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Oompa loompa doompedy doo
the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland was made in 1922
oompa loompa doompedy dee
freedom comes when we liquidate it into the world socialist commonwealth
A good thread: I thought the film a good artistic interpretation, but leaves out the actually sophisticated political organisation of the rebels. It's as good as film can be on the subject.
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"Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist' --Ernest Gellner, Thought and Change, 1964.
Milliband's speech: "You see, what we understand is we fight for our values and our interests as a country together."
labour.org.uk/updates/storie…
"interests": hands up who wants to be Pirate Island?
"And we will continue to isolate Iran so that they reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is so essential to tackling the cost of living crisis here at home." Nicely trying to tie the interests of the workers together with the capitalists: is this our war? Think not.
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.@PlutoPress has acquired the books division of radical left-wing publisher Lawrence & Wishart (L&W). The deal, effective from 1st October, will see L&W’s book catalogue transition into an imprint under Pluto. 👇 ebx.sh/sOsrde
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THE FIRST-EVER 11-YEAR-OLD WGM!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Congrats to Bodhana Sivanandan on becoming the first 11-year-old in chess history to earn the WGM title! 🏴
She just made her final WGM norm at the Olympiad! Only Hou Yifan & Kateryna Lagno were even WGMs at 12! 🤯
📷: R Oleksiewicz
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There will be a lot of noise about the 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁. 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – Labour and the Greens competing over who can be trusted to handle the cost of living crisis. Neither, though, will address the root cause of the crisis, that society is run on behalf of those who own the land and factories.
Until these are brought into common ownership, there will be poverty and unemployment, as this is how the owners get us to work for them. Our aim is to get this message out through the noise. You can help punch through the noise by getting people to write World Socialism across their ballot paper.
Get in touch with us to find out other ways you can help. worldsocialism.org/spgb/snip…
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How did this happen? Mostly, universities have kept staff costs much lower than inflation. In the below chart, simple RPIX uplift should be 41.2%.
interesting fact here: theconversation.com/as-ukrai… The latest (and outdated) estimate for rebuilding Ukraine is 3 times its GDP, almost certainly more.
"The objection is narrower: against a tradable gilt of the same term, the holder gives up the right to sell, and will want paying for it." So, the cost of borrowing would be higher under this plan?
Every day another news story says Britain is under pressure from global instability.
Why can’t we just build homes, and clean energy, with secure jobs?
Turns out the answer is even better than I thought.
See what you think.
HostageNation.com
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🟦⬜️ 𝑭𝑼𝑳𝑳 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬 🟦⬜️
We bow out of the The Emirates FA Cup what a game from Town fantastic efforts from everyone
Great afternoon for the Club and the Town, one for everyone to be proud off 👏
Good luck to @Official_Darlo 🤝
#VivaLaRedcarlution 🇭🇳
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How peasants and townsfolk took on the violence inherent in the system
theconversation.com/the-upri…
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I regret to inform everyone of the Hegel museum escape room hegel-haus.de/escape-room
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UNION WIN! London bus drivers to get air conditioning!
Following negotiations between Unite, Mayor Sadiq Khan and TFL, air con will be installed in all bus driver cabs by the end of May 2027.
During the heatwave cab temperatures could get as high as 40 degrees.
This is a huge win for driver and passenger safety!
There is a pattern in colonialism.
Tensions between settlers and natives, including violence.
Colonial governor intervenes with vicious repression against natives.
Metropole shocked, removes governor.
Campaign to prevent Governor being punished.
