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Michael Chessum

@michael_chessum

Socialist writer and activist /// 📕 This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left /// Work for a trade union /// Personal account, all views my own.

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It's an odd choice for Galloway to give an interview this reactionary on Novara Media.

Maybe he's trying to scare the 'woke' left away from the Workers Party. I think much more likely that he doesn't realise how far he's travelled and how mad he sounds to the average left viewer

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A few hundred people out at Downing Street to protest against the Rwanda plan. There are millions who agree with them.

The task for now is to make these protests bigger, and turn them towards disrupting and stopping deportations as they ramp up.

A few hundred people out at Downing Street to protest against the Rwanda plan. There are millions who agree with them. The task for now is to make these protests bigger, and turn them towards disrupting and stopping deportations as they ramp up.
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A horrible outcome after people staked out for hours to protect the people detained inside, incl. an Iranian Kurdish asylum-seeker.

His 3 friends waited for him all evening until the cops started threatening arrests. 2 had travelled from Swansea when they heard he'd been taken.

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Portable chargers 🔋tents ⛺ rollmats 🧘‍♀️ and Kurdish Sorani speakers 🔊 needed!

🚨📍Lunar House
40 Wellesley Road Croydon CR92BY

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THIS WEDNESDAY!

Protest against the horrific Rwanda deportation plan - migrants and refugees welcome!

5.30pm at Downing St
Called by Iranian & Kurdish refugee communities❤️💪

THIS WEDNESDAY! Protest against the horrific Rwanda deportation plan - migrants and refugees welcome! 5.30pm at Downing St Called by Iranian & Kurdish refugee communities❤️💪
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Our friends in Iraqi & Iranian refugee organisations have called an emergency May Day protest to stop the Rwanda deportations - please join & spread the word!

17:30 Weds 1 May @ Downing Street

🪧 Stop the Rwanda plan
🪧 Release all asylum seekers
🪧 End immigration detention

Our friends in Iraqi & Iranian refugee organisations have called an emergency May Day protest to stop the Rwanda deportations - please join & spread the word! 17:30 Weds 1 May @ Downing Street 🪧 Stop the Rwanda plan 🪧 Release all asylum seekers 🪧 End immigration detention
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💥 EMERGENCY PROTEST 💥
💥 REFUGEES WELCOME 💥
💥 STOP THE RWANDA DEPORTATIONS 💥

The government is moving to implement the Rwanda scheme, and some refugee groups have called an emergency demo.

Come to this on May day - 5.30pm outside Downing Street.

💥 EMERGENCY PROTEST 💥 💥 REFUGEES WELCOME 💥 💥 STOP THE RWANDA DEPORTATIONS 💥 The government is moving to implement the Rwanda scheme, and some refugee groups have called an emergency demo. Come to this on May day - 5.30pm outside Downing Street.
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🚨 We have added more info to our legal update on the Rwanda Plan (At 11am 29 April)🚨

If you already have the webpage open, you might need to refresh your browser, to get the latest version.

Please re-share widely.

righttoremain.org.uk/what-we-know-a…

🚨 We have added more info to our legal update on the Rwanda Plan (At 11am 29 April)🚨 If you already have the webpage open, you might need to refresh your browser, to get the latest version. Please re-share widely. righttoremain.org.uk/what-we-know-a…
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We get it right when we call the Rwanda plan performative cruelty.

We get it wrong when we think that naming it is an effective critique. Our far right government say this is about 'deterrence'. They're quite open about it.

The only effective critique now is action - resistance

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I have a very strong feeling that the Scottish Greens will come to thank Humza Yousaf for his termination of the Bute House Agreement.

They get to plaster over their internal divisions (which looked potentially explosive 48 hours ago) and go into 2026 with an insurgent strategy.

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This is indistinguishable from a far right leaflet from a few years ago.

I really want to feign shock at it. But this is simply the logical conclusion of making your main point of difference with Braverman that you would 'send them back' more efficiently and cost-effectively.

This is indistinguishable from a far right leaflet from a few years ago. I really want to feign shock at it. But this is simply the logical conclusion of making your main point of difference with Braverman that you would 'send them back' more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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I'd probably pipe down about integrity if I was running a factional operation in support of the guy who promised these.

I'd probably pipe down about integrity if I was running a factional operation in support of the guy who promised these.
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I see the Tory right is, once again, losing it about the European Court of Human Rights.

This is your reminder that the only two countries to leave the ECHR are (a) Greece under military rule, and (b) Putin's Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.

Erdoğan's Turkey is a member.

I see the Tory right is, once again, losing it about the European Court of Human Rights. This is your reminder that the only two countries to leave the ECHR are (a) Greece under military rule, and (b) Putin's Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. Erdoğan's Turkey is a member.
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Condemning Iran is fine.

Just as long as you don't have more condemnation for Iranian drone strikes - 99 percent of which were intercepted - than you do for the ongoing slaughter of tens of thousands of Gazans, just under half of them children.

Oh...

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