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Some background on this footage. I think police swept in because they were desperate to get an arrest on camera. By this stage, several hours in, they’d arrested maybe 50 people. Unfortunately, they tackled her just as she’d finished telling me about her grandparents’ and father’s experiences of the holocaust. It was an incredibly jarring and utterly grotesque moment
In this Downstream for @novaramedia, @omarelakkad and I talk terrorism, absolute power and how the British state went full Monty Python over Palestine Action
Pals at @DropSiteNews as eagle-eyed as ever here. I say, come for El Akkad's new view on the limits of pacifism, stay for his red hot take on US democracy: merely picking "whoever is going to hurt us less"
Omar El Akkad, author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, tells Novara Media why he believes he has no right to dictate how people resist occupation.
He also says he is certain that “Palestine will be free,” because colonialism requires its perpetrators to “get up every morning and tell yourself a lie,” something he believes is ultimately unsustainable.
Had the honour of interviewing @omarelakkad for @novaramedia's Downstream, out now. As in his book 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This', Omar is profoundly eloquent and complex in his though and feeling. He's also full of surprises. It makes for a gripping interview I think -- and also among the most intense 2 hours of my working life!
Watch the full episode of Downstream here:
youtu.be/zfeSL3AHNjg?si=2PvL…
One year before you can vote on motions; two before you can table them; expel anyone who says they don’t care about electoral success. Simple as.
I’m for maximal democracy in political parties. That’s not the same as maximum. Any party that seeks to govern needs technocratic sense too. It’s impossible to win elections when groups of members who don’t know the difference between rhetoric, ideology and policy set strategy
Some polling here suggests, contrary to the views of some vocal members, that the *most* attractive feature of the Greens in H&STP was, in fact, Polanski’s framing of the party as pressuring Labour from the left on material policies: housing, wealth inequality etc
NEW: What happened in Holborn? Some constituency polling to help us understand a bit more.
TLDR: loyalty to Burnham + a local candidate won the day; no real sign of tactical voting; Greens never convinced ppl they could win but Polanski not toxic necessarily. @Persuasion_UK
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@AyoCaesar, @AaronBastani and @MichaelJSWalker will be live-streaming a Holborn & St Pancras byelection special from 9.45pm tonight.
Will Zack Polanski take Keir Starmer's old seat, in what would be the Green party's biggest challenge to Labour yet? Or will Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali, the Camden council leader and a Starmer ally, crush the Greens' hopes of electoral success?
Tune in for analysis, special guests and news from the count: youtube.com/watch?v=9UeH93ny…
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"They are f*cking aroused by private developers."
Today, voters in Holborn and St Pancras will decide if they want Green party leader Zack Polanski as their new MP – or Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali, the leader of Camden council, the London borough in which the constituency falls.
But sources have told Novara Media that it is a stronghold for the Labour right, characterised by purges of dissenters, cosiness to corporate interests and a lack of vision.
Read the full feature from @StevenJMethven on what's been described as ground-zero for Starmerism: novara.media/4rOwAX2
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As the Holborn and St Pancras byelection looms, @StevenJMethven looks at how Labour-run Camden council let corporations grow rich on human misery in the borough.
novaramedia.com/2026/10/07/h…
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Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula in Brazil’s first round of the presidential election, aided by US intervention and an overly cautious Workers’ Party.
To win the runoff, Lula needs to give working people a reason to hope. jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-e…
Following campaigns involving financial scandal, accusations of US interference and gymaxxing social vids, neither Lula nor Flávio Bolsonaro gained enough votes to win Brazil's presidential election outright. With a run-off set for later this month, I ask: who comes next if South America's greatest living leftist loses? Link👇
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Great show tonight!
Today was, in large part, because of Greens. Their rise killed the idea Labour could take left for granted. Now Burnham is PM.
Which is why even a left wing Labour member should want, at least, a tight race in Holborn & St Pancras. youtu.be/seTE3Rl6OEM?is=E3hq…
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💥 The Dream Team 💥
The former paid Israel lobbyist who was parachuted into a Labour safe seat in and ended up getting 2,000 fewer votes than in 2019 with the former Tory voter parachuted into a Labour safe seat who ended up getting 10,000 fewer votes than in 2019.
Campaigning for @Sagal_AW in Holborn & St Pancras this evening, back on the #labourdoorstep in the CLP where I was full-time Organiser 30 years ago.
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EXCLUSIVE: Lloyds Bank refused a mortgage to the mum of Palestine Action prisoner Ellie Kamio, citing “adverse media”. Lloyds also debanked Ellie while she was on remand, before she was convicted of any crime.
Zack Polanski says he’ll stand in the Holborn and St. Pancras by-election. camdennewjournal.co.uk/artic…
