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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Jan 2017

    Had enough of already? Time to take back our media - start here:

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    2 hours ago

    Today is - please read and share in solidarity with public service workers worldwide:

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    5 hours ago

    As the arrives in Washington DC it’s time to celebrate

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  4. 6 hours ago

    "Muharrem İnce is a practising Muslim, and his wife refers to him as a “strong but private believer” who doesn’t like to display his faith."

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  5. 6 hours ago

    "We invite the voters of Turkey to choose HDP’s pro-labor, environmentalist, anti-crisis, fruitful and fair program instead of the AKP’s pro-crisis, unfair, anti-labor and anti-environmentalist politics."

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Alexey Poltavets, an anti-fascist from Siberia, was 16 when he fell into the hands of the FSB. He was tortured for two days while officers pressured him into giving evidence against his friends. Read his story here:

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    24 hours ago

    Steve Baker accused of playing "fast and loose" with ministerial rules after investigation finds Brexit minister had undisclosed meetings with European Research Group - latest by Jim Cusick, and me

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    20 hours ago

    'The struggle for universal rights such as a living wage, good working conditions and access to quality public services will never be outdated.' of

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    Jun 22

    A tour de force panorama of the British Isles and where on earth we go from here - by David Marquand

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    24 hours ago

    Oops. Steve Baker has been failing to declare his meetings with the hard-Brexiteers at the ERG.

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    Jun 22

    It seems clear that psychedelics can rewire our perceptions, but would a psychedelic politics also be a democratic politics? Fascinating stuff from Adam Smith:

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  12. Jun 22

    Why Brexit won’t work: the EU is about regulation not sovereignty | openDemocracy by

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    Jun 22

    'No one can build a nonviolent life as an individual.' Chris Moore-Backman on what we can learn from Gandhi beyond the romance:

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  14. Jun 22

    With endemic corruption, the elections will be far from fair.

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    Jun 22

    I love that, over at , we are having a debate on whether psychedelic drugs would politically transform our society

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  16. Jun 22

    "There is a constituency for change in Turkey from secular and religious people who are concerned about the state of the economy, the authoritarian policies of the government and the severe violations of justice after the coup attempt in July 2016."

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  17. Jun 22

    "We invite the voters of Turkey to choose HDP’s pro-labor, environmentalist, anti-crisis, fruitful and fair program instead of the AKP’s pro-crisis, unfair, anti-labor and anti-environmentalist politics."

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  18. Jun 22

    ‘What kind of capitalism is it possible for the left to build?’ New essay by :

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  19. Jun 22

    "The banality of evil is thriving in border states like Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. In implementing zero tolerance, stone-faced patrol officers and over-worked social workers – "neither perverted nor sadistic" – are acting in terrifyingly normal ways."

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    Jun 21

    'Social struggle calls for true transformation, a trading in of old lives for new" - what we can really learn from Gandhi:

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    Jun 21

    What we can really learn from Gandhi? Great piece by Chris Moore-Backman:

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