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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 3h

⚠️ Bill Mullen: US’s New McCarthyism is an ‘aspirational fascist regime’

Historian Bill Mullen is the author of We Charge Genocide!: American Fascism and the Rule of Law. He spoke to Judy Cox about the New McCarthyism.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 4h

‼️ Labour’s welfare cuts stop disabled people working

✍🏻 Tens of thousands of disabled people are being excluded from working due to welfare cuts. Shani Dhanda, co-founder of the Access to Work Collective, spoke to Socialist Worker about the scandal.

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Disabled People Against Cuts protest in May (Photo: Guy Smallman)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 5h

🎓 Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
🚩 Do we live in a patriarchy?

“Smash the patriarchy” is a rallying cry for women who are sick of inequality, of juggling childcare and low-paid work, of violence and humiliation. What attitude should Marxists take to theories of patriarchy?
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Vintage painting of 19th century woman alone in a kitchen engaged in a domestic chore (Pic: Public domain)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 6h

👑 Royals want to hide that they protected paedophile Prince Andrew

☣️ Prince Andrew is the shit that the Royal Family just cannot scrape from their shoes, however hard they wipe their well-shod feet.

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Prince Andrew (Pic: Titanic Belfast/Flickr creative commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 7h

🎟️ Reviews & Culture

🎬 One Battle After Another
🚩A cry of rage against rising authoritarian state violence saturated with virulent racism.

🎨 Kerry James Marshall — The Histories
✊🏿 Reinvigorating history painting to “establish a phenomenal presence... unequivocally black”.

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Leonardo DiCaprio with a rifle, member of a US radical group, the French 75, in Paul Anderson's film "One Battle After Another"

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 8h

🗞️ New president in Madagascar after huge protests
🔥 After the 'Gen Z Mada' protests toppled the Madagascan government, the military backed the protests and has installed a new leader. However, experience shows that the military can’t be trusted as a force for liberation.

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Protestors throng the streets in Madagscar (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 9h

History will judge us. The stakes are too high to let Your Party fail, says Stand Up To Racism's anti-fascist officer, reports The Canary.

"We don’t need a Labour Party mark 2. We need an insurgent party. We need a party that shakes up politics."

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Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn sitting side by side at an Assembly meeting (Photo: The Canary)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 10h

🤔 Alex Callinicos
🚩 Artificial intelligence boom or bust?

Alex Callinicos asks whether the AI bubble is set to burst and what this will do in an already increasingly polarised international system.

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Data centre with racks of servers (Pic: public domain/Flickr)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 11h

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👉 Leeds - bit.ly/LeedsMarx
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👉 Cardiff - bit.ly/WelshMarx
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Sheffield: Marxism in a Day

A day of Marxist ideas and theory hosted by the Socialist Workers Party

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 11h

Speakers include:
• *Alex Callinicos* author of _The New Age of Catasthrope_
• *Joseph Choonara* author of _A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital_
• *Anne Alexander* author of _Revolution is the Choice of the People_
• Book launch of *_A People's History of the Anti-Nazi League_*
• more TBA!

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Sheffield: Marxism in a Day

A day of Marxist ideas and theory hosted by the Socialist Workers Party

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 11h

💥 *Marxism in a Day kicks off this week in SIX cities* 💥
A day of Marxist debate and theory hosted by the SWP

Coming to... *Sheffield 25/10* • *_Manchester 01/11_* • *Leeds 15/11* • *_London 22/11_* • *Cardiff 29/11* • *_Bristol 06/12_*

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 12h

💥 *TOMORROW* 💥
📖 Book launch & public meeting
✍🏻 with author Philip Marfleet
🇵🇸 PALESTINE, IMPERIALISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
🗓️ Wednesday 22 October, 7.00pm
📍 Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
✊🏽 Hosted by the Socialist Workers Party. All welcome!

For over 100 years Palestinians have resisted colonial occupation, displacement, and dispossession. Yet much of their long history of resistance has remained hidden.

Palestine, Imperialism, and the Struggle for Freedom follows their struggles against Britain, the Zionist settler movement, and the state of Israel and its powerful allies.

It looks in detail at the Great Uprising that resisted Britain's Mandate regime, the intifadas that have challenged Israeli rule, and continuing efforts to resist colonisation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Throughout this account, the book considers the achievements of the Palestinian national movement - and its crises and setbacks.

The book also examines radicalising impacts of Palestinian resistance across the Middle East. It sees struggle against imperialism as the basis for social justice across the region and argues that revolutionary change in the Arab states will play a decisive role in the liberation of Palestine.

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 13h

‼️ Israel renews horror after ceasefire
⚠️ Peace deal?! There is no peace in Gaza. In just ten days after the ceasefire was announced, Israel had slaughtered nearly 100 Palestinians.

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Aerial view of destruction of Gaza strip (Photo: WikipediaCommons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 13h

🔥 Activists get stuck into Your Party assemblies
🚩 Activists are fighting to make Your Party into a radical, insurgent force that can shake up British politics.

📣 Plus: reports from Your Party supporter meetings in Hackney, Manchester and Hastings.

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Your Party regional assembly in Norwich (Picture: Your Party)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

📣🇵🇸 ‘You can do something wherever you are’: British trade unionists on what you can do for Palestine.

🪧 “It is the same system that unleashes genocide in Gaza that causes austerity here”.

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Workers at Camden council in north London on the workplace day of action in November 2024, with banners of Camden Unison and tssa unions, Palestine flags, and signs held up reading "Ceasefire now" and "Stop British arms sales to Israel".

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️ Workers pay price of heat waves, Labour fiddles as planet burns

🥵 Tenants and workers spoke to Socialist Worker about how they are paying the price for climate change – it’s workers, pensioners and the poor who are going to suffer most.

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Health workers protested at JP Morgan’s headquarters for funding fossil fuels linking it to the heat crisis (Picture: Extinction Rebellion)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

👊🏽🇵🇸 Blow to British state as it loses bid to block challenge to Palestine Action ban

📣 Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori said it was "a landmark victory" against one of the most extreme attacks on civil liberties in recent British history.

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A large number of people in Parliament Square protesting the proscription of peaceful direct action campaign Palestine Action, sitting waiting to be arrested, with large signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." (Photo: Defend ourJuries on X)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

Get your tickets:
👉 Sheffield - bit.ly/SheffMarx
👉 Manchester - bit.ly/MancMarx
👉 Leeds - bit.ly/LeedsMarx
👉 London - bit.ly/LDNMarx
👉 Cardiff - bit.ly/WelshMarx
👉 Bristol - bit.ly/BrisMarx

Sheffield: Marxism in a Day

A day of Marxist ideas and theory hosted by the Socialist Workers Party

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

Speakers include:
• *Alex Callinicos* author of _The New Age of Catasthrope_
• *Joseph Choonara* author of _A Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital_
• *Anne Alexander* author of _Revolution is the Choice of the People_
• Book launch of *_A People's History of the Anti-Nazi League_*
• more TBA!

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Sheffield: Marxism in a Day

A day of Marxist ideas and theory hosted by the Socialist Workers Party

bit.ly

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

💥 *Marxism in a Day kicks off this week in SIX cities* 💥
A day of Marxist debate and theory hosted by the SWP

Coming to... *Sheffield 25/10* • *_Manchester 01/11_* • *Leeds 15/11* • *_London 22/11_* • *Cardiff 29/11* • *_Bristol 06/12_*

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️🇮🇱 ‘Don’t let Israeli fans into Birmingham’: eyewitness to Amsterdam violence

Ewout, socialist based in Amsterdam, told Socialist Worker that it was the Israeli fans who tried to intimidate the city’s Arab community. The locals fought back and won against the racist thugs.

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Violence in Amsterdam: Israeli football fans attacked Arabs and Palestine supporters in Amsterdam last November and locals bravely fought back

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

📖 Book launch & public meeting
💥 with author Philip Marfleet
🇵🇸 PALESTINE, IMPERIALISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
🗓️ Wednesday 22 October, 7.00pm
📍 Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
✊🏽 Hosted by the Socialist Workers Party. All welcome!

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

🎓 Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
🚩 Do we live in a patriarchy?

“Smash the patriarchy” is a rallying cry for women who are sick of inequality, of juggling childcare and low-paid work, of violence and humiliation. What attitude should Marxists take to theories of patriarchy?
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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

🌍 Fight to stop Labour government proposal to drill for planet-wrecking fossil fuels in North Sea

☣️ Using oil products from the site would release 250 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over 25 years – an act of climate vandalism.

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Oil platform in the North Sea (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

🇵🇸 Palestine: Two years of genocide
✊🏽 All our articles on the two-year anniversary of 7 October

🔬 Analysis and interviews with Palestinians and people in the solidarity movement around the two year anniversary of 7 October.

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Palestine protesters outside parliament with placard reading "Stop arming Israel" featured (Picture: Guy Smallman)

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