M Martínez Lucio
@mmartinezlucio.bsky.social
‘Bent in emptiness over emptiness but flying’(Hughes); cooperatives & radical democracy; labour relations academic; born Paddington to exiles, live Leeds, work Manchester.
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This may be of interest. Some of us have delved into the need for trade unions to engage with cooperatives more systematically. More dialogue is needed.
‘Co-operatives and
Trade Unions
Generating alliances for better
and more meaningful work’
pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
‘Co-operatives and
Trade Unions
Generating alliances for better
and more meaningful work’
pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...
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🌊 Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🌊 Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The number of people providing full-time unpaid care has increased massively, as the social care system approaches breaking point.
Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%
www.bigissue.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The number of people providing full-time unpaid care has increased massively, as the social care system approaches breaking point.
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
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In case you missed it - here's this weeks episode of @boldpolitics.bsky.social with Gary Stevenson.
100k views and growing!
youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...
100k views and growing!
youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...
How Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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October 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
In case you missed it - here's this weeks episode of @boldpolitics.bsky.social with Gary Stevenson.
100k views and growing!
youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...
100k views and growing!
youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...
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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
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Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has ‘betrayed’ hacking victims.
He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.
He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has ‘betrayed’ hacking victims.
He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.
He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.
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BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews
Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.
September 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.
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Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.
Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.
Let me get this right. Gaza is to be a new Las Vegas and the Palestinian West Bank is to continue being fragmented into micro portions. In this dreadful context and late stage the heroic British ‘Empire’ recognises the Palestinian state. Well you have to keep up traditions in empires, heaven forbid
September 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Let me get this right. Gaza is to be a new Las Vegas and the Palestinian West Bank is to continue being fragmented into micro portions. In this dreadful context and late stage the heroic British ‘Empire’ recognises the Palestinian state. Well you have to keep up traditions in empires, heaven forbid
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Kudos, indeed, to Spain and PM Sanchez for breaking the taboo in Europe.
At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine.
(Source: @theguardian.com )
At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine.
(Source: @theguardian.com )
September 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kudos, indeed, to Spain and PM Sanchez for breaking the taboo in Europe.
At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine.
(Source: @theguardian.com )
At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine.
(Source: @theguardian.com )
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Britain needs affordable housing in the right places not a free hand for developers to build what they like, where they like, regardless of environmental consequences. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through
Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent approvals for housebuilding
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Britain needs affordable housing in the right places not a free hand for developers to build what they like, where they like, regardless of environmental consequences. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The result of #ChurchillsSpaniards is both a military and human history: one that illuminates the personal sacrifices of men who fought for a country not their own, in pursuit of a cause larger than national boundaries. Paperback 👇🏽
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
September 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The result of #ChurchillsSpaniards is both a military and human history: one that illuminates the personal sacrifices of men who fought for a country not their own, in pursuit of a cause larger than national boundaries. Paperback 👇🏽
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...
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The sight of opposition politicians being arrested has become quite common in the US.
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The sight of opposition politicians being arrested has become quite common in the US.
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UK: No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks www.fbu.org.uk/magazine/aug...
No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks
The FBU’s LGBT+ section stands in full solidarity with our trans and non-binary siblings, writes interim LGBT+ national sectional secretary Maria Buck
www.fbu.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
UK: No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks www.fbu.org.uk/magazine/aug...
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Good grief...
Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…
September 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Good grief...
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Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study
Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010
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‘Birmingham is up the road but there are no buses’
The public has paid almost £200bn to the shareholders who own key British industries since they were privatised, research reveals.
The transfer of tens of billions of pounds to the owners of the privatised water, rail, bus, energy and mail services comes as families face soaring bills, polluted rivers and seas, and expensive and unreliable trains and buses. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇
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Shouldn't need saying - but sadly it does
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Shouldn't need saying - but sadly it does
There has always been ambivalence with the English 🏴 flag. Its status is not clear or important as England is invisible in the British state. There are moments (football events) where it plays some ‘unifying role’ but its use by the far right ironically undermines it & debates on English politics.
September 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
There has always been ambivalence with the English 🏴 flag. Its status is not clear or important as England is invisible in the British state. There are moments (football events) where it plays some ‘unifying role’ but its use by the far right ironically undermines it & debates on English politics.
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Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"
Well said
Well said
September 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"
Well said
Well said
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Whether it's Brexit red lines, immigration, or EDI (this isn’t the US ffs) Blue Labour really are on a mission to alienate most of their electorate, and to thrash the UK economy in the process.
Why is Starmer listening to these fools?
Why is Starmer listening to these fools?
A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write:
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Whether it's Brexit red lines, immigration, or EDI (this isn’t the US ffs) Blue Labour really are on a mission to alienate most of their electorate, and to thrash the UK economy in the process.
Why is Starmer listening to these fools?
Why is Starmer listening to these fools?
The contribution of overseas students to the economy as students & when allowed to work has been substantial.
The manner in which they are shortchanged by the UK that has benefitted from migrant labour & labour in its former colonies is unreal. Labour especially really should be ashamed of itself.
The manner in which they are shortchanged by the UK that has benefitted from migrant labour & labour in its former colonies is unreal. Labour especially really should be ashamed of itself.
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
September 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The contribution of overseas students to the economy as students & when allowed to work has been substantial.
The manner in which they are shortchanged by the UK that has benefitted from migrant labour & labour in its former colonies is unreal. Labour especially really should be ashamed of itself.
The manner in which they are shortchanged by the UK that has benefitted from migrant labour & labour in its former colonies is unreal. Labour especially really should be ashamed of itself.
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New jobs here! I'm on the Advisory Board of this Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating 'The long-term impact of New Labour’s social and economic policies', and there are two Research Fellowship posts available: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Fellow (Multiple positions, fixed term)
We are now recruiting 2 full time Research Fellows to work with Stephen Farrall and colleagues at Warwick (Emily Gray) and Queen Mary College, University of London (Maria Grasso) on their research int...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
New jobs here! I'm on the Advisory Board of this Leverhulme Trust-funded project investigating 'The long-term impact of New Labour’s social and economic policies', and there are two Research Fellowship posts available: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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This is what you're supposed to do.
September 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is what you're supposed to do.
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Voices from the European Parliament:
"...this agreement is not an opening; it is a surrender. It sells off our agriculture, weakens our environmental standards, and locks us into massive dependence on the United States."....
"...this agreement is not an opening; it is a surrender. It sells off our agriculture, weakens our environmental standards, and locks us into massive dependence on the United States."....
‘You surrendered’ on EU-US trade deal, Belgian MEP tells Commission
‘You surrendered’ on EU-US trade deal, Belgian MEP tells Commission
Belgian MEP Yvan Verougstraete tells Euractiv the EU-US trade agreement is not a negotiation but 'a surrender' - he says signing it would be one of the greatest acts of submission of this century
dlvr.it
September 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Voices from the European Parliament:
"...this agreement is not an opening; it is a surrender. It sells off our agriculture, weakens our environmental standards, and locks us into massive dependence on the United States."....
"...this agreement is not an opening; it is a surrender. It sells off our agriculture, weakens our environmental standards, and locks us into massive dependence on the United States."....