And what do you suppose the "UK Space Command" does? Gather information for weather forecasts?
03.10.2025 08:46 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0@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.
And what do you suppose the "UK Space Command" does? Gather information for weather forecasts?
03.10.2025 08:46 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0You mean ON have published contradictory HTV cards, or others have circulated fake cards?
27.04.2025 06:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lest we forget ... #AnzacDay
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She must value her pay cheque more than she does her dignity.
25.03.2025 00:56 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not βforgottenβ but deliberately buried.
23.03.2025 07:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The party of monopoly capital and big banks wonders why the monopoly capitalists are winning across the board.
21.03.2025 05:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Israeli media are more critical of the IDF than anything you'll read in the West.
18.03.2025 01:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Considering 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 π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think this belongs on X.
18.03.2025 00:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hang 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...
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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My latest for Red Flag
βTrumpβs program is squarely aimed at China. Chinaβs 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.β
redflag.org.au/article/behi...
Please stop repeatedly posting the same articles on Bluesky, itβs just spamming your followers.
07.03.2025 23:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why am i not surprised!
28.02.2025 09:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I 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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Spud's not stupid. He can spot a winner when he sees one. Just like the Queensland LNP and Labor's 50 cent PT fares.
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Well, I got the vehicles right at least. What murderous brutes.
23.02.2025 01:46 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Without reading this, you just know they were men driving 4x4 utes.
23.02.2025 01:44 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βThe forces of official politicsβall of which embody different wings of capitalist politicsβare giving Trump a free run. What then can stop him? The US working class must move.β My latest for Red Flag. redflag.org.au/article/work...
21.02.2025 21:25 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Presumably 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But that'd cost businesses money.
26.01.2025 06:51 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Trump 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 π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New Red flag newspaper out this week! Just in time for that nauseating display of genocide denial "Australia Day".
19.01.2025 07:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why did they drop out? Watching with interest from Queensland!
12.01.2025 01:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Same with cops. Also include perpetrators of domestic violence.
02.01.2025 23:40 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You wonder whether anyone in management at the AFR ever looks at the Financial Times, Japanβs Asahi Shimbun, Deutsche Handelsblatt or even the Wall Street journal and says, nah, letβs copy the Tele instead. Donβt they feel even the tiniest degree of shame?
02.01.2025 09:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The guy presumably thought heβd be shot dead by cops. I donβt think the death sentence would have deterred him!
21.12.2024 02:29 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Try this for a much better take from the Australian left.
redflag.org.au/article/hope...
All Dictators must fall! Assad first, then Egypt's al-Sisi.
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