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  1. Pinned Tweet
    6 Jun 2017

    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” Bertolt Brecht

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  2. Retweeted
    Feb 21

    Quick visit, dropping a poem and a tenner, to the pickets this morning... ... back next week. Solidarity! That’ll work 😎✊😎

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  4. Jan 31

    “To be radical is to grasp things by the root.” Karl Marx

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    Jan 31

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    Jan 31

    ‘If you obey the rules, you miss all the fun.’ Katharine Hepburn

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  7. Jan 31

    "Film developed in the context of urbanisation, spreading industrialisation, mass communications and mass culture."

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  8. Jan 31

    On who does it depend if oppression remains? On us. On who does it depend if its thrall is broken? Also on us. Whoever has been beaten down must rise up! Whoever is lost must fight back! Because the vanquished of today are tomorrow’s victors And never will become: already today!

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  9. Jan 30

    On the button!

    “If the press is to choose our Leader, it will also choose our policy, and once you accept that, then you are saying there can’t be a Labour Party.” - Tony Benn.
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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    In a few short years, has gone from one man's passion project to an invaluable resource in tracing our past.

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  11. Jan 30

    Spot on.

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    Boris Johnson has now posted a video saying rough sleeping is at an 8-year low. It’s actually risen 165% since the Conservatives came to power! His film has been watched 135,000 times. Let’s RT this to a million & show him he can’t hide the TRUTH
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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    New York City, 1959 by US photographer Vivian Maier

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  13. Jan 30

    2 men who could have gotten degrees and put on white shirts turning slavery into art.

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  14. Jan 30

    “It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle.” Angela Davis

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    Jan 30

    In the paper this morning...

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  16. Jan 30

    It's this way: being captured is beside the point the point is not to surrender. Nâzım Hikmet.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    Blog about the merch - T Shirts, Mugs & Tote bags available with our new 2020 "pub sign" design. Cost prices, so huge %age of each sale to the cause. Deets in blog on what goes where, and how to do bulk order to sell locally to support your local causes.

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  18. Jan 29

    Fascinating. Well worth a listen.

    Another Berlin walk here: I followed in the footsteps of philosopher, writer, thinker Walter Benjamin and recreated his broadcasts for children, a series of programmes which went out just before he fled Berlin. Archive on 4
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  19. Jan 29

    “I didn’t like the class snobbery of how the rock world looked at pop music. I have a great admiration for pop music. I see it as industrial-era folk music really — despite the perniciousness of the industry.” Great interview with Robert Wyatt.

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    Jan 29

    Battle scenes from France of firefighters fighting back against violent police repression at a protest for better working conditions.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    "Writing in Scots wasn't just about bypassing prudish publishers, or giving themselves a license to swear at will. It was about "giving a voice to people in literature and in culture who had been ignored" on writing in Scots

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