Carl Markson

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

🚛 Israel Blocking More Than Two-Thirds of Aid Agreed Under Ceasefire Deal Gaza authorities reiterate that Israel is allowing fewer than 200 aid trucks a day into the Strip, despite a ceasefire deal requiring 600. Ismail Al-Thawabteh of Gaza’s media office says Israel is “managing hunger in Gaza deliberately, slowly, and cumulatively,” with malnutrition now above 90 percent. He adds that Israel has killed at least 342 Palestinians since the Oct. 10 ceasefire began and continues to block heavy machinery needed to recover bodies from rubble. He calls it deliberate starvation and obstruction of relief, urging mediators to pressure Israel to comply.

Amazon made $59,000,000,000 in profits last year. By crushing unions. Polluting the planet. Powering war. This Black Friday, we fight back. #MakeAmazonPay

🇨🇺🇿🇦When two revolutionaries meet: "Our friend Cuba, which helped us in training our people, gave us resources to help us with our struggle, trained our people as doctors. You have not come to our country…when are you coming to South Africa?” Nelson Mandela meeting Fidel Castro. How Cuba was instrumental in breaking South Africa’s apartheid regime: Cuba sent over 425,000 volunteers (soldiers, medics, teachers) to Africa between 1975–1991, the largest overseas solidarity mission by any Global South nation. In Angola alone, “Operación Carlota” deployed 36,000 Cuban troops in 1975 to stop the South African invasion backed by the CIA. At the height of the fighting, Cuba maintained 50,000+ troops in Angola, more than the US had in any Cold War African theatre. Cuban pilots flew thousands of combat sorties, decisively halting South African air superiority. The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987–88), commanded largely by Cuban officers, became the largest battle in Africa since WWII. Nelson Mandela would call the battle “the turning point for the liberation of our continent and my own freedom.” The South African Defence Force suffered hundreds of casualties, and its elite 61st Mechanised Battalion was forced into retreat for the first time. Cuban-Angolan victory at Cuito Cuanavale broke the myth of SADF invincibility, directly triggering apartheid’s strategic collapse. The defeat forced South Africa to agree to Namibian independence (1989), removing Pretoria’s buffer zone and crippling its regional dominance. Cuba trained tens of thousands of African doctors, engineers, and officers, a long-term investment in post-apartheid state capacity. Cuba provided this aid for free, without loans, bases, or resource concessions. Fidel Castro’s Cuba did all this despite being constrained by the US economic embargo, and constant threats from Washington. They hate the example of Cuba, because revolutionary Cuba showed that the defiant people of a small island nation were capable of helping vanquish the criminality and barbarism that Washington supported around the world.

“Israel is defending our values.”

It's almost impossible to be consistent when you've totally abandoned your principles. How much lower can this Labour Government spiral?

The state of Priti Patel's shoes

A judge gets pulled from the Palestine Action judicial review at the last minute, and the Ministry of Defence refuses to explain why. The three replacement judges include a former government lawyer and a judge who previously ruled in favour of allowing F-35 components to be sent to Israel. More than 2,350 peaceful protesters risk being branded “terrorists” for holding cardboard signs protesting Britain’s complicity in genocide, all while the government handpicks who hears the case. This is what an attack on our rights looks like. We cannot stay silent. We must push back.

“IF YOU AREN’T FROM THE US, STAY OUT OF OUR POLITICS” US military, CIA coups and clandestine operations in foreign countries since WWII: 🇮🇷 Iran: 1946 🇨🇳 China: 1946-1949 🇬🇷 Greece: 1947-1949 🇮🇹 Italy: 1948 🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948-1954 🇰🇵 Korea: 1950-1953 🇮🇷 Iran: 1953 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954 🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958 🇵🇦 Panama: 1958 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959 🇨🇩 Congo: 1960 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1960-1964 🇨🇺 Cuba: 1961-1962 🇱🇦 Laos: 1962 🇪🇨 Ecuador: 1963 🇵🇦 Panama: 1964 🇧🇷 Brazil: 1964 🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1965-1975 🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1965 🇨🇩 Congo: 1965 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 1965 🇱🇦 Laos: 1965-1973 🇬🇭 Ghana: 1966 🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1966-1967 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1969-1975 🇴🇲 Oman: 1970 🇱🇦 Laos: 1971-1973 🇨🇱 Chile: 1973 🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1975 🇦🇴 Angola: 1976-1992 🇮🇷 Iran: 1980 🇱🇾 Libya: 1981 🇸🇻 El Salvador: 1981-1992 🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1981-1990 🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1982-1984 🇬🇩 Grenada: 1983 🇭🇳 Honduras: 1983-1989 🇮🇷 Iran: 1984 🇱🇾 Libya: 1986 🇧🇴 Bolivia: 1986 🇮🇷 Iran: 1987-1988 🇱🇾 Libya: 1989 🇵🇭 Philippines: 1989 🇵🇦 Panama: 1989-1990 🇱🇷 Liberia: 1990 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1990-1991 🇮🇶 Iraq: 1991-2003 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1991 🇸🇴 Somalia: 1992-1994 Yugoslavia: 1992-1994 🇧🇦 Bosnia: 1993-1995 🇭🇹 Haiti: 1994-1996 🇭🇷 Croatia: 1995 🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo): 1996-1997 🇱🇷 Liberia: 1997 🇸🇩 Sudan: 1998 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1998 Yugoslavia: 1999 🇲🇰 Macedonia: 2001 🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 2001-2021 🇻🇪 Venezuela: 2002 🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003-present 🇭🇹 Haiti: 2004 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2004, 2013-2014 🇵🇸 Palestine: 2006-2007 🇾🇪 Yemen: 2009-present 🇸🇾 Syria: 2005-2009, 2011-present 🇱🇾 Libya: 2011 *Note, this is not a complete list

They want the oil. Like Iraq

Ash Sarkar, "What's your vision of the good life?" Zack Polanski, "I think it's one where we can spend more time with the people that we love" "Love and compassion are really important qualities that rarely get talked about in politics" "Politicians shied away from them because they felt a bit icky, or that the public might not like it" "But then how do we center compassion, not just for refugees but for each other, neighbours strangers" "A Universal Basic Income where people have food on the table, able to pay rent, transport to work, and feel supported" "One where we centre creativity and art, not just STEM subjects or a focus on growth in the way Reeves and Starmer turn us into these robotic machines" "Where we can spend time doing the things that we love, just for the sake of the fact that we love them even if there is no economic productivity at the end of it" "It's completely fine to be human beings" "Having spaces where you can have human connections with people" "We've had politics for so long that just gets people to divide, to point at each other, to be jealous, to talk about a faster car, or a bigger house, or another loft conversion" "The good life looks like when we can rid ourselves of all those addictions" "If you're living a comfortable life where you're more than surviving you're thriving, a good life looks like where you're not in constant competition to beat your neighbours or someone in your community" "You're actually going, what does it look like just to be happy and just to love, and that's good"

The Tories cut 70% of youth services funding in less than a decade. Now, many young people have retreated online, which is impacting their mental health and puts them at risk of radicalisation. A wealth tax can help fund mass investment in the youth services we desperately need.

It’s actually gross how much money China spends on all these elaborate drone shows for its citizens when it could be sending that money to Israel instead.

Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. 🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph

Treasury Minister during worst era of austerity thinks we've got it wrong. Can't get better endorsement. Join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens abolished peak rail fares and gave free bus travel to under 22s. In Glasgow we’re piloting completely free public transport. This is simply not good enough …

Nathan Gill gets 10 years, yet: • 25% of British MPs funded by pro-'israel' lobby • £1M+ poured into Parliament • 240+ fully-funded trips for MPs to 'israel' • 80% of Tory MPs are members of Conservative Friends of 'israel' (CFI). LFI won't even say. Britain is occupied.