BREAKING: Black Liberation Activist Assata Shakur, 78, Dies in Cuba After Decades in Exile

This has all backfired fairly spectacularly. The British state has inadvertently turned them into superstars. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Starmer seems to have compressed the whole of 1997-2010 Labour into the space of about a year. From joy at the departure of the Tories and hope for positive change to scandal, corruption, genocidal war, obsession w ID cards and ideological and physical exhaustion. All in a matter of months!

Demo this morning at the Home Office from @rmtunion.bsky.social The government is trying to copy the far-right and has now taken on the RMT, trying to deport the people that run the trains. We need more unions to stand up. Solidarity beats racism.

This is excellent and inspiring. It’s also not just words: people listening to the legacy of those who beat back the NF before, coming together and getting organised. @ukblm.bsky.social ukblm.org/news/defeat-...

Totally unsurprisingly, the people putting flags on lampposts across the country are a bunch of racist EDL goons. It’s about claiming space for the far-right. If left unchallenged, it leads to more aggressive racist displays and attacks. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/16/r...

Competition for most cursed headline

Depending who they decide shot Charlie Kirk, it could have some bad repurcussions for any people associated (by race, status, religion or politics) with that person. Unless it’s a random disgruntled white man, then it will have no repurcussions at all. And thus Charlie Kirk’s legacy will live on.

Well Charlie Kirk’s dead. Probably shouldn’t have any more sympathy for him than for the thousands of Americans that get shot all the time. Probably a bit less.

Antifascist, antiracist mural in Brick Lane area of East London. The central image is taken from a famous photo of Syed Mizan, Jamal Miah and Abdul Manik from the Bangladeshi Youth Front on the Day of Action 20 Aug 1978 following the racist murder of Altab Ali.

This is how you do it!

This is unbelievably grim and all too believable Across the country we have an emboldened far-right marching in the streets and seizing public space confident in their numbers and in political support from Reform and Tories and a refusal to criticise from Labour www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Keir Starmer: Please like me. Do you like me yet? Please like me.

Just going to periodically keep sharing this How to talk about asylum DO alienate the opposition DO point the finger at who’s responsible DONT talk about the nation or the law DONT make migrants victims to be pitied By @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...

This is really powerful. “…suddenly politicians can offer conditional recognition of Palestinian statehood, but only if we promise to remain defenseless forever. They prefer us as martyrs because martyrs make no demands for liberation.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Horrific shit in West London. In a heavily Asian area, 1000 racists descend on a hotel housing refugees and masked men attempt to break in. They won’t stop until they’ve tried to burn people alive again. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The transphobe Posey Parker and "Let Women Speak" are coming to Worthing on Saturday to preach their hate. Last time they were chased out of Brighton in disgrace - let's do the same again in Worthing tomorrow. 12pm meetup, or travel with some of us from Brighton Station at 11am. Bring your friends ✊

This must not be mistaken for an "innocent" or naive act of patriotism: this campaign is being coordinated by known fascists. They are attempting to create an environment of fear for migrants and refugees. They will fail. More info on "operation raise the flag": hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

On Thursday evening under cover of night, racists snuck into our city to litter our streets with British and English flags: a pathetic effort to stoke fear and intimidate our community. By this afternoon dozens of Brightonians had worked together to take them all down. Brighton is antifascist.

Fascinating article on the fate suffered by veterans of Rojava’s war against ISIS - how erstwhile ‘heroes’ are now pursued by intelligence agencies at Turkey’s behest. www.truthdig.com/articles/fro...

Fantastic ‘Thousands of Years of Small Boats’ zine from thebookshelf.org.uk Genuinely inspiring. A great piece of work. Read it online here: cloud.disroot.org/s/ZPpow3Pxf8...

Pretty good article from @bylinetimes.bsky.social detailing the massive crossover between the supposed ‘mainstream’ and actual Nazis. You can barely slip a piece of paper between the current Tory leadership and actual fascists these days… bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/t...

Britain’s tabloid media fully on course to get someone killed They turn the woman who called for migrants to be burned alive into a folk hero, side by side with more scare mongering about the migrant ‘invasion’ They’ll do this every day and then be *shocked* when people try and burn down a hotel

Feels like the Palestine Action ban is really unravelling for the government. The cops are pissed off at having to arrest hundreds of vicars and pensioners for terrorism. A chunk of the right wing tabloid press has come out against it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Even the Germans… And yet, the British state will continue to materially assist genocide until someone stops them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

AGAINST THE WHITE WORKING CLASS It’s really obvious if you think about it, that the working class is the most diverse class. Yet somehow through the constant repetition of the phrase “white working class” we have been led to imagine that working class Black and Asian people somehow don’t exist.

The Starmer recognising Palestine thing is such bullshit on multiple levels. Firstly - It will make no practical difference to anything. The vast majority of the countries in the world recognised Palestine over 30 years ago. The UK is acting like *its* recognition is different or special.

Headline makes it sound like maybe Starmer is waking up to the threat of the far-right and endless anti-migrant racism? No! It’s all the fault of the migrants for being here and forcing us to be racist at them. www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

How many priests have turned out to be paedophiles and sex abusers? And for how long was all of that covered up by Church authorities? Do we see the far right demonstrating outside every church demanding to get the priests out of their neighbourhood? Trying to burn out vicarages? I wonder why not?

This feels pretty obvious but apparently needs saying w attacks on asylum seekers in e.g. Epping… If you are blaming a whole load of totally separate people for one guy’s crime bc they are all refugees or they’re all brown, that’s pretty much textbook racism.

“A great deal of capital, which appears today in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.”

Excellent piece from @alfatau.bsky.social “These days, it seems as if they can’t even be bothered to manufacture consent” Israel hopes to exhaust our outrage as we just adapt and get used to a new era of colonialism and openly racist war. Some thoughts… inthesetimes.com/article/pale...

Locals in Whitstable want to erect a monument to the men killed in the last battle on English soil. The Battle of Bossenden Wood in 1838 saw troops sent in against impoverished agricultural workers - “Sir William Courtenay” and 8 of his followers were killed whitstableviews.com/2025/02/12/t...

The loyalist hatefilled bigoted bonfire in Moygashel, Co Tyrone is burning away tonight. It had a mocked up 'migrant boat' attached to it, with our tricolour added also as per usual. Loyalist 'culture' sure nothing to see here folks 🙄

One thing that’s interesting in counter terror laws recently used against Palestine Action is that they pre-date 9-11. They are NOT a product of the war on terror The British state thought it needed extraordinarily broad anti-terror laws BEFORE that This was due to peace in the North of Ireland…

Good article from @freedompress.bsky.social on Palestine Action proscription. Revisiting the debates around the introduction of the 2000 bill is bleakly ironic. Who could have predicted that the state, when given broad new anti-terrorism powers would use them? freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/08/w...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

We have a very few MPs in Parliament willing to stand up for Palestine Action. You would hope their position as MPs would allow them to evade the anti-terrorism laws and continue to speak out However the British state has form for categorising elected MPs as terrorists and silencing them

This does really feel like crossing a line into something new. Non-violent direct action can now be classified as terrorism. And additionally, even vague or debatable expressions of support for non-violent direct action can then also constitute terrorism. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They’ve really scraped the bottom of the barrel to find some Nazis to lump in w Palestine Action. Has anyone ever heard of these groups? Have they ever done anything? I imagine some poor civil servant was tasked with dredging up some plausible Nazis to try and smuggle thru the PA ban….

It’s like we’re living through a black comedy or something. Things have become so absurdly stark. Even as Israel openly declares its genocidal intentions, its leaders are the subject of arrest warrants for war crimes and the whole country is being taken to court for genocide…

The legendary Suresh Grover was targeted by undercover police for campaigning for the family of Stephen Lawrence. Today Paestine Action are being classed as terrorists, but just like with Stephen Lawrence, one day everyone will have always been against this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I hate the way the whole media discourse has instantly shifted to ‘did they or did they not destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity?’ Just making that the thing we’re all meant to be interested in. This is how the media build consent for war…

Support the fight to stop this ludicrous proscription www.crowdjustice.com/case/palesti...

Pretty shameful title for this article given that in the text it’s pretty clear there is zero evidence for this www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Oh surprise surprise. It looks like pro-Israel campaign groups are writing the government’s policy for them… Based on nothing at all. Seriously… the best they could come up with was “the vocabulary echoes that of Iran…”?

In a country where every potential Prime Minister has to faithfully swear that they would annihilate the world to be considered ‘electable’, perhaps we need to change the question?

This is from Wendy Webster's "Englishness and Empire" Kind of stunning the contrast with South Africa then and Israel now. Sharpeville killed 67 people as was considered so shocking and beyond the pale that the BBC compared it to Belsen.

2003 redux. An increasingly authoritarian Labour government follows a barely literate American yahooo President into an illegal war…. Let’s run that one again. It worked out so well last time!