal regime change. Keir Starmer and this Labour government will be complicit if we do not force them to act against US actions.

Tyranny will never bring democracy to Venezuela. The US installed Pinochet in Chile and Videla in Argentina and many others in Latin America, bloody dictators. Trump can try illegally install his neo-liberalist puppet through bloodshed but it will only cause more pain and suffering.

It’s refreshing having the UKs two biggest unions led by strong willed women who can stand up to feeble men like Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting. Battle lines are being drawn and we need to all unionise and fight a rampaging right after the Tories followed Labour and next could be Reform.

I am standing with the Village Hotels and Starbucks workers who are challenging the company’s discriminatory low pay structure and fighting for recognition after CEO Gary Davis stated that “money is not a problem” under Blackstone. I will join them on the picket next week on Thursday 18th December✊🏽

Tomorrow's front page 📰 'The UK is letting these people die'

Australia Social Media Ban 🧵 The teenage social media ban in Australia might be one of the dummest policies I've seen all year. It took me literally 2 mins of scrolling on reels to find an Australian influencer telling her underage followers to move to a Discord server. (1/6)

Pretty hilarious that a court in Dundee, my much maligned home town by the middle classes and typical elites, can see through this grifters bullshit better than the supposed highest court in the land. If I had submitted supporting evidence like this for an attic conversion I’d be embarrassed.

EXCLUSIVE: Protesters have gathered in Glasgow to demand the end of the mainstream media’s 'censorship' and 'silence' on the pro-Palestine activists who are on hunger strike in prison

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It’s very refreshing for someone to be out there talking about what we all know and believe needs done. Our economy needs dramatic change and not adaptation or tinkering. Nationalisation will take back control from a small cabal of wealthy people and into all our hands for greater public good.

Live in Glasgow South? Come along to our next meeting on Tuesday evening at 7pm in the Roma Cultural Centre, Nithsdale Street. See you there.

To speak another language is to defy fascism. It was true in Basque Country and Catalunya during Franco. As for indigenous people globally. As it was for Scots who were forced off their land during the highland clearances. Embrace every Glaswegian with their different tongues one and all.

The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne. Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia

Here is something the right can’t answer. If you are all about growth, how do you get growth if your customer base have no money. They will talk about freeing up business and empowering entrepreneurs through tax and regulation cuts. However, if everyone else is broke, who buys their shit?

“Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise: “teenage Farage would sidle up and say “Hitler was right” & “gas them”sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas chambers. Eight contemporaries have corroborated the claim.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Glasgow again showing it has the absolute worst of a bad lot of Labour MPs. Chinese racism one week and selling our health records to private firms for them profit off the next.

I am here for the artistic polemic about why someone stuck a pigeon on top of the Wellington. Nice try. For what it is worth, the next move needs to be a bigger cone to cover the pigeon. Ensuring a traffic cone wholly sits a top the head of this statue is the primary civic endeavour of the city.

You can’t stay here if you don’t speak English. You aren’t allowed to learn English here either. The impossible asks we make of people who came here thinking they had escaped persecution.

Interesting read. Happens against the backdrop of a backlash from LinkedIn users who have seen their engagement stifled in favour of monetised “boosting” of posts. Major issue with these platforms and the power they wield and the lack of accountability they have to any public good.

The Labour Party favour oligarchs and billionaires over teachers and doctors. Rascist, favouring some ethnic groups over others such as Ukrainians and Hong Kongers over Afghans or Latin Americans. They hate refugees. Live here 20-30 years with the fear of being sent back potentially to die.

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The answer is yes, you total coward. We will allow most likely traumatised people to come here and then we will force them to feel the trauma of being uprooted from their new home. There is no real reason to do this other than cowardice to challenge people’s misconceptions and in some cases racism.

In a week that feels like a month I missed that the BBC had Kelvin McKenzie on to talk about journalistic standards. The man who wrongly editorialised the working class fans as the culprits at Hillsborough when they were victims. Why is it all apologies for Trump and 0 Fs given to the rest of us.

I remember post 911 the warnings about the impact of new anti-terror laws on human rights. UK bombing other countries is what has radicalised a generation of terrorists. How about stopping that! Now we are locking up grannies and throwing away the key for holding a sign and opposing genocide.

Governing on slogans or vibes. Really good piece this. Our justice system still does not reduce re-offending. Shoplifting isn’t a threat to our safety. It’s a symptom of a broken societal contract. Prisons are expensive, we shouldn’t build more but modernise and humanise our existing ones.

Waiting on a train, minding my own business. Some women gets off and gives me the dirtiest look. I clock her red poppy and she clearly took massive offence at me wearing a white one. Like common, we can all agree that working for peace and not murdering each other is a good thing surely.

We need to talk about asset prices. We don’t just have an affordability crisis. We have a wealth hoarding one too.

Here bunch of people who actually live here, you get first dibs on the land. Er.. how much does it cost? A bijillion pounds, dont you have that? Land reform without doing anything to influence the cost of land is just fiddling around in the form of performative bureaucracy.

The UK equivalent is housing benefit. We pay 30£ billion a year in housing benefit where 40% goes to private land lords. Imagine if we built affordable public homes.

Serious applications only I’d assume. Can you explain away the odd Nazi salute as an unfortunate hand wave. Justify misogynistic comments & behaviour as “locker talk”. A natural talent to construe any issue, no matter how tenuously connected, to immigration. Then this an opportunity for you.

It’s strange to feel hope pressed up so closely with the despair of what the UK could become. But there it is, writes Steph Paton ✍️ Read here: www.thenational.scot/politi...

Delighted to welcome Ellie Gomersall to Your Party from the Greens! A proud socialist and trans woman, Ellie’s leadership will be vital in the fight against austerity, for equality and for a socialist Scotland. Excited to work together for the change our communities deserve🫶🏽🏳️‍⚧️

Vile. Has any of them ever spoken to a sex worker themselves. Asked them what they need to be safe. Very proud, that before being in Unite my union was part of UVW which did include the Sex Workers Union. People need to educate themselves, have been recommended reading Revolting Prostitutes.

I think there’s a lot of white men virtue signaling and I just want to say try to be a Global South Migrant in a party that won’t listen to you. I tried to make it a priority in their agenda and it just was not happening. “It’s not devolved” it’s not enough for me. (1/5)

I think this is an interesting point, and fundamentally it doesn’t increase the housing stock overall. The housing crisis is a restricted supply problem created by successive governments failure to build homes at the rate it did pre-1980s.

Let Asylum seekers work! Billions to private companies and hotel owners. Money we could have spent building homes for the poor and asylum seekers alike. Proof racism leaves not just the victims poor but all of us while private enterprise profits from hate.

The biggest failure of every UK government, including in Scotland, has been the complete failure to redress the crime of right to buy, where sold off our housing stock to end up owned by a small group of people. The answer is simple; build, own and maintain coouncil hoouses.

A huge Your Party rally in Glasgow on Friday — and three new councillors defecting from the Greens to mark it! ✊🏽 Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path. Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.

Wes Streeting, from the party of organised labour, threatens workers that if they go out on strike over pay he'll cancel their essential training. Labour, on the side of working people until they stand up for themselves, & then its sneers & threats.

Lessons from a lunatic. If you have a weak currency, a consumer goods based economy and rampant inflation then cutting Gov. spending and not taxing will fuck you. Argentina needs to tax hard on unproductive wealth and spend big on modern industry.

“we’re not here for just tweaking capitalism here and there, just trying to get some reforms under this system. We are calling for a fundamental transformation of society and that is workers controlling the economy and communities controlling the wealth that they produce”

I like my other former Green colleagues are fed up of the abandonment of whole communities. I have joined Your Party because I am tired of lending our power to politicians who don’t answer to us. We have the power to fight back with a new politics, I want to be part of a movement, not a slogan.

Did you know that these 7 companies accounted 50% of the growth in the stock market last year. If these companies are not paying tax and neither are their owners then it is no wonder that none of the wealth in the economy makes its way to the rest of us and why your wages are stagnate.

Scotland has a problematic addiction to foreign money. We seem unable to keep any of our assets in this country. In this case we even lent financial support to this organisation to do so. We need more scrutiny on the wealth we ship out the country and less on the people we ship in.

We can read between the lines what a Thatcherite means by putting a quick end to football fans behaviour in the 80s. The disdain these people have for ordinary working class people was all too obvious at Hillsborough.

More economic illiteracy. We won’t do a Lizz Truss on steroids but maybe 2 or 3 mini-budgets of damage. The party of misogynists practicing fiscal macho-ism. If you are not talking about investment in services, infrastructure, Green tech and housing you are making things worse.

Products like this which use 95% less carbon and are made from 100% waste in Scotland.