“Throughout the past decade key sections of the British trade union movement have come under attack politically as well as industrially. The process of law has been used time and time again to stop us from exercising our rights, and indeed to dismantle those rights. The International Labour Organisation, the ILO, adjudicating recently upon a case presented by the NUM and the TUC, found that Britain's so-called “employment legislation" is in conflict with the international law. The Tory Government's policies thus stand side by-side with those of Iran, Argentina, Turkey and Chile. Employers' uses of the law have now reached grotesque proportions as we've seen in recent weeks with the dockers and railway workers. The Government's purpose is clearly to outlaw effective trade unionism. Our movement continues to accept this legislation at our peril. It is time that we took a conscious and responsible decision to defy unjust and oppressive laws, and pledge support for all workers who find themselves confronting the State's misuse of the judicial process. The trade union movement demonstrated in 1971 that it was not prepared to accept anti-trade union legislation. There is no reason why the trade union movement in 1989 should not adopt a similar position.” Arthur Scargill, July 1989.

#OnThisDay 1984. David Basnett, the general secretary of the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union announced £1,000 a day is to be given to the #MinersStrike support fund. The NUM estimate that £5 million has been raised, either in cash or food, since the strike began.

I thoroughly and completely disagree with their politics but I will defend their right not to have their heads smashed against metal poles by the Police.

A Labour MP using Tory rhetoric tells you everything you need to know about the ideology underpinning the Labour Party . These people are unreconstructed Thatcherites. Vote the bastards out.

Carns is asked where the extra £ for defence should come from. ".. I think there are places, such as moving welfare from hand outs to hand ups" Describing welfare as hand outs tells us all about Carns politics & who he wants to target - the sick, disabled, low paid, pensioners

RT @GyllKing: No spines were shattered at Filton. The officer walked unaided from A&E. Later a small, hairline fracture to the transverse p…

The moment reality kicks in for the 'royal family'. People are struggling to keep up with the ever rising cost of living and these parasites want to parade their wealth in front of them. Then wonder why people are pissed off.

If you know there will be people demonstrating against you, don't bring your kids along.

If you think @AndyBurnhamGM is a change: you're a fool

He wants and needs his war.

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Something urgently needs to be done about Justice Johnson. He is clearly subverting the law, and partiality is plastered all over this issue. Time for him to go.

Powerful video on the Banksy painting. While @Keir_Starmer’s government uses the law to treat protestors as terrorists, he had no issues meeting Isaac Herzdog from Israel, a man who said the entire nation of Gaza was responsible. Sickening! #Banksy

All of those things are illegal. All of those things have laws which make them illegal. All of those things were put before a jury - in some cases twice. The jury convicted on all of those things. The sentencing judge, after the jury had convicted under the relevant laws, decided he was going to chuck in "terrorism" for good measure, just cos. Are you really so stupid as to not see how wrong it is to do that? Or should people be sentenced according to what judges have decided they have done rather than what they have been charged and convicted for?

This man is a danger to our judicial system. In fact, he's just broken all trust between it and the citizenry. He should be investigated as to his fitness to occupy the bench.

Just dropped in at the anti-Fascist rally in Sheffield to give my support. Noticed it is being heavily policed.

The 1960s apartheid govt of South Africa labelled the ANC as terrorists and used a compliant judiciary to suppress their activists and supporters. Today's British govt uses the same tactics against Palestine Action and its supporters. Here's a photo of Judge Quartus de Wet who sentenced Nelson Mandela to life in prison, alongside Judge Jeremy Johnson who yesterday sentenced four Palestine Action activists as terrorists, even though they were never charged with terrorism, because such a charge would've been thrown out by every jury in the land. Johnson would have fitted in very well in South Africa's apartheid regime.

The people who are calling for Starmer to resign still don't get it. It's not up to Starmer whether to resign or not, It's up to Israel and Israel have not finished with him yet.

The wig, the fancy tie, the red robe. It’s all been shown up as a facade today. His judgment arrived via Sky News (!) outside court hours (nearly 7pm) and his long-winded drivel was just a script that backed the murder of innocent civilians.