“For a Labour Government to announce that more families are going into poverty because of a decision they’re making - it’s utterly disgraceful.”

Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn criticises the Government’s Spring Statement cuts to welfare benefits.

#Newsnight

Capitalism is a system where the poorest have to pay for everything because the richest are too busy hoarding all the money.

It's not a flaw, it is how it is meant to be.

The violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is a reminder that genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid have not ended.

We will never stop opposing the occupation of Palestine because we believe in a simple and moral truth: every human being deserves to live in freedom.

'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!

Capital wants to keep the value of labor power as low as possible by reducing the material standard of living of the laborer to a bare minimum. Individual capitalists drive down the wages of their own employees but look to their rivals to raise wages to increase consumption capacity in the market.

This weekend, we marched once again in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

We sent a message to our government: if you knowingly supply weapons to a government whose leader is wanted for war crimes, the long arm of international law will extend to you too.

Why are we letting people own our essential services and rip us off forever, while providing terrible service as well?

There is no logical reason for it.

📸 This morning @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social welcomed Ofer Cassif to the Peace & Justice Project office in London.

Dr Cassif was suspended from the Knesset for speaking out against the genocide in Gaza. We need more brave voices like his to bring about justice for the Palestinians.

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up.

If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Four things to say about the £23bn Thames Water needs for infrastructure repair:
1. As I understand it, this covers only extreme, emergency repairs, for infrastructure that’s about to fail or has already done so.
2. It’s almost certainly an underestimate.

Another short privatisation🧵

“More and more the House of Commons tends to become a putrid mass of corruption, a quagmire of sordid madness, a conglomeration of mercenary spiritless hacks dead alike to honour and self-respect."

Keir Hardie

So let us get this straight: Increasing the minimum wage is socialism, but corporations keeping wages low by forcing workers on to public assistance is the free market?