Posts by markhburton@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #AdEOQZ91wU8VnXd61o by markhburton@mstdn.social
2023-12-27T09:53:52Z
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@EU_Commission New night train service 🇫🇷 Paris – 🇮🇹 Milan – 🇮🇹 Venice;Hmmm, it's not so long ago that there was one. I was thinking of going on it pre-pandemic.#NightTrains
(DIR) Post #AhwKBpPm9uvv2DteFc by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-05-06T08:27:58Z
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Colombia | El gobierno informó que tendrá un servicio de atención a niños palestinos heridos - NODALhttps://www.nodal.am/2024/05/colombia-el-gobierno-informo-que-tendra-un-servicio-de-atencion-a-ninos-palestinos-heridos/
(DIR) Post #AhzvMvtkfo4w6fxJLc by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-05-06T08:26:32Z
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The party will have to change its name.Scaling back Labour’s workers’ rights plan would be disastrous, warns TUC president | Labour | The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/labour-scaling-back-workers-rights-plan-would-be-disastrous-tcu-president
(DIR) Post #AiQEm0N68282SWJDUW by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-05-30T10:13:11Z
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The terrorist Israeli occupation gives humanitarian organisation #UNRWA 30 days to leave East Jerusalem.In a masterstroke of projection, it intends to declare UNRWA, part of the UNO, established in the late 40s to bring relief to those fleeing the #NAKBA, a terrorist organisation.Ocupación israelí | Israel da 30 días a la Unrwa para dejar Jerusalén este tras su intento de declararla “organización terrorista” - El Salto - Edición Generalhttps://www.elsaltodiario.com/ocupacion-israeli/israel-unrwa-jerusalen-declararla-organizacion-terrorista
(DIR) Post #Aj2q6y1pHaqD8OFdfk by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-06-18T07:20:37Z
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@rms Chiquita Is in fact none other than the US company United Fruit, notorious in the region already.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChiquitaThe overthrow of the Arbenz reformist government of Guatemala in the 1950s at least helped radicalise Ernesto Guevara (El Che) and many more.The massacre of its workers in 1920s Colombia was one of the incidents narrated by Gabriel García Márquez in "100 years of Solitude". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Banana_Massacre&diffonly=true
(DIR) Post #AjeiUxNDwRRNSSxqhU by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-07-06T13:54:21Z
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@rms I haven't kept up with events in Venezuela lately but did write this longish piece some time ago to try and explain what went wrong, without falling into the limited thinking of either the Western liberal anti-chavismo or "everything's OK in socialist Venezuela". https://uncommontater.net/2019/01/11/whats-gone-wrong-in-venezuela/
(DIR) Post #AjrqhS1d88D8gaoORc by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-07-12T19:40:54Z
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#Gaza on sea.#Israel's unprecedented #genocide in full view of the world.
(DIR) Post #AlFoxBCswBK3TOFWkq by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-08-23T07:34:43Z
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So it's the #GenocideEnabling business as usual for the US 'Democratic' Party."The call for a Palestinian speaker at the convention was the simplest of their demands, advocates explained. And it still got turned down."‘They want to erase us:’ How #DNC rejected demand for Palestinian speaker | US Election 2024 News | Al Jazeerahttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/22/they-want-to-erase-us-how-dnc-rejected-demand-for-palestinian-speaker?traffic_source=rss#Palestine #Gaza
(DIR) Post #AnCFOeaQgAFCZfTycK by markhburton@mstdn.social
2024-10-20T11:44:17Z
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@aral 'America' is the Eurocentric name of the double continent (aka Abya Yala), not the imperium. I always use 'USAmericans' for clarity.
(DIR) Post #Aq2sTNTFC3Pt4rAcqG by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-01-13T16:51:43Z
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@interfluidity @williamcb.bsky.social While there are a few good insights, it has a very muddled, Atlanticist and ecologically incoherent set of strategy suggestions. Not unusual for a former Trot.
(DIR) Post #Aqhkwl0l7veCxQ58qm by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-02-02T10:03:39Z
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I'm more than happy with the generous 500 character limit.If people want to say more they can always make a thread.It's microblogging not blogging peeps.
(DIR) Post #ArwSke8TEeM7PkL5ns by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-03-11T08:46:52Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 A land for peace deal is inevitable: there's no chance Ukraine can win back all the occupied territory and maintaining the pretence means massive carnage on both sides with risk of escalation.Remember, part of the territory was functionally independent of Kyiv/Kiev anyway. So the maps are a bit misleading.That is not in any way to justify the fascist Russian invasion
(DIR) Post #AsSO39ipm1uy68IF6W by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-03-26T19:57:32Z
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@stfn "For degrowth to succeed, its advocates must formulate concrete proposals that address these global dependencies without exacerbating inequalities or harming the most vulnerable."Isn't that what many #degrowth proponents have been doing?
(DIR) Post #AxKk3WyXH508kbQa2q by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-08-19T13:50:10Z
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Israel attacks displacement shelters to force Palestinians to southern Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeerahttps://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/8/19/israel-targets-displacement-shelters-in-central-gaza?traffic_source=rss
(DIR) Post #Ay3gpk8PzkU7lCys5o by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-09-10T07:41:13Z
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Mass killings in Gaza city.Population expulsion.Bombings in Qatar and Tunisia.Expressions of outrage.Nazi Israel enjoys continued impunity.Starmer welcomes their President who has questions to answer about genocide and war crimes.#impunity #genocide
(DIR) Post #AzOdJq3dDQBUlYzXsG by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-10-20T08:17:41Z
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Starmer who champions '“law and order,” 'presses the police to obstruct peaceful demonstrations and oversees mass arrests of non-violent sit-ins. Yet when police take a safety-based decision to bar the notoriously violent fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv — already banned by Amsterdam City Council because of the riots they instigated in the Dutch city last November — he claims anti-semitism, in order to ingratiate himself with the pro-Israel political right.'| Morning Starhttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cynical-and-inept-starmer-risks-unleashing-racist-hooligans-birmingham
(DIR) Post #AzOdJyMiKMCaX3ytjE by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-10-20T08:20:57Z
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"Whether the ban is upheld or not, 'Robinson' will be heading to Birmingham to make trouble on November 6. The left and labour movement should offer all possible support to locally led mobilisation to protect communities and homes from racist thugs."#AntiFascism
(DIR) Post #B0HFOVu26bJZ491YPY by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-11-15T08:19:17Z
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@ludd Whenever I try to help my partner with her Windows computer, I think, "why is this OS so difficult"?Linux is a dream in comparison.
(DIR) Post #B0KyidVOcxojqeLjZw by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-11-17T09:17:26Z
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"Despite the left surge in the Green Party [E&W], it remains committed to Nato and to its war in Ukraine."This is a problem for me as a GP member.Lessons from Syriza’s failure for today’s radical politics | Morning Starhttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lessons-syrizas-failure-todays-radical-politics#GreenParty
(DIR) Post #B0S3C5En04FrPFSS3c by markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-11-02T09:22:16Z
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"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months worth of local journalism later, that now looks like a shaky claim."The men who raised the flagshttps://manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/#xenophobia #nativism