Isaac Rose
@_isaacrose
Yes. We can't really grasp local housing crises without grasping the tendential urbanisation of capital and the centrality of real estate to most national economies.
If the problem is the same world wide - unaffordable housing - then the cause can’t be local zoning. I wish it was that simple but it’s not.
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Four pieces with a the hammer and sickle #artbots #malevich
Half my feed is images of Palestinians starved to death by Israel. The other half is people being dragged away by police for opposing it. I’ve never felt more sickened by our political class.
People are collapsing & dying from starvation in Gaza. Over the last 24 hours, 18 people have died as a result of famine, according to the ministry of health. Those who try to get food are gunned down by the Israeli military. At least 73 killed in aid massacres today. Genocide
People in Gaza are collapsing all over from hunger. Babies and children are dying from malnutrition. This is a forced starvation campaign and it is pure evil.
We unequivocally reject this line of argument from AOC, as should the broader Palestine movement and the Left. Israel is able to continue its genocide unabated precisely because of the endless flow of both offensive and defensive weaponry to its arsenal. That is because every…
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza. Of course I voted against it. What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to…
Building from Below - A Democratic Roadmap Towards a New Model Left Party medium.com/@maxshanly/bui…
In Manchester police push through crowds + arrest 16 people inc 3 vicars and many elderly under the Terrorism Act for holding signs "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"
It's only possible to believe this absolute nonsense if you are profoundly stupid and/or racist.
Intelligence officials in the UK believe that Iran is hosting the headquarters of Al Qaeda, giving the terrorist leadership a lifeline after years of setbacks Read more: news.ae/4nLmrIw
This guy is on the Parliamentary Liaison Group for Housing. Utterly cheesy and predictable analysis: deregulate; build, build, build. Starting off with an ode to likely the most neoliberal rentier city in the UK is telling, plus no accounting for land costs.
🧵 Why doesn’t Sheffield (or South Yorkshire) build more high-quality buildings and glass skyscrapers like Manchester or Leeds? I hear this a lot online, in the news, and in conversation. The answer is simple: viability. A short thread.
Lots of genocidaires objecting to the objection to genocide, illustrating the moral collapse that is enabling it. The charnel house of the mid-twentieth century is no mystery any more, it’s very easy to see how the world collapsed into fascism and war and concentration camps.
The Gaza genocide is a point of no return for me. I've broken with friends and acquaintances over their complicity or silence or (in a couple of instances) support for this hideous, unforgivable, ongoing slaughter of women and children and epistemicide of Palestinian society.
Jonathan Silver interviews author and organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in Manchester, The Rentier City. They discuss the motivations for writing the book, how theory informs practice, and the influences that guided Rose. buff.ly/MnjHbje
Nice to see the interview @InvisibleMapper did with me out in @Metropolitics_ metropolitics.org/Unleashing-Fin…
In the 19th century there was a company that ploughed the battlefields of Europe for bones to fertilise Britain’s fields. The company was from Yorkshire. For some reason, I just see Kim Leadbeater as a heir to that grim tradition.
Happy birthday Aaron. Don't forget Aaron. 🤍🕊️
HMOs in a City like Bradford are not 'house shares' they are contemporary bedsits some are slums & most act as hostels for people who can't afford anywhere else to live. They are a disgrace & a National shame telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
Members of Parliament gearing up to vote tomorrow to proscribe Palestine Action don’t represent Britons, our popular will, or our national interests but a profoundly evil foreign state and its child murder lobby
Very very important report by @FranceskAlbs, Special Rapporteur, on From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide. Must read, must share, must continue to push the enablers of the genocide.
This is not business as usual. My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today. It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine. Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must…
If you think 'Death to the IDF' is anti-Semitic, then you have lost your capacity for reason.