Why Do Poor Countries Stay Poor? (Unequal Exchange and Imperialism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjLmYCfKU7o&ab_channel=Hakim
RT @medialens
Classic Guardian take:
Diplomatic editor @patrickwintour describes the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq as 'a blunder'.
It was no mere 'blunder'. It was the supreme international war crime.
BBC Hypocrisy Over Lineker BLOWN APART https://youtu.be/wDpHC-3I9V0 via @YouTube
Gordon Brown did this
Then he "rescued" PFI so he could appear to balance the books in a way the Tory media would accept. And also make hedge funds even richer.
Some slight intellectual honesty would be too much to hope for from these clowns, I suppose
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RT @RachelReevesMP
There is a global race on - and despite all our promise and potential, Britain is falling behind.
Labour will change that.
Our Green Prosperity Plan is vit…
https://twitter.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1634883691909464066
This should be a learning moment. The establishment scared us away from a radical Labour government, not because socialism is a threat to our democracy but because they are. The BBC is simply another weapon to ensure the public vote against their self-interest and anyone who trusts its output is an unwitting puppet. https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/labour-wanted-to-democratise-the?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
It’s endless war that’s not normal https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/imperial-narrative-managers-always?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Prospects for Liverpool, Socialism, and how the Left could work together
Wed, 19 April 2023, 19:00 – 21:00 BST
RT @feldowling
A discussion meeting for the Liverpool Left but with wider implications
@FrancisFish @mygibbo @leftunity @Breakthrough @CllrAnnaRothery @CathyWilson70 @Spartacus4NOW @CllrSamGorst @19MW98
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prospects-for-liverpool-socialism-and-how-the-left-could-work-together-tickets-580436149147?fbclid=IwAR2VKqW5FKnFcU5Q1xtiaRX80RDqVDp8389TdwH26Gm7DB7tnPfPIhClmbg
RT @tribunemagazine
'If you fight, you won't always win. But if you don't fight, you will always lose.'
Bob Crow, the left-wing General Secretary of the @RMTunion, died #OnThisDay in 2014.
Fiona Bruce begins stand-up career with joke about what to say to a woman with two black eyes https://newsthump.com/2023/03/10/fiona-bruce-begins-stand-up-career-with-joke-about-what-to-say-to-a-woman-with-two-black-eyes/ via @newsthump
RT @brokenbottleboy
NEW | A trip down horrible memory lane and an urban legend that won't die:
AN UNPLEASANT FREQUENCY
Kathy Burke's new documentary has revived a persistent internet myth and all-too-real comments from Chris Moyles' arrogant and sleazy heyday.
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/an-unpleasant-frequency
I want to retire so badly after 40 years of this, but can't for at least 18 months because of legals, and probably far longer because of da monez.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.