Get involved in this podcast I’m organising with this group of absolute stunners ✊🏼💗🛤
Starting this exciting new podcast/audio essay project on "Material Crimes" (of colonial and capitalist infrastructures) with the incredible @survivesocpod, @Pintificate & @askbeebs. For our 'Call for Stories' & more details: shorturl.at/hnqrG. Submissions Deadline: 15 Sept
Maia Entwistle retweeted
"The right of the labour movement, to be honest, has no ideas of any compelling quality, except the instinct for short-term political survival. (...) The only ‘struggle’ it engages in with any trace of conviction is the one against the left."
Stuart Hall, right as ever.
Maia Entwistle retweeted
As Terry Eagleton says 'If you can look on this dreadful Medusa's head without turning to stone, then there may be a faint chance of resurrection.' Which basically means if you don't want to become a crank, don't be bitter - be clever. And one day we'll win.
Maia Entwistle retweeted
Today is a defeat for the Left. But the real victory for our opponents would be watching the forces we have amassed in recent years scatter to the wind.
Stay in Labour, organise and rebuild.
Now is not the time for the socialist movement to fracture and fragment. After today's defeat, we need to organise and rebuild – and the best place to do that is in the Labour Party. tribunemag.co.uk/2020/04/soc…
Maia Entwistle retweeted
COVID-19 in Gaza "will be a massive disaster, resulting entirely from...more than a decade of Israeli blockade: a failing healthcare system, extreme poverty, dependence on humanitarian aid, dysfunctional infrastructure and harsh living conditions."
trib.al/1noisCn
Maia Entwistle retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨The IWGB is suing the UK government over its failure to protect precarious workers, #gigeconomy workers & the self-employed.
The measures announced by the government discriminate against the lowest paid, women, and BAME workers.
more info:
iwgb.org.uk/post/5e7866e2ebd…
Maia Entwistle retweeted
The UK government need to do this immediately 👇👇
The Irish Government have stopped any data sharing between healthcare services and government departments. That means undocumented migrants can get the vital support they need without fear of detention or deportation #Covid_19
These two women are a bona fide inspiration!
Calling all SOAS PhD students! @soassu Union Elections are now open and FFFP are endorsing two candidates: Sabrina Shah @Sab4Sabb for Co-President Democracy and Education, and Yasmin Elsouda & Co-President Welfare & Campaigns!
Maia Entwistle retweeted
Tell me Bernie Sanders pretending to be a scary monster to his grandson is not the cutest thing you ever did see (during a quarantine)
My sister is a junior doctor & took the victoria line to work this am. Described these scenes 👇👇
Coronavirus is spreading fastest in London esp on public transport. We need gov’t controls on movement NOW to ensure safe travel for health workers & slow the spread
Social distancing? This morning's commute on the Victoria line. Perhaps some clearer guidance from the government would help @BBCWorld @mrjamesob @guardian
My sister is a junior doctor & took the victoria line to work this am. People squashed in nose to nose, she said
Coronavirus is spreading fastest in London esp on public transport. We need gov’t controls on movement NOW to ensure safe travel for health workers & slow the spread
Maia Entwistle retweeted
THREAD: 1/ Sunak's attempt to boost demand and stop business failures relies on £350bn of soft loans to business. It's big - once you realise they will never be repaid... it will take debt above £2 trillion... but...
*Disclaimer: not an economist* but doesn’t offering businesses loans, albeit on good terms rather than offering the public gov’t funded *proper* statutory sick pay (not paltry £188) & UBI & seem like the definition of disaster capitalism?!Ensuring future capitalisation thru debt
After this pitiful relief package, which only seems designed to protect business and home owners, this seems inevitable and necessary. Up the renters ✊✊✊
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Maia Entwistle retweeted
Pathetic. Assistance for mortgage holders will be welcome but *still* no action on rents, bills and debt, and - critically - no extra cash for those unable to work. Even the US is hinting at basic income payments now - why can’t this gov’t do more? #UKGoverment #Cororonavirus
This is hugely concerning. The fact that universities are effectively asking their staff to contradict the one. tiny. shred. of government advice, and in way that jeopardises those already most vulnerable in the community, makes a mockery of their duty of care.
Quick thread - On UK universities not shutting down & why the demand for GP 'fit notes' from staff who want alternative work arrangements in the coming weeks is ableist, racist, ignores the reality of precarious workers & actually is just really ridiculous #CoronavirusPandemic