Oral historian.
Gateshead and Newcastle
Joined February 2009
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Launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza
The petition has now hit 79,246 signatures.
Please sign.
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Together with @FoundFutureNE, we supported a funding bid instigated by @bigriverbakery to buy the derilict Byker Community Centre and bring it it back to life. With the backing of Byker Green Party Councillors, our joint bid has now been selected by @NewcastleCC.
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The Council has selected a joint bid from local community organisations @FoundFutureNE, @NCP_CIC and @bigriverne to buy, renovate and reopen the centre and bowling green.
The next step is working with residents to create a community space that Byker deserves.
ALT Michael van Zwanenberg, Jennie Maughan, Silvie Fisch and Andy Haddon with Byker Councillors Nick Hartley, Hedley Sugar-Wells and Jamie Anderson by the former Bowling Green on Headlam Green
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For years, graffiti on the derelict Byker Community Centre has read: “This used to be a community.”
When I stood to become Byker’s first @NCLGreenParty councillor, bringing this building and its bowling green back to life was a priority.
Now, we've got some brilliant news!
ALT Michael van Zwanenberg, Jennie Maughan, Silvie Fisch and Andy Haddon with Byker Councillors Nick Hartley, Hedley Sugar-Wells and Jamie Anderson by the former Byker Community Centre
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Academia has a lot of reckoning to do. A LOT. Need to build up bottom-up power, unions etc to counter the top-down neoliberal managers, all too inclined to bootlick fascists.
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Judges: debating lawfulness of Labour's proscription of Palestine Action
Police: arresting grandmas because of Labour's proscription of Palestine Action
Labour: still supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza, and wasting everyone's time with their proscription of Palestine Action
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Israel killed eight people including a child in Gaza this weekend as they continue their genocide.
After a weekend of arresting pensioners for protesting against this horror, Labour has today collapsed local agreements putting Israel far above serving our local communities.
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It is bad enough when university management knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. But, as its students have neatly summarised on this website, the University of Nottingham’s management seems to be struggling to even achieve the former.
uon.rip/#money
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This is the statement issued by the Met Police about the Defend Our Juries demonstration today. Commander Adam Slonecki, from Scotland Yard, said: “All those intending on coming to this event know that supporting a proscribed organisation is unlawful – they are essentially meeting to purposefully commit a crime.” This is a remarkable contrual of the law and extent of police powers. Surely it cannot be right that someone protesting against the Government’s decision to proscribe an organisation is automatically interpreted by the Met Police as supporting that organisation and is therefore committing an arrest-able offence. This is especially the case when the proscription is being challenged in the courts. I believe the government and parliament made the wrong decision in proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and I continue to call for its deproscription by the government. If the people turning up today to demonstrate against the proscription of Palestine Action are to be arrested for simply turning up, are we all to be criminalised for suggesting the government got this wrong?
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The Marxist Writer the British Government Doesn’t Want You to Read.
All Andreas Malm titles are now 40% off via our website, just follow the link below:
Verso Books condemns the Labour government’s decision to ban one of our leading authors, Andreas Malm, from entering the United Kingdom.
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The university crisis is one of the most ignored issues in British politics and was barely mentioned this week.
This is essential from @gsoh31 for @ArguablyMag on how underfunding, marketisation and managerial incompetence created an avoidable disaster – and how it can be fixed. arguably.uk/p/how-to-save-br…
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Why does social history no longer focus on the small towns that were at the heart of the industrial revolution?
‘Photographing the Calder Valley: or social history at the “mouth of hell”’.
Matthew Hilton with Aditya Chakrabortty
19 Nov London E1 PhotographingCalderValley.ev…
@QMUL_HSS
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“The government can keep papering over the cracks, or invest in Britain’s future.”
Hannah Spencer MP at today’s debate on higher education funding.
Yesterday, 400+ students graduated from UCEN Manchester, many the first in their families to enter higher education.
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EXCLUSIVE: Israel has a 'clear agenda' for the Palestinian West Bank which mirrors what has happened in Gaza, an SNP MP detained by Israeli authorities has warned
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Israel has committed the 'crimes against humanity of extermination, torture [and] rape' in the West Bank and is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza, a major new UN report has concluded ⬇️
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i want everyone to know brazil just won against fascism
despite them having the media on their pockets and the elites on their side
despite millions of dollars of american interventionism
despite totally unrealistic odds
if we can do it, so can you
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Many thanks to @johnmcdonnellMP for standing with campus trade unions at the @uniofbrighton against the derecognition of @ucu and @UNISONinHE - we are fighting to defend staff rights and defend education - solidarity
Higher education in this country is at risk on a scale we have never experienced before. The future of our young people is being put at risk and the potential of our economy is being jeopardised. It’s time to speak up and demand the investment needed in this jewel in the crown of our society. @ucu
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Many thanks to @FranHeathcote of @pcs_union for supporting the campaign by @ucu and @UNISONinHE against derecognition of the campus trade unions by @uniofbrighton management - solidarity!
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MI5 is a political police force
Operating in secret - and with total impunity
MI5 spied on Nye Bevan for more than 20 years, newly released files show bbc.in/4zMMzYD
