Looking forward to hearing from @johnmcdonnellMP at the Manifesto launch this evening. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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Nothing from @LucyMPowell this morning on @BBCr4today on the crisis in HE, and no vision for what it could be. Well, here is a vision - the Manifesto for Higher Education - and it's being launched tonight! @ucu #HECrisis
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Speaking at this event today as @GoldsmithsUCU - essential we coordinate for @ucu Day of Action on 20 November
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BREAKING:
🇳🇱🇮🇱 At least 200,000 people flooded Amsterdam today to demand the Dutch government to cut off arms deals and trade with Israel.
🇳🇱🇮🇱 At least 200,000 people flooded Amsterdam today to demand the Dutch government to cut off arms deals and trade with Israel.
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RT @JohnClke: 'France is not protesting alone. Since mid-September, demonstrations over rising living costs, low wages and a lack of public…
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🔥 1 600 000 !!! Chaque personne mobilisée, chaque heure de grève a compté !
Bravo à toutes et tous pour votre engagement et votre force.
Alors : vous êtes fatigué·es ?
Bravo à toutes et tous pour votre engagement et votre force.
Alors : vous êtes fatigué·es ?
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More than 100 activists broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam, climbing cranes and hanging anti-AI banners.
This marks the start of two days of coordinated protests across 16 countries against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.
This marks the start of two days of coordinated protests across 16 countries against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.
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🚨BREAKING: Huda Ammori’s appeal to the Supreme Court over the ban on Palestine Action has concluded.
Here’s our summary:
Ammori was given permission to appeal the ban on one ground, focussing on whether it is compatible with freedom of expression and assembly.
This represents ity to challenge the proscription in Britain, with the fate of thousands arrested for allegedly supporting Palestine Action hanging in the balance.
Day one saw Ammori’s lawyers argue that the ban represents a “colossal invasion” of the rights to freedom of expression and assembly enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.
Raza Husain KC told the court that less than one percent of the group’s actions (3 in 385) over a period of five years had been classed as terrorism – even using the government’s overly broad definition.
Husain said Palestine Action, unlike other proscribed groups, had sought to prevent genocide and uphold international humanitarian law. The group’s objectives were thus “aligned with rather than abhorrent to liberal democratic values”.
The court also heard that Palestine Action fell “within the British tradition of direct action protest groups motivated by conscience” such as the Suffragettes, who used more extreme methods. They resorted to “fire-bombing, arson, serious property damage”, Husain said, refuting the lower court’s claim that they were pacific, and were ultimately “proven right by history”.
“The uncontroverted evidence shows that [the] suffragettes, anti-war groups, environmental groups, animal rights protesters all used tactics similar to or more extreme than Palestine Action yet they were not regarded as terrorists or proscribed”, the court was told.
Civil society organisations and UN experts had also “expressed deep concern at the proscription”, the court heard. A former MI6 director, Richard Barrett, had been amongst those saying in terms that “proscription goes too far”.
A new argument was also introduced, with Husain raising the prospect that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg could conclude that arrests for “supporting” Palestine Action were in “breach of convention rights”.
If that happens, a broad swath of terrorism convictions could be quashed, contributing to a broader “crisis in confidence” in the UK’s terrorism laws arising from the arrests of thousands of people for holding placards.
The five-judge panel in the Supreme Court, all men, expressed a general aversion to these submissions. Former British diplomat Craig Murray estimated that Ammori’s lawyers were disrupted over 100 times, making it difficult for them to develop their arguments.
Outside the court, protesters held placards inspired by a tweet from Sarah Helm, wife of the UK government’s National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell. She had written “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action“ and was not arrested, but several outside the Supreme Court brandishing similar messages were.
Sir James Eadie KC, acting for the home secretary, closed day one and opened day two.
Eadie told the court that attempts to characterise Palestine Action “as part of a long and honourable tradition of civil disobedience on conscientious grounds” were “completely at odds” with the lower courts’ rulings. He said that such arguments have “no substance whatsoever”, later declaring Palestine Action the “antithesis of civil disobedience groups”.
He went on to argue that Palestine Action incidents had involved violence (Filton) and “throwing pyrotechnics where people were being evacuated” (Thales).
Eadie continued that Palestine Action’s “cell structure”, a “lack of candour” from Ammori, the group’s “escalating trajectory”, and the institutional competence vested in the home secretary, weighed in favour of upholding the proscription.
Minutes ago, Husain delivered his closing statement for Ammori.
He declared: “There are probably hundreds of thousands of people whose profoundly important rights of political speech, association and assembly on the most acute moral and political issue of our times - that is to say Israel’s annihilation of an already besieged and occupied people, and the role of UK-based corporate actors in that atrocity - those rights have been extinguished or interfered with”.
A “closed” session will take place this afternoon, meaning evidence is being submitted by Britain’s security agencies that neither Ammori nor her lawyers can see or contest.
In a statement, Ammori said: “The overwhelming evidence presented to the Supreme Court by UN experts, Amnesty International, Liberty and even the former Director of MI6 is that this dangerous and disproportionate proscription has criminalised legitimate protest as terrorism for the first time in British history, unleashing an unprecedented assault on free speech in this country”.
The court is expected to reserve judgement until a later date.
Here’s our summary:
Ammori was given permission to appeal the ban on one ground, focussing on whether it is compatible with freedom of expression and assembly.
This represents ity to challenge the proscription in Britain, with the fate of thousands arrested for allegedly supporting Palestine Action hanging in the balance.
Day one saw Ammori’s lawyers argue that the ban represents a “colossal invasion” of the rights to freedom of expression and assembly enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights.
Raza Husain KC told the court that less than one percent of the group’s actions (3 in 385) over a period of five years had been classed as terrorism – even using the government’s overly broad definition.
Husain said Palestine Action, unlike other proscribed groups, had sought to prevent genocide and uphold international humanitarian law. The group’s objectives were thus “aligned with rather than abhorrent to liberal democratic values”.
The court also heard that Palestine Action fell “within the British tradition of direct action protest groups motivated by conscience” such as the Suffragettes, who used more extreme methods. They resorted to “fire-bombing, arson, serious property damage”, Husain said, refuting the lower court’s claim that they were pacific, and were ultimately “proven right by history”.
“The uncontroverted evidence shows that [the] suffragettes, anti-war groups, environmental groups, animal rights protesters all used tactics similar to or more extreme than Palestine Action yet they were not regarded as terrorists or proscribed”, the court was told.
Civil society organisations and UN experts had also “expressed deep concern at the proscription”, the court heard. A former MI6 director, Richard Barrett, had been amongst those saying in terms that “proscription goes too far”.
A new argument was also introduced, with Husain raising the prospect that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg could conclude that arrests for “supporting” Palestine Action were in “breach of convention rights”.
If that happens, a broad swath of terrorism convictions could be quashed, contributing to a broader “crisis in confidence” in the UK’s terrorism laws arising from the arrests of thousands of people for holding placards.
The five-judge panel in the Supreme Court, all men, expressed a general aversion to these submissions. Former British diplomat Craig Murray estimated that Ammori’s lawyers were disrupted over 100 times, making it difficult for them to develop their arguments.
Outside the court, protesters held placards inspired by a tweet from Sarah Helm, wife of the UK government’s National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell. She had written “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action“ and was not arrested, but several outside the Supreme Court brandishing similar messages were.
Sir James Eadie KC, acting for the home secretary, closed day one and opened day two.
Eadie told the court that attempts to characterise Palestine Action “as part of a long and honourable tradition of civil disobedience on conscientious grounds” were “completely at odds” with the lower courts’ rulings. He said that such arguments have “no substance whatsoever”, later declaring Palestine Action the “antithesis of civil disobedience groups”.
He went on to argue that Palestine Action incidents had involved violence (Filton) and “throwing pyrotechnics where people were being evacuated” (Thales).
Eadie continued that Palestine Action’s “cell structure”, a “lack of candour” from Ammori, the group’s “escalating trajectory”, and the institutional competence vested in the home secretary, weighed in favour of upholding the proscription.
Minutes ago, Husain delivered his closing statement for Ammori.
He declared: “There are probably hundreds of thousands of people whose profoundly important rights of political speech, association and assembly on the most acute moral and political issue of our times - that is to say Israel’s annihilation of an already besieged and occupied people, and the role of UK-based corporate actors in that atrocity - those rights have been extinguished or interfered with”.
A “closed” session will take place this afternoon, meaning evidence is being submitted by Britain’s security agencies that neither Ammori nor her lawyers can see or contest.
In a statement, Ammori said: “The overwhelming evidence presented to the Supreme Court by UN experts, Amnesty International, Liberty and even the former Director of MI6 is that this dangerous and disproportionate proscription has criminalised legitimate protest as terrorism for the first time in British history, unleashing an unprecedented assault on free speech in this country”.
The court is expected to reserve judgement until a later date.
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Launching the Manifesto for Higher Education on Tuesday 10 November online - an important intervention setting out a vision for HE - and discussing @ucu call for Day of Action on 20 November
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Huge congrats to China Miéville for the 2026 @GoldsmithsPrize but also for donating the prize money to @GoldsmithsUCU’s hardship fund - supporting the strike against compulsory redundancies
gold.ac.uk/news/2026/gold…
gold.ac.uk/news/2026/gold…
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Pleased to be speaking in this panel tomorrow @histmat
The second Socialist Register panel on Saturday, at 16:30, will launch the brand-new 2027 volume, "From Protest to Power: Social Movements and the Left," featuring Feyzi Ismail (@phaisie), Chris Little (@chrisdwlittle), Rodrigo Nunes, and Şebnem Oğuz (@sebnemoguz)
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Dozens of garment workers in Bangladesh clashed with police in the capital Dhaka as they protested against low pay and the rising cost of living.
The textile industry is the backbone of the country’s economy.
The textile industry is the backbone of the country’s economy.
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THEY TRIED TO CANCEL HIM. SO HE BUILT HIS OWN STAGE.
Macklemore just wrapped a 3-city European tour. Every arena sold out.
▪️ 100% of proceeds went to 12 organizations providing aid to Palestinians.
▪️ Guests included Hozier, Greta Thunberg, and UN Rapporteur Francesca re kept secret until showtime to avoid backlash.
Instead of backing down after being pulled from a massive US tour, he turned his platform into a fundraising machine for Gaza.
A real one. 🧭
Macklemore just wrapped a 3-city European tour. Every arena sold out.
▪️ 100% of proceeds went to 12 organizations providing aid to Palestinians.
▪️ Guests included Hozier, Greta Thunberg, and UN Rapporteur Francesca re kept secret until showtime to avoid backlash.
Instead of backing down after being pulled from a massive US tour, he turned his platform into a fundraising machine for Gaza.
A real one. 🧭
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The general strike on #5novembre in France 'should also deepen links between the street protests and organised workers, which is essential to take the movement forward. In addition, it further builds opposition to the agenda of the far right and fascists.' counterfire.org/article/europe…
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Remember when Wes Streeting called for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia for the indiscriminate killing of civilians in Yemen?
And called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi a red line?
And called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi a red line?
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Dockworkers struck on Friday across 113 ports in 22 countries in a coordinated international day of action under the slogan “Dockworkers do not work for war.” Actions included blocking port entrances and marching in major cities, including Genoa (Italy), Piraeus (Greece), Le gier (Morocco). The unions’ “Istanbul Declaration” demands that ports never be used to transport weapons to conflict zones, alongside an immediate end to the genocide in Gaza.
أضرب عمال الموانئ، اليوم الجمعة، في 113 ميناءً عبر 22 دولة ضمن يوم تحرك دولي منسّق تحت شعار «عمال الموانئ لا يعملون للحرب». شملت التحركات إغلاق مداخل موانئ ومسيرات في مدن عدة، من بينها جنوة في إيطاليا، بيرايوس في اليونان، لوهافر في فرنسا، وطنجة في المغرب. وطالب «إعلان إسطنبول» الصادر عن النقابات بعدم استخدام الموانئ لشحن الأسلحة إلى مناطق النزاع، وبالوقف الفوري للإبادة الجماعية في غزة.
أضرب عمال الموانئ، اليوم الجمعة، في 113 ميناءً عبر 22 دولة ضمن يوم تحرك دولي منسّق تحت شعار «عمال الموانئ لا يعملون للحرب». شملت التحركات إغلاق مداخل موانئ ومسيرات في مدن عدة، من بينها جنوة في إيطاليا، بيرايوس في اليونان، لوهافر في فرنسا، وطنجة في المغرب. وطالب «إعلان إسطنبول» الصادر عن النقابات بعدم استخدام الموانئ لشحن الأسلحة إلى مناطق النزاع، وبالوقف الفوري للإبادة الجماعية في غزة.
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'It breaks my heart to think that anyone thinks their child is more important than someone else's'.
British singer Paloma Faith speaks about motherhood and the value of every child's life during Macklemore's Free Palestine benefit concert.
British singer Paloma Faith speaks about motherhood and the value of every child's life during Macklemore's Free Palestine benefit concert.
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