Ian McNee
@ianmcnee.bsky.social
Socialist - Anti-Imperialist - Materialist
#FreePalestine #NoColdWar #SexMatters
#FreePalestine #NoColdWar #SexMatters
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China has eliminated approximately 628,000 tonnes of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in production and usage, accounting for over half of the total that has been phased out by developing countries to date, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on Tuesday.
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
China has eliminated approximately 628,000 tonnes of ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in production and usage, accounting for over half of the total that has been phased out by developing countries to date, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said on Tuesday.
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Today marks the 65th anniversary of the First Declaration of Havana.
Delivered by Fidel Castro in Revolution Square, the speech was a response to US aggression against Cuba and condemned US imperialism across Latin America.
Read Fidel's speech in full. cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article...
Delivered by Fidel Castro in Revolution Square, the speech was a response to US aggression against Cuba and condemned US imperialism across Latin America.
Read Fidel's speech in full. cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article...
The First Declaration of Havana
In response to the US administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalise Latin American society. The first was delivered to hundreds of thousa...
cuba-solidarity.org.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the First Declaration of Havana.
Delivered by Fidel Castro in Revolution Square, the speech was a response to US aggression against Cuba and condemned US imperialism across Latin America.
Read Fidel's speech in full. cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article...
Delivered by Fidel Castro in Revolution Square, the speech was a response to US aggression against Cuba and condemned US imperialism across Latin America.
Read Fidel's speech in full. cuba-solidarity.org.uk/news/article...
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'The court statement said a request to suspend World Boxing’s decision to bar Khelif until the case is heard was dismissed on Monday.'
Good.
Why does Khelif want exemption from World Boxing sex screen?
Only one reason.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Good.
Why does Khelif want exemption from World Boxing sex screen?
Only one reason.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Imane Khelif appeals to Cas over World Boxing’s genetic sex test decision
Imane Khelif has appealed to the court of arbitration for sport over World Boxing’s policy for competitors to take a preliminary genetic sex test
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
'The court statement said a request to suspend World Boxing’s decision to bar Khelif until the case is heard was dismissed on Monday.'
Good.
Why does Khelif want exemption from World Boxing sex screen?
Only one reason.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Good.
Why does Khelif want exemption from World Boxing sex screen?
Only one reason.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
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"Retired women in the UK in effect go four months of the year without a pension when their income is compared with that of men, union leaders have warned." theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
@tuc.org.uk#unionsforwomene#pensionsforwomenen#pensionsns
@tuc.org.uk#unionsforwomene#pensionsforwomenen#pensionsns
https://theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
August 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"Retired women in the UK in effect go four months of the year without a pension when their income is compared with that of men, union leaders have warned." theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…
@tuc.org.uk#unionsforwomene#pensionsforwomenen#pensionsns
@tuc.org.uk#unionsforwomene#pensionsforwomenen#pensionsns
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'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt
August 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt
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Breaking: An Israeli strike on a tent in Shati Camp, Gaza City, killed 5 people — three children (ages 9, 7, and 4) and their parents.
August 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Breaking: An Israeli strike on a tent in Shati Camp, Gaza City, killed 5 people — three children (ages 9, 7, and 4) and their parents.
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Turkish artist Selma Gurbuz, Sun Lonely Bride, 2013 #WomensArt
August 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Turkish artist Selma Gurbuz, Sun Lonely Bride, 2013 #WomensArt
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Last night, we finished the MOTHER of all spreadsheets to be uploaded to the #FiLiA2025 platform!
📇📝🗓 105 sessions
🙋♀️👩💻🎭 249 speakers / performers/ facilitators
🌏🌎🌍 58 countries
📣🤬💔 anti-Femicide rally
💃🥳🥂 party
Monumental volunteer effort 💜💚
#Feminism pure and simple ♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️
🎟 filia.org.uk/tickets
📇📝🗓 105 sessions
🙋♀️👩💻🎭 249 speakers / performers/ facilitators
🌏🌎🌍 58 countries
📣🤬💔 anti-Femicide rally
💃🥳🥂 party
Monumental volunteer effort 💜💚
#Feminism pure and simple ♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️
🎟 filia.org.uk/tickets
FiLiA Women’s Rights Conference — FiLiA
Book your tickets today to participate in the larges annual feminist conference in Europe. Learn about global feminism and be inspired by the women who are taking down the patriarchy and challenging t...
www.filia.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Last night, we finished the MOTHER of all spreadsheets to be uploaded to the #FiLiA2025 platform!
📇📝🗓 105 sessions
🙋♀️👩💻🎭 249 speakers / performers/ facilitators
🌏🌎🌍 58 countries
📣🤬💔 anti-Femicide rally
💃🥳🥂 party
Monumental volunteer effort 💜💚
#Feminism pure and simple ♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️
🎟 filia.org.uk/tickets
📇📝🗓 105 sessions
🙋♀️👩💻🎭 249 speakers / performers/ facilitators
🌏🌎🌍 58 countries
📣🤬💔 anti-Femicide rally
💃🥳🥂 party
Monumental volunteer effort 💜💚
#Feminism pure and simple ♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️
🎟 filia.org.uk/tickets
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I suspect most who withdrew engage with the trans issue in equal depth to Okundaye: the word terf is mentioned, and allusion is made to the handmaid’s tale, then a gut reaction and withdrawal. I wonder what it will take to actually listen to the GCs rather than virtue signaling to identity labels.
August 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I suspect most who withdrew engage with the trans issue in equal depth to Okundaye: the word terf is mentioned, and allusion is made to the handmaid’s tale, then a gut reaction and withdrawal. I wonder what it will take to actually listen to the GCs rather than virtue signaling to identity labels.
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Spot on. Well said.
August 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Spot on. Well said.
Another juvenile misogynist stamps his feet. The bubble that is the literary world is both captured by and terrified of regressive gender ideology and regularly attempts to burn witches who stand up for women's rights - and those who support them like @johnboynewriter.bsky.social.
I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye
The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Another juvenile misogynist stamps his feet. The bubble that is the literary world is both captured by and terrified of regressive gender ideology and regularly attempts to burn witches who stand up for women's rights - and those who support them like @johnboynewriter.bsky.social.
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Such an essential point:
"Instead of challenging the misogyny aimed at autistic girls, gender clinics reframe their distress as a problem of identity, not oppression. This misinterpretation erases the sexism they face, and redirects support away from addressing their real needs."
"Instead of challenging the misogyny aimed at autistic girls, gender clinics reframe their distress as a problem of identity, not oppression. This misinterpretation erases the sexism they face, and redirects support away from addressing their real needs."
August 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Such an essential point:
"Instead of challenging the misogyny aimed at autistic girls, gender clinics reframe their distress as a problem of identity, not oppression. This misinterpretation erases the sexism they face, and redirects support away from addressing their real needs."
"Instead of challenging the misogyny aimed at autistic girls, gender clinics reframe their distress as a problem of identity, not oppression. This misinterpretation erases the sexism they face, and redirects support away from addressing their real needs."
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'Paperwork submitted in evidence for the tribunal case shows that Upton altered phone notes following the altercation, it emerged on Friday. Peggie’s legal team had earlier accused Upton of fabricating the patient safety allegations in an act of revenge.'
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Trans doctor altered notes after changing room row, tribunal told
An IT expert at the Sandie Peggie tribunal against NHS Fife says Dr Beth Upton was ‘trying to mislead’ the hearing over claims of patient safety fears
www.thetimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
'Paperwork submitted in evidence for the tribunal case shows that Upton altered phone notes following the altercation, it emerged on Friday. Peggie’s legal team had earlier accused Upton of fabricating the patient safety allegations in an act of revenge.'
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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The most important story in the world right now.
July 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The most important story in the world right now.
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Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015), US photographer known for her documentary photography and portraiture #WomensArt
July 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015), US photographer known for her documentary photography and portraiture #WomensArt
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Wages always chase prices.... Even in the 70s it was blamed on unions, but unions were responding to the profit inflation of the 70s and wages needing to catch up. They just hated the fact that the competition for talent was high.
July 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Wages always chase prices.... Even in the 70s it was blamed on unions, but unions were responding to the profit inflation of the 70s and wages needing to catch up. They just hated the fact that the competition for talent was high.
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Michael Foran
"Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work."
thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-ab...
"Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work."
thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-ab...
The truth about work, single-sex spaces and the law | Michael Foran | The Critic Magazine
Last week an Employment Tribunal heard evidence in the case of Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Elizabeth Upton, who is male but identifies as a woman. Sandie Peggie, a nurse of thirty years’ experience…
thecritic.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Michael Foran
"Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work."
thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-ab...
"Sandie Peggie has requested nothing more than what she is entitled to under law: a single sex changing facility at work."
thecritic.co.uk/the-truth-ab...
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“An incident at the end left me very shaken. One woman said that views like mine were racist; that I was a terf; that exclusionary people like me shouldn’t be given a platform and that my words were a danger to vulnerable people."
Shocking article.
archive.ph/2025.07.22-0...
Shocking article.
archive.ph/2025.07.22-0...
archive.ph
July 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
“An incident at the end left me very shaken. One woman said that views like mine were racist; that I was a terf; that exclusionary people like me shouldn’t be given a platform and that my words were a danger to vulnerable people."
Shocking article.
archive.ph/2025.07.22-0...
Shocking article.
archive.ph/2025.07.22-0...
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#Syria: UN experts gravely concerned over alarming reports of targeted abductions, disappearances & gender-based violence against women and girls, particularly from the Alawite community in the different regions of Syria since February 2025.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
July 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#Syria: UN experts gravely concerned over alarming reports of targeted abductions, disappearances & gender-based violence against women and girls, particularly from the Alawite community in the different regions of Syria since February 2025.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Membership of @rcn.org.uk is c90% female. Women make up 58% of trade union membership generally. We are the majority yet too often unions fail us. If you want to make unions work for women join @filiacharity.bsky.social TU Women's Network www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... /2
FiLiA Trade Union Women’s Network: Putting Women at the Heart of the Labour Movement — FiLiA
On the anniversary of the Matchwomen's Strike of 1888, we are launching our FiLiA webpage along with an updated sign-up form. This blog explains what we have been doing since our launch in April and w...
www.filia.org.uk
July 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Membership of @rcn.org.uk is c90% female. Women make up 58% of trade union membership generally. We are the majority yet too often unions fail us. If you want to make unions work for women join @filiacharity.bsky.social TU Women's Network www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... /2
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"[The RCN] have repeatedly failed to exercise their industrial muscle to advocate for female members distressed because they are being deprived of genuine single-sex spaces to dress and undress at work." /1
#UnionsForWomen
#sandiepeggietribunal
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2532591...
#UnionsForWomen
#sandiepeggietribunal
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2532591...
www.heraldscotland.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"[The RCN] have repeatedly failed to exercise their industrial muscle to advocate for female members distressed because they are being deprived of genuine single-sex spaces to dress and undress at work." /1
#UnionsForWomen
#sandiepeggietribunal
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2532591...
#UnionsForWomen
#sandiepeggietribunal
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2532591...
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One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today
Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live
Immigration, deprivation and time spent online having ‘profound impact on society’, Rayner says – UK politics live
Deputy PM urges government to acknowledge people ‘real concerns’ and flagged deprivation where worst riots erupted last summer
An attempt by three former MPs to force the UK government to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote and other recent elections has failed at the European court of human rights.
The Strasbourg court ruled on Tuesday that countries had a “wide margin” in determining how to tackle attempts at electoral interference, and ruled against a case brought by Ben Bradshaw, Caroline Lucas and Alyn Smith. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today
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'The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its eligibility rules on Monday to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports'.
At last.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
At last.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
U.S. Olympic Officials Bar Transgender Women From Women’s Competitions
www.nytimes.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
'The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its eligibility rules on Monday to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports'.
At last.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
At last.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
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"The UK govt's continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports." Prof Nick Maynard @medicalaidpal.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"The UK govt's continued complicity in Israel’s atrocities is unconscionable, and I do not want to spend another day operating on children who have been shot and starved by a military our government supports." Prof Nick Maynard @medicalaidpal.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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