Those in power who have enabled , encouraged and incited the violence are just as culpable as the angry mobs on the streets. It’s time to tackle the violence and the hate preachers in politics, the media and think tanks Watch my discussion today This Morning

They set fire to a building with people inside & blocked the fire exit. Destroyed a care workers car while he was on shift in a care home. Dragged people out of cars & beat them. They destroyed homes & desecrated graves. Fuck off with ‘working class’. They’re racist monsters.

These are actual headlines, showing how the wording was changed over time to protect Israel. If this isn’t a prime case of western media’s criminal complicity in genocide I don’t know what is.

I have something to say about how toxic narratives emanating from previous Tory govt about 'activist lawyers' resulted in the recent list of 60+ immigration law practices & advice centres circulating on far right channels. That list led to riots. A thread 🧵⬇️

A 🧵Question: Why do the British labour and TUCEquality movements almost exclusively fund SWP or HOPE not hate led anti racism? Answer : These are white led anti racist movements. There is no interest or support on the left for independent Black and Asian led anti racism.

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Hostile immigration policies and anti-migrant rhetoric from politicians created the conditions for far-right racist rioting. Condemning the violence whilst pursuing harsher, exclusionary policies is deeply disjointed and shows a staggering lack of insight. bigissue.com/opinion/labour…

Is it just me or does this article totally miss the point about why the costs of the asylum system have become so high? It’s not because numbers went up, but because the last govt passed laws that totally halted asylum decision-making theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Today, my being a grown up milestone wasn’t that I packed my youngest off to school for the first time, though I did that too. It was that I finally bought an iron.

“An unrelenting cost of living crisis” for low income households is how I described the situation to Aditya Chakrabortty recently. After years of cuts & freezes to the basic rate of benefits, that’s exactly what it is. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Our response to today's publication of the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 Report

Today, we remember the 72 people who lost their lives in Grenfell Tower, whose deaths were entirely avoidable. Our thoughts are also with those left behind, the bereaved and the survivors.🧵

Our Praxis 🧡 statement on the Grenfell Inquiry report and in solidarity with the Grenfell community. It has not passed us by that a huge number of bereaved, survivors and residents are from migrant communities. We stand together, calling for real change and justice.

The dark heart of this catastrophe lies in this simple, depressing narrative: the state stepped back, corporate greed stepped in and innocent people died. Bit by me for The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I just spoke to Sky news on our latest research on school exclusions What’s most shocking is the racial injustice with Black Caribbean 2.5x more likely and Romani (Gypsy) Roma and Irish Traveller students 3x more likely to be excluded Story below 👇🏾 news.sky.com/video/record-3…

But we didn't bother. In fact, the government only said it would finally make these changes *last Monday*. There is pretty direct evidence that its failure to do so in Blair's time was to appease product manufacturers.

Love to see this. This would make an enormous difference to the number of people who find themselves homeless after being formally recognised as refugees by the Home Office, who then turf them out onto the streets.

Well this is going to be a fun day... anyone got any inkling of what's going to be in that statement?

9 months is a long time but the MAC have been commissioned to review the Minimum Income Requirements. A welcomed development. gov.uk/government/pub…