Reading the Times interview with Palestine Action hunger striker Kamran Ahmed I was struck by the many similarities with Bobby Sands.
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Kamran Ahmed and Bobby Sands
The Times has generally been functioning as a branch of the press office of the Israeli embassy in London since the Gaza genocide started. It amplifies every talking point, repeats every slander an…
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December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Reading the Times interview with Palestine Action hunger striker Kamran Ahmed I was struck by the many similarities with Bobby Sands.
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How Labour chose to mark May Day in 1981 during the Republican hunger strike.
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How Labour chose to mark May Day in 1981 during the Republican hunger strike.
One of the most revolting things I have ever seen at a demonstration was a group of unhinged cultists disrupting people speaking in support of the heroic Palestine Action hunger strikers.
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FRFI – provocateurs or unserious buffoons?
If memory serves, Ernest Mandel was referring to a particularly irritating bunch of Belgian Maoists when he said, “we must not be sectarian to the sectarians”. This is, generally speaking, good adv…
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December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
One of the most revolting things I have ever seen at a demonstration was a group of unhinged cultists disrupting people speaking in support of the heroic Palestine Action hunger strikers.
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There were maybe 600 or so at the demonstration in support of the hunger strikers.
If those unserious, provocateur tossers who heckled John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn had tried a similar thing in Belfast in 1981 they would have had a short meeting with six big GAA men with hurley sticks.
If those unserious, provocateur tossers who heckled John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn had tried a similar thing in Belfast in 1981 they would have had a short meeting with six big GAA men with hurley sticks.
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
There were maybe 600 or so at the demonstration in support of the hunger strikers.
If those unserious, provocateur tossers who heckled John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn had tried a similar thing in Belfast in 1981 they would have had a short meeting with six big GAA men with hurley sticks.
If those unserious, provocateur tossers who heckled John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn had tried a similar thing in Belfast in 1981 they would have had a short meeting with six big GAA men with hurley sticks.
Whatever its dramatic merits, Landman is essentially oil industry propaganda.
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Landman – Trumpian TV oil industry drama makes drug cartels look relatively benign
I have only been to the United States once, and unlike Rome or Great Yarmouth, have never had a strong desire to go back. Two recent series on Paramount have confirmed me in this view, and that was…
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December 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Whatever its dramatic merits, Landman is essentially oil industry propaganda.
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Prompted by the heroic Palestine Action hunger strikers, I’ve been dipping into David Beresford’s book on the Republican hunger strike. This is how he opens chapter one. It’s very powerful.
December 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Prompted by the heroic Palestine Action hunger strikers, I’ve been dipping into David Beresford’s book on the Republican hunger strike. This is how he opens chapter one. It’s very powerful.
It Was Just an Accident. New Iranian film from Jafar Panahi deals with torture and trauma.
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It Was Just an Accident – an Iranian story of trauma and incomplete revenge
One of the few ways it is possible for those of us outside Iran to support that majority in the country which opposes the reactionary, misogynistic, anti- working class regime is to take the opport…
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December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
It Was Just an Accident. New Iranian film from Jafar Panahi deals with torture and trauma.
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On the outrage from respectable opinion over a five minute clip in a Primal Scream show.
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Primal Scream and the manufacture of outrage
Yesterday I went along to a small demonstration outside the Old Bailey in support of members of Palestine Action who are currently in prison. The British state is giving every indication that it is…
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December 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
On the outrage from respectable opinion over a five minute clip in a Primal Scream show.
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Starmer and the Labour right have managed to shake off a quarter of a million fleas and Farage is the major beneficiary of their strategy.
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Starmer and the Labour right have managed to shake off a quarter of a million fleas and Farage is the major beneficiary of their strategy.
Tower Hamlets Green Party statement in support of the Palestine Action hunger strikers.
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Solidarity with Palestine Action Hunger Strikers - Tower Hamlets Green Party
Tower Hamlets Green Party supports Palestine Action hunger strikers
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December 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Tower Hamlets Green Party statement in support of the Palestine Action hunger strikers.
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Tower Hamlets Green Party response to the recent audit of the council.
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Tower Hamlets audit report is part of the 2026 election campaign
Green Party reaction to the Tower Hamlets Audit Report. A statement of how we would run a Green Council
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December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Tower Hamlets Green Party response to the recent audit of the council.
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He’s a patronising snob but it’s an interesting piece by Matthew Parris on the rise of the Greens.
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
He’s a patronising snob but it’s an interesting piece by Matthew Parris on the rise of the Greens.
Anyone who claims to be surprised, shocked or disappointed by the Kenova report on Glenanne and Scappaticci must be entirely ignorant of Britain’s colonial history.
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British Terrorism in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus – an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
Of course, the exhibition is not actually called “British Terrorism”. It has the much more neutral name “Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus”, which at least has…
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December 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Anyone who claims to be surprised, shocked or disappointed by the Kenova report on Glenanne and Scappaticci must be entirely ignorant of Britain’s colonial history.
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A review of an exhibition dealing with the liberation movements in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus characterised by liberal squeamishness at the Imperial War Museum.
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British Terrorism in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus – an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
Of course, the exhibition is not actually called “British Terrorism”. It has the much more neutral name “Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus”, which at least has…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A review of an exhibition dealing with the liberation movements in Kenya, Malaya and Cyprus characterised by liberal squeamishness at the Imperial War Museum.
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The Revolutionary Communist Party have a new film out for the lucrative Christmas audience. I went to see it.
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The Communists Are Coming – back at the pictures with the RCP
I am self-aware enough to appreciate that some of my interests tend towards the niche. A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Inis Mór to see a 4000 year old Neolithic fort. My preferred listening wh…
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December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Revolutionary Communist Party have a new film out for the lucrative Christmas audience. I went to see it.
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Say Nothing, a superb series about women and the IRA, is on Channel Four this week.
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Say Nothing – a gripping and rather dishonest account of women and the IRA
This is a compelling series now showing on Disney Plus (that makes no sense to me either) with superb performances which gives a convincing recreation of the period and Belfast at that time. I watc…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Say Nothing, a superb series about women and the IRA, is on Channel Four this week.
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How Jeremy Corbyn became the living embodiment of Marx's history repeating itself as tragedy and farce idea.
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Jeremy Corbyn – Oh Yes, It is!
Karl Marx was a man of considerable foresight, but when he adapted that quote from Hegel that all great world-historic facts and personages appear twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time …
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November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
How Jeremy Corbyn became the living embodiment of Marx's history repeating itself as tragedy and farce idea.
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Some thoughts comparing the Palestine Action and 1981 Irish hunger strikes
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Palestine Action and the Republican Hunger Strikers
The starting point for any commentary on the hunger strike now being conducted by six jailed members of Palestine Action (PA) has to be admiration for their physical a…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Some thoughts comparing the Palestine Action and 1981 Irish hunger strikes
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It’s striking that the campaign of lies over antisemitism that was so damaging to Corbyn hasn’t worked against the Greens.
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Antisemitism – the charge that doesn’t stick against the Greens
For a couple of years I was the commissar for political education in the local Labour Party. I saw the job as trying to show people that there was more to politics than bus routes (important as the…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s striking that the campaign of lies over antisemitism that was so damaging to Corbyn hasn’t worked against the Greens.
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Reposted by Liam McQuade
This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
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The President Is Losing Control of Himself
Donald Trump’s outbursts on social media this week were different than usual.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.
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Elon Musk has deliberately created a very powerful tool for the far right with Grokipedia. The entry on Tower Hamlets is neo-nazi propaganda.
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Elon Musk, AI, propaganda and Tower Hamlets
Most of what appears online about Tower Hamlets is malicious, ill-informed lying drivel. Elon Musk is set to make this a whole lot worse with the launch of his neo-Nazi version of an “encyclopaedia…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Elon Musk has deliberately created a very powerful tool for the far right with Grokipedia. The entry on Tower Hamlets is neo-nazi propaganda.
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Russell Crowe is superb in Nuremberg and the film has a very contemporary relevance in a world where racism is now mainstream politics.
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Nuremburg – Russell Crowe humanises Hermann Göring and makes him contemporary
Hermann Göring, as played brilliantly by Russell Crowe in this new telling of the Nuremburg trials, was devoted to his wife and children. Itamar Ben-Gvir, ICE agents in the United States, Tommy Rob…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Russell Crowe is superb in Nuremberg and the film has a very contemporary relevance in a world where racism is now mainstream politics.
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Labour’s strategy for the 2026 elections in Tower Hamlets seems to be to prevent Lutfur Rahman standing as a candidate.
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Labour’s Tower Hamlets election strategy – if you can’t beat them, disbar them
No great insight was required for me to predict that the May 2026 council elections in Tower Hamlets would be carried out under the shadow of a process begun by Michael Gove and continued by Starme…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Labour’s strategy for the 2026 elections in Tower Hamlets seems to be to prevent Lutfur Rahman standing as a candidate.
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It looks like Labour’s plan for avoiding electoral humiliation in Tower Hamlets is to stitch up Lutfur Rahman. I’m not his biggest fan but the stench of desperation is overwhelming.
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Steve Reed convenes Tower Hamlets envoys as concerns over council persist
Exclusive: Communities secretary calls meeting over two councillors seeking electoral candidacy in Bangladesh
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November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It looks like Labour’s plan for avoiding electoral humiliation in Tower Hamlets is to stitch up Lutfur Rahman. I’m not his biggest fan but the stench of desperation is overwhelming.
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