Ben Sellers
@mrbensellers.bsky.social
“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
This is both obvious to anyone who has been paying attention & vital when looking at the renewal of the trade union movement. It’s way over time this culture was challenged. Good that Andrea Egan is being so clear about it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is both obvious to anyone who has been paying attention & vital when looking at the renewal of the trade union movement. It’s way over time this culture was challenged. Good that Andrea Egan is being so clear about it: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excellent piece by @rogermckenzie.bsky.social on the corruption destroying the ‘beautiful game’. And he’s right - we need a revolution in football.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fifa...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fifa...
December 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Excellent piece by @rogermckenzie.bsky.social on the corruption destroying the ‘beautiful game’. And he’s right - we need a revolution in football.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fifa...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fifa...
Please watch & share this powerful & moving documentary about UK Spy Planes operating out of Cyprus by @declassifieduk.org. It is damning of @Keir_Starmer, his government & the MoD & their direct role in aiding the genocide in #Gaza. youtu.be/0fk3t28TiAc?...
Will this documentary put Keir Starmer behind bars?
YouTube video by Declassified UK
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December 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Please watch & share this powerful & moving documentary about UK Spy Planes operating out of Cyprus by @declassifieduk.org. It is damning of @Keir_Starmer, his government & the MoD & their direct role in aiding the genocide in #Gaza. youtu.be/0fk3t28TiAc?...
Watering down the Employment Rights Bill is a massive own goal in the fight against Reform. Me on The World Turned Upside Down blog: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/w...
What has the Employment Rights Bill got to do with Reform & the rise of the far right?
Something that I don’t think a lot of people get – and it’s why the row over the Employment Rights Bill matters: There’s a lot of head-scratching about the support for Reform in working class…
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December 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Watering down the Employment Rights Bill is a massive own goal in the fight against Reform. Me on The World Turned Upside Down blog: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/w...
Quite seriously, it requires some honesty about where we are with the Employment Rights Bill & how we got here. Long before the Lords got their hands on it, much that was transformative had been stripped out. I wrote this earlier in the year: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t...
Transformative no longer: the Employment Rights Act 2025
I see a lot of people celebrating the passing of the Employment Rights Act yesterday. I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble, but there are some things that need to be known – and you won’t ge…
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December 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Quite seriously, it requires some honesty about where we are with the Employment Rights Bill & how we got here. Long before the Lords got their hands on it, much that was transformative had been stripped out. I wrote this earlier in the year: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t...
I’m not sure the concession worked guys. What can we concede next?
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’m not sure the concession worked guys. What can we concede next?
🧵 One more thing on the Employment Rights Bill: this is (was) a potentially life-changing piece of legislation for many workers. There was a lot of work left to do to get it to that point, but that was the potential. (1/4)
December 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
🧵 One more thing on the Employment Rights Bill: this is (was) a potentially life-changing piece of legislation for many workers. There was a lot of work left to do to get it to that point, but that was the potential. (1/4)
As a labour movement, we must care about gig workers & casualisation. Me, on the government’s many climbdowns on the Employment Rights Bill & what it means for the most precarious workers: open.substack.com/pub/mrbensel...
As a labour movement, we must care about gig workers & casualisation
There is a definite theme to the series of climbdowns on the Employment Rights Bill so far, in that they affect the most disenfranchised, low paid, casualised & precarious workers the most.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
As a labour movement, we must care about gig workers & casualisation. Me, on the government’s many climbdowns on the Employment Rights Bill & what it means for the most precarious workers: open.substack.com/pub/mrbensel...
The government's climbdown on day one rights against unfair dismissal was sold to us as a way out of the impasse on the Employment Rights Bill. Pragmatism, eh? Well guess what? The business lobby (via the Lords) isn’t giving up & is pushing for more concessions. Funny that. 🤔
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The government's climbdown on day one rights against unfair dismissal was sold to us as a way out of the impasse on the Employment Rights Bill. Pragmatism, eh? Well guess what? The business lobby (via the Lords) isn’t giving up & is pushing for more concessions. Funny that. 🤔
I’m slightly worried about some of the narrative around Zack Polanski from other parts of the left, particularly those attracted to Your Party. Read here: substack.com/@mrbenseller...
Ben Sellers (@mrbensellers)
I’m slightly worried about some of the narrative around Zack Polanski from other parts of the left, particularly those attracted to Your Party.
I see posts where he’s referred to as a ‘Zionist stoog...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I’m slightly worried about some of the narrative around Zack Polanski from other parts of the left, particularly those attracted to Your Party. Read here: substack.com/@mrbenseller...
[thread 🧵] In its journey from Labour’s 2019 Manifesto to its current iteration, the Employment Rights Bill has been watered down in many ways, including: (1/10)
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
[thread 🧵] In its journey from Labour’s 2019 Manifesto to its current iteration, the Employment Rights Bill has been watered down in many ways, including: (1/10)
I’m not going to be in Liverpool this weekend. If someone had said to be even a year ago that I wouldn’t be involved in the foundation of a new, left party, I would have laughed at them. I’m not all that important, but I think it is a tiny example of what has gone wrong with Your Party.
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I’m not going to be in Liverpool this weekend. If someone had said to be even a year ago that I wouldn’t be involved in the foundation of a new, left party, I would have laughed at them. I’m not all that important, but I think it is a tiny example of what has gone wrong with Your Party.
We should be really clear that the effect of this climbdown on day one rights throws Deliveroo riders, Uber drivers, those on casual, temporary & agency contracts under the bus. That’s the reality of what this is about. It has real world impacts.
Here we go. The Govt has u-turned on its manifesto pledge to give all workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in a job. A predictable u-turn for Starmer’s Labour, this was a crucial jigsaw piece if you want to protect the most precarious workers. (1/2)
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We should be really clear that the effect of this climbdown on day one rights throws Deliveroo riders, Uber drivers, those on casual, temporary & agency contracts under the bus. That’s the reality of what this is about. It has real world impacts.
Here we go. The Govt has u-turned on its manifesto pledge to give all workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in a job. A predictable u-turn for Starmer’s Labour, this was a crucial jigsaw piece if you want to protect the most precarious workers. (1/2)
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Here we go. The Govt has u-turned on its manifesto pledge to give all workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in a job. A predictable u-turn for Starmer’s Labour, this was a crucial jigsaw piece if you want to protect the most precarious workers. (1/2)
This is how it works:
🫵🏻 A tiny number of sexual assault cases amongst the asylum seeking community are highlighted by the far right and are recycled relentlessly to tar a whole group …
🫵🏻 A tiny number of sexual assault cases amongst the asylum seeking community are highlighted by the far right and are recycled relentlessly to tar a whole group …
November 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is how it works:
🫵🏻 A tiny number of sexual assault cases amongst the asylum seeking community are highlighted by the far right and are recycled relentlessly to tar a whole group …
🫵🏻 A tiny number of sexual assault cases amongst the asylum seeking community are highlighted by the far right and are recycled relentlessly to tar a whole group …
There are now so many nails in Labour’s coffin that the corpse inside will have problems being identified. If it could be, it would surely be a not-very-funny Reform parody. (1/7)
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There are now so many nails in Labour’s coffin that the corpse inside will have problems being identified. If it could be, it would surely be a not-very-funny Reform parody. (1/7)
Important union busting story involving @rockstargamess.bsky.social Worth watching the video that accompanies the piece on @ieruk.bsky.social website (link below).
www.ier.org.uk/news/say-sor...
www.ier.org.uk/news/say-sor...
‘Say Sorry, Be Nice!’ Staff at @rockstargames.com fired en masse- in a “calculated attack on workers” according to @iwgbunion.bsky.social. The mass firing comes just months ahead of the release of Grand Theft Auto VI, predicted to be the biggest game launch in history: www.ier.org.uk/news/say-sor...
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Important union busting story involving @rockstargamess.bsky.social Worth watching the video that accompanies the piece on @ieruk.bsky.social website (link below).
www.ier.org.uk/news/say-sor...
www.ier.org.uk/news/say-sor...
Overnight, there have been multiple Israeli attacks across Gaza – from Beit Lahiya in the north to Khan Younis in the south. Israel has now killed at least 245 Palestinians and wounded 627 in Gaza since the ‘ceasefire’ came into force on October 10.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Overnight, there have been multiple Israeli attacks across Gaza – from Beit Lahiya in the north to Khan Younis in the south. Israel has now killed at least 245 Palestinians and wounded 627 in Gaza since the ‘ceasefire’ came into force on October 10.
👉 Mamdani’s key policies:
1. Freeze rent:
Mamdani says he will immediately freeze the rent in rent-stabilised housing, which he says is home to more than two million people in New York.
1. Freeze rent:
Mamdani says he will immediately freeze the rent in rent-stabilised housing, which he says is home to more than two million people in New York.
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
👉 Mamdani’s key policies:
1. Freeze rent:
Mamdani says he will immediately freeze the rent in rent-stabilised housing, which he says is home to more than two million people in New York.
1. Freeze rent:
Mamdani says he will immediately freeze the rent in rent-stabilised housing, which he says is home to more than two million people in New York.
‘Be careful who you hate. It could be someone you love.’ - Bodo/Glimt tifo.
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
‘Be careful who you hate. It could be someone you love.’ - Bodo/Glimt tifo.
**Coming to Redhills Durham this Saturday. Really looking forward to it.**
We are the Lions, Mr Manager!
The story of Jayaben Desai and the Grunwick Strike
Written by Neil Gore & Directed by Louise Townsend.
Tickets here: redhillsdurham.org/event/we-are...
We are the Lions, Mr Manager!
The story of Jayaben Desai and the Grunwick Strike
Written by Neil Gore & Directed by Louise Townsend.
Tickets here: redhillsdurham.org/event/we-are...
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
**Coming to Redhills Durham this Saturday. Really looking forward to it.**
We are the Lions, Mr Manager!
The story of Jayaben Desai and the Grunwick Strike
Written by Neil Gore & Directed by Louise Townsend.
Tickets here: redhillsdurham.org/event/we-are...
We are the Lions, Mr Manager!
The story of Jayaben Desai and the Grunwick Strike
Written by Neil Gore & Directed by Louise Townsend.
Tickets here: redhillsdurham.org/event/we-are...
Hmm. I’m not sure that’s how a ceasefire works …
October 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hmm. I’m not sure that’s how a ceasefire works …
My latest blog on The World Turned Upside Down:
Momentous mistakes - ten Momentum failures and what we might learn from them: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
Momentous mistakes - ten Momentum failures and what we might learn from them: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
Momentous mistakes: ten Momentum failures and what we might learn from them.
Momentum was, in my eyes, one of the big, missed opportunities of the Corbyn project, yet it’s hardly discussed in the major narratives of the movement. It’s like it’s been buried. I th…
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October 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My latest blog on The World Turned Upside Down:
Momentous mistakes - ten Momentum failures and what we might learn from them: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
Momentous mistakes - ten Momentum failures and what we might learn from them: theworldturnedupsidedownne.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/m...
🧵 The point about this protest isn’t that Britain First or the two men invading the pitch were trying to prove Gary Neville wrong, but that voicing an opinion in opposition to the far right-led, ‘raise the flags’ nonsense is “treachery”. (1/4)
October 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🧵 The point about this protest isn’t that Britain First or the two men invading the pitch were trying to prove Gary Neville wrong, but that voicing an opinion in opposition to the far right-led, ‘raise the flags’ nonsense is “treachery”. (1/4)
The IDF are still acting with complete impunity, in case there was any doubt. Yesterday, they killed 11 members of the same Palestinian family in Gaza, the largest single violation of the “ceasefire” since it took effect 8 days ago. 7 children and 3 women were among those killed.
October 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The IDF are still acting with complete impunity, in case there was any doubt. Yesterday, they killed 11 members of the same Palestinian family in Gaza, the largest single violation of the “ceasefire” since it took effect 8 days ago. 7 children and 3 women were among those killed.