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Peter Dwyer

@lfcscally.bsky.social
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Socialist, recovering academic in the NHS. Anfield regular over 50 years. Editor Review of African Political Economy. roape.net Free articles journal www.scienceopen.com/collection/9577…

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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Learn what people think. Work with them where we can, challenge them where we must. The left too often starts from "you're wrong," & then can't reach the people it needs to win.
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Hannah Arendt and why friendship matters more than truth
In a polarised age, the political theorist’s notion of civic fellowship is essential
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Reform want to rollback workers' rights and cut taxes for billionaires. Spain did the opposite - and has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Gulf state buys a club, reportedly hides the money, lawyers up. Owners now police a rival owner. Epstein: same secrecy, offshore shells, mutual protection. Neither topples the ruling class. Both bust the myth of self-policing. But us ordinary folk are the biggest losers.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
St Giles’ Fair has lit up Oxford for 4 centuries & tonight it was warm, noisy, human, a multicoloured rush of people moving together. A brilliant, contrast to the soulless, stale theatrics of the racist mobs. This was Britain at its best: in full colour, confident, diverse, gloriously alive.
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Raise the Flag Leaders Charged With Murder and Making Indecent Child Images - Dorset Eye
A sorry state of affairs this week. An orchestrated raising of Union Jack flags from multiple lamp posts arrived at Weymouth (anyone who thinks this is ok, it’s probably time for you to seek professio...
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
By far the best analysis www.counterfire.org/article/jaso...
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Jason Arday: the day of the whipping boy returns – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on a tragedy rendered by racism When I heard the news of the tragic death of Jason Arday on Friday night I wrote on Facebook: Shame on all the media and right-wing commentators w...
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
By far the best analysis www.counterfire.org/article/jaso...
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Jason Arday: the day of the whipping boy returns – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on a tragedy rendered by racism When I heard the news of the tragic death of Jason Arday on Friday night I wrote on Facebook: Shame on all the media and right-wing commentators w...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson. A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I expect to be reading of the resignation of the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University very shortly at the very least.
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Denisovian @denisovian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Farage still pretending he's not a member of the establishment. He went to Dulwich College His father was a stockbroker He worked on the Stock Exchange as a metals trader He was a member of the Conservative Party He was an MEP for nearly 20 years How much more establishment can you get ?
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Feckin hilarious. ‘Patriots!’ “protecting national sovereignty” ends up taking its marching orders from people who couldn’t find Belfast or Southampton www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Interested in writing for an internationally acclaimed, independent, radical journal? roape.net/2026/05/12/r...
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ROAPE: Editorial Working Group affiliates | ROAPE
The Review of African Political Economy is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group (EWG) for a year starting from September 2026. We are particularly interested in app...
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New website.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Looking for authors or book reviewers.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Gotcha!
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Is it a public holiday tomorrow for all of us who dont support England and no longer have to put up with entitled bullshit anymore?
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 01/07/2026
Public control and public ownership are not the same thing! Water in England is already in public control. That's why we need PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.
Infographic showing the difference between public control and public ownership. Public control - Government regulation decides on prices and services provided. Public ownership - local, regional or national ownership by the public, all profits reinvested. Deregulation (ie zero public control) makes your services even worse. Adding accountability to citizens/households can make services better.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/07/2026
‘If there is two-tier policing in the UK, it’s the opposite of the situation the far right imagines: Baroness Casey’s review of the Met found that “Black Londoners are underprotected ... and overpoliced.”’ Nic Murray on the far right and the police, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Nic Murray | ‘Release the tapes’
The Met Police chief, Mark Rowley, recently announced that his force would be releasing more bodycam footage as standard...
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Burnham is promising "greater public control over key utilities including water, energy and transport" The problem is water and energy are *already* in public control - and regulation has failed for 40 years👇 He must deliver PUBLIC OWNERSHIP to stop the privatisation rip off
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We’ve revamped our website & via it you can find your way to thousands of radical journal articles about Africa, many by Africans. If you want to review books, films, plays etc for us let me know roape.net
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ROAPE
For 50 years, ROAPE has brought readers pathbreaking analysis on radical African political economy.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Interested in writing for an internationally acclaimed, independent, radical journal? roape.net/2026/05/12/r...
roape.net
ROAPE: Editorial Working Group affiliates | ROAPE
The Review of African Political Economy is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group (EWG) for a year starting from September 2026. We are particularly interested in app...
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We are particularly interested in applications from African activists on the continent or in the diaspora who have a passion and a focus on Africa’s politics, history, and economics, and for analysing these through the lens of radical political economy. roape.net/2026/05/12/r...
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ROAPE: Editorial Working Group affiliates | ROAPE
The Review of African Political Economy is looking for two affiliates to join the journal’s Editorial Working Group (EWG) for a year starting from September 2026. We are particularly interested in app...
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We’ve revamped our website & via it you can find your way to thousands of radical journal articles about Africa, many by Africans. If you want to review books, films, plays etc for us let me know roape.net
roape.net
ROAPE
For 50 years, ROAPE has brought readers pathbreaking analysis on radical African political economy.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Me thinks in the next year as the impact of the war starts to bite deeper, we are all gonna find out about the perils of shifting almost everything to a ‘just in time’ basis over the last 40 years.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The US elite can kidnap a foreign president & assassinate Iranian leaders but they cant arrest anyone anywhere for being part of Epstein’s child trafficking & abuse networks.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
According to the right & far right in the UK, the BBC is run by lefties. But at the UK version of the Oscars last night, it allowed the racist term n@@@@r to be aired & not edited out but it did edit out a Free Palestine comment by one of the winners. Go figure.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Sighs that some fall for liberal hypocrisy of Carney who calls ideology out while reproducing it. admits the “rules-based order” was selective & hegemonic, then rebrands same imperial political economy as values-based realism. It’s not honesty; it’s a software update for the same operating system.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Some good news for a change. The parliamentary Dutch racist party falls apart.
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our 2025 offering of ROAPE's best reads for African radicals roape.net/2026/01/09/r...
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Cheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So it’s ok for a country to invade another country and kidnap its president? I hope that the rest of the world is paying attention. I have a president . . .
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
500 Richest People Gained Record $2.2 Trillion in 2025, Fueling Calls for Wealth Tax www.commondreams.org/news/billion...
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500 Richest People Gained Record $2.2 Trillion in 2025, Fueling Calls for Wealth Tax | Common Dreams
The top 500 billionaires—led by Big Tech's Bezos, Musk, and Ellison—added a record $2.2 trillion to their wealth in 2025, sparking new calls for a wealth tax.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
As Trumps polling and support keeps falling, as the MAGA movement starts infighting, and as the Epstein files keep unravelling, he creates distraction by illegally attacking Venezuela.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work & legacy. buff.ly/gASaoZD The Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read & download for free 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work & legacy. buff.ly/gASaoZD The Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read & download for free 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Fantastic to see this sort of action in the US
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Murdering, corrupt British state. 1. British soldiers let off with murder of 14 Irish civilians at Bloody Sunday. 2. Two weeks ago Johnson & his Tory cronies let off with the needless death of 20,000 during covid. 3. Today the police whose actions led to the deaths our mates, get let off.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
was asked to write a short piece for South African activists about the rise of the far right in Europe-I tried to relate it to some of the challenges activists face in South Africa: zabalaza4socialism.org.za/2025/08/28/c...
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From Crisis to Consolidation: The Resistible Rise of the Far Right in Europe Since 2010 – Zabalaza for Socialism
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
They should be charged with social murder.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Interested in or writing about Africa? Check out our website & free access journal sites. www.scienceopen.com/collection/9... roape.net
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Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE)
<p>Since 1974 the Review of African Political Economy has provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change.</p>
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
They should be charged with social murder.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
At Jeremy Corbyn talk in Oxford. Just listened to Oxford based surgeon desribe the horrors of Gaza. Of how he operated on babies & toddlers shot in the head. Teenage boys purposely shot in the balls. All by the IDF.
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
It’s official. Johnson. Hancock. Cummings. You. Murdering. Bastards.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Let’s hope a class action for social murder is taken out against Johnson & others. It’s a concept used to describe an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
was asked to write a short piece for South African activists about the rise of the far right in Europe-I tried to relate it to some of the challenges activists face in South Africa: zabalaza4socialism.org.za/2025/08/28/c...
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From Crisis to Consolidation: The Resistible Rise of the Far Right in Europe Since 2010 – Zabalaza for Socialism
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Am no friend of Putin. Honest.
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Random picture from a trip to China.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period
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Farage’s Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK’s Mass Deportation Plan
Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis of official statistics a...
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Peter Dwyer @lfcscally.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
zabalaza4socialism.org.za/2025/08/18/c... A short piece on the rise of the far right in Europe I was asked to write for South African activists.
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From Crisis to Consolidation: The Resistible Rise of the Far Right in Europe Since 2010 – Zabalaza for Socialism
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