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John McInally

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Socialist & trade unionist. Former Vice-president PCS (Public & Commercial Services Union) 2007-2017. Retired. Made in Glasgow.

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3 months
Many thanks to @M_Star_Online for publishing my review of The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht. Already a bestseller, over 1000 signed into its launch hosted by @FiLiA_charity . Most important publication so far this year.
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My letter to the @M_Star_Online responding to the appalling 'review' it recently published glorifying anti-materialist reactionary Judith Butler's latest book.
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My response to two letters in the @M_Star_Online in reply to my criticism of the review it recently carried of Judith Butler's recent book.
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Jan Baxter's speech at PCS conference. This is what courage and integrity looks and sounds like. A real socialist woman talking truth to those who have capitulated to anti-science, neo-liberal gender ideology.
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💙Fiona Macdonald
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The outstanding woman of the day goes to Jan Baxter who spoke bravely against 2 motions tabled at the PCS Union conference. The first included an already disproven attack on Cass. #cass #unions #sexrealist #pcsadc
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Every section of the left should be fully behind this statement. If not, take a good hard look at yourself.
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7 months
Meeting up with acting @pcs_union president Martin Cavanagh @cavanagh4 and @FranHeathcote , Fran speaking at Palestine demonstration in London today, first major speech as PCS's new general secretary.
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Full support and solidarity to our NHS workers fighting for decent pay. No to low pay. No to cuts. No to privatisation. For a fully funded, publicly owned National Health Service. Support Saturday's demos. #NHSPay15
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Some inspiring speeches at tonight's #EnoughIsEnough rally in Luton, not least from @HelenOConnorNHS and Eddie Dempsey. @RMTunion @GMBSouthern @eiecampaign Solidarity!
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4 years
Scientist urging herd immunity, 20 seconds into his interview he raises protecting the economy. I stopped listening. #c4news
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2 months
Thanks to the @M_Star_Online for publishing my article on the need to build industrial and political resistance to cuts, privatisation, warmongering and the increasing drift to liberal authoritarianism, and the key role of the unions in doing so.
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2 years
Solidarity with @RMTunion @CWUnews Mitie Hospital strikers @GMBSouthern and all other workers in struggle. For fair pay. No privatisation. No outsourcing. @UKLabour MPs If you're not the picket lines, you're with the Tories. It is that simple #SocialistSunday
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Solidarity with @GMBSouthern Mitie strikers at St George's hospital London
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Solidarity with GMB strikers at St George's Hospital in South London!
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Helen O'Connor 💙
2 years
This is wonderful! Full support from the entire #GMB2022 congress and our GS ⁦ @GMBGarySmith ⁩ for our striking ⁦ @mitie ⁩ members in St George’s Hospital #mitieout #endoutsourcing #costoflivingcrisis
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An outstanding class fighter and socialist. Mark Serwotka has made an enormous contribution to our movement, and I have no doubt, will continue to do so. A truly inspirational workers' leader whose role in building a fighting, democratic union in incalculable.
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PCS Union
1 year
🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀! Mark Serwotka to retire as PCS General Secretary - “It’s been an honour and a privilege to serve as PCS general secretary for 23 years.” Read more: 👇👇👇
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Solidarity with everyone at PCS conference. And all those in struggle, not least our DVLA safety strikers. Everyone deserves a safe workplace. #PCSconference @pcs_union @pcs_dvla
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4 months
@LabWomenDec @M_Star_Online @hannahsbee Great thread. Do you mind if I add this, which preceded the letter you have included, which I hope is a useful addition to the debate.
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The centenary of Lenin's death gives us a real opportunity to debate his legacy, and most of all, his ideas. This new, two volume, 'In Defence of Lenin' by Rob Sewell and Alan Woods is a major contribution that socialists and communists should read and discuss.
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Revolutionary Communist Party
7 months
Experienced trade unionist John McInally introduces Wellred Books’ latest publication: a fascinating biography examining Lenin’s life and ideas by Rob Sewell and Alan Woods. With support for communism on the rise today, we say: Lenin lives! 🔗
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1 year
Exactly the correct stance and tone by @pcs_union in response a government of monsters with 'blood on their hands' @The_TUC @fbunational
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PCS accuses UK government of having "blood on its hands" over migrant deaths Read all about it 👇👇👇
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2 years
This is the way to do it. Solidarity. From @marxistJorge
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Jorge Martin ☭
2 years
Nov 1. Workers from the Brasfels shipyards chase away Bolsonaro Road blockades in the Río - Santos highway at Angra dos Reis. This is how you fight fascism, with the power of the working class.
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2 years
PCS members to strike March 15th. Solidarity!
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PCS Union
2 years
🚨🚨 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀! 🚨🚨 100,000++ Public and Commercial Services (PCS) members in 123 government departments will walk out on 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟱 as strike action escalates  More to follow. #PCSonStrike #BlameTheGovt #RightToStrike
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Tremendous speech from Fran Heathcote, @pcs_union president, representing our union at today's Palestine Solidarity march. Easily one of the biggest, and certainly one of the most significant ever to be held in Britain. #CeasefireNOW @PSCupdates @STWuk
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@DalgetySusan @M_Star_Online @FiLiA_charity Thank you so much Susan, the book is a tremendous achievement. So admire the work you have all done. Inspirational.
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St George's Hospital GMB strikers. Brilliant march and rally. These workers are being exploited by Mitie. Outsourced workers everywhere are being exploited by these profiteers. Solidarity. @HelenOConnorNHS @GMBSouthern @The_TUC @pplsassembly
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3 years
Socialists in the movement must oppose all witch-hunts, whether in the Labour Party or in the unions. There can be no collaboration with, or acceptance of, such methods.
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3 years
@Docstockk @SussexUni Solidarity to you, the treatment you have been subjected too has been shocking. Your book, which I suspect few of your attackers have even read, is a major contribution to the defence of material reality. And it was written with true humanity and compassion. Best wishes
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2 years
Tories Out. General Election Now.
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3 years
@davidwhite020 @InsideCroydon Solidarity with @davidwhite020 This suspension is another act of political gangsterism aimed at purging socialists and socialist ideas from @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer
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3 years
Really powerful article from @pcs_union general secretary Mark Serwotka. Every worker deserves a safe workplace. PCS will always defend its members. @The_TUC @Pcsleftunity1 @pplsassembly @tribunemagazine
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2 years
We can't afford the Tories. General election now! #SocialistSunday @The_TUC @pplsassembly @eiecampaign @pcs_union
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5 months
Well done PCS.
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PCS seriously considering taking legal action to prevent our members being forced to carry out unlawful acts.
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2 years
Good article on revolutionary events in Iran.
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Jorge Martin ☭
2 years
"Iran: repression provokes backlash and calls for a revolutionary general strike" very important article by @RevoAlizadeh which contains full text of Haft Tapeh workers Union call for a general strike and similar statements by revolutionary students
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2 years
PCS president Fran Heathcote and general secretary Mark Serwotka who both spoke today at the Royal Courts of Justice where the union and other campaign groups are fighting to #StopRwanda deportations.
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Lots of pickets in Croydon today. @pcs_union Home Office strikers at Lunar House and Apollo House. Solidarity. @FranHeathcote @campaigns_pcs @PeoplesAss
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2 years
If you are in London today, make sure you come along. @pplsassembly @pcs_union @The_TUC
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4 years
If you wonder why Starmer and the right wing are pursuing the anti-imperialist, anti-war Corbyn with such undisguised venom, the answer is here - they believe in total, uncritical support for American imperialism and war-mongering. Nauseating.
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3 years
@tfrc_unison Solidarity! Great news for Unison members and activists
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John McInally
3 years
Solidarity with @IanBFAWU and @BFAWUOfficial the latest targets of the witch-hunts against socialists being carried out by @Keir_Starmer His mission - to make sure Labour is never again a threat to big business or imperialist warmongering.
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@dianjo @M_Star_Online Thank you Diane. Much appreciated.
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6 months
Tremendous speech from @FranHeathcote This is what real working-class solidarity sounds like #SocialistSunday @pcs_union @The_TUC @pplsassembly
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Stop the War
6 months
Our brilliant Grace Cowan giving the equally amazing @FranHeathcote quite an intro today at the massive march for #Palestine
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2 years
Solidarity with @CWUnews workers striking to save our valuable postal services #StandByYourPost #EnoughIsEnough #ToriesOut
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2 years
General Election Now. @pplsassembly Demonstration Saturday November 5th London Assemble: Embankment 12pm @The_TUC @pcs_union @FranHeathcote
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The trade union movement is more than capable of building a united, coordinated campaigning response to Tory class war, both in our workplaces and communities. @UKLabour politicians who won't stand on our picket lines are not our friends We can win without them #SocialistSunday
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These exchanges are supplement to review. Recent exchanges in Morning Star 1- my letter on review of Judith Butler's latest book. 2 - two responses criticising letter, and 3 - my response. Debate necessary. No 'No Debate'
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Solidarity with DVLA strikers. Every worker has a right to a safe workplace. #PCS @pcs_union
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@PCS_Scotland
PCS Scotland
5 months
This afternoon at #STUC24 congress, Acting PCS President @cavanagh4 will be speaking on Palestine. Here's Martin speaking about the PCS position on the devastating situation in Palestine and how PCS is demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire. @pcs_union
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Excellent, accurate analysis by @marxistJorge
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Jorge Martin ☭
5 months
Iran retaliation on Israel - a few observations. - of course, this is retaliation for the April 1 Damascus attack by Israel against Iranian diplomatic building (a complete breach of 'international law' which the West remained silent about 🧵
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@peskywoman I should have said speeches, as there are two from Jan; both just brilliant. How brave and articulate she is.
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4 years
So much for protection for whistleblowers. Solidarity. Oppose victimisation
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@SecBlinken Hypocrite. Julian Assange. Free Julian Assange.
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Appalling, Butler is an anti-materialist reactionary subjective idealist. A dupe for Big Pharma who slanders communists opposing her queer theory drivel.
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Morning Star
5 months
The prisoners of gender - CAL MCBRIDE recommends an accessible and erudite study that aims to link the struggle for gender rights with the wider critique of neoliberal capitalism
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@Peston The war criminal Blair, that Blair? Seriously!
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5 months
@LoveInner Theodorakis: Medea Rachmaninoff: Vespers Schubert: Lazarus Gluck: Orphee & Eurydice Monteverdi: Madrigals MacMillan: Strathclyde Motets Mussorsky: Boris Godunov Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko Vaughan Williams: Sir John In Love Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise
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John McInally
2 years
Any politician who supports privatisation is colluding with big business to destroy our NHS. Any politician who supports privatisation is our enemy. It really is that simple #SocialistSunday @The_TUC @UKLabour @pplsassembly @eiecampaign @NHSSOS @keepnhspublic
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We need to be clear, Labour MPs who have condoned the massacre in Gaza by refusing to back calls for an immediate ceasefire are war criminals. They are not powerless by-standers, they have political agency and authority, they have chosen to endorse this slaughter.
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John McInally
3 years
Marxism: The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is change it. Posmodernism: You can't change the world, let's re-interpret it.
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@FranHeathcote and Mark Serwotka lead striking @pcs_union civil servants into Trafagar Square for rally with @NEUnion @ucu @RMTunion @ProspectUnion @TheBMA strikers on biggest day of action in some years. Solidarity!
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4 years
Support our NHS workers as they have supported us. Demo in London tomorrow Saturday 8th August, other demos in cities around the UK.
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4 years
@BorisJohnson A lecture on morality from the most morally corrupt politician in living memory. An incompetent who is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and who is handing over billions of our money to his friends in outsourcing contracts. Breathtaking hypocrisy.
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@ucu picket line Croydon College. Solidarity from @pcs_union @The_TUC
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John McInally
2 years
Solidarity with CWU!
@DaveWardGS
Dave Ward
2 years
Royal Mail can impose a 2% pay increase on our members all they want. We’re now going to impose the biggest industrial action ballot result in trade union history on them.
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Demonstration organised by Croydon Trades Council against proposed 15% hike in Council Tax. No Council Tax rise. No cuts. No privatisation. Wednesday 1st March. Croydon Town Hall. Katherine St. Assemble from 5.30pm @InsideCroydon @yourcroydon
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@TheLancet @WHO For a supposedly reputable medical and scientific journal to dehumanise and consciously humiliate women by decribing them as 'bodies with vaginas' is beyond acceptability. It is monstrous.
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John McInally
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Billions corruptly syphoned off in contracts but 1% for health workers and pay freezes for public sector. TUC - get organised, lead the fightback. @The_TUC
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John McInally
2 years
Solidarity with @GMBSouthern striking refuse workers.
@HelenOConnorNHS
Helen O'Connor 💙
2 years
Early morning on the Waverley @Biffa refuse dispute picket line @GMBSouthern
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@jk_rowling Thank you so much for retweet, genuinely appreciated.
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John McInally
3 years
Defend Public Services. Defend The NHS. No To Privatisation. #SocialistSunday
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3 years
Blog from @FranHeathcote @pcs_union President
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John McInally
2 years
Solidarity with GMB Mitie out-sourced workers at St George's Hospital in South London. These exploited, low-paid workers have already taken 3 days strike action, and will take a week's action from June 20th. They deserve the full support of our movement.
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March. Rally. Organise. Fight. Our class: First And Always. TUC Rally. Portland Place London @The_TUC @pcs_union @pplsassembly @Pcsleftunity1 @FranHeathcote
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John McInally
2 years
PCS's strike plans
@pcs_union
PCS Union
2 years
Read the latest issue of our members’ magazine PCS People which focuses on our national campaign, historic yes vote in our ballot and preparation for strikes.
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4 years
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Samuel Johnson True then. True now.
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4 years
He just isn't trying hard enough. Perhaps next time he could wear a full Admiral's dress uniform, including feather-plumed hat. Rule Britannia.
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@LoveInner Second only to Furtwangler amongst the great German conductors. Here are a few of his best: The Ring, Arabella and La Clemenza di Tito. All excellent but the Strauss peerless.
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3 years
Never believe another report about protestors starting violence, remember the police lies about with 'broken bones'. Solidarity with Bristol.
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John McInally
3 years
The vengeance of the US ruling class against Assange for exposing their disgusting war crimes enabled by the craven and politically corrupt British judiciary. #FreeAssange
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John McInally
3 years
Good article from @cavanagh4 @pcs_union vice-president. Food is not a luxury. @Pcsleftunity1
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John McInally
2 months
No surprise here.
@markcurtis30
Mark Curtis
2 months
On the eve of the 2019 election the UK secret state warned of the “threat” of Jeremy Corbyn. On the eve of this one, it endorsed Keir Starmer. Join us @declassifiedUK to help us expose the coming Starmer government. 👉
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@jepaco @hugh_canning @HarryPaterson1 @LoveInner @jjohnstonmezzo @AnnaBonitatibus @aquilanebula @deeplyclassical @larkingrumple @dennzz @schrekerman @jessicaduchen Looks great, haven't heard it with Abbado, must have a listen. I have von Dohnànyi's with the Vienna Philharmonic and Anja Silja, which is very good indeed.
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Congratulations to @pcs_union new President, Martin Cavanagh, a real class fighter and leader, taking over from @FranHeathcote on her election as general secretary.
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@ForWomenScot Thank you rather, for your inspirational campaign work. What an achievement.
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3 years
What is Labour's plan to fund social care? 'We would sit down with the government.' Jonathan Ashworth. Jesus wept! @Channel4News @JonAshworth @UKLabour @pplsassembly
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@iseult @FiLiA_charity @M_Star_Online Thank you, you done all the work, took all blows, and still stood strong.
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John McInally
1 year
Soldarity on the Big @pcs_union Walk-out. And with all striking workers! @NEUnion @ucu @RMTunion @bma @The_TUC @pplsassembly
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John McInally
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Those union leaders who are already doing deals with Starmer to allow any future Labour government to supercharge cuts and privatisation, and fully support US warmongering in return for promises of a few crumbs will have lots of explaining to do. #SocialistSunday
@AlexSnowdon8
Alex Snowdon
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Mandelson today, Starmer tomorrow. Rayner and the friendly union leaders will be humiliated. The new deal for working people will be torn up. We - the unions - will have to fight for everything. We will get nothing from Labour without a struggle.
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2 years
What this article does not make clear is while PFI was introduced by the Tories it was super-charged under @GordonBrown Like you @GeorgeMonbiot @pcs_union campaigned to expose this legalised plunder of public finances
@GeorgeMonbiot
George Monbiot
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When Labour was in power, I wrote 22 articles and part of a book about how the Private Finance Initiative would cripple the NHS and other services. No one in government would listen to me or others. It breaks my heart that our warnings have been vindicated
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Solidarity!
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PCS Union
2 years
#PCSonStrike 📢📢📢 Today sees the first wave of @pcs_union Industrial Action. Please send messages of solidarity to our members & reps in DVSA & Rural Payments Agency (RPA) who are braving harsh weather on their picket lines this morning. Picket lines:
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Solidarity
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PCS Union
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Support our members on the 5th day of the latest round of strike action at Hinduja Global Solutions. They will be on the picket line in Liverpool every day until 29 October. #HighlyRatedPoorlyPaid
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4 years
Just so we're all clear, opposing the effective legalisation of torture is not the left heckling from the sidelines.
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Ian King on Sky News - 'Gamifying the serious business of stock trading' And they say satire is dead! @SkyNews
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John McInally
2 years
Solidarity with @GMBSouthern St. George's hospital worker strikers @pplsassembly @The_TUC
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Helen O'Connor 💙
2 years
One of the St George’s hospital strike exists
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