Steve Tooze
@rebelhack.bsky.social
Recovering former Murdoch tabloid hack working off the bad karma by campaigning for an oligarch-free media. I'm pouring energy into mass movement mobilisation to tackle the climate crisis - before it tackles all of us
We've reached a stage of late capitalist breakdown when the authoritarians in charge don't give a s**t about digital outrage.
But I'm posting this one because it's important to let everyone see that everyone else hates the Labour, Tory and Reform fascists too.
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But I'm posting this one because it's important to let everyone see that everyone else hates the Labour, Tory and Reform fascists too.
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Dear Home Secretary
The enemy does not arrive in small boats. Join the open letter calling for compassion – help stop Shabana Mahmood’s cruel asylum reforms!
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November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
We've reached a stage of late capitalist breakdown when the authoritarians in charge don't give a s**t about digital outrage.
But I'm posting this one because it's important to let everyone see that everyone else hates the Labour, Tory and Reform fascists too.
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
But I'm posting this one because it's important to let everyone see that everyone else hates the Labour, Tory and Reform fascists too.
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.
September 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
For some inexplicable reason, this brilliant 1938 anti-Appeasement cartoon by the great David Low came to mind when I looked at the list of the Mega-Powerful / Hyper-Rich at yesterday’s Windsor Castle nosh up for our superhuman masters.
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The Conservatives started this experiment.
But Labour are fully on board too.
No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But Labour are fully on board too.
No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader
Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:56 AM
The Conservatives started this experiment.
But Labour are fully on board too.
No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But Labour are fully on board too.
No 10 refuse to comment or take action - but we're all paying the price for corporate greed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social It's time to get your act together. Whatever the f**k is happening at Your Party, 800k supporters are depending on you to stop the ego-waggling and give them hope. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is looking like the way forward for lefties like me.
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
@zarahsultana.bsky.social @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social It's time to get your act together. Whatever the f**k is happening at Your Party, 800k supporters are depending on you to stop the ego-waggling and give them hope. @zackpolanski.bsky.social is looking like the way forward for lefties like me.
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I’m not sure how good the analysis is when The Times puts all responsibility at Starmer’s door but stays silent on the complicity of right wing media (itself included) in promoting Farage and destabilising our democracy, by refusing to hold the ever more extreme and dangerous right wing to account.
September 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I’m not sure how good the analysis is when The Times puts all responsibility at Starmer’s door but stays silent on the complicity of right wing media (itself included) in promoting Farage and destabilising our democracy, by refusing to hold the ever more extreme and dangerous right wing to account.
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"This is not dialogue. This is licking his boots."
September 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"This is not dialogue. This is licking his boots."
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"There's people who will cook food in their own homes and take it out and feed people who are less fortunate... That's patriotism. That's love for your community. And that's standing up for British values."
Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this weekend.
Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this weekend.
September 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"There's people who will cook food in their own homes and take it out and feed people who are less fortunate... That's patriotism. That's love for your community. And that's standing up for British values."
Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this weekend.
Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social on BBC Politics North this weekend.
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It's both ambitious and not ambitious enough - but in the era of Trump rollbacks and fossil fuelled populism, it's something to see a centre-left government *that won largely on climate issues* actually trying to deliver. Or at least not ceding every inch of political territory to Scorched Earthers.
Today, we’re announcing Australia’s next step in acting on climate change.
September 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It's both ambitious and not ambitious enough - but in the era of Trump rollbacks and fossil fuelled populism, it's something to see a centre-left government *that won largely on climate issues* actually trying to deliver. Or at least not ceding every inch of political territory to Scorched Earthers.
Alexa, show me a gathering of the worst people in the world
September 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Alexa, show me a gathering of the worst people in the world
@zackpolanski.bsky.social shows how you deal with these smug right wing ghouls in a TV studio. Straight-forward facts and principles are garlic and holy water to them
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Are you comfortable with the worlds most powerful man on earth banning books, militarising the police, damaging women's reproductive rights"
Penny Mordaunt: "I don't know Zack, that's not the point..."
Penny Mordaunt: "I don't know Zack, that's not the point..."
September 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social shows how you deal with these smug right wing ghouls in a TV studio. Straight-forward facts and principles are garlic and holy water to them
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The Centre is now on the Far Right.
September 17, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The Centre is now on the Far Right.
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Donald Trump is carrying out Genocide in Gaza so he can build a Trump Hotel.
While also plunging the USA into a fascist dictatorship.
This is like inviting Adolf Hitler.
RT if he is not welcome in the UK.
While also plunging the USA into a fascist dictatorship.
This is like inviting Adolf Hitler.
RT if he is not welcome in the UK.
September 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Donald Trump is carrying out Genocide in Gaza so he can build a Trump Hotel.
While also plunging the USA into a fascist dictatorship.
This is like inviting Adolf Hitler.
RT if he is not welcome in the UK.
While also plunging the USA into a fascist dictatorship.
This is like inviting Adolf Hitler.
RT if he is not welcome in the UK.
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The UN has only confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide.
64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent.
Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?
64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent.
Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?
Sadiq Khan calling out Zack's use of "social media" instead of calling out the genocide in Mayor's Question Time really is the perfect analogy for why Labour are quite so astoundingly unpopular.
September 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The UN has only confirmed what we already knew: Israel is committing genocide.
64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent.
Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?
64,000+ killed, whole families wiped out. Yet UK Govt rolls out the red carpet for Israel’s president & Starmer stays silent.
Labour - this is a genocide. Are you going to continue to ignore that?
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The first three sign-holders charged plead not-guilty to ‘terror offence’.
Today’s plea hearing comes as the United Nations Commission of Enquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Take action with over 1,500 others on October 4th: wedonotcomply.org
Today’s plea hearing comes as the United Nations Commission of Enquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Take action with over 1,500 others on October 4th: wedonotcomply.org
September 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The first three sign-holders charged plead not-guilty to ‘terror offence’.
Today’s plea hearing comes as the United Nations Commission of Enquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Take action with over 1,500 others on October 4th: wedonotcomply.org
Today’s plea hearing comes as the United Nations Commission of Enquiry has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Take action with over 1,500 others on October 4th: wedonotcomply.org
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The invitation to Trump is a sign of Starmer’s weakness…weakness the nation can ill afford - just as his billionaire friends threaten British citizens with violence…
As Edward Luce notes in today’s FT...
As Edward Luce notes in today’s FT...
September 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The invitation to Trump is a sign of Starmer’s weakness…weakness the nation can ill afford - just as his billionaire friends threaten British citizens with violence…
As Edward Luce notes in today’s FT...
As Edward Luce notes in today’s FT...
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The Mail making it quite clear this week that it hasn't shifted an inch from the days when - alongside many members of the Tory establishment & thousands of 'ordinary people' with 'legitimate concerns' - it came out in full support of Oswald Moseley & his fascist Blackshirts. Owner, editor or both?
September 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Mail making it quite clear this week that it hasn't shifted an inch from the days when - alongside many members of the Tory establishment & thousands of 'ordinary people' with 'legitimate concerns' - it came out in full support of Oswald Moseley & his fascist Blackshirts. Owner, editor or both?
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A UN commission of inquiry has confirmed what was already clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable.
Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.
The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable.
Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.
September 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A UN commission of inquiry has confirmed what was already clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable.
Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.
The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable.
Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.
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Listen to the whole thing (it's short). This woman is excellent.
Get out there and protest, UK!
Get out there and protest, UK!
Zoe Gardiner, "The saddest thing I've heard about Trump's visit, is that he is going to get his golden carriage ride, but in private, because the great British public would have given him the rotten tomato treatment if he dared to show his face in public"
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Listen to the whole thing (it's short). This woman is excellent.
Get out there and protest, UK!
Get out there and protest, UK!
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This genocide belongs to Britain, too.
The government’s legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.
We will never give up until there is justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The government’s legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.
We will never give up until there is justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This genocide belongs to Britain, too.
The government’s legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.
We will never give up until there is justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The government’s legacy will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.
We will never give up until there is justice, peace and freedom for the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@zackpolanski.bsky.social gets it. We want a vision of a world that is not out-of-control capitalism. There IS an alternative but the billionaires and their pet politicians and media don't want us to know that.
September 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social gets it. We want a vision of a world that is not out-of-control capitalism. There IS an alternative but the billionaires and their pet politicians and media don't want us to know that.
Great event and real pleasure to discuss winning the Info War alongside @rashmee.bsky.social and @dorothystein.bsky.social.
Definitely an amazing audience and well done the St John's Society for pulling it all together. Still buzzing with new plans for the Media Revolution this morning!
Definitely an amazing audience and well done the St John's Society for pulling it all together. Still buzzing with new plans for the Media Revolution this morning!
Thanks to The St. John's Society for hosting a thought-provoking discussion on the Info Wars: How do we regain trust. Enjoyed the cut and thrust with @rebelhack.bsky.social, @dorothystein.bsky.social of Salamander, Lewisham, and a brilliant group of engaged local people.
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Great event and real pleasure to discuss winning the Info War alongside @rashmee.bsky.social and @dorothystein.bsky.social.
Definitely an amazing audience and well done the St John's Society for pulling it all together. Still buzzing with new plans for the Media Revolution this morning!
Definitely an amazing audience and well done the St John's Society for pulling it all together. Still buzzing with new plans for the Media Revolution this morning!
Centrist hacks @theguardian.com show why Labour is dead party walking. Mystified that centre-right genocide enabler migrant bully Starmer 'not connecting' with left voters but socialist Mamdani is.
Starmerhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/zohran-mamdani-success-what-can-labour-learn
Starmerhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/zohran-mamdani-success-what-can-labour-learn
As Starmer’s popularity tanks, what can Labour learn from Zohran Mamdani’s success in New York?
Progressives in the US and UK are asking why leftwing politicians are not connecting with ordinary people
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Centrist hacks @theguardian.com show why Labour is dead party walking. Mystified that centre-right genocide enabler migrant bully Starmer 'not connecting' with left voters but socialist Mamdani is.
Starmerhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/zohran-mamdani-success-what-can-labour-learn
Starmerhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/zohran-mamdani-success-what-can-labour-learn
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It looks like I need to update the Long Cycle of British Politics (originally drawn up in 2021 or 2022) to remove the bit about “tidying up”
September 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It looks like I need to update the Long Cycle of British Politics (originally drawn up in 2021 or 2022) to remove the bit about “tidying up”