Jayne Fisher

🚨 START POINT ANNOUNCED - National Demo - Nakba 77
⏰ Saturday 17 May, 12PM
📍 Embankment Tube, London

Join us on 17 May as we mark the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba and demand our government take action to end the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land.

Ecuador’s Ex-Diplomat: Far-Right Can Do Anything to Sway Election (Interview) Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—In a special interview with Orinoco Tribune, Ecuadorian human rights expert Fidel Narváez expressed his confidence in the victory of the Citizen Revolution (RC) candidate,...

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How Britain allowed Pinochet to escape justice for atrocities 25 years ago, the UK government allowed Chile’s former dictator to evade extradition to Spain.

25 years ago, the UK government allowed Chile’s former dictator to evade extradition to Spain. Available in EN, ES, DE, AR, FR, IT and PT-BR.

Exclusive: Ecuador is preparing for US forces, plans show, as Noboa calls for help battling gangs | CNN Construction of a new naval facility in the coastal city of Manta is designed to support sustained operations and US military personnel, according to a high-level Ecuadorian official: “The expectation...

Extremely alarming from #Ecuador... less thst 2 weeks before Presidential run off
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Global Filmmakers Stand with Hamdan Ballal & Call to Protect the NO OTHER LAND Film Team

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#BenefitsNotBombs

Assisted dying is a class issue, Diane Abbott and disability rights groups warn

Excellent meeting with @hackneyabbott.bsky.social campaigners from DPAC and others
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Another good analysis from Socialist Economic Bulletin
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Overseas aid budget - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament That this House notes with concern the Government’s announcement to significantly increase military spending at the expense of vital overseas development assistance and public services; believes that ...

Support this EDM: #welfarenotwarfare
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Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement Labour MPs uneasy as chancellor prepares even deeper reductions that economists say will harm key services

Austerity - but not for military spending and war
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🚨 Palestine Coalition statement on Israel's latest assault on Gaza.

Read the full statement here: palestinecampaign.org/palestine-co...

This Saturday, join @pscupdates.bsky.social and others #EndTheGenocide

"There is nothing moral about cutting benefits... this is about the Treasury's wish to 'balance the books' on the back of the most vulnerable and poorest in this society". Absolutely spot on @hackneyabbott.bsky.social at #PMQs today

Another march for #Palestine today. Big crowd led by @cnduk.bsky.social @stwc.bsky.social @pscupdates.bsky.social and many more, and great speakers including @rmtunion.bsky.social Gen Sec Eddie Dempsey, here at Whitehall

🚨 TOMORROW - Demo for Palestine
📍 Piccadilly to Whitehall
⏰ 12PM, Sat, 15 March

Israel has increased its attacks on the West Bank and reimposed its blockade of Gaza. We must demand our govt push Israel to abide by the ceasefire and end its occupation of Palestine. Join us!

Against Militarization: Scientists Unite in Opposition to EU Rearmament Scientists are uniting to voice against the recent proposal to rearm the European Union. They have released "Scientists against rearmament - A manifesto" and are calling on scientists, engineers, medi...

Scientists opposing the rise of militarism in Europe www.iuscientists.org/against-mili...

Partial image of a health worker in scrubs. NHS England abolition: government must show it has a plan for the NHS.

“This announcement will have left NHS England staff reeling,” UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea on news NHS England is to be abolished.

“Ministers must reassure employees there’s a robust plan to rejuvenate a flailing NHS and deliver for working people.”

Full statement: unsn.uk/3RaULxi

Saturday

Excellent piece from @mazzucatom.bsky.social on why workers’ right must be at the core of just transitions and the economic transformation we need, and must address global inequity

We're thrilled to partner with @unionchapeluk.bsky.social for an evening with Mahmoud Muna, in conversation with @oliviasnaije.bsky.social. Any profits will go to the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem.

Join us on Wednesday 12 March at 7.30pm ⤵️
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Increasing Military Spending will not Raise Living Standards Economist Michael Burke challenges the claim that greater military spending can help address the crisis in living standards.

Good piece from Mick Burke on why raising military spending is a very bad idea
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Eddie Dempsey elected as RMT general secretary Transport union RMT, today confirmed that Eddie Dempsey has been elected unopposed as the union’s new General Secretary.

Great news. Congratulations, Eddie Dempsey and @rmtunion.bsky.social
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Rachel Reeves vows to use defence spending to support UK’s ‘left behind’ industrial towns Chancellor says increased military spending should support ‘British jobs and British industries’

It is just a gets worse and worse:
'The chancellor is also preparing to retool the £27.8bn National Wealth Fund, which had primarily been earmarked for green projects, so it can also be spent on defence.'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Palestine Coalition condemns the decision of the Metropolitan Police to issue letters ordering a range of activists, including Stephen Kapos, an 87-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor, to attend formal interviews over their alleged roles in the Palestine solidarity protest on January 18th, 2025. Palestine Coalition: Police repression of 18 January protest Letters have also been issued to prominent actor Khalid Abdalla, Stop the War Coalition officers Lindsey German, Alex Kenny and Andrew Murray, CND General Secretary Sophie Bolt, Friends of Al-Aqsa Chair, Ismail Patel, and probably will be to others. The police claim in the letters sent to these

activists, that they breached conditions imposed by the police to limit the right to protest against the genocide in Gaza. These restrictions almost certainly came as a result of political pressure from supporters of Israel’s pro-genocide policies. The protest’s chief steward Chris Nineham and Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal have already been charged with offences arising from the same protest, along with many others. Chris Nineham was violently arrested on the day. MPs Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have also been interviewed under caution by the police. This apparently co-ordinated attack against the Palestine solidarity movement is endeavouring to halt public protest on the issue, through harassment of those involved in the movement, and through increasingly draconian restrictions on demonstrations.

That a Holocaust survivor is called in by the police for the alleged offence of carrying a bunch of flower into Trafalgar Square, underlines the unjustifiable extremes to which the Metropolitan Police are prepared to go, to restrict the right to public protest and silence the Palestine solidarity movement. What is claimed by the police as justification for this massive overreach of their powers is a complete misrepresentation of what took place, not just on the day but beforehand. Our cause is to mobilise support for the Palestinian people suffering a genocidal onslaught by the Israeli state, backed by the British government. To pursue this just cause, we must also defend the right to protest – alongside many others who face similar restrictions. We will not be cowed by these attacks on our rights.

We demand that the Metropolitan Police halt any prosecutions or proceedings against those involved in this entirely peaceful protest. We further insist that the Metropolitan Police respects the right to protest and that it ceases to take instruction from those who are determined to back Israel's genocidal actions, to maintain British state support for them, and to drive our movement off the streets. Those who seek to do so will not succeed under any circumstances. We urge all those committed to preserving long-established freedoms to join us in protesting against this mounting campaign of state harassment. Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, Muslim Association of Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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Palestine Coalition statement on the Met's repression of the 18 January protest.

You can also read on our website: cnduk.org/palestine-co...

PCS Gen Sec Fran Heathcote brings solidarity with refugees and asylum speakers to a packed and excellent trade union conference organised by Stand up to Racism @pcsunion.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

Ecuador: The Stakes in the April 2025 Election Run-off By Francisco Dominguez  -  Feb 23, 2025Ecuador’s presidential election on February 9, 2025, resulted in a technical tie between the two leading candidates: Daniel Noboa, the wealthiest individual in E...

Stakes in Ecuador's upcoming Presidential Election run off
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Diane Abbott says Starmer’s ‘morally indefensible’ defence drive won’t make us safer Europe is in a 'frenzy of warmongering' that has nothing to do with Ukraine, veteran Labour MP says

Diane is spot on
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