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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
No wonder council workers are struggling. Striking is the only way to change this.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Completely normal stuff novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/n...
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NHS 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.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The 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
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Lawmakers 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!
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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UNISON @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 ⬇️
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'No car, no shifts': migrant workers speak out in Parliament - UNISON National
UNISON members speak out, urging MPs to reverse proposed visa changes
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 27/03/2026
The 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
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Socialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Trade 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 #TUC2025
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Trade union leaders back mobilisation against Nazi Tommy Robinson
Stand Up To Racism has organised a counter-protest against Tommy Robinson in London this Saturday
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🔥🗽🔥SoCal Redhead🔥🗽🔥 @vlf79.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I'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.
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Socialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Defence 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...
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Defence industry workers at Boeing start strike after rejecting 20 percent offer
Boeing workers walked out on Monday. It’s the first strike at the United States-based aviation giant’s weapons and defence sector since 1996.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I 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.
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@yourpartyuk A personal ac to engage & critique @yourpartyuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This 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.
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Build a new left #yourparty
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
How 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/
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act...
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Solidarity. As an NHS user can I say I support you 100%. We deserve NHS staff paid properly.
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Tax the rich. And actually collect the tax they owe! Is that so radical??
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Shortly 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.
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Socialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
How 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 fascists
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How the Anti Nazi League beat the National Front
Author of A People’s History of the Anti Nazi League, spoke to Thomas Foster about how revolutionaries organised to defeat the fascists.
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Really 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!
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Honoured 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.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
UK must stop facilitating genocide. Why has my MP #AfzalKhanMP not signed it?
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great initiative. Where is my union? #unisontheunion
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back. This is only going to get worse.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The 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.
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New 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.
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Disgraceful, fuel company profits are high and they want us to blame migrant for our poverty. Tax the rich, don't cut benefits
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karenreissmann.bsky.social @karenreissmann.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Then the UK government remains complicit with genocide despite all the rhetoric of today
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Did Nigel Farage write this speech? Dehumanising and divisive. We deserve better than this.
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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Couples 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
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Covid inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been saved www.channel4.com/news/covid-i...
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Covid inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been saved
If 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.
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Strike 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
Promotional poster for the 'Join the Brum Bin Strike Mega Picket' on May 9th at 6 AM, featuring enthusiastic individuals holding flags and banners, with a list of supporting organizations' logos at the bottom.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
My latest column, on the two-party electoral meltdown. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold
Making sense of Reform UK's victory in the local council elections, and understanding what we need to do resist them.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Huge: 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...
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Strike Map @strikemap.org · 23/04/2025
Why we should back the bin workers ✊ 28 April| 6.30pm| Brig Cafe @ The Warehouse, B5 5TH 🚩See you then #StrikeMap #BirminghamBinStrikes #BrumBinStrike
Promotional poster for a public meeting titled 'Why We Should Back the Bin Workers,' featuring speaker photos and details, scheduled for Monday 28 April 2025 at 6:30 PM. Location: The Brig Café at The Warehouse, Birmingham. Includes logos of supporting organizations such as UCU, Unison, and Birmingham City Council.
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TryingMyBest @tryingmybestuk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Israeli troops shot at Gaza aid workers from 'point-blank range', leaked documents reportedly show
Documents 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.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Google 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
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
They both keep their money in Tax Havens.
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Socialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Human 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+ people
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Human rights commission demands attacks on trans+ people
As well as attacking trans+ people, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has a track record of persecuting minorities.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The 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
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Trump's iPhone olive branch is a significant trade war retreat www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump's iPhone olive branch is a significant trade war retreat
Exempting electronics from US tariffs is a stunning about-turn by the Trump administration after 10 days of chaos.
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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 13/04/2025
Last 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.
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Martin 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.
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