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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 18h

The "new order" proclaimed from the podium by the racist shadow justice minister @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social at the #Tory Party conference isn't "new" at all.
We were celebrating the 80th anniversary of its defeat just this Summer.
Keep the promise #NeverAgain.
@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 22h

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally.

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 23h

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally.

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 23h

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 23h

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally

What’s behind Trump’s Gaza ceasefire?

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 23h

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

What’s behind #DonaldTrump’s #Gaza ceasefire?: socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...

Palestinians have greeted the news of Trump's Gaza ceasefire with a mixture of joy, relief—and fear that Israel will restart the war.

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

@sashasimic.bsky.social in today's #hackneygazette
on the rotten record of the racist vermin @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social :

Hospital workers organise against the far right

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Homerton Hospital workers organise against the far right:
socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

Workers at Homerton Hospital organised a launch meeting of Homerton Against the Far Right last Thursday night, with up to 25 people joining the launch.

Hospital workers organise against the far right

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Marv Scott @marvscott69.bsky.social · 1d

Hospital workers organise against the far right

The launch meeting brought together workers from across the hospital

socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

Workers at Homerton Hospital organised a launch meeting of Homerton Against the Far Right last Thursday night, with up to 25 people joining the launch.

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kass9.bsky.social @kass9.bsky.social · 1d

Eyewitness from Italy’s general strike for Palestine

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

@tuc.org.uk - This is how it's done: Eyewitness from Italy’s general strike for Palestine: socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...

The general strike for Palestine in Italy show us the disruptive power of solidarity, writes Lucia Pradella

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Me in today's @mstaronline.bsky.social on "Britishness" and #genocide...

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 2d

Rise up Americans

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ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 1d

Tour across Islington and follow the stories of the people who fought against the apartheid in SA.
We'll learn about the Englishman with a hand in not one but two international revolutions and about exiled Russians played a game of cat-and-mouse with foreign spies in London.

ANPI - UK @anpiuk.bsky.social · 20d

ONE RACE; THE HUMAN RACE
Sunday 12th October, 11am
This was the slogan of the ANC’s London recruits. Their story is one of many about the rebels, radicals, activists, agitators, reformers; revolutionaries featured in this tour of Clerkenwell and Islington.
ticketsource.co.uk/associazione-n…

Hosting Tommy Robinson shows link between Israeli government and the international far right

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

"They make a desert and call it peace"
#Ceasefire
#FromtheRivertotheSeaPalestinewillbeFree

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

@uklabour.bsky.social's @shabanamahmood.bsky.social says protesting against #Israel's #genocide in #Gaza is "un-British".
@sashasimic.bsky.social in today's @mstaronline.bsky.social say's she got a point because, for the establishment, there's nothing more "British" than #genocide.
#FreePalestine

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Ernesto "#Che" Guevara was murdered on 09 October 1967.
#CheVive

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Martin Empson @resolutereader.bsky.social · 1d

My friend and comrade Geoff Brown is doing a Manchester launch of his amazing People's History of the Anti Nazi League on 1 November, at the Marxism in a Day event. More info and booking here bit.ly/MancMarx

Details of the Manchester launch of Geoff Brown's A People's History of the Anti Nazi League, on Sat 1 Nov, in Friends Meeting House. Flyer is yellow with details of the event and a book cover. A QR code redirects to this booking website https://bit.ly/MancMarx

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Ernesto "#Che" Guevara was murdered on 09 October 1967.
#CheVive

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Ernesto "#Che" Guevara was murdered on 09 October 1967.
#CheVive

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 2d

@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social statement:
Hosting "Tommy Robinson" shows link between #Israeli government and the international far right
standuptoracism.org.uk/hosting-tomm...

STATEMENT Stand Up to Racism is part of an international network of anti-racist organisations and recognises that the far right and racists also organise

standuptoracism.org.uk