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✒️ Poetry in @culturesmatter @sidwayspoetry @inksweattears |🎙️Co- host of @sobremesacast |🔻 Siempre |

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@amcguiri
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Thank you for publishing my poem! If you have ever been on a night out in the UK, you might recognise some sights 🍻🥙🥴 #downtown #nightout #poetry
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Ink Sweat & Tears
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Today we have Alan McGuire with his poem 'Going Downtown', an exploration of rowdy but lonely nights out. Read more of his poem at the link below or through the link in bio.
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@Israel_katz Minister, maybe it is you who should study al-Andalus. A period of cohabitation in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived alongside one another. A period where the capital of al-andalus had more books in one library than the entirety of Europe. An age that saved and
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Roger Waters. A Legend. This was his reply to Mark Zuckerberg trying to buy the rights to his music for an ad
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En Gran Bretaña, un periódico tiene una stream directo de una lechuga junto a una foto de la Primera Ministra Liz Truss. Quieren ver si su tiempo en la oficina durará más que la vida del vegetal verde 🥗
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@The_TUC We are a joke to the managerial classes. Sack him without any pay.
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Another Coup? By this blairite and co? @novaramedia @NewSocialistUK @AaronBastani
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@Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @TheGillsFC By 'working people' you mean corporate lobbyists, the status quo and the USA?
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@IdiazAyuso Esto es capitalismo de Ayuso y el Partido Popular en Madrid
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Now that Julian Assange is free, may I introduce you to basque journalist Pablo González who has been held in a Polish prison for 851 days. He has had no trial, no visits, and there is hardly any coverage of his case in the press. #FreePabloGonz ález
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My new book “Basic Socialism: Why Socialism is Sexy Now” is free to download on Kindle for the next 5 days. Why not have a look and leave a review to help a fellow socialist out. 🌹 RT please
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Following Spain’s recognition of the State of Palestine 🇵🇸 Yolanda Diaz, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of @sumar released this video. It seems to have upset Israel. Here are a few quotes: "Spain's recognition of the State of Palestine is our commitment to human rights"
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El reconocimiento del Estado palestino es una cuestión de derechos humanos y legalidad internacional. La situación en Palestina nos obliga a no quedarnos aquí. Tenemos que seguir trabajando para acabar con el genocidio y conseguir un alto el fuego.
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@ierrejon Las elecciones europeas son una cuestión de movilización, nada más. Todo depende de la comunicación. @_elizabethduval debería dimitir. Y no se debería permitir a @Yolanda_Diaz_ elegir a dedo a candidatos desconocidos, poco políticos y poco inspiradores. @estrella_galan
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@IdiazAyuso No, this is Madrid
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Quédate con el mejor estilo de vida del mundo. Ah, solo si eres rico. #Pol òniaTV3
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Ladies and Gentlemen please give a round of applause to @EddieDempsey of the @RMTunion 👏👏 The best speech you will hear this year. Period. #classconsciousness
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Eddie Dempsey, Assistant General Secretary of the @RMTunion , on class conciousness.
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@_elizabethduval @El_Intermedio Sumar pasa más tiempo en entregas de premios que en cualquier otra cosa...
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@SkyNews @AliBunkallSKY What does it mean to be symbolic? These actions have come about because Western hegemony is dying, and countries with morals don't support genocide!
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If you have sent me your name for the Mike Gapes complaint letter, I have added your name to the encrypted letter and deleted your name from my DMs. When the letter has been sent to Labour HQ I will delete all information #housekeeping
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@ierrejon Tu teoría postmarxista es la culpable de esto. España no es Madrid. Volvamos a lo básico.
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@IdiazAyuso Tienes la libertad de morir de en un centro de meyores. La libertad de tener listas de espera de atención médica. La libertad de pagar 40% de tu salario al propietario. La libertad de vivir al lado de un Airbnb. La libertad de pasar delante las tiendas de empanadas argentinas
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Can someone please tell me why "Golpe de Estado" is trending in Spain? 🤦‍♀️ Is this the Spanish right getting confused between a military overthrow and democratic maneuvers?
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All Spanish universities have vowed to brake relations with Israeli universities and research centres that do not promote peace. They have also agreed to improve and work with Palestinian universities and promote the creation of volunteer programs.
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@AyoCaesar Orwell wasn’t perfect but he got shot in the throat fighting real fascists (not upset arguing with Darren Grimes on Twitter like some). Criticise him all you want, he would have loved it!
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@LabLeftVoice ⁩ complaint has been sent 🌹✊🏻 Solidarity everyone #gomikegapes
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@Israel_katz Why he is annoyed
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Following Spain’s recognition of the State of Palestine 🇵🇸 Yolanda Diaz, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of @sumar released this video. It seems to have upset Israel. Here are a few quotes: "Spain's recognition of the State of Palestine is our commitment to human rights"
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@Yolanda_Diaz_ @estrella_galan Las elecciones europeas son una cuestión de movilización, nada más. Todo depende de la comunicación. @_elizabethduval debería dimitir. Y no se debería permitir a @Yolanda_Diaz_ elegir a dedo a candidatos desconocidos, poco políticos y poco inspiradores. @estrella_galan
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@IdiazAyuso Está de moda porque no se obliga a los ricos a pagar impuestos.
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Huge victory for the @elpce and Unidas Podemos inside the coalition government. Amendments to the 1977 amnesty law will allow Francoists to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. Justice will be done
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Partido Comunista de España 🇵🇸
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"Estamos dando pasos muy sólidos para acabar con la impunidad del franquismo". @EnriqueSantiago presenta el acuerdo de #UnidasPodemos con el PSOE sobre la Ley de Memoria Democrática que pone fin a las excusas para juzgar a los criminales franquistas.
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@carlossmato Las elecciones europeas son una cuestión de movilización, nada más. Todo depende de la comunicación. @_elizabethduval debería dimitir. Y no se debería permitir a @Yolanda_Diaz_ elegir a dedo a candidatos desconocidos, poco políticos y poco inspiradores. @estrella_galan
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@AngelaRayner Council homes built by the local authorities or have the lobbyists already had their pickings?
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Keith Starmer taking the world by storm 🫢
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A good Christian country
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Would anyone be interested in a weekly, light hearted Spanish current affairs podcast?
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If @graceblakeley becomes a WAG the England team would become even more Marxist and win the #WorldCup2022 Make it happen lads 👑🏆👰
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@cucagamarra @ppopular El PP ya mezcló a Sánchez y al Estado cuando empezaron a difamarle y llamarle dictador y siguieron la línea de Vox intentando tumbar al Gobierno durante la pandemia de la COVID-19!
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@AntonioMaestre Las elecciones europeas son una cuestión de movilización, nada más. Todo depende de la comunicación. @_elizabethduval debería dimitir. Y no se debería permitir a @Yolanda_Diaz_ elegir a dedo a candidatos desconocidos, poco políticos y poco inspiradores. @estrella_galan
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@PODEMOS ¿Entonces ella no fue a la escuela pública?
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Cheers @DerbyChrisW and @AmmarKazmi_ Looking forward to this 😎
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Vox me ha intentado dar un panfleto hoy en la puerta de la estación de tren de #Legan és. Respondí en inglés "¡no, gracias, soy un inmigrante!" 🤣
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@electo_mania
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‼️Pedro Sánchez NO SE VA, SE QUEDA. El líder del PSOE 🌹 ha decidido continuar como presidente del Gobierno de #Espa ña 🇪🇸. ↘️
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Buen noche en @CSPasilloVerde con los camaradas de @elpcm @nwtuic conmemorando la lucha de las Brigadas Internacionales #ViernesCulturales
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The Spanish far right supporters, who normally inhabit Barrio Salamanca and the mountains of Madrid, have decided to play dress up this weekend. They have invented some character which is a cross of Peaky Blinders and Downton Abbey 🤠 Money can't buy taste 🤡
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@AntonioMautor Si esta es la respuesta no estás haciendo las preguntas correctas.
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@JennyMitchellGo Love of words, small details and people watching
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😅
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@diasasaigonados What they think they look like Vs What they really look like
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Las elecciones europeas son una cuestión de movilización, nada más. Todo depende de la comunicación. @_elizabethduval debería dimitir. Y no se debería permitir a @Yolanda_Diaz_ elegir a dedo a candidatos desconocidos, poco políticos y poco inspiradores. @estrella_galan
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Viva Avante Fest!
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@MrBenSellers Every word is correct. Sadly the Socialist Campaign Group have not learnt this.
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Free broadband for all, a well-funded public NHS, a green new deal to restart the economy and teaching the history of colonialism and unions in schools isn’t looking so bad now eh? 😉 #chlorinatedchicken
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Prime minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez effectively threatened to stand down today after the right have thrown empty accusations of corruption at his wife. Much of this lawfare is a retaliation from the Madridcentric media-judicial wing of the PP for uncovering the corruption of
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A ver Perro Sanxe: te has enfrentado a una pandemia mundial, Filomena, un volcán, una guerra en Europa y a la inflación. No te puede tirar Manos Limpias.
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Great show @AyoCaesar and @frankieboyle 👏 Novara Media you need to get @lokiscottishrap on to talk!!
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Today in Madrid, the local PP government has renamed C/ de la Maestra Justa Freire to C/ General Millán Astray. The former was a popular teacher and the latter a fascist leader during the Franco dictatorship. What would you prefer your street to be called?
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Minister, maybe it is you who should study al-Andalus. A period of cohabitation in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived alongside one another. A period where the capital of al-andalus had more books in one library than the entirety of Europe. An age that saved and
@Israel_katz
ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz
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In response to Spain's recognition of a Palestinian state and the antisemitic call by Spain's Deputy Prime Minister to not just recognize a Palestinian state but to 'liberate Palestine from the river to the sea,' I have decided to sever the connection between Spain's
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Wow the full version of this is a car crash...🤡 If he had to put up with a quarter of the negative press and MPs plotting against him Corbyn had, he would not be leader now
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Sky News
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is challenged by @SamCoatesSky about the roles he considered taking while a MP. Read more:
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@sumar @ernesturtasun Las elecciones europeas son una cuestión de movilización, nada más. Todo depende de la comunicación. @_elizabethduval debería dimitir. Y no se debería permitir a @Yolanda_Diaz_ elegir a dedo a candidatos desconocidos, poco políticos y poco inspiradores. @estrella_galan
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@LIModerates ⁩ why are you retweeting Tories? You really are in the wrong party...
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"the reason we cannot have a public energy company is because we govern with PSOE. If you want us to go further, we need more seats and more power." Insightful interview here with @MazelLilith by @EoghanGilmartin Via @tribunemagazine
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@AaronBastani @novaramedia Same reason the Morning Star is ignored despite being a national daily. Your opinions are not legitimate in the eyes of the liberal London media bubble. You only got invited because they couldn't ignore Corbyn.
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@EnriqueSantiago @IzquierdaUnida Espero que no estés diciendo que vamos a ayudar a fundar otro partido.... "La locura es hacer lo mismo una y otra vez y esperar resultados diferentes."
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Juan Carlos Borbón, Spain's former monarch 👑, returned to the country after two years in exile following several financial scandals Asked by journalists if he was going to give an explanation to his son King Felipe VI he replied "explanations for what!" followed by a laugh
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@diasasaigonados We call um yuppies in the UK "Coined in the 1980s, the term yuppie was used as a derogatory title for young business people who were considered arrogant, undeservedly wealthy, and obnoxious" And we laugh at them...
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@paulmasonnews @BylineTV Is this the show you are going to embarrass the Grey Zone on? As you say in the leaked emails... You do know you have increased their fame amongst the British left now? 🤣
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El mejor discurso de la fiesta. Con camaradas como @AlvaroAgFa el PCE tiene un gran futuro #fiestapce21
@IU_Madrid
IU Madrid🔻
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Discurso de el coordinador de Izquierda Unida Madrid y Secretario General de @elpcm @alvaroagfa en la @fiestaPCE
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Last year I wrote a critique on the West's ruling ideology: neo-liberalism and I also explain how the concept of ideology works. You can download the PDF free or find links to get yourself a physical copy #DiaDelLibro #WorldBookDay2022
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Spanish actor Willy Toledo wins another court case against Christian lawyers. First they took him to court over blasphemy on a Facebook post and this time for calling them far-right and fundamentalists.
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Late-stage bourgeois society: Jordan Peterson explaining Christianity to the Pope
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Following a work inspection in a restaurant in Almería, a chef and waiter were reportedly working 12 hour days for 150€ a month. Wait until they inspect the huge greenhouses in Andalucía 😬
@IzquierdaUnida
Izquierda Unida🔻🇵🇸
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12 horas al día por 150€ al mes. Y todavía hay quien dice que el problema de este país es que subimos el salario mínimo.
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@comuflauta Es como una pintura renacentista 👩🏼‍🎨
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My analysis of last week's local elections and why Sánchez has called a general election @M_Star_Online is the only daily socialist newspaper in English, and it's owned by its readers 📰 Proud to write in it ✊🏻
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¡Hostia! ¿Porfa dime que esto es real?
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Leganés hoy 🌡️
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CCOO = Franco 🤮 Los valientes sindicalistas lucharon, y algunos dieron su vida, para que esta versión de izquierda de Fox News pudiera escribir esta mierda. Deberías estar jodidamente avergonzado!!
@CanalRed_TV
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"Regresa la izquierda de los Clinton de provincias, la izquierda de la sección de Vida y Estilo de El País que confunde el arte con diseño de interiores y el ecologismo con la jardinería". 'El entierro en directo del 15M' @RaulSolisUE
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@zarahsultana @campbellclaret You are the best! When you run for leader I will rejoin.
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He votado por #IUenLaEncrucijada y @AlvaroAgFa Quiero una @IzquierdaUnida anticapitalista, democrática y util para la clase trabajadora. Sólo así podremos combatir en la lucha de clases y empezar a construir el socialismo ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽
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After the loss last night I have decided to join my people...
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Someone's only gone and made a Juan Carlos hunting statue... And put it in front of Madrid's bear in Plaza del Sol 🤣
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@NursingNotesUK I don’t agree with this but context is needed to make this a genuine discussion, rather than a twitter bashing. It is reasonable to ask members of staff to speak in English when working on the ward. As for breaks or with a patient that doesn’t speak English well it’s ridiculous!
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Twitter episode of the year goes to Greta Facha toxic masculinity 0 - 1 Red-green cheerleaders
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Britain is a laughing stock with Liz Truss Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez holding up the famous Economist front cover
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REALLY? From what I've heard only 5 ancient judges wanted this sexist, out-of-step rubbish. Most people wanted #Tanxugueiras or #Rigoberta Spain 0 points at #Eurovision2022
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alan mcguire
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Mental Health under neo-liberalism is getting worse by the year. We must change society #capitalism #MentalHealthMatters
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@sergiosayas Cataluna?
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I am no longer collecting signatures as the complaint has been sent. If you want to complain about @MikeGapes behaviour follow this link to the letter RT #GoMikeGapes
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Podemos, Izquierda Unida, PSOE
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@electo_mania Así ve el mundo el Partido Popular. Piensan que la 'generosidad' es suficiente a combatirá la pobreza Todos sabemos que cuando las ganancias empieza a disminuir, se reducen los salarios de los trabajadores, no los dividendos ni las bonificaciones de los directores Vergonzoso
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@LabLeftVoice @LabLeftVoice the @MikeGapes complaint has been received. Follow for updates.
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Really excited about today's Sobremesa podcast episode: Spanish Feminism 🙌 It will be up later this afternoon 💜 @Sobremesacast #8M2021 #8M #8Marzo #internationalwomensday2021 #Mujeres #feminismo #Feministas
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@SayedAmmar_ When will people wake up and learn that politics is not about identity but about power. You have to be cut throat, because your opponent will always be! Instead of focusing on capitalism realism, let's get politically real!
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