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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 1d

Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, 'A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness', free to download
@pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @oubucu.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social

www.plutobooks.com/product/a-mo...

A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness - Pluto Press

A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine

www.plutobooks.com

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 6d

Trump’s “Peace plan” = ultimatum =
Genocide on steroids
news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Trump sets new deadline for Hamas to agree Gaza deal with Israel - or face 'all hell'

Hamas officials say they are still having "intensive discussions" about the 20-point plan.

news.sky.com

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 6d

"Thousands of people have won cases against their employers and not been paid what they are owed – even after asking the government to help them get it"
@tbij.bsky.social @ieruk.bsky.social @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

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Thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards - TBIJ report

mailchi.mp

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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 7d

It would just be nice if I could come into work once and find the accessible bathroom on my floor in working order? I know this is ludicrous of course but a girl can dream.

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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 10d

Arrested/not arrested:

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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 11d

❝ The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why climate justice depends on Palestinian liberation ❞

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation

The devastation in Gaza is not just genocide but also ecocide - the intentional destruction of the ecology. Israel’s assault shows how settler-colonial violence is tied to environmental harm, and why ...

mondoweiss.net

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 23d

@debcoles13.bsky.social "We must now ensure the Hillsborough Law is delivered in full & those with vested interests to oppose it are resisted" @inquest-org.bsky.social @grenfellunited.bsky.social @cbffjuk.bsky.social @hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/inquest/imav...

UNDER EMBARGO: A win for families: Government finally introduces Hillsborough Law to Parliament

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · 24d

News from @ccccjustice.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social @greencrim.bsky.social
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Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice Newsletter

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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · Sep 9

❌ Disabilities don’t start at 9:30am, so neither should disabled bus passes.

🚍 Tomorrow Parliament will debate my amendment, backed by 50+ cross-party MPs, to scrap the 9:30am restriction on disabled bus passes.

✉️ Contact your MP and ask them to support NC2 to the Bus Bill.

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Statement by criminologists within Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia on the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza, & the ongoing apartheid, land dispossession & other human rights
abuses in the Occupied Territories of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, & within Israel
ojs.aut.ac.nz/dcj/article/...

View of Statement on the war in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people

ojs.aut.ac.nz

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Netpol @netpol.org · Sep 6

Police appear to want to get disabled protesters "out of the way" first, one of a number arrested early

Wheelchair user arrested in Parliament Square

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · Sep 5

"LET'S TAKE THE STREETS BACK
Scotland-wide day of action and anti-racist rallies"
via Stand Up To Racism Scotland

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The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control @europeangroup.bsky.social · Sep 4

It was such an incredible pleasure to see you all at the Group’s conference in Malmö. A true abolitionist earthquake, a space to flourish, think, organise, conspire and act against the global punitive culture! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just reading ‘Nuclear War’ by Annie Jacobsen. The apocalypse described in granular detail …

Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

... while campaigns against all state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s genocidal regime continues ...
bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Agai...
@europeangroup.bsky.social

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well, better late than never. Now, how about UK government (and others) stop ALL - and other - exports, instead of wringing their hands about the terrible situation etc? @pscupdates.bsky.social @europeangroup.bsky.social

www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/u...

Weekly Update 3 September | $2tr decision: Norway fund divests from Caterpillar over OPT demolitions - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

www.business-humanrights.org

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

@europeangroup.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @netpol.org @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The mass peaceful demonstrations they have organised over recent weeks are protected by international human rights law – & to think they run the risk of being imprisoned for up to 14 years is a terrifying example of the UK authorities’ willingness to use authoritarian practices to silence dissent"

The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide.

We demand their immediate release.

Read our statement here 👇👇

ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The mass peaceful demonstrations they have organised over recent weeks are protected by international human rights law – & to think they run the risk of being imprisoned for up to 14 years is a terrifying example of the UK authorities’ willingness to use authoritarian practices to silence dissent"

The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · Sep 3

Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide.

We demand their immediate release.

Read our statement here 👇👇

ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...

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INQUEST @inquest-org.bsky.social · Sep 1

“The family see police legal action as a pathetic attempt to derail the Sheku Bayoh inquiry.

For over a decade Sheku has been smeared, stereotyped & criminalised in order to negate his right to life, but history will be on the side of Sheku."

- Aamer Anwar, lawyer to Sheku's family

Sheku Bayoh inquiry hit with legal action by police over judge impartiality row

The Scottish Police Federation has launched a judicial review of Lord Bracadale's chairmanship of the inquiry after he held private meetings with Mr Bayoh's family.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Francesca Soliman @frasoliman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Another excellent @europeangroup.bsky.social conference this year in Malmö: programme packed with critical and radical voices and clear commitment in support of Palestine. Grateful for the kind and attentive audience listening to my and @dinesson.bsky.social's paper on zemiology of counterterrorism

A woman standing in front of a screen showing a presentation titled "Decriminalising terror: for a zemiology of counterterrorism".

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · Aug 30

Fantastic news!

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yesterday Panteion University of Social and Political Science withdrew its patronage from the Eurocrim2025 conference in Athens
#eurocrim #criminology #crimsky

via @brunildapali.bsky.social

www.panteion.gr/wp-content/u...

https://www.panteion.gr/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ΣΥΓΚΛΗΤΟΣ_ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ_ΑΠΟΦΑΣΗ29.08.2025.pdf

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 28

The High Pay Centre’s annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows median CEO pay jumping from £4.29m to £4.58m in 2024/2025. Nice work if you can get it

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CEO pay in the FTSE 100 reaches record high for the third year in a row - High Pay Centre

The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows median CEO pay jumping from £4.29m to £4.58m in 2024/2025

highpaycentre.org

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 28

@annpettifor.bsky.social “the real powers behind any throne: technocrats that favour private markets over public markets; that prefer private spending to public spending and austerity over full employment and prosperity”

open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

Technocrats as handmaidens to authoritarianism - Pt 1

Central bank technocrats are not ‘independent’

open.substack.com

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Steve Cornforth @stevecornforth.bsky.social · Aug 26

Why is @bbcnews platforming #Farage again?

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Netpol @netpol.org · Aug 26

The state is determined to follow through on prosecuting people for showing support for the proscribed group Palestine Action. Sixty-four people were formally notified of charges today and are due to appear in court in October.

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you haven’t signed, please do. Shame on #eurocrim Great to hear from folk who are attending as to how they plan to force this issue on the organisers

Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 21

The European Society of Criminology is normalizing war crime, crimes against humanity and genocide. We demand action from the ESC: please sign the petition to end complicity and circulate widely
@europeangroup.bsky.social @critcrim.bsky.social

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Demand action from the ESC: petition to end complicity

We, criminologists and criminal justice scholars, are alarmed by several recent decisions by the European Society of Criminology Executive Board and Eurocrim local organizing and scientific committee ...

eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 25

'For a discipline concerned with the study of crime and state responses to crime, silence on the ‘crime of all crimes’, genocide, is intolerable'
#eurocrim
anzsoc.org/wp-content/u...

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Committee of Management of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) affirms its endorsement of the Statement on the war in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people.
anzsoc.org/statement-on...

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Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Committee of Management of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) affirms its endorsement of the Statement on the war in Gaza and genocide of the Palestinian people.
anzsoc.org/statement-on...

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