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Jo Buchanan
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Socialist. Let us fight to end corruption, greed, capitalism, war, colonialism, animal cruelty, oppression, pollution, inequality, arms sales and all the rest. Time for change - it’s never been more urgent. https://criticalmassmag.org/
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"Palestinian and Lebanese detainees being held in an underground Israeli jail face horrific mistreatment, according to lawyers..."

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#FreePalestine #Israel #IsraelNews #Lebanon #LebanonNews #News #MiddleEast #MiddleEastNews #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews
November 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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As usual, we have produced a weekly newsletter, covering three topics this week. Read our analysis of the bias in the BBC, the tragic situation in Sudan and the shocking assaults by settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank.

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Bias At The BBC - Critical Mass Magazine
The BBC is caught up in a storm about bias against Trump. But its whitewashing of Israel's genocide against Palestine is far worse.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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#SocialistSunday No5 @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @councilestatemedia.uk @communicipalist.bsky.social @daiwright.bsky.social @johnsensible.bsky.social
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A Personal Update thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/11/14/a...
A Personal Update
Organising my routine work has made it easier for me to remove a lot of old stuff and prioritise what remains. It gives me more time in the afternoon to do something else, usually sleeping. So many…
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November 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#SocialistSunday No5 @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @councilestatemedia.uk @communicipalist.bsky.social @daiwright.bsky.social @johnsensible.bsky.social
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An Unwanted Legacy thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/10/20/a...
An Unwanted Legacy
Last year I was having recurring dreams in which I found myself lost in a maze of streets and couldn’t find my way back to my starting place despite the streets being laid out in a grid. Out of cur…
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October 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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#SocialistSunday No5 @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @councilestatemedia.uk @communicipalist.bsky.social @daiwright.bsky.social @johnsensible.bsky.social
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Recognition of a Palestinian State, what does it mean? thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/10/05/r...
Recognition of a Palestinian State, what does it mean?
It’s a symbolic gesture that gives Palestine the right to speak at the United Nations General Assembly, but unless concrete action is taken to establish a Palestinian state it’s just empty rhetoric…
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October 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Mahmood said that migrants will have to prove they are contributing to society to earn the right to remain in the UK.
Do any of us actually have “the right” to live somewhere?
September 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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September 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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"This is the true strength of the ECHR. By setting rights against an international, external benchmark, it forces every government ... to recognise that there are, in fact, limits to what it can and can’t do to its citizens."

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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
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September 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Almost a fifth of England’s rural bus services have vanished in the past five years
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Private bus firms pocketing public funding while cutting services, Unite says morningstaronline.co.uk/article/priv... #morningstaronline
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Saba and Sana. Twins born together, died together on 8 September, killed by Israel.
September 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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This is why we must @defendourjuries.bsky.social

"BREAKING: GANTRY CLIMBERS NOT GUILTY"
'A jury found Sam, Isobel & Rachel not guilty of public nuisance at Guilford Crown Court today, after they climbed gantries above the M25 in 2022
The jury decided they had a reasonable excuse for taking action'
September 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Laying the Table for Wildlife: Chris Packham & Derek Gow’s Rewilding at Downicary youtu.be/RKcdQRO2_y8?...
September 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Clutching at straws - Labour’s policies on immigration - Critical Mass Magazine
Is it grasping at straws to note concern in the liberal media that Starmer has gone too far by mimicking Farage's hostility to immigration?
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February 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The tragedy of Haiti’s children - Critical Mass Magazine
Gang violence in Haiti has increased dramatically over recent years and Haiti’s children are suffering unspeakably from the growing brutality
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February 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Israel to confiscate a thousand hectares of Palestinian land in West Bank www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
Israel to confiscate a thousand hectares of Palestinian land in West Bank
A military decision this week targeted pastoral areas in Tubas and villages east of Ramallah
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February 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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An important article about the devastating situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo written by @convivir.bsky.social for @criticalmasszine.bsky.social
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DRC: War in the Congo - Critical Mass Magazine
War in the DRC is about who profits from its wealth as its people suffer. This is both the unacceptable and the inevitable face of capitalism.
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February 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Trump has not wasted any time before carrying out his cruel, bullying plans. Last week he deported over 100 Indian nationals to Amritsar. They were kept shackled for 40 hours on a military plane. criticalmassmag.org/100225-news-...
The Trump government deports Indian nationals in shackles - Critical Mass Magazine
US Indian deportees were put on a 40-hour military flight back to Amritsar in northern India and were kept in shackles throughout.
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February 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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What are the chances of Farage becoming PM next time around? @davmidd.bsky.social analyses the position for @criticalmasszine.bsky.social The article comes complete with an audio recording, not to be missed!
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Nigel Farage on track to become the UK's next Prime Minister - Critical Mass Magazine
There is a very real danger, based on current polling, that Reform could win the next election. This is down to Labour ineptitude.
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January 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Ghostly silences surround Holocaust remembrance
Political manipulation of history and exceptionalising of anti-semitism as a shield for Israeli war crimes are having a harmful effect on the fight against all racism and fuelling a cynicism that’s es...
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January 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Don't sell our NHS for a trade deal with Trump
Our NHS is not for sale. Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during deal negotiations....
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January 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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A new study has found that global warming and record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Widespread coral bleaching on the reef has reached “catastrophic” levels.

Some coral species monitored had a mortality rate of 95%.

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Coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaches ‘catastrophic’ levels, study finds | CNN
Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new stu...
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January 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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We continue to let down the most vulnerable in our society. The Labour Government has no interest in them, no concern and no understanding at all. @criticalmasszine.bsky.social

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Failing vulnerable people everywhere - Critical Mass Magazine
There is mounting evidence that we are failing our many vulnerable people. This should not happen in a civilised society.
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January 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM