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Catherine Hughes
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Trying to save the planet & end war
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All war is ended by negotiation.
We pay our politicians to negotiate on our behalf.
We are being failed on a grand scale.
December 4, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Proportional Representation won a vote in the Commons 138-136 today.

If the UK had Proportional Representation it wouldn't have had a Conservative Government since 1930.

Instead it has had 70 years of them.

Time to get PR done.
December 3, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Streeting urged to back New Deal for Workers and block £100m NHS privatisation bid
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December 4, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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Capitalist state cannot be rewired
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December 4, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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Working-class unity and the new deal: the next steps
Communications Workers Union general secretary DAVE WARD says combatting a resurgent far right means uniting the working class behind a positive vision for change – with collective bargaining at its h...
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December 4, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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77% of universities have now pledged to divest from fossil fuels, in major win for campaigners
People & Planet announced that over three-quarters of UK universities pledged to exclude fossil fuel companies from their investments
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December 3, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Fraser Nelson failed to declare massive conflict of interest with Dispatches' Britain’s Benefits Scandal
In the face of Dispatches Fraser Nelson conflict of interest, it should have been consigned to the dustbin of dark money think tank history
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December 3, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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Jeremy Corbyn is out on tour this December. Here's where he's at.
To coincide with the release of Monstrous Anger of the Guns, Corbyn will be at two speaking events on 14 December
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December 3, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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The UN is now investigating private sector complicity in Israel's apartheid
The UN Human Rights Council is investigating how the private and third sectors have contributed to Israel’s apartheid and ethnic cleansing
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December 3, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Even Zelensky is now indicating Ukraine cannot keep fighting
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December 3, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Top aid group accuses Israel of ‘suffocating’ humanitarian support into Gaza
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December 3, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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It can be done!!
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China proves poverty can now be eliminated
Hunan province’s transformation shows how state investment can lift millions from deprivation — but Western states avoid discussion of this while ramping up military spending instead, writes FIONA EDW...
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December 3, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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👍 Agreed!

But this system, a system of private health care, is the one Wes Streeting is attempting to introduce to the U.K.
December 3, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Liz Truss is apparently too mad even for a rightwing US audience | John Crace
Former PM’s speech to the Heritage Foundation declares just about everyone alive to be part of a communist conspiracy
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December 3, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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There are no ‘humanitarian zones’ or ‘evacuation orders’ in Gaza
It is time the world starts using the correct terminology for Israel’s actions in Gaza: genocide.
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December 3, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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What corporate media is NOT telling you about the "rebel offensive" in Syria
In Syria, these 'rebels' are, in reality, an international jihadist force in cahoots with NATO's second-largest army and at one point the US
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December 3, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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EXPOSED: the scandal of big money in UK politics - corruption, dark money, and cash for access
Research from Transparency International has revealed that one in every ten pounds from political donors comes from dubious sources
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December 3, 2024 at 7:33 AM
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Corbyn-backed independent becomes main opposition to Labour-Tory axis in Enfield
Khalid Sadur's community campaign, lacking the resources of a big party, became the main opposition to the Labour-Tory domination in Enfield
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December 3, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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Tony Greenstein's blog azvsas.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-...
How antisemitism has complemented Zionism
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December 3, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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Digest 4 – Selected Additional Reading
Another roundup of interesting and informative articles which we have not chosen to foreground in individual posts for various reason,…
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December 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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There are TWO trials of Palestine Action activists this week that need YOUR support
But Palestine Action appear in the court as the accuser, not the accused, in the knowledge that Elbit's criminal enterprise will not last
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December 2, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Unison young members want welfare, not warfare
Despite the change in government, the NHS staffing emergency and council funding shortfalls continue while military spending rises, writes RUBEN BRETT
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December 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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‘We gather at the gravest of times’
At least 150,000 protesters rally in London to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to arms sales to Israel
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December 2, 2024 at 5:45 PM