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Banjo player. Revolutionary Socialist. Music Hall enthusiast. Web dev. Film buff. He / Him. Love Music, Hate Racism. Drunkard.

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Noisy demo in Sheffield as the locals tell the filthy Posie Parker and her hateful mob they don't belong with decent people of any gender.
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Race riot on Merseyside. Hundreds of fascists laying siege to a hotel housing refugees. Unite Against Fascism.
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@Glinner OMG an anus has escaped!
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Vibrant demo against the Nazi Stephen Yaxley Lennon in London today, but the fact is the fascists massively outnumbered us. All the past victories will mean zero if we can't stuff these rats back in their sewer again, and that's not a spectator sport. @AntiRacismDay @uaf
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Solidarity with everyone standing up yo the fascists in Rotherham and elsewhere today. Don't let the racists divide us. @AntiRacismDay @uaf
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@sashasimic @lucymooring Im pretty sure I've seen a whole shelf of classics by it.
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@ayerightmac Park life!
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4 years
@RealKingRegal Brother, do you not see that if there is an injustice and someone responds by saying they decline to take a position on this then they are implicitly aligning themselves with whoever gains from the injustice? And we live in an age of injustice.
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1 year
@paulmasonnews You've done another diagram!!! I love it when you do that!
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2 years
More than 100 anti racists turned up to oppose the fascist Patriotic Alternative's anti immigration demo in Hull today. We didn't let them rest for a minute. Nobody involved in that demo can think they are part of anything other than a far right freakshow. @uaf @AntiRacismDay
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2 years
@fayemikah Why did they censor the c*ck? Like if they'd spelt it out, that would be offensive?
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2 years
Solidarity with the RMT strikers at Sheffield Station this morning. "If you fight you won't always win, but if you don't fight you will always lose" @RMTunion
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2 years
Ten years since the people of a nondescript East London borough rose in their thousands and dealt a mortal blow to the nascent fascist movement. One fabric, many threads. Unite Against Fascism. #WeAreWalthamForest
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@AntifascistRC Try focusing on the fascists rather than making this pathetic statement about ordinary people who were trying to defend their communities and were frightened of their lives you pathetic dick waving arseholes.
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3 years
Mustering for UN Anti Racism day. #StandUpToRacism @AntiRacismDay
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2 years
Bela Lugosi was a great leftie who fled Hungary because of his involvement with the 1919 revolution. He spoke out many times against Nazism and protested against the Hungarian state's involvement in the Holocaust. I belive this awesome graphic is from @161_crew
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Jesus Christ, she always was a phoney and a poseur, but what a scumbag Louise Distras has turned into.
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Obviously I’m blocked by Louise Distras but SHAME ON HER playing for fascists tomorrow. Her punk card is REVOKED. ‘We’re anti racist, Antifascist and pro creative’- Joe Strummer @robinjamesbank3 JOIN US TOMORROW Russell Square Noon
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@AntifascistRC Anti fascism is unity in action and mutual solidarity, not moronic sectarianism. The movement is being tested and you fucking fell at the first hurdle.
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3 years
Hey @pritipatel , I'm a critic of the Rwanda plan and I can offer my own solution: Open the borders. #refugeeswelcomehere #nohumanisillegal
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@CWUnews You might be happy to suppress your members views, doesn't mean Socialist Worker should censor its correspondence does it? Maybe focus less on the butt-hurt and more on the anger amongst your membership?
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2 years
Happy 160th birthday to Gus Elen. I hope he has a nice quiet day.
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Fed up with the bot-fest cesspit on this post so disabling comments. #transrightsarehumanrights
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@GarstonKopite @Glinner Says someone with a slang term for gonad as their actual username...
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5 years
"You have to act as though it was possible to change the world in radical ways. And you have to do it all the time." #marxism2019
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3 years
Telford says get stuffed Yaxley Lennon. #Standuptoracism
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2 years
Local activists confront a rump of the nazi Patriotic Alternative in Hull. @uaf @AntiRacismDay #RefugeesWelcome
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1 year
Some fifty Stand Up To Racism activists countered pound shop Führer Alex Yerbury's pathetic handful of chocolate soldiers outside RAF Scampton. Refugees Welcome Here! @AntiRacismDay @uaf
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@KarenPollock100 @MetroUK This is simply grotesque. I mean it's not, but whatever.
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@BeatleReal I don't think you were really in The Beatles.
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2 years
A secret weapon against the fascist thugs of Patriotic Alternative @uaf @AntiRacismDay #RefugeesWelcome
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1 year
Eleven years ago today the people of a nondescript East London borough came together in our thousands and send the Nazi scum of the EDL packing. It was a great day.
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2 years
Beautiful documentary about the day we kicked the fascists out of Walthamstow. It was a day that changed my life, but that doesn't matter. It was a day that changed the fascist movement in Britain. That matters. #WeAreWalthamForest
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8 years
Kick the EDL out of Coventry. #wearecov @uaf
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1 year
@antisemitism Remarkable you have clearly never read a novel, watched a movie or even listened to the original Wall released in 1979 where the fascist character makes a number of racist comments as part of the drama. Actually I think you understand fine, you are just twisting liars.
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2 years
Ran my first non-folk club gig in Sheffield last night and it was a blinder! Great stuff from Doctur Normul, Jess Silk and David Rovics. Thanks so much! And special thanks to @TheGreystones for being awesome! @Doctur_Normul @silkj1 @drovics @lmhrnational #LoveMusicHateRacism
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It was twenty years ago today we all said Stop the War. It didn't change Blair's mind, but it changed me. #stopthewar @SheffieldSTW @STWuk
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@The_TUC TUC capitulates in the face of demise of ruling class mascot who paid £12 million in public money to save her son from facing justice for raping a teenager shocker!
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@CathAllen8 I'm a pretty good banjo player actually. I play concerts and make records.
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Total solidarity with all who are standing up for refugees and opposing racism and fascism in Dover today. Don't let the racists divide us. @uaf @AntiRacismDay
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2 years
Another day another picket line - but seldom are they as stylish as this! Solidarity with the striking BT Openreach workers. I used to work with BT many years ago, so this one is a bit personal. #OpenreachStrike @CWUnews @CWUSouthyorks
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@HagensHagens Thank you for making my point so eloquently.
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2 years
Having a blast manning the Love Music Hate Racism stall at Tramlines @lmhrnational @tramlines
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1 year
Enjoyed playing a set to the Sunnyside Folk Club in Queens NYC last night. I even got a couple of classic banjo tunes it. Morley in New York!
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1 year
@GlastoLeftField @glastonbury @billybragg @iam_Cassyette @_DEADLETTER @KidKapichi @limegardenband Radical perspectives than meet the approval of those who slander and witch hunt socialists, apartheid supporters, and the right, huh?
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2 years
A very touching, moving and sincere tribute from Anne Summers. This is all perfectly normal and reasonable.
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1 year
My banjo has been on an unscheduled independent world tour courtesy of Aer Lingus baggage handling. I am very happy to finally have it back!
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4 years
More than 150 people turned out in Walthamstow Town Square as part of a vigil for Sarah Everard and against violence to women. And that was in spite of attempts by the police and local leaders to shut it down. But we will not be silenced. #ReclaimTheseStreets
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2 years
20 years of Love Music Hate Racism: ‘This campaign is more important than ever’ #LoveMusicHateRacism
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8 months
@MitchBenn @GizmoDelTurbo Absolute nonsense. 2017 GE polled Blair level votes and came within a few thousand of winning. The problem was the BBC, a Labour right who would rather have Johnson than anything socialist and smug media types like you who didn't use your platform to defend him.
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Oh why won't I have a lovely cup of tea and warm hearted chat with these charming, intellectually engaged and definitely not bots people?
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Bela Lugosi didn't like Nazis and I reckon he would have signed Stand Up To Racisms unity statement. And I think you should too. Remember, just because he's dead doesn't mean it would be wise to disappoint Bela! @AntiRacismDay @uaf
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Bela Lugosi standing up against evil.
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@blackbirdpeeja I enjoyed you sniffing me though.
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2 years
Wishing everyone a revolutionary Christmas..!
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@Glinner Got an opinion about you, certainly.
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2 years
A contribution to #SheetMusicSaturday - Oh the Suffragettes, verses made and (I kid you not) ejaculated by Ernest Radcliffe. #stayclassy @rickblackman01 @musichallsoc @YoungAlison4
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@DarkCorners3 Thanks to @TalkingPicsTV I finally got to see "Count Yorga, Vampire" which I've wanted to see since I read about it in the book "Monsters of the Movies" by Dennis Gifford as a kid. I quite enjoyed it.
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2 years
The old world is dieing. The new world cannot yet be born. Now is the time of monsters.
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1 year
Didn't you used to be Billy Bragg? If only you had a tenth the vision and courage of Roger Waters.
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A message to the ranting transphobic scum using some of the precious seconds of their lives to post abuse on my tweets: I'm not some vulnerable person trying to understand who I am in a world that wants to erase me. We see how you treat them. You can't bully or intimate me.
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@GarstonKopite @Glinner I think we can all agree that you are very much a bollock. Solidarity.
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1 year
Bye bye, Farewell, Fuck off Bye bye, Farewell, Fuck off Bye bye, Farewell, And then fuck off from there as well, Bye bye, Farewell, Fuck off... Dear Mr Johnson by Steve White & the Protest Family #BorisJohnson
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I had a blast playing the Care4Calais fundraising event in Hackney last night. Lovely to catch up with some old friends, have such a lovely audience and help with such a worthwhile cause. @Care4Calais
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Motorcading for @Maxine4Sheff for Brightside and Hillsborough. Fantastic reaction from the locals. Resistance burns bright in the hearts of the ordinary folks who know the only reason it's not us being put to fire in the interests of the powerful is LUCK. #FreedomForPalestine
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At the British Music Hall Society conference learning about Le Petomane. A music hall turn who's thing was musical farting. There's a thing. #musichall #conference
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@davidgilmour Something for all of us to take comfort from when our favourite guitarist comes out as a supporter of apartheid and part of a right wing smear campaign against those who oppose it... #JusticeForPalestine
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1 year
When they came for the Palestinians I said "Don't be asking me to pick sides" Sleaford Mods? Sleaford Dicks more like.
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Don’t be asking me to pick sides for something I ain’t got any real idea about, at a gig. I’m a singer. My job is music. The only real thing I know about War is that I’m sick and tired of premature death like we all are. Of the murder of anyone, under whatever fucking belief grid
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I simply decline to accept that @msimpsonian is seventy today. He just isn't. That's all there is to it.
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@MattDan23642855 @JossSheldon The trouble with this is that in order to stop Jews being treated like "third class citizens" Palestinians have to be treated like "human animals" to quote Israel’s defense minister. Why not fight for a world where nobody gets treated like a third class citizen?
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Antisemitism is a crime Anti Zionism is a duty FREE FREE PALESTINE Demonstration in Sheffield
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@KarenPollock100 @MetroUK Everything about this is simply grotesque. Apparently.
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@Hirilorn @Glinner Who? I'm very happily married, I think Graham is the expert on divorce?
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6 months
So today, after 24 years as a freelance I rejoin the proletariat with my first day at my new full-time job. #UpTheWorkers
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@ucu @DrJoGrady So Paul Mason is in charge of UCU, huh?
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@DaisyDeadhead I'd settle for activity from ordinary people, including things like today's demo, winning the argument for trans rights within the Movement and consigning the likes of Posie Parker to political irrelevance. Pretty basic Trotskyism really.
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Tories are great for us folkies. Never thought I'd have the chance to see a real life prison hulk! Just perfect for victimising some of the most vulnerable and desperate human beings on the planet. Thanks, you disgusting racist vermin. #RefugeesWelcome #StandUpToRacism
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Sweepstake on how many comments from racists bellends before one on them actually has the guts to use real names and profile pictures.
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Sophia Beach at the @MarxismFestival : "The lesson of the Holocaust is Never Again. And that does not come with a caveat. It means for everyone." #Marxism2024 #FreedomForPalestine
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Demonstration outside Barclays Bank in Sheffield today. I hope the shareholders enjoy their blood soaked dividends - one day we will make them pay. #FreePalestine #BDS
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Under Godiva's gaze the people of Coventry say no to the EDL. Refugees Welcome Here! #wearecov @uaf
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2 years
@DarkCorners3 @reelsteelcinema showed Plague of the Zombies and Devil Rides Out at the Abbeydale Picture House @Abbeydale_PH here in Sheffield. Fantastic to watch on a big screen. Plague in particular doesn't waste a frame! There was a poster exhibition too!
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Also at @musichallsoc #musichall #conference we met Natator the Man Fish who would be a bonus between the goal posts of any Sunday league side and Ethardo, the Spiral Ascensionist. There was banjo talk too.
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@jewssf Tommy Robinson.
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Just a thought for those leaving here. I get that it's often a cesspit but it's also not profitable so if you don't pay for a blue tick or anything every interaction you make costs that arse Elon Musk money. Which seems like a win to me.
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@DarkCorners3 Hammer's Gorgon from 1964. Far more a romantic Gothic Tragedy than a horror. The Cush gives a great, agonised performance often wrongly portrayed as him playing a villain. It's pretty good.
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Terry Hall's legacy...
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@HrmQueene Landlord: "Its a great idea they said. Will make the pub look historic yet contemporary they said. Sure it'll cost a few grand but what can go wrong they said." Everyone for three miles around: "Fancy a swift pint up The Nonce?"
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More racist attacks on some of the most vulnerable people in society next Saturday, the 18th, in Rotherham. We need to get on the streets in numbers and show these bastards they are not welcome here or anywhere.
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The racist Tories think they can literally get away with the murder of some of the most vulnerable people on the planet. Let's make a stand by taking to the streets together in London, Glasgow & Cardiff on March 18th. #RefugeesWelcomeHere #ResistRacism @AntiRacismDay
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1 year
I'd just like to say @MichaelRosenYes is a lovely bloke, a superb author and a brilliant activist and to Hell with the twisting low life thugs having a go at him.
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4 years
Walthamstow takes the knee. #blacklivesmatter
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@TravellerRacism I'm in the UK and I don't say that. Cos I'm not a fucking bellend.
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3 years
I've had an absolutely splendid evening watching the sensational Sister Chain and Brother John supported by the stunning Slate Islands at Cafe #9 . To go to a tiny little venue and experience amateur musicians play music of staggeringly high quality is such a privilege.
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5 years
I have writted a thing..!
@SWPSheffield
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5 years
New pamphlet – Hold the Line: Echoes of the Peekskill Riots The pamphlet introduces the main characters, looks at US political background of the time, examines parallels to the age of Trump, Charlottesville & the rise of the far right across the globe
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@paulmasonnews There’s always the money for missiles & tanks There’s always the money for generals & banks There’s always the money for new ways to kill But a limited budget for you if you’re ill Yes there’s always enough for a war But there’s never enough for the poor
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@DarkCorners3 The new @FilmsRadiance reissue of Scream and Scream Again. It's really good! Smart, dark and well cast. I didn't know much about Gordon Hessler and the Michael Reeves connection. I will be checking out his other stuff.
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@sally_hines It also seems to miss that the far right in power view feminism as a threat to be eliminated.
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