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Coll McCail

@MccailColl

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The causes of alienation have deep roots, we ignore them at our peril. My column in today’s @heraldscotland .

How Britain Did(nt) Vote: The causes of apathy run deep, we ignore them at our peril

Turnout during the recent general election was low and Labour were comfortable winners

www.heraldscotland.com

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Brazil are playing just now. That means there’s no better time to talk about the Brazilian midfielder who moved to Italy so that he could “read Gramsci in the original language and study the history of the workers' movement." A thread about Sócrates. 🧵

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“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” Today marks the death of Winston Churchill. Here’s a thread of things you won’t see in the glowing tributes to the ‘greatest Britton ever’. 🧵

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“Resistance is justified when the UK’s funding genocide.” Queen St station just now.

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Thousands out on the streets of Glasgow despite pouring rain. A clear message: #FreePalaestine 🇵🇸

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🇵🇸BREAKING: We won! @GhassanAbuSitt1 elected Glasgow University rector in a landslide victory, winning 80% of first preference votes. A victory for international solidarity and the Palestinian cause in Glasgow tonight.

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Glasgow on the march for a #ceasefireNOW . 🇵🇸

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All out for the @RMTunion in Glasgow this morning.

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“I see football as art. Today most people see football as a competition, a confrontation, a war between two polar opposites… but to start with, it is a great form of art.” Sócrates was one of the greatest political footballers.

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As far as the eye can see… 🇵🇸🕊️ #CeasefireNOW

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The people of Glasgow out in their thousands for Palestine today. 🇵🇸🕊️

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The quote above references Churchill’s comments about the 1943 Bengali famine which killed as many as 3.8 million people. Whilst Churchill blamed the starving Indian population, the famine was actually caused by Britian’s systemic looting of India’s food supplies.

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The people of Glasgow out in their thousands for Palestine this afternoon.

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In the 1930s, Winston Churchill described Palestinians as ‘barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung’. In 1937, he said the following:

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Today Glasgow remembers the courage of the International Brigades, and the 65 people from the city who gave their lives in the fight against fascism. ¡No Pasarán! 🚩

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Sócrates, who captained Brazil to both the '82 & '86 World Cups, was a socialist. Growing up amidst Brazil's military dictatorship, Socrates recalled watching his father burn Bolshevik books in fear of arrest.

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Thousands out for Palestine in Edinburgh today. #ceasefireNOW

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MhairiBlack on top form as ever, at the #SNPIndyConvention . "Since 1939, 62 countries gained independence from Westminster - and not a single one has ever asked to come back." Let's keep up the hard work, stay focused, and ensure Scotland is the 63rd!

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In the same year as the ‘86 Mexico WC, the US brutally bombed Libya. Sócrates played the WC wearing a headband which read 'Yes to Love, No to Terror’, condemning the actions of the imperialist state which had supported military rule in his own country decades earlier.

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Sócrates never planned to become a footballer, only signing his first professional contract after finishing a medical degree. In 1978 he moved to Corinthians FC and founded Corinthians Democracy, fighting for the Club's structures to be made completely democratic.

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The clearest possible message in Glasgow today to Sunak & Starmer: #CeasefireNOW .

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A member of the Workers Party (PT), in 1982 Sócrates stood alongside Lula da Silva in Sao Paulo at a rally of over 2m people. On stage, Sócrates committed to leave Brazilian football if the regime failed to transition to democracy. The next year he went to play in Italy.

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This thread barely scrapes the surface of the words & actions of one of Britain’s most committed imperialists. There’s plenty more. What it should illustrate is quite how much those who celebrate Churchill’s legacy have to answer for.

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"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,” declared Chirchill during his time as Sec of State for War. Whilst his “squeemish” colleagues prevented him from using chemical weapons in colonial india, they were not so opposed to their use in Russia.

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As Home Secretary, Churchill sent Police batallions from london, and held soliders in reserve in Cardiff, to repress industrial action in South Wales. He said that “if the Welsh are striking over hunger then we must fill their bellies with lead.”

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A supporter of the Cuban Revolution, Sócrates named one of his son’s Fidel. The lessons that football today can learn from the likes of Socrates are endless, least of all a firm belief that neither players or fans should leave their politics at the turnstile.

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Glasgow’s Central Station. #CeasefireNOW 🇵🇸

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In 1982, Corinthians played with ‘I Want to Vote for My President’ emblazened on their shirts. By that point, Brazil's military Junta had already murdered hundreds of people. A year later, the team held banners which read “Win or lose but always with democracy”.

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At that point, a repressive system called ‘concentracao’ dominated Brazilian football controlling player's every move. Within the club, Sócrates fought for an alternative democratic model which assigned the same value to the kitman & catering staff as it did the star striker.

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In our thousands, in our millions…

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Describing the naval blockade he helped to lead against Germany at the beginning of WW1, Churchill said “the British blockade treats all of Germany as a besieged fort and explicitly intends to reduce the entire population to starvation… men, women and children."

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Visiting Fascist Italy in 1927, Churchill praised Moussillini. “If I had been an Italian, I am sure I should have been wholeheartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism,” said Churchill.

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Enough is Enough comes to Glasgow… #EnoughisEnough @eiecampaign

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Hours after he was installed as Glasgow University Rector, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah has been detained & denied entry to Germany - where was due to speak at a conference - at Berlin Airport. This is scandalous & must be widely condemned.

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Sócrates believed that football was a site of struggle, that it had to be part of, not divorced from, the broader socialist project. Today, Brazil’s WC squad is captained by Thiago Silva who used his social media to imply support for Bolsonaro ahead of last month’s election.

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Before long, every decision was made by equal vote of players & staff from transfers to training dates. Win bonuses were split equally and a proportion shared among staff. But this model made waves far beyond the pith...

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Churchill oversaw the shipment of 50,000 chemcial weapons to Russia during the civil war and British chemcial aerial attacks began in August 1919. A year earlier, Churchill had told the French that he was “in favour of the greatest possible development of gas-warfare."

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Glasgow says #EnoughIsEnough .

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Glasgow. 🕊️🇵🇸

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Going further, he would later state: “The brilliant Roman personified by Mussolini, the greatest living legislator, showed many nations how to resist the pressures of socialism and showed the path that a nation can follow when it’s courageously led."

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BT’s call centre staff make around £20,000 a year. BT made £1.3 billion last year. Their CEO made 3.5 million. Demand an end to the plunder of working people. Support @CWUnews ’s BT strike.

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You, simply, will never beat the @RMTunion .

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NEW | The educational attainment gap at Higher this year is 15%. It was half that last year (7.8%). Ladies and gentlemen, the Scottish Government has done it again.

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Those of you watching #bbcqt will have heard Mick Lynch labelled a “dinosaur”. His response was the exact same as Bob Crow’s was years ago.👇

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Some day. This wonderful photo perfectly captures the moment @CWUnews & @RMTunion marches joined together from their respective pickets. We’re not going anywhere. #EnoughIsEnough

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BREAKING: @PTTPGlasgow burn energy bills outside Ofgem in Glasgow. #FreezePricesNotPeople

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“If you want wages up, profits have got to come down.” Eddie Dempsey of the @RMTunion .

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Keir Starmer has charged 78% of the British public, 15 of his frontbenchers, the Scottish Labour Leader, the mayors of London and Manchester, the Pope, and the UN with taking a position that 'emboldens Hamas'.

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Edinburgh City Council have scheduled a massive Orange walk on the same day as Edinburgh’s Pride. Dangerous.

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Outside of #COP26 is packed out now. We love it.

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George Square is packed. #CeasefireNOW

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Grim, grim sight. 2 Labour MSPs all smiles as they pose with their Tory counterparts. Put the blame at the door of the SNP by all means, but don’t do it squatting alongside the architects of the austerity you’re protesting.

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“We are the many. They are the very, very few.” Gordon Martin, @RMT_Scotland tells a sea of people gathered at @eiecampaign Glasgow.

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“It’s Scotland’s energy,” says Stephen Flynn. Quite the line from the Party who sold Scotland’s offshore wind to BP and Shell on the cheap while abandoning their commitment to establish a national energy company. #BBCdebate

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Scottish Labour conference unanimously backs an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Over to you, @Keir_Starmer .

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Whilst you’d be forgiven for not knowing it happened, last week Truss sanctioned the mass transfer of £150bn of public wealth to private capital. Billed as a ‘helpful price freeze’, the move robs the public to compensate monopoly corporations - and leaves us to pay for it.

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It’s not a price freeze. It’s a con. #FreezePricesNotPeople

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Reporting Scotland interviewed a parent who, after 2 days of strike action, will now be looking into private education for their child. 🤯

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Reform picked up 7% of the vote in Scotland without, as far as I’m aware, a single candidate running a ‘campaign’ or an identifiable leadership. Comparatively, UKIP got just 1.5% of the vote of in Scotland in 2015 and the Greens won 3% last night. That shouldn’t go unnoticed.

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What a team! Congratulations, @GhassanAbuSitt1 . 🇵🇸

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Today, Glasgow floods while the North East & Highlands are engulfed by wildfires. It’s almost as if there might be a climate emergency…

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“If we hadn’t changed the leader in Scotland two years ago” Starmer admitting ‘sacking’ Scottish Labour’s leader this morning. Just another day…

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Outstanding support for @RMTunion members at Glasgow Central this morning. A clear, defiant message as the Tories launch their latest attack on dignity & democracy.

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As far as the eye can see.

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As Sturgeon pits worker against worker to justify cutting budgets, it’s worth remembering ScotGov could raise the top rate of income tax, institute a land tax and dare to push the boundaries of the Scotland act with a wealth tax.

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Very clear message on Buchanan Street just now. #ToriesOut

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So, for 1 afternoon only, Glasgow has integrated public transport — and it’s because the subway is broken. Imagine if we had decision makers who cared to ensure public infrastructure ran in the interest of people, not profit.

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Valid Subway tickets & Smartcards are being accepted by ScotRail for travel between Partick & City Centre & on First Bus while both Subway circles are currently suspended. We are working to fix the current issues as quickly as we can & will update you when services resume.

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For months we’ve been fighting against Cambo on the streets, in the press and online. Today, Shell publicly pulled out of the development and It looks unlikely to go ahead. Tonight, we celebrate a victory testament to the power of grassroots organising. Yassss! #StopCambo

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Nonsense. To suggest humanity on mass is responsible for climate change is to deflect from centuries of imperialist extraction orchestrated by a selection of global north nations. Climate change was caused by the few, not the many.

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It should not be controversial to say a population of 8 billion will have a grave impact on the climate | John Vidal

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The planet is burning but never mind because Rachel Reeves doesn’t want to break the ‘fiscal rules’ set by the people who lit the match.

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BREAKING: Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delays planned delivery of £28bn green prosperity fund as result of poor economic backdrop.

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Happy Halloween from the Scottish left. 🎃

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‘I support a ceasefire but I didn’t vote for it’ is not, unfortunately for a lot of Labour MPs, a credible position.

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Palestine is a trade union issue.

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The people have the power, power to the people. What a team. #COP26

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Shouldn’t need to say this. You just cannot be a “socialist” and a monarchist. As socialists we struggle for a world free of exploitation, a world where strength is gathered from our collective efforts to achieve liberation and emancipation.

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BBC Debate Night

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“Independence isn’t going to happen yet. Because Labour and the Tories are united in their desire to retain Scotland as a colony” Political economist @RichardJMurphy says Westminster is denying Scotland a referendum, against democratic values #bbcdn

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Of course Osborne doesn’t have regrets. Why would he? Walked straight out of Parliament into a job as Editor of the Evening Standard. Now hosts a podcast with his opposite number & is chair of the British Museum. He’s done very well out of bringing the country to its knees.

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Susanna Reid: "Are there ever moments where you look back and go, I just cut people to the quick" George Osborne: "No" #GMB

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Henry Kissinger turns 100 today. In 1973, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. 10 months later, he orchestrated the instalment of a brutal regime that, over three decades, would murder thousands. On his birthday, let's recall Kissinger's efforts to crush hope in Chile. 🧵

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Just watched this guys video. He’s quite clearly had a couple wines at dinner, thought fuck it, marched out in to his garden and declared his intention to lead the country.

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I’m standing to be the next leader of the Conservative Party and your Prime Minister. For me it’s about aspirational conservatism, fresh ideas, fresh team for a fresh start taking our great country forward. (Full video on my Facebook page).

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Strong student & staff turnout at Glasgow University for today’s @STWuk Workplace Day of Action. Crowd united in its demand for divestment from arms and support for @GhassanAbuSitt1 ’s rector campaign.

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Climate justice means migrant justice.

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“Our position with all of the commercial assets that the Gov has taken ownership of is that ultimately we want them to be back in the private sector.” There it is. Sturgeon unashamedly advocating the mass transfer of state wealth to private capital.

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Incredible support for trans rights in the city centre this morning!

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For those of you who have at any point taken the piss out of my car, here are 2 very happy passengers.

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“We do not tell the people: believe. We say: read.” - Fidel Castro, during the ‘Year of Education’ which rapidly raised Cuban literacy rates to 96%. #WorldBookDay

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He’s right, you know.

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So we did a thing… 35,000 people turned out today. Thank you Glasgow! Solidarity forever. The people United will never be defeated 🚩✊

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All out for the @CWUnews in the wind & rain.

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The British state trembles at the thought of Glasgow’s “readiness thermometer.”

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Thousands on the march for Palestine this afternoon in Edinburgh. Humanity shines in the sun. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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Thousands already on the streets of Glasgow to demand a #CeasefireNOW . Despite Suella Braverman’s slander, we will march.

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Worth pointing out that the Socialist Campaign Group has more than 20 members.

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Confirmed: 7 Labour MPs have voted for the amendment calling for the abolition of the two-child limit: Apsana Begum Ian Byrne Zarah Sultana Imran Hussain John McDonnell Richard Burgon Rebecca Long Bailey

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BT made £1.3 billion last year. Their CEO made £3.5 million. Support the BT/Openreach strike. #FoodbankPhil @CWUnews

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Dr. Abu-Sittah sets out his stall in the video below. Please get the word out to anyone you know at the University.

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WATCH @GhassanAbuSitt1 explain why he’s standing for rector. #Ghassan4Rector 🇵🇸

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49 years ago today, Bob Fulton ran around a Rolls Royce factory in East Kilbride shouting “there’s Chilean engines in here! The whole place is awash with ’em!” What followed was something very special.

Progressive International

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On this day in 1974, Rolls Royce workers in East Kilbride, Scotland, began a boycott that grounded most of General Pinochet’s airforce for four years. Their powerful act of solidarity was heralded by Hortensia Bussi, Allende’s widow, as a “beacon of light to those in Chile.”

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Worth remembering that last year Scottish Labour blocked @_Matt_Kerr from standing in Glasgow South West, where he missed out being elected by 60 votes in 2017, because he wasn’t a “high quality candidate” — a threshold Wilma Brown apparently met.

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Scottish Labour suspends Wilma Brown as candidate in key target seat over 'racist' tweets

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NEW: Ahead of the Scottish Green Party's AGM tonight, the Party's most senior parliamentary staffer - and key ally of Ross Greer - has submitted an anti-trade union motion which will prevent TU delegates from having formal representation in Party structures. (1/3)

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So rarely is Parliament used to deliver upon its function, holding gov to account. That in mind, this @DawnButlerBrent intervention is superb. #BorisJohnsonOut

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I have been thrown out of Parliament for saying what we all know: Boris Johnson has lied to the House of Commons and the country over and over again. But I’ve got news for the Tories, I will never stop speaking truth to power!

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If you’re political project is so thin that, 4 years in, one of its key planks remains ‘not being Jeremy Corbyn’, this is what happens: A Labour Party with room for Natalie Elphicke but not Diane Abbott. Disgraceful, but also symptomatic of Starmerism’s insecure foundations.

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EXC with @Steven_Swinford Diane Abbott will not be allowed to stand for Labour at the general election, The Times understands

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Demanding a publicly owned free transport network now.

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Open letter from Scottish Jewish university staff: "We fully support the students involved in the Gaza solidarity encampments.” Critically important demonstration of unity on campus that dispels a number of myths perpetuated by those who seek to undermine the anti-war movement.

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EXCLUSIVE Scottish University staff support student protests

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We did it! Unbelievably over the moon. More reflection later, but for now: Thank you comrades ❤️🚩

Radical Future

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We are beyond delighted to have been elected to represent young members on the SEC. Thank you to everyone who backed our vision for a radical, representative and democratic Party! Now, to deliver on our manifesto and commitment to socialism. 🌹

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