Max Lawson
@maxlawsontin
Head of Inequality Policy Oxfam. Co- Chair, Peoples Medicines alliance. Co-host @EQUALShope podcast. Tweets mine and my personal opinion.
Let’s not forget: — You hosted Israel’s Air Force chief just last week — You’re training Israeli soldiers in the UK — You defended cutting off Gaza’s water — a war crime — You’re still arming Israel — You refuse to recognise Palestine How Many Faces You Have…?. You’re complicit…
Great having @jeremycorbyn join the #megapicket supporting Birmingham bin strikes this morning! Bin workers are not asking for a pay rise - just asking not to have their wages slashed!
Corbyn joins 'megapicket' supporting bin strikes bbc.in/4o6E9WM
This level of barbarity is unconscionable. Nobody should be comfortable with children and families starving to death. It is morally indefensible to allow the manufactured and man-made starvation to continue. The United States must stop funding and enabling this genocide.
Saeed Al Umoor, a victim of Israeli settler violence, describes a rise in brazen and heavily armed attacks against Palestinians, carried out with impunity as both the Israeli government and PA look on.
Trafalgar Square now blocked off as well as Whitehall, there are so many protestors tonight. End the genocide.
We now have 300,000 people signed up and the establishment is clearly frightened. Westminster is broken, but the real crisis is inequality: just fifty families now own more wealth than half the population. Let’s change that together. Join us: yourparty.uk
The UK funnels incredible amounts of wealth into the pockets of the super rich. They buy essential services, hike bills, pollute, and make billions renting our country back to us. That's why we need to make them pay. Sign up for the 20 Sept action here 👉 makethempay.org.uk
This is the sound of hunger. Listen closely. This isn’t fiction — this is reality for millions in Gaza right now, being starved by the Israeli government siege. Tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items and fuel sit untouched just outside of Gaza, and even…
CNN investigation shows clear examples of newborn babies dying as a result of cuts to USAID. Shameful. cnn.com/2025/07/22/asi…
No member of Congress who voted for this disastrous legislation should be re-elected.
🚨BREAKING🚨 29 MPs have just tabled an EDM titled "proposal for a #WealthTax." edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
The UK government says it is doing everything it can to alleviate suffering in Gaza. The UK government won’t suspend the sale of F-35 parts to Israel. The UK government won’t stop the use of RAF Akrotiri or end military cooperation. The UK government won’t accept the ICJ…
over 1 million people on zero hours contracts in the UK now. shameful.
Millions of workers experience the problems associated with insecure work. This includes 1.1 million workers on low pay. Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
In Bath, UK, people read the names of 15,500 Palestinian children killed in Gaza — nonstop for 17 hours. Artists, teachers, parents, even an MP stood in tears, name after name. Different tongues. One conscience. Not just a vigil — a stand for humanity. Their names filled the…
Today in Glasgow a man is arrested for holding a sign reading "Genocide in Palestine. Time to take action" Meanwhile the head of the Israeli air force who has overseen the killing of thousands of Palestinians is welcomed to an RAF conference thenational.scot/news/25325239.…
81 year old former magistrate, Deborah Hinton, arrested under the Terrorism Act in Cornwall. She held a placard which said: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
It's likely Maj Gen Tomer Bar—the Hermann Göring of the Gaza Holocaust—approved the hit on 3 British aid workers in Gaza in April 2024 They were all UK military veterans RAF refused to release its footage from day of strike—and is now hosting Bar at its base in Gloucestershire
Absolutely disgusting. And all those MPs who voted this through - you knew what you were doing. This was the obvious consequence. You voted to try to stop protest against a genocide you are complicit in. It will not work. We will not be silenced. You will be held to account.
OVER 100 ARRESTS CONFIRMED Today, over 100 people have been arrested across the UK for calling on the Labour government to lift the ban on direct action group Palestine Action. These arrests are in addition to those from previous weekends. Full PR: docs.google.com/document/d/1_v…
Why does the BBC always include context like "Iran-backed Houthis" and "Hamas-run hospital" but never "US-backed IDF" or "indicted-war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu"?