catch @catch56.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Local elections so nothing interesting until after 2am at the earliest probably. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Partly everything going to shit since, partly the speed run into the Labour Party for most of the machine fragment lads. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 27/02/2026And an aspect of that conspiracy theory is that the encouragement of mass migration creates a voting bloc that will cement the power of those 'globalist elites' because there won't be enough white people to vote for fascists. Farage and Goodwin are drawing directly on this narrative. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Great Replacement Theory is not just the idea that immigrants are replacing white people due to declining birth rates or whatever, but also a specific conspiracy theory that 'globalist elites' are deliberately encouraging mass migration to achieve/accelerate this process. 100 1
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Seen lots of takes like this and yes it's ridiculous. But it's also a version of Great Replacement Theory and it is extremely negligent of all these professional journos just to titter about it and not name the far right conspiracy theory that's currently being repeated all over the press. 100 1
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Even if there was an exact 50/50 split between Green and Labour, Reform would have lost. Fon:t expect we'll hear about that from James Ball. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Pie is an example of the character being more left wing than the writer, because the co-writer is Andrew Doyle. 250 5
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The Fairford coach springs to mind. www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/...theguardian.comProtesters were held unlawfully, court rules120 people prevented from attending demonstration against Iraq war at RAF Fairford will claim £3,000 each. 020 2
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 17/09/2025The most likely outcome is a wrongful arrest settlement paid out in about 3-10 years and no action taken against any police officer. c.f. every previous time they've done something similar. 130 3
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The reason that protesters don't get massacred in the US is because the state is traditionally very worried about what the response would be if that happened. It's not benign institutional protection of the public but fear of repercussions if certain lines were crossed. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 08/06/2025There has been at least one national guard shooting during a protest since Kent State - David McAtee in Louisville in 2020, although he wasn't protesting or particularly near a protest at the time. 100 1
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 02/05/2025They controlled Ed Miliband's policy programme when he was leader, and also have close ties to Rachel Reeves. It's not about 'appealing to voters', rather they ventriloquise voters in order to push their own reactionary politics. It's only a faction of the higher echelons of the Labour Party. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Given mRNA cancer treatments coming through in the past couple of years it'd probably cost less. 1101 10
Reposted by catchAl Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 23/03/2025And here we go with the typical process of Democrats draining the rebellious potential of grassroots anger by just using it to give money and electoral/political support for one of the two parties that are responsible for the abysmal state of USA and the world (including, especially, Gaza/Palestine) 154 5
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 22/03/2025There's a long history of blockades and sabotage in the US. One of the bigger examples would be overturned trains during the 1894 Pullman strike, which was often done by people who lived near the lines rather than the strikers themselves. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Various Grayzone guys and also Vijay Prashad have been pro '56 crackdown for some years now. 010 1
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Didn't the SP support his leadership campaign? Probably some others too. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 21/03/2025There's a non-zero chance these are fascists adopting a vegan persona rather than vegan fascists, although I guess the only real distinction between those two things would be their actual diet so there is no way to find out. 020 2
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 16/03/2025From the same archive but different authors. More critical but definitely identifies the separatist movement as far right libcom.org/article/east...libcom.orgEastern Ukraine conflict: against the regime in Kiev and the junta in the east - Autonomous Workers UnionAs Ukraine slides towards civil war, anarchist group Autonomous Workers Union appeals to the working class to reject both sides and instead fight for their common class interests. 120 2
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 16/03/2025There were reports at the time. I think this one is fairly pro libcom.org/article/libe... but also there was more critical stuff that also took it and the reaction seriously.libcom.org'Libertarian in spirit': the left and MaidanActivists met in Kyiv to discuss the lessons of their participation in the Maidan movement. This report is by Kirill Buketov of the Global Labour Institute. We do not necessarily agree with its conten... 120 2
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 16/01/2025People keep saying "I can't believe the British government is going to make piracy legal but only for huge companies!" and can't help thinking "Have you heard of the East India Company." 010 1
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Also not sure it needs to be a future utopia. Like they could say if trillions of people experience happiness for one day each that's worth tens of billions of people experiencing starvation/dysentary for most of their lives etc. 020 2
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Yes which I think is sufficiently controversial and reactionary? I mean it's also a blatant cover for extremely short termist things like you described too, same with 'effective altruism' which turns out to mean 'become the top of a pyramid scheme'. 150 5
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 25/12/2024'longtermism' in this context means for Musk e.g. space colonisation which then justifies any amount of carnage on earth if it means people end up living in space colonies in the end. 120 2
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Doesn't transhumanism also include brain chips and blood harvesting? 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Prince Andrew should be designated an 'enhanced risk'. Never mind China. 030 3
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The current chancellor of the exchequer said there'd be race riots if immigration didn't come down and wrote an entire glowing chapter about a nazi in her book so it's not as if he's some kind of exception in the Labour Party. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 24/11/2024In the UK plenty of union leaders broke strikes then became Labour MPs. Republicans is maybe more of a stretch but a career move via a friendly administration (to him) is not. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 21/11/2024We just rediscovered the jumper you made for Amile 18 years ago, on a teddy. 120 2
Reposted by catchFreedom Press @freedompress.org.uk · 21/11/2024Prescott leaned into his northern roots and trade union affiliations with unflagging zeal, and weaponised this image to give the Blair government a free pass for mass privatisation, devastating wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a surveillance society at home. freedomnews.org.uk/2024/11/21/j...freedomnews.org.ukJohn Prescott: The Blairite bulldog who forgot the working class - Freedom NewsThe former Deputy Prime Minister weaponised his northern roots and trade union affiliations to enable neoliberal Labour and its wars ~ Uri Gordon ~ John Prescott, the plainspoken northern bruiser who ... 053 5
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I think he can be blamed for writing the book then calling up the Dean for his failson though. 010 1
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 20/11/2024And when his son failed to get into Cambridge, he phoned up the Dean and got him a place via the old boys network. His son is Toby Young. 010 1
Reposted by catchJohn Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 19/11/2024grim to see the ethnonationalists of the Homeland Party campaigning so publicly at the farmers protest 24411 44
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The sign up difficulty is over-hyped but the way replies work (not very well) is a real barrier. 000 0
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Yeah this is why i stayed on mastodon only for so long but so many of you are coat-tailing the socdems I gave up and joined in. 100 1
catch @catch56.bsky.social · 15/11/2024OK I have been on mastodon for ages but looks like loads of you turned up here instead. 110 1
