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London’s Metropolitan Police arrested another 492 people over the weekend after a protest Saturday in Trafalgar Square, as the Starmer government accelerated its crackdown on opposition to the Gaza genocide.

The entirely peaceful protest was held to oppose the proscription of Palestine Action. It was organised by Defend Our Juries and attended by over 1,000 people. Of the arrests, 488 were for holding up signs declaring, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”.

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

Keir Starmer is a cunt

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 30 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

This is so self defeating... Palestine Action should have never been declared a "terrorist organization" in the same category as Al Qaeda and Daesh. People see right through that and it causes a backlash. Nd the UK government doubling down on the backlash creates even more backlash. I mean anyone can see that at this point that the government has lost the political battle on this one and is just chugging through due to the sunk cost fallacy. This is only paving the way for the Right to do a comeback. Fucking centrist liberals man, god damn.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The sunsetting of a once great empire.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 minute ago

It's been twilight for quite some time now.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago

No of course not, Al Qaeda is our great ally in Syria now, or some completely legit and organic offshoot of said group.

[–] RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 38 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

In the end, the problem stems from billionaires. They created the right wing propaganda machine that caused this far right authoritarian rise. They did it recklessly only to increase their own power. Billionaires can no longer exist. Capitalism is failing. We need a new path forward.

[–] atmorous@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

Humanist Capitalism has to come out of the ashes

Unions, cooperatives, and unionized cooperatives no matter what

[–] twinklefruit 19 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Why do Zionists have so much control outside of Israel?

What the fuck is wrong with the West? Don't tell me /pol/ was right...

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 19 points 5 hours ago

Israel is key to western imperialist ambitions in the Middle East. The relationship between zionists and the west is in the same “too big to fail” category that protected the criminal bankers who left so many destitute in 2008. For capitalism’s true believers, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

not tongo full tinfoil, but this is beyond just lobbying.

I'm assuming there's lots of blackmail involved

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

The colonial mindstate is still alive simple as that

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 hours ago

What in the fascist UK fuck.

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 15 points 8 hours ago

V for Vendetta is starting to look more like prophecy than fiction...

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

Reform UK will have a hard time catching up with Labour in the fascism League.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 76 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

That's a funny looking labour government you got there UK.

How did you guys go from Corbyn to this? Is it so hard to have a labour party leader that doesn't back Israel or Russia?

[–] Small_Quasar@lemmy.world 44 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Starmer is terrified of Reform. So he's taken the really smart stance of pulling Labour to the right to court a demographic that would never vote Labour anyway, and in the meantime utterly piss off his core base.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

Yeah, it's very sad since I think people are more willing to vote Labour if they were just better. Now their voter base is more likely to stay at home instead of going to the voting booth. Weird move by Starmer since he was in the march against the Iraq war himself.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Same story, different country

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago

This almost always fails and only ends up moving the country average to right and make extreme right seem more mild.

Also I don't think right wing voters have that strong an opinion on Israel. This is more likely zionist lobbies pulling some of Starmer's strings.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 hours ago

He's been do that for years. Hell labour advisors even managed get Kamala and the dnc to to harder right

[–] verdi@feddit.org 54 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

90% chance the mossad has a bunch of videos of Starmer and his cabinet diddling kids, or engaging in animality with pigs, whatever is the depravity du jour was in his heyday.

Meanwhile the nazis march against london with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon at the helm. 0 actual enforcement. The funniest part is Yaxley-Lennon was invited by an israeli minister to visit Israel...

Can you imagine travelling back to 1943 and telling people in the camps that their sacrifice would be the fertilizer of a new wave of the same ideological poison that deprived them of dignity and life. This is just heartbreaking... What's even the point of resisting anymore?

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 hours ago

Resisting tyranny is how everything good in the world is possible. The way to have lives worth living is to defeat tyrants and their ideologies. We defeated the Nazis but not fascism. Now we have to defeat the ideological descendants of the Nazis.

If we don't defeat fascism, neoliberalism, and capitalism now the turn around time for the next fascist movement will be measured in years not decades. We have seen as much with the Biden administration. They failed to meaningfully hold Trump and MAGA to account for the insurrection or fundamentally fix the underling systemic issues that they are symptoms of and now we are living under fascist rule.

We don't have dignified lives or liberal democracies to go back to. The way to get something better is with socialist democracies where workers own corporations and the political process. Until then it's liberty or death. We benefited from a free democracy. If anyone is to enjoy that again we must resist now and until we are all free.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

because...what other choice is there, let them win?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder indeed that Epstein was likely a Mossad asset and there are likely more like him.

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[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 118 points 17 hours ago (21 children)

UK is a fascist regime. Well done!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 58 points 17 hours ago (26 children)

Folks who get really up in their feelings about the Trump/Harris election seem to forget that Harris was taking campaign advice from this guy. It's so easy to forget how absolutely poisoned so-called "Liberal Democracy" has become with a broad strain of fascist tendency.

On the one hand, you've got a guy who is looking to literally lay siege to cities in the US that didn't vote for him. On the opposite side of the pond, they're doing mass-arrests of anyone with a "Please Stop Killing Brown People" bumper sticker. And in the middle, a sea of smug dipshits posting "You got what you voted for".

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 33 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Liberals will ALWAYS end up siding with the Fascists to try to suppress the Left. Happened in Germany in the 1930s, and the dumbass liberals eventually ended up lined up against the same walls the communists and socialists were lined up against. If you're a liberal today and defending this fascist suppression against Palestine Action: you're next.

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[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

I don't support the UK crackdown on peaceful protesters, but this wsws.org is a de-facto Chinese propaganda medium. That's not a good source.

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 9 points 8 hours ago

It's a good source if it reports on the fascist behaviors of the UK government. With this trend, how long do you think western media will be able to report freely on this stuff?

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

Isn't WSWS run by Trotskyists?

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