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Torn between filling in my nationality as "rootless cosmopolitan", "international judeo-bolshevik" or "metropolitan separatist" when the census arrives.
Ben T
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Ben T
@bentausz
housing worker / @unisontheunion shop steward / @labfreemvmt cofounder / @workersliberty / @campaignuyghur / make mars red again / 'un-british' ~keir starmer
London
Joined July 2012
- Replying to @ShellWilling to seize all your assets and infrastructure, and bring them under democratic control by the workers and communities you exploit, so we can coordinate a just transition to zero carbon.
- The utterly unhinged reactions to this demonstrate a disturbing level of sick, inhumane detachment in waaay too many (supposed) leftists. [1/2]The Holodomor was an act of deliberate mass starvation by Stalin's Russia that claimed the lives of 1 in 8 Ukrainians. Yesterday I called for Parliament to officially recognise it as a genocide.
00:00 - OH MY GOD WE FUCKING DID IT THE LABOUR PARTY HAS VOTED TO EXTEND FREE MOVEMENT, END NO RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS, REUNITE FAMILIES, CLOSE EVERY SINGLE DETENTION CENTRE, CONSIGN THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT TO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY, AND GIVE MIGRANTS THE EQUAL RIGHT TO VOTE #LAB19
- 66 years since the Hungarian working class rose up in an attempted revolution against Russian imperialism's puppet government and its Stalinist rule. 🧵
- Replying to @CWUnewsHave the bosses and landlords decided to suspend rent and bills? That's the only way this makes sense.
- Replying to @bentauszSimple denialism from full-on Stalinists is no surprise. More disturbing are those who don't deny, yet can only respond by insisting everyone change the subject to another atrocity more aligned with their preferred talking points. Like it's some kind of fucking scoreboard. [2/2]
- Pretty gross watching liberals follow the far-right down the path of cheering border closures against refugees trying to escape conscription by tyrants, while sneering - from their safe armchairs - that the victims should welcome the chance to "stay and resist".
- Replying to @bentauszThese people seem incapable of even imagining the kind of consistent, borderless, human solidarity against ruling classes and oppression around the world, that a serious international socialist movement requires. [3/2...]
- In France: energy workers cut the power supply to an Amazon facility in support of the Amazon workers' protests over working conditions. ✊🔴 LA CGT 93 COUPE L’ÉLECTRICITÉ SUR LE SITE AMAZON DU BLANC-MESNIL 🔴 « C'est en soutien aux salariés qui ont débrayé la semaine dernière pour dénoncer leurs conditions de travail et pour marquer notre réprobation contre la réforme des retraites » leparisien.fr/seine-saint-de…
- Replying to @BBCPolitics and @SofiaBettizaJFC people not wanting to be your friend is not an attack on free speech. And they call the left snowflakes?!
