Fred Sprague ๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

Fred Sprague ๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

@frederickds.bsky.social

Union member: NEU and Unite. DSA member. Socialist and Union man. "We all do better when we all do better" -Paul Wellstone #LFGM Hands off Cuba ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡บFree Palestine ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

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Sparse antisemitism in schools considered more heinous than mass murder of 22,000 children, or as teh BBC would put it unbiased verified balance meme via James Branch

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Reform's policy of blaming illegal migration for everything, and claiming that dealing with it will fix everything is ripped apart beautifully, in just 1 minute. It's the same scam Hitler and Mussolini were selling 100 years ago.

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My 95 year old Spanish friend, who lived through the Spanish Civil War, and who is a true Socialist, said to me this week 'Why is no one talking about Cuba? Look what Trump is doing to the people with his sanctions but no one says anything '. She's right. #HandsoffCuba and #F*ckTrump

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Help please: This is Christine. She has been standing in St George's Square Hebden Bridge for over 17 years in solidarity with the Palestinian people. She has been told she is no longer allowed to do this and is likely to be arrested. Please RT this for awareness. Photo credit: Morning Star.

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90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short ๐Ÿงต)

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The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.

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New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

epi.orgUnions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they couldNewย Gallupย polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...

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Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]

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โ€œAnd when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.โ€ Matthew 6:5-6

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Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. Itโ€™s a head-scratcher.

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Emma Goldman said this 130 years ago. Then was jailed in the USA for over a year for saying "Ask for work, ask for bread, then take bread." Because they claimed she was trying to start a riot. Nothing has change since.

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Today In 1947: Former Negro Leagues great Willard Brown, now playing for the St. Louis #Browns, becomes the first African American player to hit a HR in the American League! #MLB #Legend #Baseball #History

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Some of the individuals who worked every day to sabotage Jeremy Corbynโ€™s leadership of the Labour Party. All duly rewarded with seats in the UK House of Lords. All of them now lords, barons and baronesses. Shame on them all. #corbynwasright #itwasascam

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There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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This week in Andy Burnhamโ€™s Britain ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿค Over 150 UK citizens, mainly pensioners including the daughter of Holocaust survivors, were arrested under terrorism laws for: โ€ขClapping โ€ขSitting down โ€ขReading poetry โ€ขHolding a microphone All could face up to 14 years in prison! ๐Ÿ˜ค #BurnhamsBritain ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿค

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We don't have to look outside Britain to find how England's water should be run In the UK, Scotland has the lowest water bills, invests the most in infrastructure, and pays out NO dividends Andy Burnham and Angela Eagle, do the right thing - take Thames Water into special administration

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Replying to @flytyingguy.bsky.social

Papa OMG@papaomg.bsky.social

Somewhere in Baseball Hell, the 1919 Chicago Black Sox breathe a sigh of relief. They sold out baseball. The LA Dodgers sold out America.๐Ÿ˜ฉโšพโ˜ ๏ธ

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Superb news! The ยฃ2 bus fare cap is being reinstated. But 1 in 5 rural and county bus routes have been cut since 2019. Communities also need proper funding and public ownership of buses. Let's keep all the cash in the system, not going out into shareholder pockets. @heidialexander.bsky.social

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Keir Starmer goes just as he governed... lying. He said The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn was found to be institutionally anti-Semitic. It wasn't. This is an outright lie. #PMQs

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This makes me sick to the stomach, because Jeremy Corbyn's movement HAD thought through what was needed, and WAS prepared for government until McSweeney's coup, and the status quo police stepped in to ensure that what we got, what we HAVE, is just more of the same. ๐Ÿคข๐Ÿคฎ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukLabour failed to prepare for power, admits PM's ex-aide McSweeneyIn his first-ever interview, Morgan McSweeney tells the BBC the party did not deliver quickly enough in office.

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Yesterday the UK told the UN they oppose Israeli settlement expansion in & annexation of the West Bank Meanwhile they continue to support (& refuse to take action against) the regime thats expanding those settlements & annexing the territory Who do they think they're fooling?

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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Donโ€™t believe the self-made myth.

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Palantir, the US surveillance company thats been enabling and profiting from Israels genocide, should have no role in the NHS (or any other UK public service). We need to kick them out.