Ben Sellers

You’ll know a genuine campaign against antisemitism when: 👉 It isn’t being used to silence dissent over the racist policies of a country that is committing genocide, ethnic cleansing & apartheid. (1/5)

👉 It is more interested in change than punishment & accepts that people can change through education & consciousness raising. (4/5)

You’ll know a genuine campaign against antisemitism when: 👉 It isn’t being used to silence dissent over the racist policies of a country that is committing genocide, ethnic cleansing & apartheid. (1/5)

👉 It isn’t being weaponised against the left, traditionally the most actively anti-racist section of our society. (2/5)

A genuine question for all my @unitetheunion.bsky.social friends. I’m aware of the Unite campaign, ‘No Ban without a Plan’. Where would I find the plan? Where would I find the work that my union is doing on a just transition, led by workers, for instance? 1/2

This, by @tombelger.bsky.social, is worth a read. There’s been very little reporting on Labour’s changes to self-employment & even less on the Single Status of Workers. labourlist.org/2026/10/tom-... (1/10)

Of course, the missing piece of the jigsaw is the intense, obsessive pressuring of Labour Ministers by business lobbyists - those who benefit from this uncertainty & are able to pay workers less, keep them in insecurity & avoid union organising. (9/10)

This, by @tombelger.bsky.social, is worth a read. There’s been very little reporting on Labour’s changes to self-employment & even less on the Single Status of Workers. labourlist.org/2026/10/tom-... (1/10)

The real remedy is about worker status - the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of bogus self-employed and limb (b) workers ripe for exploitation because they do not have the same employment status & rights as other workers. (7/10)

This, by @tombelger.bsky.social, is worth a read. There’s been very little reporting on Labour’s changes to self-employment & even less on the Single Status of Workers. labourlist.org/2026/10/tom-... (1/10)

… and (b) tackling a loophole currently letting firms mostly control someone’s work but avoid employing them, if contracts let individuals send someone else - what’s known as the substitution loophole. (5/10)

This, by @tombelger.bsky.social, is worth a read. There’s been very little reporting on Labour’s changes to self-employment & even less on the Single Status of Workers. labourlist.org/2026/10/tom-... (1/10)

Unfortunately, this is another example of how the comprehensive package of employment rights envisaged in the 2019 manifesto & the subsequent New Deal for Working People has been watered down. (3/10)

This, by @tombelger.bsky.social, is worth a read. There’s been very little reporting on Labour’s changes to self-employment & even less on the Single Status of Workers. labourlist.org/2026/10/tom-... (1/10)

🧵 Sometimes, just sometimes things become amazingly simple. You don’t even have to agree with Palestine Action or their methods to understand this: 1/4

To fail to do this is accepting a kind of authoritarian rule, which can the be used to shut down dissent of all kinds, by any govt in the future. It’s already been used to arrest hundreds of people who aren’t terrorists in any shape or form & has to be stopped in its tracks. 3/4

🧵 Sometimes, just sometimes things become amazingly simple. You don’t even have to agree with Palestine Action or their methods to understand this: 1/4

Really fantastic afternoon, first listening to @tajali1.bsky.social & Heather Wood talk about solidarity, racism & anti-racism, trade union struggles & South Asian resistance at @redhillsdurham.bsky.social

By the way, this is precisely why people were cautioning against @andyburnham.bsky.social 1/7

Because good old Andy - you know, the one who says he’s coming in to change politics, because “people haven’t been heard” and there is too much centralisation - has immediately signalled that he doesn’t respect party democracy. 6/7

By the way, this is precisely why people were cautioning against @andyburnham.bsky.social 1/7

I would ask the obvious: how, exactly, would that be reversed, Andy? By ignoring a democratic vote? By executive fiat? 4/7

By the way, this is precisely why people were cautioning against @andyburnham.bsky.social 1/7

Apart from sanctioning Israel’s war crimes, I think one of the worst things about Starmer was his absolute disregard for democracy, both within the Labour Party and more widely, in his authoritarian support for a clampdown on protestors & the Palestinian solidarity movement. 2/7

If you’re part of a community group, involved in any community activism in County Durham or the North East - or if you’re just interested in what’s happening out there, please have a look at the Redhills Assembly programme below. 1/3

The Assembly is taking place this Friday & Saturday (the 2nd & 3rd of October) and will include sessions on collective ownership, the solidarity economy, community organising, mutual aid, culture & history and a lot more besides. 2/3