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Collective @wearecollective.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW POLLING: 🗳️🗳️ Before it has even launched, a Jeremy Corbyn-led party would gain 10% of UK votes. The poll shows that a new left party would finish first among 18- to 24-year-old voters, with 32% share. Rarely has there been a time and the conditions so perfect to create a new genuinely left party.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you. Sign up at yourparty.uk.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ
Zohran Mamdani is pictured speaking. Headline reads: "Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary." Photo credit: Scott Heins for The New York Times.
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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani says he would arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York City — if elected mayor. Stop stop, there’s only so much good news I can take 🫦
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Alan Gibbons @gibbtacus.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The world's only superpower bombs Iran and calls Iran 'the bully of the Middle East.' Who said irony is dead?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: 'A disaster on every front' 'it's very clear that if this goes ahead, the wider cost to society will be bigger than any money they save' www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Labour's disability benefit cuts set to be a 'disaster on all fronts'
Disability benefits cuts will harm hundreds of thousands of people and cost some individuals almost £900 a month, MPs have warned.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Martin Lewis’ charity has warned that Labour’s changes to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), a key benefit for individuals with long-term health conditions or disabilities, will have a “catastrophic impact” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
Martin Lewis’s charity warns Starmer’s PIP disability cuts will be ‘catastrophic’
Martin Lewis’ charity Money and Mental Health Policy Institute has revealed research on the impact of changes to PIP as it calls on the government to drop the plans
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It will probably come as no surprise to anyone that Prime minister Keir Starmer performed well in a YouGov poll on the agreement, while Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are least trusted to handle the relationship with the bloc www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
thetimes.com
Voters endorse Starmer’s EU deal despite divisions over Brexit
Prime minister performed well in YouGov poll on the agreement, while Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are least trusted to handle the relationship with the bloc
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
President Trump, "I'm not happy with what Putin is doing, he's killing a lot of people" "I don't know what happened to Putin, I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him" "But he's sending rockets into Ukrainian cities and killing people and I don't like it at all"
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The world has a glut of savings, and you might not think it, but that's not good news youtu.be/gii959E8f4o?... A savings glut creates global economic instability, and that's precisely the problem the world's got right now. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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The world has a glut of savings, and you might not think it, but that's a huge problem.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
So today UK Labour’s NEC (National Executive Committee) met and it was an absolute disaster. Come along for this absurd nonsense: labourhub.org.uk/2025/05/22/b...
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Bonfire of the equalities
A report of Labour’s 20th May National Executive Committee by left CLP reps Jess Barnard, Gemma Bolton and Yasmine Dar Summary In an unprecedented move, it was declared that the Party will no…
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Khalid Sadur - Your Party @khalid4ewh.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
*A New Left Party?* Discussing the establishment of a new mass party on the Left on the Transform Politics Podcast. @transformpolitics.bsky.social @wearecollective.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/jDgTP... vm.tiktok.com/ZNdhHMY8f/ The full podcast here: open.spotify.com/show/639C9wx...
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CassiBellingham @cassibelllingham.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
#StarmerOut
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Jodie 🇦🇺 @jodie.sheshed.rocks · 04/05/2025
First Germany said NO to fascism and Trumpism. Then Canada said NO to fascism and Trumpism. And now Australia has said NO to fascism and Trumpism. The people of the world are speaking with their votes and we want democracy not authoritarianism. #SheShed
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Keir Starmer is an amoral man, adopting local colour and whatever principles are useful to get ahead. Here he is in 2015 at the Camden Palestine Solidarity meeting. Today he is 'fully aligned' with Israel's murderous actions in Gaza. #gaza #starmer #Israel #Netanyahu
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer responds to local election losses
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
'Labour has nothing to gain from trying to out-Reform Reform' TUC General Secretary urges Keir Starmer to push through popular reforms that will cut through Nigel Farage's hallow posturing - rather than shifting to the right www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Paul Nowak - 'Labour has nothing to gain from trying to out-Reform Reform'
TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak urged Keir Starmer to push through popular reforms that will cut through Nigel Farage's hallow posturing - rather than shifting to the right
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Don't be young, or old, or infirm. Do not have ADHD, autism or depression. Don't be a migrant. Do not want a park, leisure centre or local arts. If you are none of those, Reform councils will be good for you. For everyone else, they will be dire. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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Where will Reform find cuts?
Reform says that it will cut the spending of the local authorities it now controls. I asked ChatGPT to provide a breakdown of English local authority spending. It provided this data for 2024/25 based...
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Sir Keir Starmer is an astonishingly bad politician. He's bankrupted the richest party in Europe; expelled the core voters of the biggest party in Europe; alienated the largest campaigning force in Europe and ripped up the policies and identity that differentiated the party from its rivals.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Doncaster Mayor Ros Jones has better political judgement than Starmer & Reeves "Ms Jones lashed out over decisions to slash winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners, as well as cutting access to disability benefits and hiking National Insurance on businesses" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Labour mayor's furious message to Keir Starmer as she narrowly beats Reform
Ros Jones, who held on as Doncaster mayor by a majority of less than 700, said the Government needs to listen to the public as she hit out over winter fuel and benefit cuts
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Ed Miliband has accused Nigel Farage of peddling "nonsense and lies" about the government's commitment to net zero, as the Reform UK leader said the issue could become the "new Brexit" news.sky.com/story/farage...
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Farage accused of peddling 'nonsense and lies' - as he predicts 'the new Brexit'
The Reform UK leader also vowed to be Britain's equivalent of Elon Musk by cutting excess council spending if his party claims victory in next month's local elections.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Trump wants his tariffs to reset the world. Tariffs imposed on whim, no analysis; not approved by US Congress, WTO, UN. Due to access to labour, material, technology, no country can produce everything Countries will trade less with US in a multipolar world US hegemony will decline
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Trump wants his tariffs to reset the world. He might get his wish | CNN Business
President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted what he calls the return of manufacturing to the United States, hailing companies that have vowed to pour large amounts of money into making everything fro...
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
In #Okinawa, coastal fishermen now farm #coral, restoring #reefs like planting trees in a forest. With #ocean temperatures rising, half the world’s coral reefs have already vanished. These farmers are fighting back, one fragment at a time. [Heppoko Taylor]
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Onay Kasab from Unite: "We did everything we could to try & negotiate & avoid this taking place. Our members have already taken a pay cut of £1,00 a year.. we havn't rushed into strike action, we've been willing to negotiate, & we've made very real concessions"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft dodged $278bn US corporation taxes over 10 years. Paid 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average. Profits shifted to low/no tax jurisdictions. Same companies operate in the UK, dodge taxes, create social squalor. Force companies to publish tax returns.
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‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years
Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Sadly yes
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Jonathan Reynolds claims the UK received a preferential position when the US imposed its tariffs Tariff levels were determined solely by size of the trade deficit in goods. Nothing else. Either Reynolds (the cabinet minister for business & trade) doesn't know this, or he's lying
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast. THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/04/2025
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the US is now likely headed toward a recession, with potentially 2 million Americans put out of work, thanks to the tariff increases now in train
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Summers Warns US Likely Headed to Recession, 2 Million Jobless
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that the US is now likely headed toward a recession, with potentially 2 million Americans put out of work, thanks to the tariff increases now in train...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
1. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...
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Investor Memo - Inside Track.pdf
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
UK businesses pay the highest electricity price in the developed world, Twice the EU average, 2.6 times that of Korea, four times more than the US and China Profiteering by energy companies is destroying households and businesses. Yet govts do nothing. Nationalise energy.
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With bills having gone up, it’s time to take energy back into public ownership
The obscene profits of the energy industry show the sector is broken
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Trump's tariffs don't make sense because the country he has declared war on most strongly is the USA. Never has such a thing happened before. It's the job of the rest of the world to move on as quickly as possible. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
taxresearch.org.uk
Trump’s tariffs aren’t meant to make economic sense
The Guardian had an article yesterday headlined: I am sure that a sub-editor who wrote the headline thought that it was logical. It was not.  Of course they Trump's tariffs do not make sense. These...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
More than 500 firms and legal offices filed a court brief on Friday warning Trump’s actions represent "a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself” www.newsweek.com/500-law-firm...
newsweek.com
500 law firms challenge Trump's executive orders in court: what to know
The filing marks the most coordinated legal pushback yet against a series of Trump orders aimed at penalizing high-profile firms.
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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What makes people vote for deranged narcissistic megalomaniacs? Clearing not out of self interest 😣 Just asking for the 🌍😦
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The Financial Times: ‘If it endures, Donald Trump's decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history. They will wreak untold damage on households…’
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If properly implemented, retrofitting can help lower energy bills, create warm and comfortable homes, contribute to a fairer, more sustainable future, create high-skilled green jobs — and boost economic growth. 📰 #RetroFitForTheFuture in @labouroutlook.bsky.social:
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Retrofit For the Future: Labour’s Missed Opportunity? - Labour Outlook
“If properly implemented, retrofitting can help lower energy bills, create warm & comfortable homes, contribute to a fairer, more sustainable future, create high-skilled green jobs & boost economic gr...
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Ben Sellers @mrbensellers.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
‘I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft’ - Tony Benn
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Neoliberalism has failed, but the Labour government is wedded to it. No wonder they’re so frightened. They realise that we might rumble that they, too, are a bunch of failures. youtu.be/rdm0ntUEwdc?...
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Our politicians seem to be terrified of us. Why is that?
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The United States Is Now A 2nd Class Nation On Our Way To 3rd World Status….
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I want to see the end of neoliberalism and everything it stands for because until we do, we won't live in a world where people matter. youtu.be/Ar9tlrIQgmE?...
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If we want a politics that cares, neoliberalism has to go.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” “The time is always right to do what is right.” “True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” All statements by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, who died on this day in 1968.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
When the rich have more money than sense. £670 for a pair of rubber flip-flops. That is more than what most people earn in a week. The same rich begrudge paying a decent wage and taxes. Does it make them happy or content? www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
theguardian.com
The price of flip-flops: can they ever be worth £670?
If you’ve just bought a pair of these rubber sandals, you may want to think twice before wearing them down to the beach
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Are we really doing this again? www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/russ...
Post from Peter Oborne

I've fact-checked the claims that Jeremy Corbyn is "pro-Putin". It turns out that no politician has been more consistent or more prescient about Putin than Corbyn. When he warned about Russian donor money he was mocked. My new column for Middle East Eye:
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