Alex Heffron
@AlexHeffron20
Father. Part time Farmer. Full time PhD researching agrarian politics and the political economy of farming/farmland. Long Covid. ND. he/him
I’ve written about the recent Labour budget and what it might mean for an agricultural green transition. Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red theconversation.com/farm-inheritan…
I'm trying to write more (and quicker) so I channelled some of my excitement about the announcement of a New Left Party into an article grouping together texts that I think will be useful as we enter into a new period of struggle. L!nk below
Crucially Lammy leaves out that they’re running regular flights for the IOF into Gaza to assist the genocide
The UK is working hand-in-glove with Cyprus on defence, security and foreign policy – keeping both Cypriot and British people safe at home and overseas.
🔴 Jewish schoolchildren kicked off plane after singing Hebrew songs telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 Jewish schoolchildren kicked off plane after singing Hebrew songs telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
If a new left party is to get anywhere in terms of making genuinely left arguments that have popular resonance, the target needs to be not "elites" nor a "rigged system", but the British state understood, at least within the party, as the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Stomach-churning insight into the reality of life as a political prisoner in Starmer's Britain. 'A friend of mine in Bronzefield once told me as we trudged around the yard that her worst fear was the guards taking away her means of suicide.' ebb-magazine.com/essays/death-a…
So he made this statement after a mob of white supremacists terrorised the accommodation of asylum seekers? Starmer is himself a virulent white supremacist and leader of an increasingly far right government.
British people have every right to ask why their money is spent on asylum hotels instead of public services. That's why I agreed a groundbreaking pilot with France. For the first time, people who try to make the crossing illegally will find themselves back where they started.
Does anyone know what's going on with the court hearings for those who have been arrested for protesting against the proscription of Palestine Action? I'm not seeing anything.
Diolch yn fawr iawn @AlexHeffron20 for providing an educational to our members on agriculture and Marxism! You can find his work here: thestruggleforland.substack.com
The amount of responses to this that are: “if my child was a hostage/had been at Nova, I would want…” A set of people who can imagine their child being ‘Israeli’ but never Palestinian - and imagine this child solely in the service of revenge fantasies. A complete sickness.
Even if the most lurid claims about the Nova Festival were true, they wouldn’t justify genocide. The thing with genocide is nothing justifies it.
People in Labour need to understand that many of us see them as no less our enemy than Reform. Not even a marginal lesser evil
This is the same man who called Israel’s genocide “the most outstanding possible thing that a decent, responsible country can do.” The gall to lecture anyone about righteousness is astounding. Thankfully, fewer and fewer people are buying it.
Ban Bob Vylan? The people said ‘Nah’. We need artists that speak up. Our album ‘Humble As The Sun’ is back in the charts and, as an independent band releasing music on our own label, it shows the power of the people. You can’t get dropped if you own the label. Thank you all!
There's a number of accounts who are very outspoken on the genocide, do not shy away from the need for Palestinian resistance, who haven't said a single thing in the last couple of weeks bout Palestine Action either before or after its proscription. Why's the cat got your tongue?
As Tom says in the previous tweet, if you want to be involved in party politics right now, fold into the Greens behind Polanski
I’m not terribly convinced by eco-populism but a party that exists with a leader who says: NATO is bad, there is too much inequality, there is a genocide in Palestine committed by ‘Israel’, trans women are women & Pal Action shouldn’t have been proscribed is worth something.
Charged as terrorists for wanting an end to the western genocide of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives. You have one choice right now: do you side with fascist imperialism or against fascist imperialism?
An 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer were among around 25 people arrested for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” in Parliament Square today. The action, by protest group Defend Our Juries, was the first organised challenge to the…
What’s it called when you’re anti anti-genocide?
UPDATE: Officers have arrested more than 20 people on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. They have been taken into custody. Palestine Action is a proscribed group and officers will act where criminal offences are committed.
We live in a stupid fucked up world
This is who the Met Police just arrested for holding up a sign that read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” Is she a terrorist?
In a couple of hours, 20 people are going to stand in Parliament Square holding signs that say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They include a nurse, an engineer and a former government lawyer. thenational.scot/news/25286756.…