Bob From Brockley

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Deeply un-surprised that right-wing anti-vaccine activist Alon Mizrahi, recently feted by lots of western leftists for literally no other reason than that he is a Jew who hates Israel (eg he has been promoted by Owen Jones), is now singing the praises of Nazi Nick Fuentes.
(HT @vorkoz.bsky.social)

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Maybe she’s doing a few songs? Or Bez-style dancing?

Thank you. Nothing even close to like what some of the fitted up activists and especially the abused women went through.

…Meanwhile, deaths of minoritised people in police custody, which peaked alongside racist street attacks in the 1990s, have remained off the public agenda.

That’s enough for now but will post some of the details that have emerged from the inquiry soon.

…You know about Stephen‘s death, which eventually led to some recognition of institutional racism in the police, but what remained covered up during that inquiry was the corruption that protected his killers and the disruption of the campaign for justice for him…

…The #spycops were also tasked with worming into the trust of grieving families killed by cops or whose deaths were not investigated: to get dirt on them to undermine their legal case and pass to the tabloids. Including Stephen Lawrence’s family: his killers were protected by a corrupt Met…

…These men, the #spycops, with the full knowledge of the security hierarchy, entered exploitative sexual relationships with women under their fake identities: state-sanctioned rape. They attempted to persuade activists into insane illegal acts of violence in order to justify their deployment…

…We’ve now reached a phase of the #spycops inquiry that’s quite personal to me as I was involved in some of the groups and events covertly policed. I got drunk with, was detained alongside and shared long van journeys with men I later found were in fact police spies…

[CW: abusive relationships]

One of the reasons why I have not completely quit “X” is that it remains the best place to follow the proceedings of the #spycops Undercover Policing Inquiry now unfolding, documenting one of the grimmest scandals of the British state since the end of the Cold War…

Redoing without typo:

Nor am I so we have that in common. But you’ve heard of me and I’ve never heard of you so that’s one thing we don’t have in common.

Of course. How about you?

#OtD 12 Nov 1918 in Kursk, Ukraine, a conference began which led to the formation of the Nabat Confederation, one of the most important anarchist groups in the world at that time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8428...

Thank you for your thoughtful feedback,comrade. And thanks to both of you for confirming the critiques by Galina and other Ukrainian, Russian and Belarus anarchists leftrenewal.org/statements-e...

Capital vs. Sanctions - После - Posle Media Why do Western technologies continue to fuel Russia’s war machine despite sweeping sanctions? Is it a matter of loopholes — or proof that global capital itself is beyond the reach of governments? Why ...

Sharp piece by Sofron Bliznakov of Posle on how the the way that Russian war machine evades sanctions shows how global capitalism really works

www.posle.media/article/capi...

Crackpot antisemitism x armchair antisemitism on the right (in the Cold War and today).

My brother has gifted me the chevron of Arkan, the drone batallion of the 10th Mountain Assault Unite of 🇺🇦. They have been valiantly defending Hulyaipole, the birth place of Nestor Makhno, the communist anarchist who fought in the Ukrainian war of independence.
The situation in Hulyaipole is bad. 🧵

Insane

On silencing voices from Eastern Europe at anarchist events in EU Over the past few years, quite a few organizations and groups have appeared in the anarchist milieu that actively exclude activists

www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/on-silenc...

Cc @ottoenglish.bsky.social

Home Boy Sister Out = one of most underrated albums of all time

I guess you didn’t read her letter before you said this did you?

An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana, by Galina Rymbu - a Ukrainian anarchist on the bad geopolitics Zarah’s been listening to

leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Piece by @paulmason.bsky.social very worth reading for the detailed account near the end of who was involved in the recent “peace” conference in Paris that Sultana attended

The MAGA thinktank that brought us Project Esther uses antisemitic code words (globalist) and says neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes has a spot in the conservative big tent.

Essential thread:*

*screenshot is of FB post in case you’re not going to read the thread

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People like him (he’s now full on tinfoil hat) being attracted to YP is exactly what I feared for it. It’s a magnet for fringe obsessionists, and I can’t see it shaking them off

Vital new background reading on the war on antifa:

bsky.app/profile/aman...