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Protests by Palestinian citizens are being greeted with a mix of police violence and vigilante-style attacks from Jewish fascists. With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the rapidly escalating ethnic violence inside Israel, where one in five of the...
If people do not understand what 'Socialism' means, and why it is different to Capitalism, watch this. The man helping the sloth is representing Socialism. Capitalism would have been "Don't help, it will only make the sloth weaker. Yes, we messed up the environment for it, but survival of...
Boris Johnson left red faced... again
Forty years ago a master at Eton College wrote a letter to Stanley Johnson about his 17 year old son, Alexander Boris, he told him that his son sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility….”I think he honestly believes that it is...
We know the reality about Mr Corbyn because we have met him and talked to him. We have met many of the people who supported his vision. Some have become our friends. However, many millions were blinded by the corporate media and gangs of organised trolls and agents who went...
In an age of distortion, major columnists have powerful tools and a responsibility. His latest column on Russell Brand is an object lesson in how that can go wrong What‘s been the most significant threat to journalism – the lifeblood of a free society – over the past decade? Maybe...
In an interview with Equal Times Ken Loach has launched a stinging attack on the Stalinist nature of the BBC and the liberal face of the establishment, The Guardian. 'The other significant event was the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership and the BBC played a prime role in that...

Monumental Times

Look at the monuments that are sited across cities and towns, and you will see that the vast majority depict white men, from a certain class and historical standing. Very few black people are represented and rarely women.  Edward Colston, the slave trader, towered over the people of Bristol for...
In a speech from Bethlehem in 2020, Charles said: “My dearest wish is that the future will bring freedom, justice and equality to all Palestinians, helping you to grow and prosper.” On the war in Iraq: “He told political figures and people in his inner circle that he considered Bush...
Having dispatched Corbyn, the smear industry is targeting icons like Ken Loach and Roger Waters over their support for Palestinian rights and opposition to Nato’s war machine  What does it mean to be antisemitic in modern Britain? The answer seems ever more confusing. We have reached the seemingly absurd point that...

I see you, Tony Robinson

I see your doleful little head crowning through the doorway of the prison as you emerge, a free man now, the injustices against you overturned until your retrial. I see the nervous flicker of your eyes, your jeans a little looser now, your eyes a little darker. It’s been...