Cyril Winstanley

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2026-07-24 20:18:22 UTC

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these are all plausible explanations. Also, the border has got a lot harder than it used to be. It encloses nations and I wonder if it also encloses political thinking.

2026-07-11 11:08:30 UTC

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I also learned a version of how Notting Hill carnival moved from an indoor event, timed with Trinidad carnival in January, to become a street festival on the august bank holiday.
It seems that, separately to the West Indian Gazette’s carnival, a group led by a White woman, re-started Notting Hill Fair, one of those 800 year old summer events that the Victorians closed down. One year, the organisers of that invited Claudia Jones’s carnival to provide a steel pan band for one of the floats. And from there the two merged, with the Caribbean part eclipsing the hippy folk revivalists, and the rest is not very well documented history.
#carnival #nottinghill #claudiajones #blackhistory #blackhistoryuk

2026-07-11 08:29:05 UTC

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Claudia Jones arrived in Uk as high ranking official in the US communist party. She had been imprisoned and deported from the USA because of her party work, was ill and had no money. She was a convinced and fairly orthodox communist, had been on the CPUSA national committee and had a record as a very talented organiser, newspaper editor and impressive speaker.
Yet the CPGB was seemingly never interested in making use of her talents or in supporting her financially. And they definitely weren’t interested in challenging racism. What she achieved was done outside of the party, not because she abandoned the party, but simply because she couldn’t do anything with them

2026-07-10 10:31:10 UTC

I just finished reading a Claudia Jones biography that I had long neglected on my bookshelves. The CPGB are intensely disappointing

2026-06-14 19:39:49 UTC

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but article also says they also used Palantir’s ai to spy on their cops “resulting in the arrest of three officers for offences including abuse of authority for sexual purposes, fraud, sexual assault, misconduct in public office and misuse of police systems.” So not sure what to make of that

2026-06-13 10:17:08 UTC

When English people learn about history in schools they do the Norman conquest, Tudors and Stuarts*, possibly the “Industrial Revolution” and then World War 1 and World War 2.
It struck me that learning about Tudors and Stuarts (actually they just learn about one Stuart: James I) without mentioning the fact that the second Stuart ended up getting beheaded in a revolution is crazy.
It’d be like learning about the reigns of the last of the Russian Tzars without mentioning the October Revolution. Or studying Louis XIV, XV etc without discussing how France was soon to be a republic.
#history #EnglishHistory #education #ukeducation #propaganda #monarchy

2026-06-10 09:31:22 UTC

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and what sort of modern psychoanalysis calls people “fiends” and “evil”? That is literally medieval thinking

2026-06-10 07:08:55 UTC

There is right wing violence and pogroms in #belfast with people pleading mobs just to stop setting fire to houses with kids in, and British newspapers are leading with headlines like “refugee charged with medieval knife attack” (the times) “beheading suspect entered the uk via asylum loophole” (telegraph). The Scum have called the attacker a “Sudan fiend” with “evil in his eyes”.
It is so deeply irresponsible. How much tougher on refugees can we be? What do these racist newspaper editor c**ts want? Gas chambers?
Given how tortuous and psychologically harmful the asylum process is, Britain and N.I are lucky that there haven’t been more asylum seekers going beserk.

2026-06-08 09:28:14 UTC

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interesting. Maybe I’m being too simplistic or too liberal here. It feels to me that if you attack Jews because a Jewish state is killing Palestinians, you are racialising all Jewish people. But maybe you are saying that it is not necessarily a dehumanising of Jewish people but potentially a political response (albeit a tactically and morally unsound one) to a racist Zionist war-politics

2026-06-07 15:58:16 UTC

On the cooption of anti-anti-semitism by the Right https://samberkson.substack.com/p/the-scourge-of-anti-anti-semitism
#antisemitism #antifascism #goldersgreenattack #gaza #israel

2026-03-30 18:45:48 UTC

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probably too many viewpoints at once. I think the social democrats should have voted Long-Bailey and tried to keep hold of a valuable piece of infrastructure that they have given blindly back to the union flag-draped neoliberals. The Green Party members will have to go through a similar choice at some point. The Left must remain outside and keep working for a world without leaders, but support what is progressive. Miliband unwittingly created the perfect position with his £3 supporters in his attempt to counter the unions and his touchingly naive belief that there were millions of centrists looking for a political home. But remember we were not even allowed a vote on the question of Labour’s leadership because their gatekeepers kept the gate closed on us! #giveusbackourthreequid

2026-03-30 13:10:14 UTC

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perhaps the problem is the concluding sentence appears to favour “supporting progressive parties at elections”. I was trying to say we do that (along with lots of other things) with an aim of “a world without Westminster”.

2026-03-30 11:49:17 UTC

On the vexed question of how to engage with parliamentary elections. Should I vote Green? What’s the point? An attempt at an answer
https://angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/should-i-vote-green-at-the-next-election-how-to-engage-with-parliamentary-politics/
#greenparty #ukpolitics #labour #LabourParty #keirstarmer #corbyn #vote #voting

2026-03-29 12:36:07 UTC

“One of the men, who was wearing a yarmulke and a grey hooded sweatshirt, can be seen telling an Al Jazeera crew member in Arabic: “Get out of here, you donkey, you dog.”
That man was identified as a Metropolitan Police officer by local news outlet Declassified UK.”
https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/116309711097274968

2026-03-20 20:07:28 UTC

Obviously they have learned this rhetoric from their US funders/advisors/inspirations, however it serves a purpose in the UK too: British = White = Christian, and must be defended by the militaristic Hetero-male. Thus, people who don’t fit those categories don’t count as British.
Also should go without saying that:
a) it’s not even close to a reading of jesus’s actual love-thy-neighbour, Samaritans-are-welcome-here message. Sadly, it is close to some of the Church’s historical positions as pro-imperialist, apologists for slavery.
b) Although Liverpool has a smattering of scumbags like any other place, it is also the city with europe’s oldest black community, oldest Chinese community, long established Jewish, Muslim and other religious communities, is as much an Irish as a British city and hopefully won’t stand for this nonsense. #lfc #ynwa #noborders #antifascism #antiracism
https://searchlightmagazine.com/2026/03/ukips-liverpool-march-for-jesus-condemned-by-citys-christians/

2026-01-25 12:11:30 UTC

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a long read on this topic from 2021 https://angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2020/11/28/beyond-a-lockdown/

2025-11-30 14:09:24 UTC

Good luck to #lfc fans. I hope you’re all going to be ok today

2025-11-20 21:50:14 UTC

“The full moon filtered through the fabric of the tent like boiling coffee through a sock.”
#RobertoBolaño
#literaryquote #quote #simile

2025-11-02 12:33:18 UTC

‘People will inevitably not distinguish between a black settler, an “illegal immigrant” and a refugee. We all wear our passports on our faces.’
A. Sivanandan

2025-09-10 18:41:06 UTC

Chomsky on the war on terror rhetoric post #September11:
"The United States continues international terrorism. There are also what in comparison [to what they did in Nicaragua] are minor examples. Everybody here was quite properly outraged by the Okalahoma City bombing, and for a couple of days the headlines read, ‘Oklahoma City Looks Like Beiruit.’ I didn't see anybody point out that Beirut also looks like Beirut, and part of the reason is that the Reagan administration had set off a terrorist bombing there in 1985 that was very much like Oklahoma City, a truck bombing outside a mosque timed to kill the maximum number of people as they left. It killed 80 and wounded 250, mostly women and children, according to the report in the Washington Post 3 years later. The terrorist bombing was aimed at a Muslim cleric whom they didn't like and whom they missed. It was not very secret."
#911attacks #waronterror

2025-07-02 20:35:24 UTC

People on demos in the 70s and 80s used to chant “Kill the bill” and “we’ve got to get rid of the rich”. Now you can’t even say “death to the [institution of] the IDF” without getting shunned and shut down by the mainstream establishment. Let alone paint a fighter plane
#bobvylan #freebobvylan #deathtotheidf #palaction

2025-07-02 20:32:01 UTC

“We fought Corbyn for five years,” said the MP, “and there she [Rachael Maskell] is cosying up to him. It’s not a great look for someone looking to win over colleagues to her cause.”
These Labour MPs fought for five years to stop their party being run on vaguely democratic and humane principles. Now they are worried that the inhumane politics they ‘fought’ for might cause their constituents to turn against them at the even more vaguely democratic general election.
#keirstalin #welfarebill #cravenpolitics

2025-06-26 07:57:21 UTC

“The Zionists cannot guarantee that a Jewish rule or state, which must be founded on might as others are, would handle its opponents differently from the present national governments”
S Freeman, writing in the London Jewish anarchist paper Arbeter Fraint, 5 June 1903, just after the Kishinev pogroms.
“Every honest man is a prophet”, as Blake says, “if you go on so, the result is so”. And the anarchists are usually right.
#anarchism #antizionism #nostatesnobordernomasters #nostates

2025-06-05 09:59:20 UTC

“Socialism, according to the sociology of its founders, was conceivable only in international terms. A national or even nationalistic socialism (= National Socialism, fascism) is sociological nonsense and, in the strict sense of the word, mass deceit.”
(Wilhelm Reich, 1933)
#socialism #fascism #reich #quote #nationalism #noborders

2025-06-02 14:12:12 UTC

Following the senseless murders by a “53 year old white British man” in #liverpool I’ve written some thoughts on the disturbingly frequent phenomenon of men killing strangers with guns or cars.
#lfc #parade #farright #fascism #antifa #antifascism #ukpolitics #whitemen
https://angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/mass-killers-and-society/

2025-05-21 20:08:04 UTC

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first of all, May should be only be for the FA cup final and county cricket. Secondly, we’ve won the league. Thirdly, we’ve won the league.
However, I saw some things the same and some differently in the #lfc v Brighton game. In no particular order:
I liked Quansah in that game, showing potential. Still bit error-prone, but love the Matip-esque charges upfield; and he covered well, showing good strength and pace.
Sadly, Elliot has mostly not impressed in the, admittedly, few appearances he has had this season. Keeps giving the ball away and I don’t think Slot enjoys that. He can shoot from distance but that’s not really our style anyway.
I love the guy and I have been saying for a while that he should start more, but Endo is not a right back! Has no one been talking about why Slot didn’t bring Trent on? Is he leaving him for the last game?
I actually think Grav has been good post the rest he had against Chelsea. Looked more sprightly again. Covered a lot. Picked up the ball from the centre halves/keeper. Still can’t shoot, but that’s been the same all season. I think the team around him is a bit dysfunctional.
Nuñez, sadly, has gone. He’s not even showing the enthusiasm for chasing man down anymore.
Chiesa has a future. He’s not quite used to the physicality or found his feet in the team but he will get games and goals next year I think.
And some other thoughts. But yeah, weird post-pre season vibes. Not proper games. Hope we end well at anfield and TAA gets a proper send off

2025-05-13 06:53:00 UTC

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interesting though that the bureaucrats who drafted the edicts didn’t seem to realise that. Perhaps still true that on some level they believe their own rhetoric

2025-05-12 09:06:12 UTC

Interesting case study of the economic effects of forced deportations from 200 years ago.
A Russian law of 1823 ordered all Jewish people to be removed from the villages and forced into towns. A government report concluded of their own measures:
“While it has ruined the Jews, it does not in the least seem to have improved the condition of the villagers.”
#noborders #EndDeportations #stopdeportations #ice #endice
Source: Fishman, 2004

2025-05-11 07:28:35 UTC

I’m gutted that Trent is leaving #lfc of course. Liverpool fans know he is an exceptional talent, who almost redefined the right back role. We have seen how he has worked to keep adding things to his game (he’s almost two footed now for instance). Yet the media have given him stick at different time over the years, and he’s not been picked for England as much as he should have been: can’t defend blah blah blah. After the pundits were praising Cole Palmer to the skies in the last game I was struck how the latter has never got the same scrutiny as Trent. Is it because they are happier with a white (presenting at least) “Englishman” from Manchester than a racialised black scouser?
Regardless of the reasons for it, given the media pressure he has to live through in England, I can understand that Trent might want to leave. Add to that, being the one (or at least the most prominent) scouser on the team is not an easy role. I’ve heard other ex-Liverpool players say the same. Everybody knows someone who knows you and want to bother your family about how “your Trent” is doing etc. You’ve got to carry the expectations of the city in a different way to other players.
On top of all this, he’s young. He knows he has a short career. He might want to try living abroad and playing in a different league. Fine. Rush, Aldridge, McManaman, Owen did the same. Gerrard was sorely tempted. Let’s just hope, like Rush, Trent comes back after year.
So, sad as I am that he’s leaving, I respect his decision and I don’t want to hear him getting any abuse from Reds. That’s for outsiders only. Unless of course he follows it up with a Michael Owen move to Utd. In which case, yeah, he’s dead to me.

2025-04-10 22:09:28 UTC

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2025-04-10 20:18:57 UTC

“I tell you, Angel, that gods die,
Princes and gross empires pass,
But the bright stars of heaven shall
Rotate for ever in my arse”
George Barker, 1954
#poem #poetry #quote

2025-04-09 15:28:51 UTC

Thoughts on the #FarRight and building the alternatives https://angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/opposing-the-right-building-the-alternative/
#neonazis #neofascism #antifa #CommunityResistance #neoliberalism #antiracism

2025-04-07 08:55:23 UTC

In defence of teaching Shakespeare and thoughts on teenage boredom, with some help from #MarkFisher https://angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2025/04/07/the-language-of-shakespeare-and-teenage-boredom/ #education #literature #language #shakespeare

2025-04-07 06:34:31 UTC

I get the outrage over Trump’s naked colonial greed for resources, but do some people need reminding that #Greenland is already a colony? Where’s the support for #decolonisation and #independence?

2025-03-30 08:27:15 UTC

Uprising in turkey: a perspective https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/17951/

2025-03-24 21:43:31 UTC

Not sure if it’s more a sign of stupidity or psychopathy to be discussing the murder of 56 people with such self-congratulatory glee and religious conviction in your own righteousness (although perhaps inadvertently including a journalist in your top secret #signal chat swings it more towards stupidity)
https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/eNC-qJzV_jbc18944_z6t1QhGDc=/665x758/media/img/posts/2025/03/IMG_0330/original.jpg
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=Cgqh0-mGExsQQ_xEA88IsFBTXcgGKcOJRI1x7WcTigU via @npub12df…xfv0

2025-03-03 22:39:37 UTC

‘Authorities arrested a lone suspect, a 40-year-old German man, who is not believed to be linked to extremism but shows "concrete indications of mental illness".’
Does this mean he is white?

2025-01-14 22:27:23 UTC

The far right on the rise, global recession and Liverpool and Notts Forest 1st and 2nd in the league. It’s like 1981 all over again. We just need a riot in the summer #lfc

2025-01-11 11:07:42 UTC

how it started: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pieK7b4KLL4&pp=ygUebWlsayBhZHZlcnQgYWNjcmluZ3RvbiBzdGFubGV5
How it ended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMPh5-0ZL3g&t=140
How much of a factor was his low calcium, high-sugar diet?
#lfc #accringtonstanley

2024-12-30 09:40:29 UTC

Interested in following anyone who can see that #JimmyCarter is a war criminal

2024-12-29 16:37:05 UTC

A resolution of the CNT congress, 1936. Revolutionary action as “a psychological phenomenon in opposition to the state of things that oppressed the aspirations and needs of the individual.” (Murray Bookchin, 1998)
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/737/077/708/983/075/original/43482f8a1c340976.png

2024-12-28 17:32:53 UTC

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I think he means “runs from deep”, e.g midfielders into the penalty area

2024-12-26 22:26:04 UTC

“Deep runs are probably the most important thing in football” Arne Slot #lfc

2024-12-26 15:11:57 UTC

Countering myths about #lfc. A fan’s perspective https://angrysampoetry.wordpress.com/2024/12/26/countering-the-myths-about-liverpool/

2024-12-23 00:31:47 UTC

Just an excellent performance vs Spurs. Even the fact that we conceded 3 can work in our favour as it keeps us from getting complacent.
A lot of that excellence was down to the decision to play the kids on Wednesday. We looked fresh today. Also, absolutely right to play Szoboslai over Jones- needed his running and work rate against them.
Apart from the obvious plus points, good to see:
• Robbo bounce back. Not a perfect game from him, but, as he has done throughout his career, he steps up when the criticism mounts.
• Gomez looking more and more assured in his return to centre half.
•Lucho being able to play down the middle and give us another option there.
Happy days for #lfc, happy holidays to all #reds to whom that means anything #ynwa

2024-12-22 16:53:40 UTC

A dominant first 20 for #lfc and a deserved goal. Top performances all round so far

2024-11-03 20:50:24 UTC

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And it was Robert F Kennedy, who personalised authorised COINTELPRO. In 1975 the Church Committee report on the secret FBI programme concluded that
“Governmental officials—including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law—have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law.”
And of course nothing has changed in terms of the US state’s ability to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" activist movements, except to the extent of the technology they can use for it. #twaseverthus

2024-11-03 20:39:46 UTC

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And it was a democrat senator who brought in the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, under which the US state excluded or imprisoned and deported so called alien subversives. One such victim was the great Claudia Jones who was deported for writing an article entitled “Women in the Struggle for Peace and Security" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Jones #twaseverthus

2024-11-03 20:31:59 UTC

#twaseverthus Democrat president Harry Truman initiated the anti left wing witch hunts, even before McCarthy. The Truman doctrine began at home

2024-10-30 22:41:31 UTC

On the evidence of that, Morten is ahead of Endo and Gomez ahead of Quansah in the pecking order #LFC

2024-10-30 20:24:29 UTC

A Liverpool half that was almost like a certain type of Klopp era performance. Lots of possession, not quite creating clear cut chances, occasionally looking vulnerable on the break.
Some nice play out from the back to beat their press; goalie looking solid so far; Gomez impressing. Frustratingly, Robertson and endo gave the ball away a couple of times. Could do with a goal. And a 9 to replace one of the two 10s! #lfc

2024-09-14 13:43:51 UTC

Edward Despard as governor of Belize in the 1780s decided to distribute land by lottery which he thought “the most equal and impartial mode of distribution”. It caused outrage among the white settlers who complained he was giving out land “without any distinction of Age, Sex, Character, Repsectability, Property or Colour”
Linebaugh and Rediker 2000