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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · 15d

CEOs are earning hundreds of times more than their staff. Tesco’s boss made 431x the average worker last year! 😳 Sign the petition for a maximum wage and help make pay fair you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

It's time for a maximum wage

New data from the High Pay Centre shows that the median FTSE 100 CEO now earns £4.58 million a year – 122 times more than the typical UK worker, with some, like Tesco’s CEO, paid 431 times more than t...

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Aug 16

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!

  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Aug 4

Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

#TaxTheBanks

Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Jul 24

Making Trouble: Lynne Segal on the Labour Left Podcast labourhub.org.uk/2025/07/23/m...

Making Trouble: Lynne Segal on the Labour Left Podcast

In the latest episode of the Labour Left Podcast Bryn Griffiths speaks to the prominent socialist feminist Lynne Segal. Veteran socialists will remember the huge impact that Beyond the Fragments, p…

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

Sir Jon Cunliffe: put public ownership back on the table!

From day one, the government’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” - a.k.a the Cunliffe Review - has ruled out the solution that 82% of the British public want: public ownership. ...

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · May 25

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Safe Homes, Not Hotels: join the call for safe housing for asylum seekers

Right now, thousands of people seeking asylum in the UK are being housed in unsafe hotels and barges, cut off from communities and support. Some have faced serious harm - including abuse, racism, and ...

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · May 7

So shocking! HOW DARE THEY use our money to support Israel's genocidal actions? Anyone with half a brain knows this is equivalent to arming Hitler. How can they incriminate us like this?
UK sent Israel thousands of military items despite export ban, study find. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK sent Israel thousands of military items despite export ban, study finds

Trade data analysis shows British firms have exported items including munitions since suspension of key licences

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Apr 16

Banks: don't back PLN's polluting coal plans action.eko.org/a/banks-don-...

Banks: don't back PLN's polluting coal plans

Children in Indonesia are suffering from bronchitis, tuberculosis and even dying because of PLN’s greedy fossil fuel expansion. PLN is Indonesia’s biggest electricity provider. But instead of generati

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Mar 28

Just watched @labourlewis.bsky.social's powerful speech on his Water Bill, raising the fundamental question that’s been ignored for too long: who should own our water?

It’s time to bring water back into public hands.

Watch the debate here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIOTHnvxEI

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Mar 1

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

No second state visit for Trump

This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Feb 18

I can't actually sign in to my Bluesky account, maddeningly, but I can get there via other people's posts. How weird is that?

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Feb 18

If you missed this moving, terrifying film on 4 children from Gaza, do watch it here! BBC2 last ighthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00285w7/gaza-how-to-survive-a-warzone

Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone

Following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire - a vivid and unflinching view of life in a warzone.

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Feb 18

I always like to be on the march with my brother, as we march for Jews everywhere who care about peace and justce for Palestinians everywhere!

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Dec 28

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On sslh.org.uk/2024/12/28/b...

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On

Earlier this year, a one-day conference was held to mark 45 years since the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. Co-author…

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Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social · Nov 19

Well, can I really manage a new social media site? I'm afraid that remains to be seen, virtual dunce that I am. But will do my best!

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