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Tom Bramble

@tombram.bsky.social

Australian socialist, activist, writer. Former Pom (thanks Margaret Thatcher!). Lives in Brisbane/Meanjin. Publishes at redflag.org.au and www.marxistleftreview.org.

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Latest posts by tombram.bsky.social on Bluesky

And what do you suppose the "UK Space Command" does? Gather information for weather forecasts?

03.10.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You mean ON have published contradictory HTV cards, or others have circulated fake cards?

27.04.2025 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Trying to disappear us': Dutton won't use Indigenous flags at press events as PM Liberal leader Peter Dutton will not stand beside the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at press conferences if he becomes prime minister. Some Indigenous leaders say it is a level of "petti...

Lest we forget ... #AnzacDay
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

25.04.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She must value her pay cheque more than she does her dignity.

25.03.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not β€œforgotten” but deliberately buried.

23.03.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The party of monopoly capital and big banks wonders why the monopoly capitalists are winning across the board.

21.03.2025 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Israeli media are more critical of the IDF than anything you'll read in the West.

18.03.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Considering Gen X was out in the streets opposing the illegal Iraq invasion, it's unsurprising they're so good on this question. They know governments lie.

18.03.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think this belongs on X.

18.03.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Antisemitism inquiry recommends crackdown on free speech | Red Flag The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights is calling for an even greater crackdown on free speech and the right to protest at Australian universities.

Hang on, it's not the left driving people out of their jobs or places on the basis that Jewish students and staff allegedly feel "unsafe" when they see a keffiyeh or Palestinian flag on campus. The "free speech warriors" are the biggest snowflakes of them all.
redflag.org.au/article/anti...

16.03.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Given government will probably be formed by whoever can pull independents to their side, I think it's still likely Labor will prevail given the likely composition of the independents. Can most of the teals really prop up a Dutton government?

16.03.2025 10:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Behind the chaos, Trump prepares to take on China | Red Flag US President Donald Trump is ripping up accepted political norms at home and the liberal world order abroad because, in his view, they have failed to secure American supremacy.

My latest for Red Flag
β€œTrump’s program is squarely aimed at China. China’s rise to world power status is an existential threat to US hegemony, and Trump's program is the latest attempt to hold China down and assert US global power.”
redflag.org.au/article/behi...

13.03.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Please stop repeatedly posting the same articles on Bluesky, it’s just spamming your followers.

07.03.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why am i not surprised!

28.02.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we'll wait forever to see media and conservative politicians attack these farmers for holding up ambulances and people trying to get to medical appointments by blocking the roads with their tractors like they do with climate protests.

28.02.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coalition to match β€˜dollar for dollar’ Labor’s plan to make GP visits cheaper in $8.5bn Medicare boost Less than half of Australians were always bulk billed when they saw a GP in 2023-24, government data says

Spud's not stupid. He can spot a winner when he sees one. Just like the Queensland LNP and Labor's 50 cent PT fares.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

23.02.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, I got the vehicles right at least. What murderous brutes.

23.02.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Without reading this, you just know they were men driving 4x4 utes.

23.02.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Workers have the power to stop Trump | Red Flag In the weeks since his inauguration, Donald Trump and his billionaire sidekick Elon Musk have unleashed a reign of terror on the US working class. Most likely, mass working-class resistance won’t sudd...

β€œThe forces of official politicsβ€”all of which embody different wings of capitalist politicsβ€”are giving Trump a free run. What then can stop him? The US working class must move.” My latest for Red Flag. redflag.org.au/article/work...

21.02.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably this is just a proxy for pro Nato sentiment. US support for Ukraine is lower because a bigger section of the population align with Trump's attitude to Nato.

16.02.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a sour and snarky post. How many liking this post actually lifted a finger for the Palestinians as they were slaughtered in their tens of thousands by Israel using Democrat-supplied weapons?

06.02.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But that'd cost businesses money.

26.01.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s new era of reaction | Red Flag The new US administration aims to increase business profitability and prestige, reverse previous social, cultural and political advances, and bolster US global supremacy.

Trump is perhaps better understood not as an individual but as the personification of four forces: his own vanity and self-absorption, an arrogant and exploitative US capitalist class, the resurgent and ultra-nationalist far right and a wounded yet increasingly paranoid and aggressive US imperialism

21.01.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Red flag newspaper out this week! Just in time for that nauseating display of genocide denial "Australia Day".

19.01.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why did they drop out? Watching with interest from Queensland!

12.01.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Same with cops. Also include perpetrators of domestic violence.

02.01.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You wonder whether anyone in management at the AFR ever looks at the Financial Times, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun, Deutsche Handelsblatt or even the Wall Street journal and says, nah, let’s copy the Tele instead. Don’t they feel even the tiniest degree of shame?

02.01.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The guy presumably thought he’d be shot dead by cops. I don’t think the death sentence would have deterred him!

21.12.2024 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hope returns to Syria | Red Flag Seemingly against all hope, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is gone. In less than two weeks, a rebel offensive that began in the northern city of Aleppo transformed into an extraordinary nationwide up...

Try this for a much better take from the Australian left.
redflag.org.au/article/hope...

11.12.2024 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All Dictators must fall! Assad first, then Egypt's al-Sisi.

05.12.2024 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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