Russell Elliott
@russell-conwy.bsky.social
'To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing' Raymond Williams.
Eco-socialist, soft Left, Compass, PCS #AuDHD
Eco-socialist, soft Left, Compass, PCS #AuDHD
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The lesson from France is clear: the left has to work together at the next general election to stop fascism and prevent Nigel Farage from getting the keys to Number 10.
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The lesson from France is clear: the left has to work together at the next general election to stop fascism and prevent Nigel Farage from getting the keys to Number 10.
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I do think Starmer thinking things were basically fine before does explain a lot tbh
Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government."
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
December 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I do think Starmer thinking things were basically fine before does explain a lot tbh
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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We need to nationalise our economy because the working class can run society better than the billionaires, the profiteers and the war criminals who rule over us today.
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
We need to nationalise our economy because the working class can run society better than the billionaires, the profiteers and the war criminals who rule over us today.
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The old is dying and if the new cannot be born, this will be the time of monsters.
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The old is dying and if the new cannot be born, this will be the time of monsters.
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The argument that Farage ally Nathan Gill was just a lone agent working for the Russian state has been completely discredited. Three more UK MEPs in Nigel Farage's bloc are now alleged to have "followed the script" given Gill by an alleged Russian asset. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The argument that Farage ally Nathan Gill was just a lone agent working for the Russian state has been completely discredited. Three more UK MEPs in Nigel Farage's bloc are now alleged to have "followed the script" given Gill by an alleged Russian asset. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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#OtD 7 Dec 1938 the last of the International Brigades' British Battalion arrived by boat back in Newhaven, UK, after surviving the Spanish Civil War. The 300 brigaders were welcomed by a huge crowd before marching to a special train to London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1307...
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#OtD 7 Dec 1938 the last of the International Brigades' British Battalion arrived by boat back in Newhaven, UK, after surviving the Spanish Civil War. The 300 brigaders were welcomed by a huge crowd before marching to a special train to London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1307...
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A little known fact about Attlee. He faced Churchill as Tory leader three times in UK general elections with Labour winning the popular vote in each: 1945, 1950. 1951. Churchill was PM for nine years but never once won the popular vote at a general election.
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A little known fact about Attlee. He faced Churchill as Tory leader three times in UK general elections with Labour winning the popular vote in each: 1945, 1950. 1951. Churchill was PM for nine years but never once won the popular vote at a general election.
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#OTD 70 years ago: 7 December 1955: Clement Attlee resigned as Labour leader after twenty years in the post. PM for six years he served in govt from 1940-51 & is inarguably Labour's most successful leader & the only one who can claim to have shifted the UK long-term in a progressive direction.
December 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#OTD 70 years ago: 7 December 1955: Clement Attlee resigned as Labour leader after twenty years in the post. PM for six years he served in govt from 1940-51 & is inarguably Labour's most successful leader & the only one who can claim to have shifted the UK long-term in a progressive direction.
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It's the new @novaramedia.com ACFM episode about the concept of the mainstream with Nadia, @kmilb.bsky.social and me. (I misattributed 'Peculiarities of the English' to Nairn-Anderson themselves, but we corrected this in the show notes so don't @ me). novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/i....
Is There Anything Left of the Mainstream? | Novara Media
Is Stranger Things the last remnant of the 'mainstream'? The gang explore the political meanings of a multifaceted term.
novaramedia.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It's the new @novaramedia.com ACFM episode about the concept of the mainstream with Nadia, @kmilb.bsky.social and me. (I misattributed 'Peculiarities of the English' to Nairn-Anderson themselves, but we corrected this in the show notes so don't @ me). novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/i....
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For non-Brits: one of these people has for years been held up as a lion of personal courage, bravely standing up to vicious bullies, and the other was denounced at astonishing intensity as a Stalinist thug imposing their crazy beliefs on others by force. Would you like to guess which is which?
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
For non-Brits: one of these people has for years been held up as a lion of personal courage, bravely standing up to vicious bullies, and the other was denounced at astonishing intensity as a Stalinist thug imposing their crazy beliefs on others by force. Would you like to guess which is which?
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#OtD 7 Dec 1928 Noam Chomsky, legendary American linguist, radical, social critic, activist and member of the @IWW union was born in Philadelphia. Chomsky contributed the foreword for our first book, available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#OtD 7 Dec 1928 Noam Chomsky, legendary American linguist, radical, social critic, activist and member of the @IWW union was born in Philadelphia. Chomsky contributed the foreword for our first book, available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...
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Britain isn’t deep in crackpot NF politics by accident, but because our political and media elite willed this into existence, for their own ends. This is the result of the choices made by our most important people at every key juncture, and they will fight to the death to keep it this way.
December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Britain isn’t deep in crackpot NF politics by accident, but because our political and media elite willed this into existence, for their own ends. This is the result of the choices made by our most important people at every key juncture, and they will fight to the death to keep it this way.
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Much worse than America: their government might be crazier but there is actual resistance, unlike here where the majority response is sullen apathy. It’s far easier to see the end of Trumpery than it is to ever see Britain snapping out of its Children of Men phase, which was created by elite consent
December 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Much worse than America: their government might be crazier but there is actual resistance, unlike here where the majority response is sullen apathy. It’s far easier to see the end of Trumpery than it is to ever see Britain snapping out of its Children of Men phase, which was created by elite consent
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Especially grim because this is a Labour government doing it, and there is no meaningful opposition. We have been deep in National Front Trumpy territory for many years now, no help is coming for a long, long time and what comes next will be much worse and uglier than this is.
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Especially grim because this is a Labour government doing it, and there is no meaningful opposition. We have been deep in National Front Trumpy territory for many years now, no help is coming for a long, long time and what comes next will be much worse and uglier than this is.
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It’s 2025 and we’re still living as subjects, not citizens.
It’s time for a referendum on the monarchy.
It’s time for a referendum on the monarchy.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s 2025 and we’re still living as subjects, not citizens.
It’s time for a referendum on the monarchy.
It’s time for a referendum on the monarchy.
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Big news:
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2
Leaked Welsh Labour report lays bare divides
Plus we quizzed the UK minister who told Wales to "be grateful"
willhaywardwales.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Big news:
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2
1. Leaked Welsh Labour report shows what went wrong in Caerphilly.
2. Sec of State for Wales seemingly doesn't attend Welsh Gov summit because she wasn't given speaking roll.
3. I questioned UK Gov minister who told Wales to "be grateful" for terrible rail deal.
tinyurl.com/yc5wbvy2
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Former classmate breaks silence after explosive press conference.
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Former classmate breaks silence after explosive press conference.
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Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here's the table of contents of The Story of Capital:
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"Lessons in anti-imperialism from across the Irish Sea"
'It has taken an Irish politician to confront Keir Starmer directly over his “warfare not welfare” politics.'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/less...
'It has taken an Irish politician to confront Keir Starmer directly over his “warfare not welfare” politics.'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/less...
Lessons in anti-imperialism from across the Irish Sea
IT HAS taken an Irish politician to confront Keir Starmer directly over his “warfare not welfare” politics.Michelle O’Neill’s attack comes after Starmer announced a naval pact with Norway to “hunt Rus...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"Lessons in anti-imperialism from across the Irish Sea"
'It has taken an Irish politician to confront Keir Starmer directly over his “warfare not welfare” politics.'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/less...
'It has taken an Irish politician to confront Keir Starmer directly over his “warfare not welfare” politics.'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/less...
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"Mental illness as a capitalist disease: work and exploitation"
'Results published this year by the Mental Health Foundation conclusively demonstrated that a shorter working week, without loss of pay, improved mental wellbeing of 68% of participants ...'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ment...
'Results published this year by the Mental Health Foundation conclusively demonstrated that a shorter working week, without loss of pay, improved mental wellbeing of 68% of participants ...'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ment...
Mental illness as a capitalist disease: work and exploitation
IF A sliver of optimism remained, when elected last year, that Labour was genuinely concerned for the working class, this has now been superseded by bitter resentment.The party’s enthusiastic desire t...
morningstaronline.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"Mental illness as a capitalist disease: work and exploitation"
'Results published this year by the Mental Health Foundation conclusively demonstrated that a shorter working week, without loss of pay, improved mental wellbeing of 68% of participants ...'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ment...
'Results published this year by the Mental Health Foundation conclusively demonstrated that a shorter working week, without loss of pay, improved mental wellbeing of 68% of participants ...'
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ment...
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Bulldozed, crushed and buried — fate of missing aid-seekers...
Bulldozed, crushed and buried — fate of missing aid-seekers
Gaza mass graves expose how starving aid-seekers were bulldozed, crushed, and left to rot—Israel is the pinnacle of terrorism
www.thecanary.co
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Bulldozed, crushed and buried — fate of missing aid-seekers...
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Heroes ...
"Disarm Bristol blockade Israeli weapons factory Elbit Systems"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
#EndIsraeliGenocide
#WelfareNotWarfare
"Disarm Bristol blockade Israeli weapons factory Elbit Systems"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
#EndIsraeliGenocide
#WelfareNotWarfare
Disarm Bristol blockade Israeli weapons factory Elbit Systems
On 5 December, 70 people from Bristol anti-war and Palestine solidarity groups demonstrated outside of an Elbit Systems weapons factory in
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December 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Heroes ...
"Disarm Bristol blockade Israeli weapons factory Elbit Systems"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
#EndIsraeliGenocide
#WelfareNotWarfare
"Disarm Bristol blockade Israeli weapons factory Elbit Systems"
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
#EndIsraeliGenocide
#WelfareNotWarfare