karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 10/07/2026No wonder council workers are struggling. Striking is the only way to change this. 000
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Completely normal stuff novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/n...novaramedia.comNHS Staff Told ‘Stop Criticising Palantir or Lose Your Job’NHS staff have been told they might lose their jobs if they criticise NHS England’s controversial £330m contract with IDF-contractor Palantir. 012874
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The report in the Independent that Mandelson had failed security vetting was actually raised in the Commons by Lib Dem MP Rachel Gilmour on 16 September 2025 “a source from MI6 has reportedly claimed that they failed to clear Mandelson” The Prime Minister says he found out on Tuesday 38376185
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialNational Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Lawmakers in DC: hear us roar! 📢 Nurse leaders took the fight to #AbolishICE to the streets of our nation’s capital today — because our patients and communities deserve care, not terror! 9063821799
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialCold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/04/2026 15560621951
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialUNISON @unison.org.uk · 27/03/2026📢 Migrant care workers told MPs this week how visa rules leave them open to exploitation, with some denied shifts if they don’t have a car. UNISON is calling for urgent reform to stop abuse and protect workers. Read more ⬇️unsn.uk'No car, no shifts': migrant workers speak out in Parliament - UNISON NationalUNISON members speak out, urging MPs to reverse proposed visa changes 2107
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialUNISON @unison.org.uk · 27/03/2026The government has accepted a higher pay recommendation for doctors than for their AfC colleagues. Time and again, pay review body processes value some parts of the NHS more highly than others. Sign the open letter and tell them 3.3% isn't enough: unsn.uk/4lnAWBb 154
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialSocialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Trade union leaders back mobilisation against Nazi Tommy Robinson 👇Stand Up To Racism has organised a counter-protest against Tommy Robinson in London this Saturday @AntiRacismDay #TUC2025socialistworker.co.ukTrade union leaders back mobilisation against Nazi Tommy RobinsonStand Up To Racism has organised a counter-protest against Tommy Robinson in London this Saturday 053
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.social🔥🗽🔥SoCal Redhead🔥🗽🔥 @vlf79.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I'm so proud of you young adults! Please don't stop and never allow an old person to convince you that things can't be changed. The kids know what time it is. 23212
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialSocialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Defence industry workers at Boeing start strike after rejecting 20 percent offer 👇Workers are right to strike—but the union shouldn’t line up behind warmongers socialistworker.co.uk/news/defence...socialistworker.co.ukDefence industry workers at Boeing start strike after rejecting 20 percent offerBoeing workers walked out on Monday. It’s the first strike at the United States-based aviation giant’s weapons and defence sector since 1996. 032
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there. 9465412469
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.social@yourpartyuk A personal ac to engage & critique @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025This personal account is set up to support the efforts of @zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social & many others in their efforts to set up a new #leftofcenter #progressive #UK #politicalparty that challenges existing #powerrelations, is #forthemanynotthefew & calls out #gazagenocide. 31810
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialAlex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 22/07/2025How funny - the government has now ordered an inquiry into the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ - 18 June 1984. This was one of the high points of state repression of the miners’ strike. One tool of this repression was the imposition of restrictive bail conditions on striking miners … 1/ 365
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialMarwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 17/07/2025In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act... 521581
karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Solidarity. As an NHS user can I say I support you 100%. We deserve NHS staff paid properly. 010
karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Tax the rich. And actually collect the tax they owe! Is that so radical?? 010
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Shortly before banning Palestine Action, British parliamentarians dressed up in the colours of another, famous Direct Action group - The Suffragettes. A group they would certainly have proscribed for their campaigns, which included bombs & vandalism Irony is dead. 16352114
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialSocialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025How the Anti Nazi League beat the National Front 👇Geoff Brown, author of the new book A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, spoke to Thomas Foster about how revolutionaries organised to defeat the fascistssocialistworker.co.ukHow the Anti Nazi League beat the National FrontAuthor of A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, spoke to Thomas Foster about how revolutionaries organised to defeat the fascists. 042
karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Really pleased to hear that. It's hard enough being disabled and trying to get support already. What is a Labour PM thinking of, except his mates in the city! 000
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Honoured to visit Derry with @bloodysundaytrust.bsky.social for the 15th anniversary of the Saville Report. We remember the 14 unarmed civil rights activists murdered on Bloody Sunday & stand with all fighting for truth from Ballymurphy to Rafah. One world. One struggle. Until we are all free. 416836
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialAlex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 08/06/2025 198279016644
karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 04/06/2025UK must stop facilitating genocide. Why has my MP #AfzalKhanMP not signed it? 000
karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Great initiative. Where is my union? #unisontheunion 000
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back. This is only going to get worse. 1857264957367
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The UK government’s final chance to act is NOW. Laila Soueif is at death’s door after 242 days on hunger strike — demanding freedom for her son Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British-Egyptian activist unjustly imprisoned in Egypt for years. The clock has run out. Free Alaa. Save Laila. 325093
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialNew Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 29/05/2025"New Labour took 14 years and billions of pounds worth of policies to lift half a million children out of poverty. Keir Starmer could do the same overnight with one policy costing just a fraction of that." NEF's @maxmosley.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk calling for removal of the two-child benefit cap. 13421
karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Disgraceful, fuel company profits are high and they want us to blame migrant for our poverty. Tax the rich, don't cut benefits 000
karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Then the UK government remains complicit with genocide despite all the rhetoric of today 010
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Did Nigel Farage write this speech? Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this. 48727194
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialReunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Couples and families separated by the UK’s draconian family migration rules often suffer deteriorating & poor mental health as a result of the rules. This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek resonates with our adults & children who question why their mental health is often under attack by their government 13912
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Covid inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been saved www.channel4.com/news/covid-i...channel4.comCovid inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been savedIf the government had listened to experts and implemented the same strategies used in other countries, 180,000 lives may have been saved during Covid, the UK Covid Inquiry heard today. 20222157
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialStrike Map @strikemap.org · 05/05/2025🪧🪧🪧MEGAPICKET🪧🪧🪧 Victory to the Brum Bin Workers ✊ 9 May | 6am | Lifford Lane Depot, B30 3JJ Tell the strikers you are coming: bit.ly/BrumMegapicket9May #Solidarity #StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikers #BrumBinStrike #BinStrike #Birmingham 0159
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialAlex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 05/05/2025My latest column, on the two-party electoral meltdown. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...socialistworker.co.ukAlex Callinicos: Things fall apart, the centre cannot holdMaking sense of Reform UK's victory in the local council elections, and understanding what we need to do resist them. 155
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.social#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Huge: Head of Climate Change Committee doesn't think carbon capture should be used in electricity generation (#NB Tony Blair) Will @thecccuk.bsky.social (1) tell the Government to drop gas-CCS (2) Support my legal case against gas-CCS being used for electricity 👉 bsky.app/profile/dran... 312256
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialStrike Map @strikemap.org · 23/04/2025Why we should back the bin workers ✊ 28 April| 6.30pm| Brig Cafe @ The Warehouse, B5 5TH 🚩See you then #StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikes #BrumBinStrike 01912
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialTryingMyBest @tryingmybestuk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025news.sky.comIsraeli troops shot at Gaza aid workers from 'point-blank range', leaked documents reportedly showDocuments reviewed by Israeli newspaper Haaretz show that IDF investigators were "not convinced" by a deputy commander's claim that he misidentified aid vehicles as Hamas. 074
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialFeral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Google Earth and Google Maps are now showing images of Gaza from different time periods. 1 just after the bombardment started, 1 two months in. If you open both browsers in different tabs you can see the ethnic cleansing all around Gaza city. I use a distinctive road junction here for comparison 13216
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025They both keep their money in Tax Havens. 201098411
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialSocialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Human rights commission demands attacks on trans+ people 👇The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has a track record of persecuting minorities, and is now demanding attacks on trans+ peoplesocialistworker.co.ukHuman rights commission demands attacks on trans+ peopleAs well as attacking trans+ people, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has a track record of persecuting minorities. 031
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialAlex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 22/04/2025 710119
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialElizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025 436336015409
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/04/2025The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink 8330127
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialAlex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Trump's iPhone olive branch is a significant trade war retreat www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comTrump's iPhone olive branch is a significant trade war retreatExempting electronics from US tariffs is a stunning about-turn by the Trump administration after 10 days of chaos. 032
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialGovernor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 13/04/2025Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg. 1349150813992
Reposted by @karenreissmann.bsky.socialMartin Empson @resolutereader.bsky.social · 13/04/2025@alexcallinicos.bsky.social will be doing a Q&A online giving a Marxist analysis of Tariffs and the chaos in the markets. But crucially, what can we do now as socialists and left movements to shift the agenda. 085