Sick, sick world

Palestine Action is in good company. British governments and courts criminalised resistance to slavery, the Chartist movement for universal male suffrage, any organising by trade unionists, and the Suffragette movement to win women the vote. None of our rights were given to us by the ruling class. We had to fight for each of them tooth and nail. The British establishment is always on the wrong side of history, because history is with the struggle of ordinary people, not with the selfish interests of the billionaires and war industries. Those earlier struggles were deemed the terrorism of their day by the very same "liberals" – the British establishment and its useful idiots – who today declare any practical action to stop British complicity in Israel's genocide to be terrorism. Note too as proof of bad faith: the British establishment is well advanced in its efforts to declare entirely peaceful protest – marches through the streets – as anti-social, hate crimes and soon enough terrorism too. The ruling class consider attempts to stop a genocide, even holding a banner against the mass murder of children, to be far worse than racist pogroms in Belfast, which try to burn alive people in their homes because of the colour of their skin.

Homes in illegal Israeli settlements promoted at London property show trib.al/7zZD1uK

An 87-year-old was arrested for holding a sign, protesting Israel’s genocide of Gaza that has killed over 75,000 people. No British arms executive has been arrested. Not one.

People are being treated as criminals for protesting a fucking genocide. We now live in an upside down world where fascist’s reign! FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

10 years ago a far right terrorist took a young mum from her kids. There were no riots for #JoCox. 8 days later Nigel Farage boasted Brexit had been won ‘without a single shot being fired’. If her death had been taken seriously enough, we might not be in hell now. RIP Jo.

Today marks ten years since Jo was killed. We remember Jo as a mother, sister, daughter, wife, friend, campaigner and public servant. We remember her courage, her compassion, and her belief that we have more in common than that which divides us. 1/2

Ten years ago your wife was murdered by a deranged man. Ten years later you've built a career on her grave, using her death to silence anyone who disagrees with you. That is not grief. That is industry. You claim "far right extremism" is the threat. Yet in those same ten years, thousands of British children were raped by grooming gangs your party protected. A Sudanese migrant attempted beheading in Belfast. Churches burned. Synagogues attacked. Not by the "far right." By the imports you cheered. You fear "democracy at risk" because people vote differently. You fear "social cohesion" because working-class communities object to their daughters being collateral damage. You fear algorithms because they let people speak without your permission. You don't mourn your wife, Brendan. You monetize her. You weaponize her. You wave her memory like a censor's badge to shut down debate, to protect the rapists your party imported, to demonize the parents who actually tried to protect their children. You have no morals. You have a brand. And that brand is built on the one tragedy that gives you immunity from criticism. How convenient. How profitable. How utterly, irredeemably vile. Our world is at risk because of men like you. Men who import danger, then blame those who notice. Men who sacrifice children to prove their tolerance. Men who would rather police language than protect lives. Keep writing your columns. Keep cashing your cheques. The rest of us will keep counting the bodies your compassion created.

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist. At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

Way way more than that 2 agreements one public one secret See sec 3a below gov.uk/government/publicatio…

Saving lives is not terrorism. It is a legal and moral duty to oppose genocide.

While proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, the UK government has repeatedly granted special immunity to visiting Israeli military officers, protecting them from prosecution for genocide and war crimes. declassifieduk.org/israeli-a…

Jeremy is right as always. Ukraine are the only country that broke the cycle and unilaterally gave up their nuclear weapons. And look at them now a beacon of peace.