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Rosa Luxemburg - June Pamphlet posted:Violated, dishonored, wading in blood, dripping filth—there stands bourgeois society. In Other News  • MP Conor Burns resigns as Minister of State for Trade Policy after a report found he used his position as an MP to intimidate a member of the public. • Overall measures of wellbeing are reported to be at their lowest levels since records began in 2011. • The UK death toll from COVID-19 becomes the highest in Europe. • Bat Stokes, Matt and Dec, and Man Antcock open NHS Nightingale Hospital North East. • The government approves Cleve Hill Solar Park on the north Kent coast, the UK's biggest ever solar farm at 900 acres in size and 350MW of capacity, enough to power over 91,000 homes. • Other news still cancelled due to Coronavirus.  Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. Also It's Hot   Whitsuntide UKMT May 2020 - Let them eat Nando's UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Gathering Day Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Düsseldorf's Cartwheeler Day Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The second-most UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. Alpha 2 Omega - Tom O'Brien talks political strategy. Requires Improvement - Podcast of lefty teachers exploring all things education, from a socialist perspective. Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" mehall posted:Fresh new podcast on the state of Labour factionalism from your thread comrades over at Podcasting is Praxis, plus also Jack off of Reel Politik - Inventors' and Rationalizers' Day Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. 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Finally a UKMT without the politics.
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Solefald posted:rip me murdered by pollen Mine hasn't kicked in yet, mercifully, but I probably only have a month left, if that.
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 Happy Monday everyone, brought to you by the most normal country. Also that GWU thing looks like a shitshow, hate these left infights that crop up where there's no clear series of events to refer to and a strong implication that you're not supposed to ask.
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Who the gently caress is bez he looks like pound shop bruce forsyth.
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OwlFancier posted:Who the gently caress is bez he looks like pound shop bruce forsyth. 
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OwlFancier posted:A union without politics is like, a particularly dull tea social isn't it? A trade union 'without politics', in the UK context, could well refer to a union that chooses not to have a political fund as defined under the Trade Union Act 1984 The status quo is that UK unions since Thatcherism are somewhat 'without politics' anyway; that was the whole shtick with the ban on secondary action, the introduction of a separate political fund, and regulation of executive elections or wildcat actions - the UK trade union is a quasi-corporate body that exists to execute the collective bargaining rights such a creature enjoys as defined in labour law, not as a political association of its members. Minority union members have rights to constraints on union executive powers - like minority shareholders. It is a quasi-corporate creature whose powers and privileges are defined in statute "But you'll never finally revolutionise society, only chit-chat with your employer's negotiators every few years" might be an outcome actively supported by certain kinds of unions... for some folks, having their annual review handled by professionals really is all they expect out of labour representation (this kind of thing does have some soft left support.... back when the best the left could hope for was Ed Miliband, Ghent-style concepts enjoyed some popularity. That is, anchor trade union membership by giving them a statutory monopoly on some services (unemployment insurance, pensions administration, codetermination) and then embrace the unstoppable train of depoliticization as Ed Miliband did. One can still see the think-tank traces of this in sectoral collective bargaining... there are many UK folks on the soft left who are either not aware, or are aware but don't care, that the de facto penalty for sectoral bargaining and statutory tripartism on the continent is studied political independence of the unions. If one claims to speak for everyone in the sector - not merely a large number or even a majority - then there will be demands for rigid controls on what one says with that voice. British people in full-time or part-time work are still, in the end, much like the country at large - a people who vote more narrowly Conservative than they do Labour - and slapping ~half of them with a levy to fund the other party would be intolerable) ronya fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Jun 1, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:Who the gently caress is bez he looks like pound shop bruce forsyth. Bez has done it all. Madchester in the 80s, daytime TV in the 90s, Celeb Big Brother in the 00s, beaten in a parliamentary election by Rebecca Long-Bailey in the 10s. He's the UK's answer to the Renaissance man.
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May sucked I lost a family friend to covid. Kiiiinda bracing myself to lose more.
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A tiny bit of unfinished business from the last thread - I was struggling to remember the name of the American bluetick who managed to perfectly encapsulate two hard-and-fast rules of the universe: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1267060056203427840 - Anyone with a cartoon of themselves as their avatar is a twat - Any portrait with the subject's hands visible is the mark of a dickhead
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Tesseraction posted:Michael Tracey is a right-wing guy cosplaying as a left-leaning guy who is so obnoxiously contrarian he has been retweeted by Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America. Must be why they kicked him off Tracey Island before the series started 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A tiny bit of unfinished business from the last thread - I was struggling to remember the name of the American bluetick who managed to perfectly encapsulate two hard-and-fast rules of the universe: I really enjoy these takes because it's basically "black people are rioting because the police murder them discriminately, white people don't, therefore white people are better."
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https://twitter.com/keewa/status/1267411464207433729 I grew up in a Hipster Coffee Shop, and you?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A tiny bit of unfinished business from the last thread - I was struggling to remember the name of the American bluetick who managed to perfectly encapsulate two hard-and-fast rules of the universe: Yes, I'm sure those statistics are absolutely accurate to the numbers WaPo presumably got from the police, who don't recortd the numbers of unarmed black people they murder.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A tiny bit of unfinished business from the last thread - I was struggling to remember the name of the American bluetick who managed to perfectly encapsulate two hard-and-fast rules of the universe: White: 19 (46%) Black: 9 (22%) Hispanic: 6 (15%) Other: 4 (10%) Unknown: 3 (7%) According to the 2010 U.S Census, the composition of the USA is: White 72.4% Black or African American 12.6% Hispanic and Latino 16.3% Other 15% So yes Michael good job proving that police shoot African Americans at a disproportionately higher rate and white Americans at a disproportionately lower rate. goddamnedtwisto posted:- Anyone with a cartoon of themselves as their avatar is a twat 
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As promised in the last thread I luckily have Thousand Sons to paint so was able to take one for the team and watch this movie from beginning to end. It’s certainly something. The plot follows a priest who ends up getting mixed up with a scientist who due to nearing the menopause (despite the actress looking in her late 20s) has opted to implant an embryo so she can have a child. This embryo happens to be a clone of Princess Diana. Now she could make do with any old embryo but in her words if it isn’t Diana then she won’t get any book or film deals. Apparently Diana was “officially the most beautiful person in the world - inside and out.” The film is trying to be a web-of-intrigue thriller but goes off the rails with too many plot threads and additional characters, with some downright baffling choices like using hilariously unconvincing special effects instead of using readily available cheap stock footage. The best way I can describe this film is it’s like one of those porn-with-a-plot movies but without any actual sex or nudity, written and filmed by someone with a real hard on for the royals/Diana. Honestly Neil Breen makes more coherent films than this. Would be good for a laugh with some friends and booze mind, especially for the helicopter special effect shot which is someone holding a toy chopper with their hand just out of frame in front of some aerial footage.
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UKMT Solidarity Fund Monthly Update - 1st June 2020 The latter half of May has been surprisingly quiet for the Fund. I guess all potentially troubled goons have all managed to claim their furlough payments or get signed up for food deliveries? Anyway, as has held true since week 2, donations and payouts remain roughly equal (£600+ quid donated this month, holy poo poo goons) and the fund's balance continues to hover in the very healthy vicinity of £3,000.  In view of the current excellent health of the fund and the current political situation, we would like to recommend that people who are considering donating should give instead to Black Lives Matter related fundraisers. This site is a good starting point for that. Constitution | Record of Activity Donate: Paypal - https://paypal.me/ukmtsolidarity Bank Transfer - PM IrvingWashington (aka Bill Drummond on Discord) for account details Apply: Application Form Email Us PM: AceClown, Fargle (discord only), Maugrim, Oscar Diggs or Rarity. Maugrim fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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thespaceinvader posted:Yes, I'm sure those statistics are absolutely accurate to the numbers WaPo presumably got from the police, who don't recortd the numbers of unarmed black people they murder.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Any portrait with the subject's hands visible is the mark of a dickhead My FB profile pic includes my hand, theory stands up.
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OwlFancier posted:Who the gently caress is bez he looks like pound shop bruce forsyth. Mate. How? How don't you know Bez, the pulled up guy who danced and shook maracas for the Happy Mondays 30 years ago?
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Can this weather gently caress off please? I don't live in Scotland - on a hill - to be sweating sitting in my house.
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forkboy84 posted:Mate. How? How don't you know Bez, the pulled up guy who danced and shook maracas for the Happy Mondays 30 years ago? I was busy making GBS threads my pants constantly at the time.
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I love how the tousim/hospitality industries have got one whiff of freedom and immediately started hammering on the table, demanding we sacrifice the entire country to the plague gods.mehall posted:Can this weather gently caress off please?
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mehall posted:Can this weather gently caress off please? gonna be a bad one this year. may was already the hottest on record.
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Bad news Goons. In-person D&D games are now illegal. https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/01/sex-someone-dont-live-illegal-today-12785637/ quote:New coronavirus guidelines have made it illegal to have sex in your own home with a person from another household from today. The government is set to lay out the new regulations this morning, which will ban people from socialising indoors with a person from outside your household bubble. The new regulation reads: ‘No person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place indoors, and consists of two or more persons.’
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mehall posted:Can this weather gently caress off please? My parents front lawn is already looking burnt like it's mid July. I've been enjoying it mostly, chilling in the garden reading old comics and just doing nothing but reading and drinking tea, think my arms are going to end up tanned for the first time in donkey years. At least last night ruled, was 10C and felt like 5C. Great sleep
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goddamnedtwisto posted:A tiny bit of unfinished business from the last thread - I was struggling to remember the name of the American bluetick who managed to perfectly encapsulate two hard-and-fast rules of the universe: the primary thing to note about michael tracey is he got bodied by 80 year old US representative maxine waters and had a huge loving meltdown about it https://twitter.com/jules_su/status/871142548424671232?s=20
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Guavanaut posted:- Pipe multiplies any of the above by 1000 The original version had both the pipe and the hand in it, even (until the artist demanded Graham stopped using it due to not wanting his art associated with a raging bigot, resulting in it being redrawn by a raging bigot who could draw)
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For that you need Ben Jacobs who got body slammed by a us representative and was still unable to properly call the guy out after lol
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ronya posted:A trade union 'without politics', in the UK context, could well refer to a union that chooses not to have a political fund as defined under the Trade Union Act 1984 Finally, a teachers' union without a political fund as defined under the Trade Union Act 1984!
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forkboy84 posted:My parents front lawn is already looking burnt like it's mid July. I've been enjoying it mostly, chilling in the garden reading old comics and just doing nothing but reading and drinking tea, think my arms are going to end up tanned for the first time in donkey years. Yeah it does cool down overnight which is key. It breaks here on wed with some rain and then cooler after.
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Continued from the last thread: https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1267398703561801730?s=19 1:Dunt left Chile when he was 4. 2: What was Dunt's British family doing in Chile during the Cold War under Pinochet? 
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baka kaba posted:Finally, a teachers' union without a political fund as defined under the Trade Union Act 1984! I don't think OF had that specifically in mind - hence my quick sketch of why, in fact, a union 'without politics' is a real thing that exists in UK labour law It does look like the the organisation Adonis mentions does actively have it in mind...  except for the fact that it isn't a trade union at all and hence doesn't have any collective bargaining powers to begin with... its main raison d'etre appears to be liability coverage and legal guidance, the professional services are a freebie in order to compete with a union which might also offer its own representation. quote:Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said: “Edapt is one of a number of insurance companies seeking to persuade teachers they do not need the collective strength of a trade union to ensure that they are not only fully protected and supported at work but that their professional needs are also met.
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ronya posted:I don't think OF had that specifically in mind - hence my quick sketch of why, in fact, a union 'without politics' is a real thing that exists in UK labour law Other than video chats, all teaching unions currently offer all those other things. I guess you can argue about 'best value'. Teaching unions don't even endorse political parties anymore ffs.
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