Seema Syeda
@seemasyeda.bsky.social
Global liberation from below. Advocacy & Comms Director @JCWI. Co-author, Creeping Fascism. She/They.
Talking about class, colonialism, race & revolutions. Own views.
Talking about class, colonialism, race & revolutions. Own views.
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Seema Syeda
@seemasyeda.bsky.social
· Mar 4
Cancel Trump's state visit? Are we serious? 🤯
Our spokesperson @seemasyeda.bsky.social on Radio 5 Live.
Our spokesperson @seemasyeda.bsky.social on Radio 5 Live.
It takes time for people to get that we’re in the fascist timeline.
Fascism is rooted in colonialism. We’ve seen it in Palestine & the imperial boomerang is bringing it to Europe.
I spoke to BBC five live listeners to point out the danger, & that’s why @ukstoptrump.bsky.social is mobilising ✊🏽.
Fascism is rooted in colonialism. We’ve seen it in Palestine & the imperial boomerang is bringing it to Europe.
I spoke to BBC five live listeners to point out the danger, & that’s why @ukstoptrump.bsky.social is mobilising ✊🏽.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
So honoured to support the amazing team @jcwi-uk.bsky.social in this important work. The struggle carries on for liberation and the dismantling of colonial border regimes ✊🏽
🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5]
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’
Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:32 AM
So honoured to support the amazing team @jcwi-uk.bsky.social in this important work. The struggle carries on for liberation and the dismantling of colonial border regimes ✊🏽
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🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5]
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’
Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM
🎉Our client has won! In a landmark case, he is the first Palestinian born in Israeli-occupied Palestine to be granted asylum in Britain, despite sinister ministerial intervention. 🧵[1/5]
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Colonialism is crisis. It’s time for global movements around the world to rise up against extractive corporations driving war and militarism. #venezuela
January 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Colonialism is crisis. It’s time for global movements around the world to rise up against extractive corporations driving war and militarism. #venezuela
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The people have risen up to rid Minneapolis of ICE agent killers.
Governments and police don’t keep us safe. We keep us safe. This is how we build resistance.
Governments and police don’t keep us safe. We keep us safe. This is how we build resistance.
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 AM
The people have risen up to rid Minneapolis of ICE agent killers.
Governments and police don’t keep us safe. We keep us safe. This is how we build resistance.
Governments and police don’t keep us safe. We keep us safe. This is how we build resistance.
The stupidity of decades of UK defence policy remaining dependent on America is now unveiling itself.
You gonna fight Trump’s annexation of Greenland with defence infrastructure dependent on US supply chains?
Pfft.
You gonna fight Trump’s annexation of Greenland with defence infrastructure dependent on US supply chains?
Pfft.
January 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
The stupidity of decades of UK defence policy remaining dependent on America is now unveiling itself.
You gonna fight Trump’s annexation of Greenland with defence infrastructure dependent on US supply chains?
Pfft.
You gonna fight Trump’s annexation of Greenland with defence infrastructure dependent on US supply chains?
Pfft.
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It’s the United States that needs regime change.
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
It’s the United States that needs regime change.
Empire. Unmasked. Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, Vietnam, Algeria, Venezuela.
‘National’ sovereignty doesn’t protect anyone from the imperialist logics of capital.
‘National’ sovereignty doesn’t protect anyone from the imperialist logics of capital.
January 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Empire. Unmasked. Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Ukraine, Syria, Vietnam, Algeria, Venezuela.
‘National’ sovereignty doesn’t protect anyone from the imperialist logics of capital.
‘National’ sovereignty doesn’t protect anyone from the imperialist logics of capital.
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From Sudan to Gaza, genocide and war show the human rights framework is already woefully inadequate.
Yet this government is organising transnationally to undermine it further, using migrants as scapegoats.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Yet this government is organising transnationally to undermine it further, using migrants as scapegoats.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK leaving European convention on human rights would be a mistake, equalities chief warns
Mary-Ann Stephenson defends convention as ‘really important’ and warns against demonisation of migrants
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
From Sudan to Gaza, genocide and war show the human rights framework is already woefully inadequate.
Yet this government is organising transnationally to undermine it further, using migrants as scapegoats.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Yet this government is organising transnationally to undermine it further, using migrants as scapegoats.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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📣 THIS FRIDAY, JOIN THE FIGHTBACK
Our AGM takes place online and in London from 5-8pm on 12 December.
With an exciting array of speakers from Black Lives Matter to UNISON union, we'll strategise how we resist in 2026.
Join as a member to attend👇
jcwi.org.uk/updates/annu...
Our AGM takes place online and in London from 5-8pm on 12 December.
With an exciting array of speakers from Black Lives Matter to UNISON union, we'll strategise how we resist in 2026.
Join as a member to attend👇
jcwi.org.uk/updates/annu...
December 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
📣 THIS FRIDAY, JOIN THE FIGHTBACK
Our AGM takes place online and in London from 5-8pm on 12 December.
With an exciting array of speakers from Black Lives Matter to UNISON union, we'll strategise how we resist in 2026.
Join as a member to attend👇
jcwi.org.uk/updates/annu...
Our AGM takes place online and in London from 5-8pm on 12 December.
With an exciting array of speakers from Black Lives Matter to UNISON union, we'll strategise how we resist in 2026.
Join as a member to attend👇
jcwi.org.uk/updates/annu...
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Migrants must have no debt??? The whole country is based on debt. That’s what Britain sells to the world. It makes our elite wealthy. But of course, their victims just deserve ever more punishment.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Migrants must have no debt??? The whole country is based on debt. That’s what Britain sells to the world. It makes our elite wealthy. But of course, their victims just deserve ever more punishment.
I’m on Islam Channel’s ‘THE DEBATE’ at 9pm tonight - discussing Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum plans.
Tune in online or on Sky 736, Freeview 264 or Virgin 838!
Tune in online or on Sky 736, Freeview 264 or Virgin 838!
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I’m on Islam Channel’s ‘THE DEBATE’ at 9pm tonight - discussing Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum plans.
Tune in online or on Sky 736, Freeview 264 or Virgin 838!
Tune in online or on Sky 736, Freeview 264 or Virgin 838!
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The government is not even trying to hide its far-right turn. Yesterday’s asylum changes show it clearly.
We will keep resisting the scapegoating of migrants, and we will always stand by one another.
We will keep resisting the scapegoating of migrants, and we will always stand by one another.
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The government is not even trying to hide its far-right turn. Yesterday’s asylum changes show it clearly.
We will keep resisting the scapegoating of migrants, and we will always stand by one another.
We will keep resisting the scapegoating of migrants, and we will always stand by one another.
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The Home Secretary's asylum policy announcement is brutal and inhumane, as our Advocacy Director @seemasyeda.bsky.social told LBC News this morning.
Labour is implementing the slide to fascism. We call on all social movement forces to unite and resist.
youtu.be/CLncDcrn-P4
Labour is implementing the slide to fascism. We call on all social movement forces to unite and resist.
youtu.be/CLncDcrn-P4
Shabana Mahmood's Brutal New Migration Policy Must Be Opposed
YouTube video by JCWI Media
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Home Secretary's asylum policy announcement is brutal and inhumane, as our Advocacy Director @seemasyeda.bsky.social told LBC News this morning.
Labour is implementing the slide to fascism. We call on all social movement forces to unite and resist.
youtu.be/CLncDcrn-P4
Labour is implementing the slide to fascism. We call on all social movement forces to unite and resist.
youtu.be/CLncDcrn-P4
Our comment on this horrifying case is featured in @theleaduk.bsky.social.
Thanks @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social for reporting on this story.
The government must stop wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money enriching private corporations like Serco & create safe, permanent housing for everyone.
Thanks @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social for reporting on this story.
The government must stop wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money enriching private corporations like Serco & create safe, permanent housing for everyone.
Our @seemasyeda.bsky.social told The Lead:
“It is horrifying that this Palestinian family, fleeing Israel’s brutal settler colonial regime, is being treated so inhumanely, especially right after they raised concerns about poor hotel accommodation in national media.”
“It is horrifying that this Palestinian family, fleeing Israel’s brutal settler colonial regime, is being treated so inhumanely, especially right after they raised concerns about poor hotel accommodation in national media.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Our comment on this horrifying case is featured in @theleaduk.bsky.social.
Thanks @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social for reporting on this story.
The government must stop wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money enriching private corporations like Serco & create safe, permanent housing for everyone.
Thanks @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social for reporting on this story.
The government must stop wasting billions of pounds of taxpayer money enriching private corporations like Serco & create safe, permanent housing for everyone.
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Violence over street flags continues. A 68-year-old was brutally attacked and hospitalised while trying to take banners down, yet despite retrieving evidence from a house, police took no further action.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
Police drop inquiry after man assaulted removing flags
Tensions over divisive flag displays have erupted into violence in Norfolk, as police face criticism for inaction
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Violence over street flags continues. A 68-year-old was brutally attacked and hospitalised while trying to take banners down, yet despite retrieving evidence from a house, police took no further action.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
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“pain and injustice” lol yes just that
November 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“pain and injustice” lol yes just that
Pissed off GB News. Must be doing something right 🙌🏾
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Pissed off GB News. Must be doing something right 🙌🏾
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My comment? I'm proud of Green councillors who are doing everything they can to bring attention to stopping the genocide.
www.thejc.com/news/uk/hack...
www.thejc.com/news/uk/hack...
Hackney synagogue calls on Zack Polanski to suspend Green councillors who ‘rallied against Israel’ - The Jewish Chronicle
An extraordinary meeting of the council, called to discuss a motion to cut all ties with ‘Israel’s genocide’, led to an ‘inflamed’ debate
www.thejc.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
My comment? I'm proud of Green councillors who are doing everything they can to bring attention to stopping the genocide.
www.thejc.com/news/uk/hack...
www.thejc.com/news/uk/hack...
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The EU’s 2014 ‘Khartoum Process’ of border externalisation channeled €4.5 billion to African states, some of which ended up in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces, now inflicting famine & gen*cide in #Sudan. Find out more and support solidarity groups👇
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The EU’s 2014 ‘Khartoum Process’ of border externalisation channeled €4.5 billion to African states, some of which ended up in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces, now inflicting famine & gen*cide in #Sudan. Find out more and support solidarity groups👇
‘They didn’t leave Labour - Labour left them!’
Zack Polanski’s comms is just so good.
Zack Polanski’s comms is just so good.
Great to hold a press conference in Swindon this morning to welcome the new Green Party councillor group.
Swindon now has 3 Green Party councillors. They didn't leave Labour - Labour left them!
www.youtube.com/live/UvrRzp6...
Swindon now has 3 Green Party councillors. They didn't leave Labour - Labour left them!
www.youtube.com/live/UvrRzp6...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski holds news conference
YouTube video by Sky News
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
‘They didn’t leave Labour - Labour left them!’
Zack Polanski’s comms is just so good.
Zack Polanski’s comms is just so good.
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Y’all, a friend of mine helped create the Free Sudan Gazette and I highly recommend checking it out
freesudangazette.com/2025/10/21/s...
freesudangazette.com/2025/10/21/s...
Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms: A Decolonized Model of Humanitarian Aid
As war rages in Sudan, where the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023, a remarkable grassroots movement…
freesudangazette.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Y’all, a friend of mine helped create the Free Sudan Gazette and I highly recommend checking it out
freesudangazette.com/2025/10/21/s...
freesudangazette.com/2025/10/21/s...
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Israel is committing war crimes daily. It’s illegal, apartheid occupation continues. But because 20 rather than 100 people a day are being murdered, the EU stops pretending that it *might* do something.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
EU criticised for pausing sanctions on Israel in response to Trump Gaza efforts
Pause on move to freeze preferential trade pact comes amid scramble to shore up fragile ceasefire
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Israel is committing war crimes daily. It’s illegal, apartheid occupation continues. But because 20 rather than 100 people a day are being murdered, the EU stops pretending that it *might* do something.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Johnny L’Anson asks whether Trump’s ceasefire deal for Gaza builds momentum for a peace deal in Ukraine. Our campaigner @seemasyeda.bsky.social thinks not. Interview from BBC 5 Live Lates on Friday 17 October.
October 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Johnny L’Anson asks whether Trump’s ceasefire deal for Gaza builds momentum for a peace deal in Ukraine. Our campaigner @seemasyeda.bsky.social thinks not. Interview from BBC 5 Live Lates on Friday 17 October.
Listening to this now and love the ‘occlusion of the future’ discussion.
I was delighted to speak to Alan Finlayson for the @lrb.co.uk's On Politics. We take on the digital right (and online left), the champions of inegalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.
October 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Listening to this now and love the ‘occlusion of the future’ discussion.