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M Martínez Lucio

@mmartinezlucio.bsky.social

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‘Bent in emptiness over emptiness but flying’(Hughes); cooperatives & radical democracy; labour relations academic; born Paddington to exiles, live Leeds, work Manchester.

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M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · Jun 25

This may be of interest. Some of us have delved into the need for trade unions to engage with cooperatives more systematically. More dialogue is needed.
‘Co-operatives and
Trade Unions
Generating alliances for better
and more meaningful work’

pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 3d

The number of people providing full-time unpaid care has increased massively, as the social care system approaches breaking point.

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%

www.bigissue.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

In case you missed it - here's this weeks episode of @boldpolitics.bsky.social with Gary Stevenson.

100k views and growing!

youtu.be/WRVfmQkCSdk?...

How Labour Sold Their Souls To Billionaires | Gary Stevenson | Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7d

Actor & campaigner Hugh Grant tells ITV News why he feels Labour has ‘betrayed’ hacking victims.

He says seeing Keir Starmer forge close relationships with major newspaper barons is hard to stomach for the families who were promised things would change.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews

Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion

www.theguardian.com

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17d

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation

Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

www.theguardian.com

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M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 16d

Let me get this right. Gaza is to be a new Las Vegas and the Palestinian West Bank is to continue being fragmented into micro portions. In this dreadful context and late stage the heroic British ‘Empire’ recognises the Palestinian state. Well you have to keep up traditions in empires, heaven forbid

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Andrew Watt @andrewwatteu.bsky.social · 17d

Kudos, indeed, to Spain and PM Sanchez for breaking the taboo in Europe.
At the same time it is worth noting that, from a global perspective, Europe/OECD lags well behind world opinion on Palestine.

(Source: @theguardian.com )

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 18d

Britain needs affordable housing in the right places not a free hand for developers to build what they like, where they like, regardless of environmental consequences. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through

Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent approvals for housebuilding

www.theguardian.com

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M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 19d

Good question. A morbid fascination? Or a sense of excitement after watching cop films in your teens? The lights and sound making it sound exotic like ‘America’? The ‘is it someone is unwell’ versus ‘is there a chase on’ question? Or it punctuates our bored mundane experience lives? I like the last.

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Séan F Scullion @seanfscullion.bsky.social · 20d

The result of #ChurchillsSpaniards is both a military and human history: one that illuminates the personal sacrifices of men who fought for a country not their own, in pursuit of a cause larger than national boundaries. Paperback 👇🏽
www.helion.co.uk/military-his...

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 20d

The sight of opposition politicians being arrested has become quite common in the US.

Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 20d

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · 19d

This is becoming one of the most deregulationist governments you will find. They are pushing an agenda of removing rights and regulations they have no mandate to do. It’s as if the sphere of the economy is separate from labour and employment policy which btw is being minimally reregulated , perhaps

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 19d

UK: No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks  www.fbu.org.uk/magazine/aug...

No LGB Without the T: solidarity in the face of attacks

The FBU’s LGBT+ section stands in full solidarity with our trans and non-binary siblings, writes interim LGBT+ national sectional secretary Maria Buck

www.fbu.org.uk

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 19d

Good grief...

Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 20d

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

A SmartViz monitoring device installed at a university.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22d

Yet more compelling evidence to support @greenparty.org.uk policy that public services should be in public hands 👇

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23d

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study

Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010 * ‘Birmingham is up the road but there are no buses’ The public has paid almost £200bn to the shareholders who own key British industries since they were privatised, research reveals. The transfer of tens of billions of pounds to the owners of the privatised water, rail, bus, energy and mail services comes as families face soaring bills, polluted rivers and seas, and expensive and unreliable trains and buses. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 24d

Shouldn't need saying - but sadly it does

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 24d

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

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M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · Sep 7

There has always been ambivalence with the English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag. Its status is not clear or important as England is invisible in the British state. There are moments (football events) where it plays some ‘unifying role’ but its use by the far right ironically undermines it & debates on English politics.

M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · Sep 7

It’s due to the belief that technical competence is all you need. Blair was ‘new managerialist’ and partly neoliberal obsessed but in Starmer that is left to Reeves but he is very much about one dimensional administration and management without any moral or visionary vision. It’s bizarrely nothing.

M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · Sep 7

Kennedy represents the politics of cannibalism. The self destructive stage of capitalism where the little it has established of worth in terms of expert knowledge is devoured from within. It’s an example probably unprecedented in parliamentary democratic history.

M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · Sep 7

What you outside the bureaucratic confines of parties is as important as what you do in you in them. A political party can only be one part of progressive politics. He’s right.

M Martínez Lucio @mmartinezlucio.bsky.social · Sep 2

Time to be proper and have an elected upper chamber and electoral reform for both chambers.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Sep 2

Kevin Maguire: "If you're put up in a hotel & you get meals you get £10/wk.. all these terrible myths.. free iPads.. myths & lies have gone mainstream & we've got to challenge them.. we've gone back to the worst aspects of the 1970s where racism is becoming mainstream"

Well said

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