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michael

@sisyphusa

Some kind of communist. Co-author of Fractured (Pluto Press, 2022) & Fascism and the Women's Cause (Ebb, 2025). Part of @56aInfoshop. oy vey.

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as a colonial power, whenever the british state cracks down on dissent, radical movements & worker organising here, it has always done so by drawing on social control techniques it developed in the colonies. and movements here have always been influenced by struggles elsewhere.

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radical movements here around abolitionism/workers & political rights were profoundly influenced not only by the French Revolution but Haiti & the Irish rebellion. The British state cracked down on trade unions & radical movements with a raft of legislation in the 1790s & 1810s.

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british abolitionist and workers movements at the time had much participation from African & Caribbean activists like Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cugoano, Robert Wedderburn, William Davidson and countless Irish radicals.

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movements split down radical/moderate lines depending on race/class, & influenced by the state crackdown. e.g. Seditious Meetings Act (1795) restricted size of public meetings to 50. Treason Act (1795) made it high treason to attack the King after his carriage was pelted w stones

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The Unlawful Oaths and Unlawful Societies Acts (1797 and 1799) targeted secret societies/corresponding societies. The Combinations Acts of 1799 and 1800 outlawed collective bargaining. (many of these bills were sponsored by that great emancipator, William Wilberforce.)

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The Frame-Breaking Act of 1812 was designed to punish the Luddite movement. While the Coercion Act of 1817 gave the government the power to suspend habeas corpus.

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The Six Acts (1819) was in response to Peterloo, shutting down radical meetings, censoring the radical press & seizing weapons. And this all took place during a 2nd peak of parliamentary land enclosures in English history - around 3 million acres were enclosed between 1800-1815.

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which is all to say - there is no "national" "english" "british" "white" working class, the working class in all its multiplicity is formed by the long hand of empire, including what Britain has done to Palestine. They crack down because they fear us. Let's make them right to.

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We Are All Palestine Action. FREE, FREE PALESTINE. DEATH, DEATH, DEATH TO THE IDF. the people who struggle against the broken world will always face repression. because the broken world is administered by state violence.

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is there any state in the world that has been proscribing, criminalising or labeling as "terrorist" its enemies or the people it is oppressing as the British state?

is there any state in the world that has been proscribing, criminalising or labeling as "terrorist" its enemies or the people it is oppressing as the British state?
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Remember you can join the IDF and cheer as you blow up schools, take selfies in murdered families clothes and commit war crimes daily. The British state will stand by you.

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This weekend the IOF will murder hundreds of people, many of them kids, as they do every weekend. War crimes day after day. And the British government will arm them and smile...

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This brave woman now faces a prison sentence of between 3 and 10 years. It could be up to 14 years but that's unlikely in this case. She'll also have a terrorism conviction severely limiting here ability to travel and will be subject to an extended period of intrusive monitoring.

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"In the West, Palestinians are immediately associated with terrorism, as Israel has seen to it that they are...There is nothing in Palestinian history, absolutely nothing at all to rival the record of Zionist terror against Arabs, other Jews, UN officials." Edward W. Said, 1979

"In the West, Palestinians are immediately associated with terrorism, as Israel has seen to it that they are...There is nothing in Palestinian history, absolutely nothing at all to rival the record of Zionist terror against Arabs, other Jews, UN officials."

Edward W. Said, 1979
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A wonderful comrade of mine is helping to run this project to help 15 displaced families in Gaza. Please consider giving to the project and sharing it with others ❤️

A wonderful comrade of mine is helping to run this project to help 15 displaced families in Gaza. Please consider giving to the project and sharing it with others ❤️