Lizzy Short

Police arrest peaceful Palestine Action supporters outside Labour conference

If you hold a placard saying you support Palestine Action, you get nicked. If you hold a banner saying 'Kill 'Em All' outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, the police look the other way.

‘A laboratory of cruelty’ Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution sites are sites of ‘orchestrated killing and dehumanisation’ that must be shut down, MSF says in new report morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labora…

Reparations, resistance and African sovereignty @cerenkardelen sits down with the Morning Star’s international news editor @RogerAMck to talk about his new book, The Rebirth of the African Phoenix: A View from Babylon youtube.com/watch?v=TuRhTx…

A week after David Lammy announced the suspension of free trade agreement negotiations with Israel, Keir Starmer's trade envoy to Israel, @LordIanAustin, tweets about being in Israel to "promote trade with the UK".

"The government's arguing that suspending F-35 exports will be a risk to national security… "What could be more of a risk to peace and security than supporting a genocide?” says @CAATuk's Emily Apple as Britain heads to court over arms sales to Israel

Government claims there's “no serious risk of genocide” in Gaza as it defends F-35 exports in court "We say that's an absolutely shocking argument to make given that... they have [seen] evidence of children being shot in both feet” says @GLAN_LAW's Charlotte Andrews-Briscoe

Interesting that Starmer has big plans for people to learn English. Where? Who? How? FE colleges have been decimated over the last few years. Where can people go to get cheap or free English lessons, that are near to their homes, taught by experienced, well-trained teachers?

“Why are you protecting a US military base?” Fair question to ask a British policeman! youtube.com/watch?v=kvnunj…

Activists blockade RAF Lakenheath — Europe’s largest US airbase — over the return of nuclear weapons and its role in facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Couple goals at RAF Lakenheath blockade

🇬🇧 Meta's Sinister Exploitation Of Refugee Crisis ▫Tech used to target migrants with terror ads and dodgy products ▫@lizzy_short ▫is.gd/YADCCC #frontpagestoday #UK @M_Star_Online

In the 1970s, 95% of spending on housing policy went on building new council homes Now, the same amount is spent on rents and going into the pockets of private landlords Joe Beswick from @LDNRentersUnion on the government’s shift from supply to demand

The Morning Star's @Cowlesz speaks with @AntiRacismDay co-convenor Sabby Dhalu about organising resistance against the latest surge of far-right politics youtube.com/watch?v=L8b2-D…

Livv Housing workers on Merseyside are striking for a fair wage after years of real-terms pay cuts The social housing provider recorded a £14m operating surplus last year, while its CEO took home £250k

"On Saturday I'll be marching alongside many Ukrainian friends and members of the labour & trade union movt. We'll be calling yes for peace - but a just peace determined by the Ukrainian people, not one imposed on them by Trump or Putin" - @johnmcdonnellMP x.com/UkraineSol/sta…

21st Century Poetry: The Beach On The Med, by Michael Rosen ow.ly/QpPM50UPlUW

“People who expose a flawed ideology are seen as the most dangerous of them all” Tim Crosland from @DefendourJuries speaks to Morning Star’s deputy news editor @cerenkardelen about the criminalisation of peaceful protest Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=fJFq8z…

“This level of repression only survives if people don’t know about it” Tim Crosland from @DefendourJuries discusses the dismantlement of protest rights in Britain with Morning Star’s deputy news editor @cerenkardelen youtube.com/watch?v=fJFq8z…