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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

2 months

A story in two charts. There is a prison overcrowding crisis, and perhaps we should be rid of society's carceral impulse. Yet, throwing vulnerable former inmates into shit low-paid jobs is no solution either. Me, on marrying socialism and abolition:

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 years

Mick Lynch over these past 48 hours has reminded me so much of the way Corbyn et al. made the running during the 2017 election campaign. Except where Corbyn et al. sought to construct the class politically, Lynch defends his striking workers by speaking to the class as... 1/2

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

... a whole about what action and self-organisation is necessary for us to improve our lot and push back against the boss class. What a way to use a crisis. I feel like this dispute and the steadfastness of the RMT will be one we remember for a long time in the battles ahead. 2/2

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2 years

Worth noting that last year's protests in solidarity with Palestine were bigger than The Queue for the Queen's funeral. Sometimes when you dig down deep into this society's most proletarian of furrows, you realise that this 'rainy fascist island' ain't quite as wet as is claimed.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 years

I find it both utterly bizarre and deeply funny that the cover of Ellen Meiksins Wood's The Retreat From Class has the names of all of the rival intellectuals she was taking down in the book. Unhinged 😅

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

One can only be deeply moved by the huge amount of bravery it takes for the family of Chris Kaba to be leading a protest, demanding justice for their murdered kin, on the same weekend as the Queen's funeral. If there is a force in society truly for justice & freedom, it's there.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 months

I love the sight of London repelling the fascists but I’m not gonna lie, I love even more that my current home, Stoke-on-Trent, got organised, outnumbered the fascists and defended our communities. Across the country, mass antifascism gave the nazis a pasting tonight. Inject it!

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

8 months

'The only Marx worth celebrating then is the Marx who is interested in thinking and in struggling on an open terrain, the Marx who offers a marxism without guarantees, a marxism without answers. Good heavens, if someone teaches you where to begin, isn’t that enough?'

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

1 year

I'm in tears. Can you imagine the resilience and the courage needed to assert your existence in the face of such drastic colonial genocide? Every single person in the world who values life, dignity & freedom has to stand with these people and protest this weekend. #FreePalestine

Sameh Habeeb

@Samehahabeeb

1 year

Gaza residents organise dozens of protests refusing to evacuate chanting “we prefer to die and not to be humiliated” #Gaza

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

3 months

On his own terms, appointing Timpson as prison minister may be a deft move by Starmer - but not one I think abolitionists should endorse. Timpson speaks of prisoners in a humane and reforming fashion but underlying this is a dark vision. 1/5

Krishnan Guru-Murthy

@krishgm

3 months

Watch this it’s fascinating - I asked James Timpson what he’d do about prisons and sentencing if he was in charge. He believes only a third of prisoners in jail should definitely be there. He’s now in charge of prisons (but not sentencing).

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@m00dyjonas

1 month

It does reflect badly on the trade unions that the Labour Party has commandeered the demand for a 4 day working week into a proposal for a 10 “compressed hours” working day. If you vacate the terrain of social freedom, it will be rejigged for business-friendly productivist ends.

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

Blown away by the breadth & depth of this book. If you want to seriously but accessibly understand the transition to capitalism & get to grips with the ensuing debates, read this. It's a history, but it's also a major theoretical intervention over race, empire & lots more. 1/3

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 months

Reeves’ announcement reminds me of the Callaghan playbook: payoffs to better organised public sector workers, private encroachments into the welfare state, and turning the screws on the recipients of welfare. All under the banner of sparking growth and raising productivity. 1/5

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

4 years

We live in a society where a policeman can kill a woman, and the institution to which he belongs, the one that trained him and approved him for duty, can then seek out the threat of law, arrest and penalty to stop women and their allies protesting and holding vigils.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 months

Never let your Labour MP tell you they had anything to do with today’s protests. Mass mobilisations against fascism happened in spite of Labourism. The protests were a rebuttal to the idea that we can repress fascism through the state, just as they were a rebuke to Labour racism.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 years

I love this passage from Stuart Hall's wonderful address to Australian Left Review's 1983 Marx Centenary Symposium, 'For a Marxism without Guarantees'. Thanks to @salvagedotzone for republishing.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

3 months

This isn’t to say extremely violent and oppressive prisons is an answer either. But abolitionists and socialists shouldn’t cheer on the conversion of warehoused surplus populations into pliant labourers as a good thing because the capitalist in charge of it says nice things. 4/5

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@m00dyjonas

3 months

So, if Starmer were to pursue Timpson’s model - in a context where there has been no commitment to expanding the welfare state - loads of society’s most vulnerable people will be thrown onto the labour market on shit wages in insecure jobs, heavily policed into pliancy. 3/5

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@m00dyjonas

3 months

We have to come up with solutions that empower people and reduce the dominance of the state and capital. The irony, contrary to what KGM claims above, is that if Timpson’s vision is enabled under this Starmer government, it would be totally in line with Victorian values. 5/5

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

4 years

Burning down a police station isn't strategic, but an alliance between Keir Starmer, put-out Tories and the radical left is? Ridiculous on its own terms but absolutely useless to those protesters who will face the full might of the state tonight.

Ash Sarkar

@AyoCaesar

4 years

I don't think that what's happened tonight will help #KilltheBill . In fact, I think it might crush the tentative alliance between the left, the Labour frontbench, and grumbling Tory backbenchers. Strategic? No. But it is the product of an increasingly authoritarian state.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

3 years

Two sides of the class struggle in Britain today. Solidarity with those protesting the P&O ferries lockout and with those protesting racist police harassment in our schools. No justice, no peace ✊🏻

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

4 years

If the last week has taught the British Left anything, it is that we need to centre the state as the violent organiser of capitalist social relations it is. Frankly, this had become somewhat lost through the Corbynism period and prior to last year's BLM uprisings.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

1 year

I wrote a review of @sorenmau 's wonderful new book on the economic power of capital, and whilst there's more to say than you can in a short review, I was really impressed with it.

Review | Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

revsoc21.uk

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

3 years

I did a street stall last weekend where a young bloke told me his work were telling him to get a jab or face the sack. If the Left's response to that young worker is moralistic scorn and talking favourably of the bosses' power to fire, then we are well & truly screwed.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 months

I think Labour’s programme for government is increasingly looking like a kind of rentier ordoliberalism as asset managers partner with the state to ensure ‘healthy’ conditions for extraction, accumulation and competition. 3/5

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

This is a breathe of fresh air & it is true. It is exactly the sort of message the mass movement that is unfolding needs to fight the bosses' assault, and it's precisely the kind of political energisation the post-Corbyn Left needs as it escapes its disorganisation & depression.

Novara Media

@novaramedia

2 years

"The working class is back". Mick Lynch at last night's #EnoughIsEnough rally.

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

Published in 1974, Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital isn't just one of the most important books a Marxist has ever written, it's one of the most insightful books you'll ever need to read to understand why and how work dominates, alienates and oppresses you. 5 stars 👌🏻

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

3 months

One of the Labour government’s first crises, high on Sue Grey’s “shit list”, is the prison overcrowding crisis. Hemmed into tight spending by his fiscal commitments and focused on other building priorities, there is little will to build more prisons. 2/5

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

It's a remarkable sign of how out of touch the radical Left is with the general public - let alone the working-class - that so much of the response to the Johnson crisis is to dismiss as trivial, turn up noses or demand public anger be directed elsewhere. Utter irrelevance.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

8 months

RIP Hall, who died ten years ago today. If you've never read him, or watched the Stuart Hall Project, or listened to his Desert Island Discs, then I highly recommend all three.

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Professor Stuart Hall

Sue Lawley's castaway is cultural theorist Professor Stuart Hall

www.bbc.co.uk

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@m00dyjonas

2 months

… punitive, rentier and austerian sentiments driving it. It was worth watching Liz Kendall’s face throughout Reeves’ speech. The DWP brief is likely in Alan Milburn’s hands now. Expect policy packages and moral panics targeted at ‘benefit fraudsters’, the sick and the old. 5/5

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@m00dyjonas

1 year

In banning pro-Palestine protests & chants, and locking up kids with Palestine flags, the forces of law & order grasp a truth that progressives should better understand: the global oppressed see in Israel's treatment of the Palestinians all that is wrong with capitalism & empire.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

2 years

The Champions League final as the ultimate sign of Europe's decline. You love to see it.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

11 months

Manchester comes out strong for Palestinian life and freedom! 🇵🇸❤️✊🏻

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

You could do worse than beginning the year with this masterclass in historical sociology. Arrighi carefully traces giant political shifts in global cycles of capital accumulation, perhaps providing the tools to diagnose whether we are in the midst of such a turn today. Must read!

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@m00dyjonas

4 years

The history of social change is littered with a thousand burnt-down police stations and more than a few footnotes of failed alliances between very smart people.

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@m00dyjonas

2 months

The likeness with Callaghan lies in the scrambling of popular opposition, creating winners and losers, mobilising classic binary distinctions between public/private, or deserving/undeserving. Keep an eye on the BoE’s interest rate decision in all of this too. 2/5

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

Don't buy this at all. If you're a communist you're for the Social Republic, the absorption of the political realm into the social, and the democratisation of all spheres of life. Only the Social Republic can transcend 'bourgeois constitutional arrangements'.

libcom.org

@libcomorg

2 years

If you're a communist, you're not a republican. You're anti-monarchist, but republicanism is a longing for a specific bourgeois constitutional arrangement that is not ours.

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

I always think it's important to state this as so much progressive/radical thinking takes the media circus, the Twitterati and the governing ideology as coterminous with society's feeling. On so many issues, I think we have to be absolutely clear that this is often not the case.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

4 years

As Parliament undertakes the second reading of the #PoliceCrackdownBill tonight, and people rightly and indignantly protest this lurch towards authoritarianism, we should keep a few things in mind.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

3 years

Small showing for a last-minute cost-of-living protest in Leeds. No need to despair, hopefully we're seeing the incipient birth of a movement across Britain, not a brief spate of protests. Some thoughts moving forward however... (1/11)

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@m00dyjonas

1 year

If you want an example of what it means to be a truly freedom-lovin' socialist and communicate an anticolonial Internationalism in the imperial heartlands, look no further than this @BarnabyRaine appearance on Novara 🇵🇸❤️

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@comfyincrocs

1 year

Barnaby Raine just schooled Michael Walker on what real Palestine Solidarity looks like ✊🇵🇸 Calls out Owen Jones, Paul Mason, and other self proclaimed leftists, who seem more interested in their future career prospects than they do ending the on-going genocide. 10/10, no

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@m00dyjonas

2 months

As this develops, the much flouted notion of ‘growth’ - underlain by welfare conditionalities, cuts, ‘productivity gains’ and infrastructural privatization - becomes the terrain of struggle, one in which the left needs to wrestle against by countering the… 4/5

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

Trade unions halting democratically mandated strikes in honour of an undemocratic monarch is a daft sop to nationalism. Britain's rulers might spend days mourning this feudal hangover, but low wages & the cost-of-living crisis won't stop. The worker's movement should know better.

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

Absolute, unconditional solidarity and support for the Palestinian general strike against racist settler colonialism. None of us are free, until Palestine is free. Spread the word. #PalestineOnStrikeUK

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

Today of all days, I couldn't recommend enough that you get yourself a copy of Eamonn McCann's War and an Irish Town. It marries an organisers' account of resistance in 1960s Derry with a wonderfully written Marxist history of Ireland. Absolute must read.

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@m00dyjonas

4 years

Solidarity with everyone standing their ground in Clapham Common. No Justice No Peace!

Subject Access

@subjectaccesss

4 years

🔴LIVE: Vigil for Sarah Everard - Clapham Common | London Watch now: #LIVE #Livestream #London #SarahEverard #Freedom

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

Imagine being such a legendary figure in the international socialist movement that this isn't even one of your top 3 takedowns!

Nihal | نهال

@nihalist___

3 years

Bernadette Devlin on Henry Ford: “do you think he’s paid in relationship to the amount of work he does?”

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

There should be no equivocation by anybody on our side when it comes to defending these brave young protesters from brutal state repression. An attack on them is an attack on us all and it is a sign of things to come for those who organise against this government.

Damien Gayle

@damiengayle

3 years

BREAKING: Nine #InsulateBritain protesters are jailed for terms of between three and six months for breaching injunctions banning them from protesting on the M25

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

4 months

Whilst this election is a profoundly infuriating and dull spectacle with so much elite consensus on so many of the issues that matter, it is obvious that what happens in this election is of grave importance to our future. Some thoughts on those implications as I see them. 1/15🧵

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@m00dyjonas

1 year

So proud of Stoke for coming out for Palestine again, but even stronger than the last time. It's in the protests of the past week that we see the hope for a new world taking shape. But we'll have to fight hard if we're going to defeat empire and capital. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸❤️✊🏻

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

Joined the RMT picket line this morning and then we all marched over to the CWU picket too. Great turnout in Stoke-On-Trent. It's stuff like this, rolling and increased, that will win victories for our class and bring this nasty government down. #EnoughIsEnough

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

You've just gotta be totally honest and say that Sharon Graham's intervention here is worth a thousand times more than anything the Labour Left has done since the last general election - and boy is she on the money too.

Unite the union: join a union

@unitetheunion

3 years

“Coventry Labour council has time and again totally misrepresented the union’s claims for its bin drivers...If we have to escalate, we will escalate and I personally will be getting involved…. our wallet is closed to bad employers.” @UniteSharon

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@m00dyjonas

4 years

This brings me onto my second point. If we want to repeal the bill then the only way will be through making it completely unpracticable as an enforceable piece of legislation. This will require mass mobilisations, breaking the law and bringing the government to heel.

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

Frankly, this should put paid to all the sectarian guff that has been thrown XR's way by large parts of the left.

YouGov

@YouGov

3 years

Environment concern reaches a record high in our 'top issues facing the country' tracker. 40% of Brits now list it as being among the top 3 issues facing the country Rates have been climbing since 2018, and were seemingly boosted by XR protests in 2019

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

11 months

In 2008, my late friend from college, Mourad, told me about the war on Gaza and urged me to join the protest outside the Israeli embassy. The cops battered us, kettled us, and stopped and searched us. In one night, all my suspicions of Britain, racism and policing were confirmed.

Tired Peasant ☭🇵🇸

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11 months

What radicalized you?

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@m00dyjonas

4 years

This bizarre scenario where lefties create "hierarchies of exploitation'" in order to pitch a flag in the culture war baffles me tbh. Surely the question is *always* to what extent can we construct social blocs uniting distinct class fractions over a radical socialist agenda?

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

Marcus Rediker has easily become one of the nicest parts of life on Twitter.

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

Astounding set of statistics in a recent Adam Tooze chartbook. It reminds me just how useless it is to think of oppression and exploitation as two distinct categories, one racialised & gendered, the other classed. It's a false dichotomy which should be abandoned all together tbh.

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@m00dyjonas

4 years

Maximum solidarity with Bristolians tonight. Unarmed civilians up against uniformed monsters armed to the teeth with batons, horses and dogs. We absolutely need to break the police, there's no two ways about it. #ACAB #KilltheBill

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@m00dyjonas

11 months

Weeks of protest culminating in over 800,000 on the streets yesterday; thousands have engaged in sit-ins, occupations and blockades; schoolkids on strike; and MPs are harangued. Make no mistake, this is the biggest social movement in the past 20 years of British history. 1/4

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

I wrote a piece responding to @schneiderhome 's thoughtful and thorough "How We Win in the 2020s" series, which Novara have kindly published. Hope people enjoy and that it adds something to the debate! 1/

The Left Won’t Win the 2020s by Clinging to the Corpse of the Labour Party | Novara Media

James Schneider's undying Labourism, expressed in his recent series How We Win, obscures an important truth: the next left surge will take place against the state, not within it.

novaramedia.com

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

We need a serious conversation about the role of trade union leaderships, squeezed as they are between an emergent but historically weak working-class and ruthless capitalists. TUs are essential but workers also need their own independent networks when TU leaderships won't fight.

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@m00dyjonas

3 years

When apparatuses of the state like the the Met are delaying Johnson's demise, dragging themselves into the orbit of complicity as well, then socialists should grasp the nettle & lead the charge for Johnson's resignation, welcoming the ensuing crisis.

Johnson Should Go – And the Left Should Demand It | Novara Media

While Boris Johnson was living it up at Downing Street, we locked down, suffered and died. If the left doesn’t harness the widespread fury over ‘partygate’, it’ll be missing a huge opportunity,...

novaramedia.com

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@m00dyjonas

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On Insulate Britain: the Left should absolutely defend them because what they want is correct, even if you think their tactics are as misplaced as they are brave. This doesn't remove the need to disagree over those same tactics in a comradely fashion. So...

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@m00dyjonas

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The existence of 12 independent socialist MPs is a pretty rare event in the history of the British state. It may not be the first choice for many of those Parliamentarians but don’t knock it. It’s an opportunity to build a mass bloc distinct from Grey Labour, empire and capital.

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A piece I wrote for @novaramedia laying out why I think the Left should enthusiastically call and organise for Boris Johnson's resignation.

Johnson Should Go – And the Left Should Demand It | Novara Media

While Boris Johnson was living it up at Downing Street, we locked down, suffered and died. If the left doesn’t harness the widespread fury over ‘partygate’, it’ll be missing a huge opportunity,...

novaramedia.com

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The message from Keir Starmer is clear: if you think that children should not live in poverty, then there is no place for you in the Labour Party.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

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🚨 BREAKING: After voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, Labour has suspended the following MPs: 🔴 Apsana Begum 🔴 Imran Hussain 🔴 Rebecca Long Bailey 🔴 Ian Byrne 🔴 Richard Burgon 🔴 Zarah Sultana 🔴 John McDonnell

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Hundreds of Stoke residents came out to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people today. The overwhelming message was one of absolute opposition to genocide and empire, and total support for a free and liberated Palestine 🇵🇸❤️ #FreePalestine

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@m00dyjonas

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Me, for @novaramedia , with a jumble of thoughts on the neoliberal roots of the crisis currently enthralling the Tory Party. Bottom line: it's existential, it's deeply bound up with the crisis of neoliberalism in more ways than one, and ultimately it's our job to bury them.

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@novaramedia

2 years

Liz Truss didn't start the Tory death spiral, writes @m00dyjonas – the party has been struggling to figure out who and what it represents for decades.

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Tomorrow, residents of Stoke-on-Trent, like millions of others across the planet, will not stand by whilst a genocidal, colonial state tries to ethnically cleanse the indigenous population. We have a duty to stand with the Palestinians and we will do just that. #FreePalestine

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@m00dyjonas

6 years

Despite all of the gaff that gets spoken on these #WorldMentalHealthDays , it did start me thinking about some of the crucial policies that might have, and could still, drastically improve my own mental health. Here's five, in no particular order:

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@m00dyjonas

2 years

As the Tories endure another period of cataclysm, I'm returning to the late Neil Davidson's sublime essay, 'Neoliberalism as the Agent of Capitalist Self-Destruction'. A must read, it is one of the best attempts to think through the crisis of bourgeois political representation.

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@m00dyjonas

4 months

This is sharp. I live on a multiracial working class estate in a city that had come to typify the parody of the ‘red wall’ and it’s so clear, not just that Starmer has no interest in representing us, but that he will actively seek to marginalise our claims to a better life. 1/2

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“The ‘red wall’ phrase has somewhat fallen out of fashion, but the idea that Labour’s success depends on its ability to win back imagined hordes of socially conservative voters in the North & Midlands remains central to the party’s self-image.” Wrote this

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50 years today since the British Army murdered 14 unarmed protestors. Those protestors were only demanding the civil rights denied them by a sectarian, one-party colonial state and its imperial overseer in Westminster. There is no British justice, so we'll give Britain no peace.

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@m00dyjonas

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Firstly, it's testament to popular pressure that the Labour Party were forced to grow a spine and oppose the bill. But given the reality that the Tories have a thumping majority, the bill will undoubtedly go through. This week is the beginning of this struggle, not the end.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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Beyond the betwixmas farce over a Verso ad, 'abolish' has become a bit of a red herring for lots of the Left. Any language of 'abolition' (against police, family, etc.) becomes negatively constructed as an obstacle which will just scare 'real workers' away from socialism. 1/9

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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Solidarity with everyone in Bristol breaking into police stations and smashing up police vans. This is what defying the #PoliceCrackdownBill looks like and we should never apologise for sticking it to an institution so committed to the domination of the majority.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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From Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion to tonight's protest, we're entering a new moment of state authoritarianism. Nothing is inevitable though. If, as a movement, we decide to organise against this offensive, defy the law & mobilise in the streets, we can repel them.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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The Colston 4 getting a not guilty verdict is absolute vindication for militancy in the face of racism, injustice and the legacies of imperialism. All power to them! ✊🏻

JJ 🇵🇸

@boringdystopian

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I'm not sure it is possible to read this phenomenal piece of work with anything other than an intense anger for empire and capital. It makes you want to tear the whole system down.

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@m00dyjonas

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Given the fact that she was the gold commander in the control room during the operation which murdered Jean Charles de Menezes, it would give me an enormous amount of pleasure to see Cressida Dick forced to resign. But this isn't enough for our moment, surely?

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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Agree with interventions by @leninology & @meadwaj on the Left's inability to adjust to this new bio-securitarian conjuncture. A big problem is that the failure to carve out an independent position from varying wings of capital & state has long been an issue which has plagued us.

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@m00dyjonas

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Against the idea that we can simply 'abolish' things, but in favour of the notion that we need 'a real movement' - socially & politically powerful - that can transcend & abolish 'the present state of things'. For that comrades, we need organisation. 9/9

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@m00dyjonas

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This will have to come from an alliance of the streets, campaigns, trade unions and the socialist left. The pandemic will be with us for the long haul & given it forms such a critical part of the pretext for this government's authoritarian crackdown, we have to tackle it head-on.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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My hope for 2022 is that we, the radical Left, get better organised. I hope we get better at communicating with one another, but most importantly, I hope we get better at talking to & building relationships within the working-class. That's my priority anyway. Avanti comrades! 🍻

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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We know for example, from the experience of the Black Lives Matter uprisings last year as well as scientific research, that socially-distanced, masked and covid-secure protests don't lead to outbreaks.

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@m00dyjonas

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After 5+ years of so many in Britain abandoning the Palestinian people & putting all sorts of disrespect on their name, it comes as no surprise that it is *them* showing *us* how to fight again. One way we can respond in kind is to make sure their intifada spreads here!

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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It's not just revolting, it is exactly what we should expect from the British state and it's henchmen in the force. Solidarity to everyone defying the law and mobilising this weekend: we want justice for Sarah Everard and an end to this horrid institution & it's emergency powers.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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We need mass civil disobedience outside every Israeli embassy in the world. Take your cue from the united Palestinian people and throw everything we can against the horrors of this murderous, colonial state.

Amichai Stein

@AmichaiStein1

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#BREAKING : IDF chiefs to approve Gaza ground operations plans later today, @IDFSpokesperson says

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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It's worth noting that this sort of stuff was trialled against the anti-racist left in the 2010s, particularly against young Muslim socialists inspired into political action by both Malia Bouattia's NUS leadership and Jeremy Corbyn's reign as Labour leader.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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@EagletonOliver @novaramedia Great piece Ollie. Honestly find the responses to your argument utterly depressing. The question you pose, of whether we want an anti-war movement that can try to halt the inter-imperialist lurch into evermore catastrophe or not, is bang on & it's important to pose it so starkly.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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We also know, despite record levels of state spending, that when it comes to the racialised & gendered organisation of the economy, the privatisation of public space & the inadequacy of state support, that the Tories have presided over social murder on an unprecedented scale.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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7 years ago today, I joined a protest outside Yarls Wood immigration removal centre. It was a deeply moving day then, & it is even more poignant now. Any socialist movement worth its salt wants the border gone, the detention centres closed & every migrant given the right to life.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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Wrote some thoughts on the Labour leadership election, the fracturing of Corbynism, and where we go from here. Hope they're useful:

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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This is an old but great essay by @alexgourevitch & @CoreyRobin on the centrality of freedom to a revived socialist project. There's much to add but the core claim that freedom should be the central mantra which ties all else together is, I think, crucial.

Freedom Now | Polity: Vol 52, No 3

Left-wing politics is resurgent. Self-proclaimed socialists are unexpectedly popular. Proposals like universal health care are a commonplace of Democratic campaigns. But there is not yet a clear,...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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Details here x

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

3 years

Woke up thinking about those beautiful scenes of anti-racist solidarity in Glasgow yesterday, and wondering how fucking powerful it would be if we emulated that for Palestine all over the country and across the world. This weekend is the time to try!

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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England, sorry lads, you just need to take the L tonight so that Morocco can exact revenge against the French. That's just how it works I'm afraid.

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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As ever, @bat020 is bang on.

Hope amid the horror: Palestinian resistance after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood

rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

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Jonas Patrick Marvin 🇵🇸

@m00dyjonas

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Strikes can be popular, they can shift consciousness and they can win. Gotta' give a massive salute to Mick Lynch and the RMT for injecting a long needed class politics into this deeply oppressive society.

Savanta UK

@Savanta_UK

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🚨New poll🚨 A majority of UK adults say that the rail strikes this week are 'justified'. Justified - 58% Unjustified - 34%

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