Peter Dwyer

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Learn what people think. Work with them where we can, challenge them where we must. The left too often starts from "you're wrong," & then can't reach the people it needs to win.

Reform want to rollback workers' rights and cut taxes for billionaires. Spain did the opposite - and has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.

A Gulf state buys a club, reportedly hides the money, lawyers up. Owners now police a rival owner. Epstein: same secrecy, offshore shells, mutual protection. Neither topples the ruling class. Both bust the myth of self-policing. But us ordinary folk are the biggest losers.

Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!

St Giles’ Fair has lit up Oxford for 4 centuries & tonight it was warm, noisy, human, a multicoloured rush of people moving together. A brilliant, contrast to the soulless, stale theatrics of the racist mobs. This was Britain at its best: in full colour, confident, diverse, gloriously alive.

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By far the best analysis www.counterfire.org/article/jaso...

By far the best analysis www.counterfire.org/article/jaso...

The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson. A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.

I expect to be reading of the resignation of the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University very shortly at the very least.

Feckin hilarious. ‘Patriots!’ “protecting national sovereignty” ends up taking its marching orders from people who couldn’t find Belfast or Southampton www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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New website.

Looking for authors or book reviewers.

Gotcha!

Is it a public holiday tomorrow for all of us who dont support England and no longer have to put up with entitled bullshit anymore?

Public control and public ownership are not the same thing! Water in England is already in public control. That's why we need PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.

‘If there is two-tier policing in the UK, it’s the opposite of the situation the far right imagines: Baroness Casey’s review of the Met found that “Black Londoners are underprotected ... and overpoliced.”’ Nic Murray on the far right and the police, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Burnham is promising "greater public control over key utilities including water, energy and transport" The problem is water and energy are *already* in public control - and regulation has failed for 40 years👇 He must deliver PUBLIC OWNERSHIP to stop the privatisation rip off

We’ve revamped our website & via it you can find your way to thousands of radical journal articles about Africa, many by Africans. If you want to review books, films, plays etc for us let me know roape.net

Interested in writing for an internationally acclaimed, independent, radical journal? roape.net/2026/05/12/r...

We are particularly interested in applications from African activists on the continent or in the diaspora who have a passion and a focus on Africa’s politics, history, and economics, and for analysing these through the lens of radical political economy. roape.net/2026/05/12/r...

We’ve revamped our website & via it you can find your way to thousands of radical journal articles about Africa, many by Africans. If you want to review books, films, plays etc for us let me know roape.net

Me thinks in the next year as the impact of the war starts to bite deeper, we are all gonna find out about the perils of shifting almost everything to a ‘just in time’ basis over the last 40 years.

The US elite can kidnap a foreign president & assassinate Iranian leaders but they cant arrest anyone anywhere for being part of Epstein’s child trafficking & abuse networks.

According to the right & far right in the UK, the BBC is run by lefties. But at the UK version of the Oscars last night, it allowed the racist term n@@@@r to be aired & not edited out but it did edit out a Free Palestine comment by one of the winners. Go figure.

Sighs that some fall for liberal hypocrisy of Carney who calls ideology out while reproducing it. admits the “rules-based order” was selective & hegemonic, then rebrands same imperial political economy as values-based realism. It’s not honesty; it’s a software update for the same operating system.

Some good news for a change. The parliamentary Dutch racist party falls apart.

Our 2025 offering of ROAPE's best reads for African radicals roape.net/2026/01/09/r...

500 Richest People Gained Record $2.2 Trillion in 2025, Fueling Calls for Wealth Tax www.commondreams.org/news/billion...

As Trumps polling and support keeps falling, as the MAGA movement starts infighting, and as the Epstein files keep unravelling, he creates distraction by illegally attacking Venezuela.

We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work & legacy. buff.ly/gASaoZD The Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read & download for free 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

We’re thrilled to share ROAPE Special Issue 186, Vol. 52, celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s radical life, work & legacy. buff.ly/gASaoZD The Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read & download for free 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

Fantastic to see this sort of action in the US

Murdering, corrupt British state. 1. British soldiers let off with murder of 14 Irish civilians at Bloody Sunday. 2. Two weeks ago Johnson & his Tory cronies let off with the needless death of 20,000 during covid. 3. Today the police whose actions led to the deaths our mates, get let off.

was asked to write a short piece for South African activists about the rise of the far right in Europe-I tried to relate it to some of the challenges activists face in South Africa: zabalaza4socialism.org.za/2025/08/28/c...

They should be charged with social murder.

They should be charged with social murder.

At Jeremy Corbyn talk in Oxford. Just listened to Oxford based surgeon desribe the horrors of Gaza. Of how he operated on babies & toddlers shot in the head. Teenage boys purposely shot in the balls. All by the IDF.

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

It’s official. Johnson. Hancock. Cummings. You. Murdering. Bastards.

Let’s hope a class action for social murder is taken out against Johnson & others. It’s a concept used to describe an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

was asked to write a short piece for South African activists about the rise of the far right in Europe-I tried to relate it to some of the challenges activists face in South Africa: zabalaza4socialism.org.za/2025/08/28/c...

Am no friend of Putin. Honest.

Random picture from a trip to China.

Nigel Farage claims his mass deportation plan would save the UK hundreds of billions of pounds over the coming decades. New analysis of official statistics, forecasts and Reform's own figures suggests it would actually *cost* the UK hundreds of billions over the same period