# ![@Tom_Gann Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::145767790.png) @Tom_Gann Tom Gann

Tom Gann posts on X about palestine, israel, hamas, london the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"1. Dont support the Times its dreadful and largely had a pernicious effect. [--]. Paywalling a story like this is absolutely a dereliction of the social purpose newspapers should have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1251792175320510464)  2020-04-19T08:38Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@EleanoraStats But Im also not sure theres a big salary for a privileged role in the reproduction of capital that I dont think we should be completely dismissive of as being classed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2013946209942012313)  2026-01-21T12:06Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"This would be very funny. Similarly Burnham getting selected would be very funny. Burnham getting selected and losing because everyone hated Starmer would be hilarious. Burnham winning on an implicitly overthrowing Starmer platform would also be hilarious. Asked several NEC members what the chance is of Burnham getting selected to fight a by-election. All said zero. Asked several NEC members what the chance is of Burnham getting selected to fight a by-election. All said zero"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2014327737721245977)  2026-01-22T13:22Z 15K followers, 20.8K engagements


"@ShinMarginalScr @barneycarroll Same what a contraction of possibility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2015041553392144570)  2026-01-24T12:38Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"Given that the timing of the by-election means YP wont be able to run a candidate this is entirely sensible. 🚨 BREAKING Former RESPECT leader Salma Yaqoob endorses Greens in Gorton & Denton. Despite being a prominent member of Your Party Yaqoob is calling on people to vote Green. "The Greens are best placed to win" she said adding: "The Left should work together to support them" https://t.co/Zz0J5TOCmO 🚨 BREAKING Former RESPECT leader Salma Yaqoob endorses Greens in Gorton & Denton. Despite being a prominent member of Your Party Yaqoob is calling on people to vote Green. "The Greens are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2015929551805726955)  2026-01-26T23:27Z 15K followers, 11.1K engagements


"@owenjonesjourno @EleanoraStats Your Party has about as many members as the Lib Dems and more than the Communist Party in the wake of its huge surge during WW2. Its not as much as one might have hoped but its a lot more than this characterisation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2016097124673286256)  2026-01-27T10:33Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"It being decided in advance of the vote by Starmer and people close to him doesnt weaken the argument that this was an anti-democratic stitch up does it Sources close to the PM tell me that Andy Burnham was informed in no uncertain terms that he would be repulsed if he requested permission of the NEC committee to put his name forward for the Gorton and Denton by election. He chose to do so they say knowing the outcome in Sources close to the PM tell me that Andy Burnham was informed in no uncertain terms that he would be repulsed if he requested permission of the NEC committee to put his name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2016123874014834874)  2026-01-27T12:19Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Thos move & the denialism around eg. Roma & Sinti people or Queer people go hand in hand. If the Holocaust is only about Jewish people & explained by a kind of transcendental antisemitism then parallels can both be completely restricted & can proliferate when it comes to Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2016505069944897843)  2026-01-28T13:34Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"Ah electability discourse. Every feature of the Labour right being reproduced by the YP right. Are you one of the [------] who signed up for @thisisyourparty info but havent yet joined You can join today and vote in the CEC elections Vote for Jeremy Corbyns The Many CEC team to bring about his vision for a mass grassroots electable party 1/2 https://t.co/pgtcZTkGek Are you one of the [------] who signed up for @thisisyourparty info but havent yet joined You can join today and vote in the CEC elections Vote for Jeremy Corbyns The Many CEC team to bring about his vision for a mass grassroots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2016857988137365853)  2026-01-29T12:56Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"@EleanoraStats @upthelarpers @WokeratiMarty This isnt a leader precisely I think some of the question between the slates is how much this post is a de facto leader. The CEC is meant to be a collective political leadership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2017218787397833063)  2026-01-30T12:50Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"@EleanoraStats @upthelarpers @WokeratiMarty In principle this is more democratic than the Greens as the Green Parliamentary leader is purely chosen by MPs but how democratic in fact probably depends on how leadership works out in practice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2017219316744089756)  2026-01-30T12:52Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"@paulewart23 Yes it is its in Pogrund & Maguires book (not that thats a guarantee of truth though its a better book than OJs) and I heard it from very trustworthy people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1969015117326033130)  2025-09-19T12:26Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Really striking that discourse around Hannah Spencer is often structured by the notion that shes not/less working class because shes employed by a company rather than self-employed. Wild really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2018066150861549659)  2026-02-01T20:57Z 15K followers, 13.8K engagements


"Is there a decent version of "The Internationale" in English Particularly one that actually has something like: "No saviour from on high delivers/ No faith have we in prince or peer.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2018352512466600019)  2026-02-02T15:55Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"@_PMCTraitor @barneycarroll @HawkeyeSoames @keewa @palebloodstasi Yes theres a real good analysis by Magri of students working in factories in [--] and the difficulties of that establishing a link between workers & students because both the manual productive labour & the attitudes and future possibilities mattered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2018672260886761934)  2026-02-03T13:05Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"A personal tragedy is what happened to Virginia Giuffre & as seems incredibly likely many other girls & young women. An incredibly wealthy [--] year old having to retire when he didnt want to isnt. A personal tragedy but a jaw-dropping scandal https://t.co/wxjjTKdAwv A personal tragedy but a jaw-dropping scandal https://t.co/wxjjTKdAwv"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2018821107533619445)  2026-02-03T22:57Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Say what you want about Hamlet Macbeth Oedipus or Hedda Gabler unlike Mandelson they do die rather than resign from the Labour Party"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2018821112197693895)  2026-02-03T22:57Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@owenjonesjourno @josephalextodd Im not going to do either of your jobs for you or drop people in it though it would say it shouldnt be difficult to work out the kind of person who wrote it from the phrasing & political line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019126881921257938)  2026-02-04T19:12Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"@owenjonesjourno @josephalextodd The point is people making completely absurd claims which at the very least insinuate a major lack of integrity on Sultanas part & pretending to knowledge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019127278966641017)  2026-02-04T19:13Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"You should consider doing this. There is a path to making something good out of Your Party and it runs through the Grassroots Left & developing YP as a clearly democratic socialist & anti-imperialist party working beyond mere electoralism. Last chance Join today for as little as [----] to vote for the Grassroots Left candidates https://t.co/C2J4CUTOaY Last chance Join today for as little as [----] to vote for the Grassroots Left candidates https://t.co/C2J4CUTOaY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019361083430219776)  2026-02-05T10:42Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Not a fan of Zack Polanski but this reflects very well on him. Well well @ZackPolanski the Police Federation of England and Wales has publicly condemned you. You are a disgrace. Well well @ZackPolanski the Police Federation of England and Wales has publicly condemned you. You are a disgrace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019499290175963388)  2026-02-05T19:52Z 15K followers, 21.6K engagements


"@Weekly_Worker So the idea I had that this was your position was correct Ultimately I dont think we can derive a strategy about when & where to stand theoretically or from principles its a question of thinking about concrete situations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019501055797514728)  2026-02-05T19:59Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"Isnt the point here not that Starmer is decent but hes maintained the lie of his decency (including/especially to himself) by getting others to do the nasty stuff. Its a bad faith. (Seen a few comrades criticise this: Starmers not decent but I think the piece agrees) Wonderfully damning by @patrickkmaguire https://t.co/gmnIFR95Um Wonderfully damning by @patrickkmaguire https://t.co/gmnIFR95Um"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019715792208834723)  2026-02-06T10:12Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"The anger at Starmer from Starmer supporting hacks is striking: youve let the country down youve let the Labour Parth down youve let yourself down but most of all youve let me down (made me look stupid)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019717507603702029)  2026-02-06T10:19Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"Yes Grassroots Left are the same as Mandelson. What even be done with claims like this THREAD 2/2 Last time they came for Corbyn with weaponised accusations of antisemitism - orchestrated by the Labour right powerful lobbies amplified across main stream media including corners of the supposedly independent left media. This time the attack wears different THREAD 2/2 Last time they came for Corbyn with weaponised accusations of antisemitism - orchestrated by the Labour right powerful lobbies amplified across main stream media including corners of the supposedly independent left media. This time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019743097698111521)  2026-02-06T12:00Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Ah the standard boring narcissism of the bourgeois melancholic. All the harm done to the psyche in the processes of repression that made Starmer Starmer reappear in the superego's revenge in self-reproaches and self-revilings. Labour MPs ministers and party insiders tell me theyve never seen Keir Starmer so angry as over Peter Mandelsons lies about extent of his Epstein links. But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is above all else a man of public Labour MPs ministers and party insiders tell me theyve never seen Keir Starmer so angry as over Peter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2019795508768751962)  2026-02-06T15:29Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"@noneutactic Definitely its clearly a classed how blandness figures as decency - which is odd because I dont think it was always the case theres a Desert Island Discs where Richard Hoggart talks about decency as a working class virtue maybe that doesnt correspond with the void though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020099628528488851)  2026-02-07T11:37Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"@breadandposes @SamuraiApology @ShinMarginalScr @barras_48 @EleanoraStats [--]. Ayoub Khan did call for the army to be used to break strikes. Yep I still think that. [--]. Calling for the army to break the Birmingham bin strike is bad. Yep I still think that. [--]. Hed send in the Army is a better song than No Limit. Yep I still think that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020847569979539735)  2026-02-09T13:09Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"The only obvious unambiguous beneficiaries of these events are ISIS. Personally I think thats bad but the imperialist states dont seem to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1840147292562788680)  2024-09-28T21:51Z 15K followers, 37.4K engagements


"I dont necessarily agree with all the WW attacks or their style but they are making political arguments. This is very distinct from what Candi & Max are talking about. Ok but the Weekly Worker is being deployed to attack The Many candidates and the person who runs its account is in the Grassroots Left campaign team Thats what people were suggesting the other day about the by-election statement so you cant distance yourselves from that Ok but the Weekly Worker is being deployed to attack The Many candidates and the person who runs its account is in the Grassroots Left campaign team Thats what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020258049114665422)  2026-02-07T22:07Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Ayoub Khan called for the army to be used to break the bin strike is pretty obviously a different sort of criticism to Max Shanly is fat. Its concerning that people cant (or perhaps are pretending not to) recognise that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020261065658118513)  2026-02-07T22:19Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"I think the question of OMOV including but not only with regard to accessibility is a complicated one & its hard to derive a position absolutely from first principles so this feels absolutely the right line to take. There's a lot going wrong in this attack line. 🧵 - We don't have a position on OMOV as a slate. - We would not "overturn conference decisions" as the TM-aligned interim leadership has done. We'd seek consent from the next conference for major changes There's a lot going wrong in this attack line. 🧵 - We don't have a position on OMOV as a slate. - We would not "overturn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020640730553737265)  2026-02-08T23:27Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@Maria4CEC4Cymru @EL4JC @SocialistNIRE What are your views on sending in the army to break strikes then If youre against that (which Id hope you would be) how do you feel about Khans position given youre on the same slate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020794506338058709)  2026-02-09T09:38Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"It was OMOV instead of the electoral college though. Nobody is arguing for an electoral college. The interesting comparison surely is Corbyns victory was based on a less important role for MPs: and its The Many who want to centre MPs over the membership. Some on the Grassroots Left slate of Your Party want to get rid of one member one vote. So let's remember that Jeremy Corbyn was only elected Labour leader because they brought in OMOV in [----] and Labour members voted for him. OMOV is GENUINE maximum member democracy. 👍 https://t.co/1wx49aLlQN Some on the Grassroots Left slate of Your Party"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020805841482350963)  2026-02-09T10:23Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"@Maria4CEC4Cymru @EL4JC @SocialistNIRE @jeremycorbyn And the thing with strikes is that workers are important and they have leverage because their work is important. This also means a strike can have negative effects on the community. But socialists stand with workers Khan wants to use the army to reduce leverage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020817913762976135)  2026-02-09T11:11Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@breadandposes @SamuraiApology @ShinMarginalScr @barras_48 @EleanoraStats Im not sure what Im meant to stand behind or not. Let me try to summarise. [--]. Ayoub Khan called for the army to be used to break strikes is a different kind of political criticism to Max Shanly is fat. Yep I definitely still think that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020846859791573017)  2026-02-09T13:06Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"Its interesting that this was a widely accepted left position. Certainly todays discussions suggest its not at least within a section of Your Party. https://libcom.org/article/caroline-lucas-green-scab https://libcom.org/article/caroline-lucas-green-scab"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020997951758193004)  2026-02-09T23:07Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"I know it can be hard to find venues outside of major urban centres but surely youd take the butchers apron down Even if you are the candidate for attacking Farages lack of patriotism towards those who occupied Afghanistan based on your own role in that imperialist occupation Well that happened What a fantastic evening of solidarity & inspiration with @jeremycorbyn as part of @TheManyYP tour. Ballots dropped voting has begun for @thisisyourparty CEC elections We celebrated with the fine socialists of Banbury. Thank you to @torysout for hosting https://t.co/iRhTxNR798 Well that happened What a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021146491419537590)  2026-02-10T08:57Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"It was a right-wing position in the left because it was a position that argued for strategy over tactics for patience & for accepting a constraint imposed by public opinion within YP: FC was undemocratic but we would have harmed our position by acting in an aggro way on that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021171677426552862)  2026-02-10T10:37Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"Very funny this because my presumption was (& I do think this is largely true) the Greens had moved on from the scab positions of the Lucas days maybe that wasnt entirely true. @Tom_Gann What she was picking litter 😭😭😭 YP is actually full of people who have no idea what political nuance is @Tom_Gann What she was picking litter 😭😭😭 YP is actually full of people who have no idea what political nuance is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021172587946991969)  2026-02-10T10:41Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Obviously there will be questions when they have to administer cuts & and their effects and this will happen they will win control of councils and administer them within the boundaries imposed by the state. But for now I imagined an easy subjective position would be held"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021172592439083445)  2026-02-10T10:41Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"Outrage-bingo these days. Its very striking how this slates candidates resort so easily to an anti-left set of thought destroying cliches isnt it @Tom_Gann Its a bowling club Tom. 😏 I know its easy to play outrage-bingo these days but a flag in a sporting context is not quite the gotcha some seem to think. And no other than the chairs we didnt discouteously move the furniture and decor around to suit us. 🙄 @Tom_Gann Its a bowling club Tom. 😏 I know its easy to play outrage-bingo these days but a flag in a sporting context is not quite the gotcha some seem to think. And no other than the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021225953460949259)  2026-02-10T14:13Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"I just remembered how j & I got the registry office to hide the picture of the Queen when we were getting married. These things are possible with venues"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021225956921184525)  2026-02-10T14:13Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"Oh and the guy showing us round saw how j looked at the butchers apron and immediately said that doesnt have to be there for the ceremony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021226620044886451)  2026-02-10T14:15Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"This is fundamentally evasive & anti-political. It would not be unreasonable to say the members should decide so we cant say were an anti-NATO party yet but this needs to be accompanied with a personal line but I think we should be and will argue for that. Is Your Party an anti-NATO party @Jen4TruroAndFal of @TheManyYP team talks about policy setting With @CurtisDaly_ on @TurnLeftMediaUK https://t.co/HUIu3aEJIX Is Your Party an anti-NATO party @Jen4TruroAndFal of @TheManyYP team talks about policy setting With @CurtisDaly_ on @TurnLeftMediaUK https://t.co/HUIu3aEJIX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2021660920796393637)  2026-02-11T19:01Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"@joekennedy81 @shirleymush Same really Salisbury Citys triumphant Beazer Homes League Southern Division 94-5 campaign absolutely counts as definitely good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1946503924472561762)  2025-07-19T09:34Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"The thing is if you wanted to get Pep for hypocrisy youd go after the UAEs role in normalisation & support of Israel - & this is part of what links Palestine to Sudan but Ronay cant do thathes only interested in trying to claim the genocide of Palestinians is unimportant Pep the boy who completed Tetris https://t.co/2WQLy8KSrM Pep the boy who completed Tetris https://t.co/2WQLy8KSrM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2020255745057648722)  2026-02-07T21:57Z 15K followers, 21.9K engagements


"Absolutely brilliant stuff BREAKING: WE WON. The High Court ruled the Palestine Action ban is unlawful as it is disproportionate to free speech and the Home Secretary breached her own policy. The court ordered the ban be quashed. Details of lifting the ban will be decided and completed at a later date. BREAKING: WE WON. The High Court ruled the Palestine Action ban is unlawful as it is disproportionate to free speech and the Home Secretary breached her own policy. The court ordered the ban be quashed. Details of lifting the ban will be decided and completed at a later date"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022252173099438566)  2026-02-13T10:11Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Shit forgot Baron Walney of the Isle of Walney in the County of Cumbria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022257675241676852)  2026-02-13T10:32Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"Who remembers Maniacs Murder Cult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022286446359396836)  2026-02-13T12:27Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@tombruhcks Jon Trickett determining his every political judgement by the key question of: Do you condemn Maniacs Murder Cult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022287993470419283)  2026-02-13T12:33Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@Warren97418412 @TheoPel137 @Ana_Zardoshti A racist position on migrants isn't a protected characteristic silly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022374115835863356)  2026-02-13T18:15Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@SocialistNIRE @Warren97418412 @TheoPel137 @Ana_Zardoshti To stop any boatload of illegal immigrants close the hostels seize the boats at a fash initiated protest outside a hostel housing migrants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022455537397571903)  2026-02-13T23:39Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"Sir Keir Starmer KC All but [--] MPs All the wallies in our mentions going they removed the spine of a police officer with a hammer Yvette Cooper The Zionist entity Counter Terrorism Policing Elbit Systems Can you hear me Elbit Systems Your boys took one hell of a beating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022254645888893218)  2026-02-13T10:20Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"That really was one of the many odd and farcical aspects of proscription: so if you're against proscribing Palestine Action you're a fan of Maniacs Murder Cult are you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022286449387721137)  2026-02-13T12:27Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@EleanoraStats @ShinMarginalScr Im making a joke partially at my expense and mostly at the expense of the account posting such stupidities in praise of the Greens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022629269202169898)  2026-02-14T11:09Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"@_chris_is_tired And he seems to want applause for it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022353765991612734)  2026-02-13T16:54Z 15K followers, [--] engagements


"I didnt vote for Sultana because I think shes perfect. I voted for her because she is articulating the left line & because the Grassroots left is the plausible means of a politics that disciplines leaders & restricts their autonomy with regard to the membership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022310352768188467)  2026-02-13T14:02Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"Shes a hero. But we need to be very careful with the category of terrorist. Its a category of the state and of repression its a racist category. We need rid of the whole category not upholding it while saying Palestine Action arent terrorists. In this new interview Zoe Rogers the acquitted Palestine Action activist describes how they were faced with immediate violence from the security guards after entering the Elbit Systems factory in Filton. She doesn't seem very terrorist like does she. https://t.co/eEnzrBuogS In this new interview Zoe Rogers the acquitted Palestine Action activist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022709901034660071)  2026-02-14T16:29Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"This is so gross. Awful awful people. The sense I get with Pogrund is hes pretty personally right-wing but does want to do a serious journalistic job but the logic of the Labour Together lot is that thats a betrayal or just unintelligible. https://www.thetimes.com/article/e5efccd6-cc25-4e86-8900-f33c304f7188shareToken=4b9bb56884515ab4506e000457ed883c https://www.thetimes.com/article/e5efccd6-cc25-4e86-8900-f33c304f7188shareToken=4b9bb56884515ab4506e000457ed883c"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022796010905371066)  2026-02-14T22:12Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Principles theory & democracy are what we have when were not assured of our own spontaneous virtue"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023163295180505405)  2026-02-15T22:31Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"The Greens want to completely scrap Prevent I had imagined theyd want to tweak it do a nice Prevent so fair play to them thats good. Whatever you think of the Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer invoking the Arena bombing against her opponent know the context: - The Green Party wants to scrap the Prevent programme entirely. It is designed to keep us all safe. - It is an enthusiastic supporter of. 1/9 https://t.co/Vsig7LxLPV Whatever you think of the Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer invoking the Arena bombing against her opponent know the context: - The Green Party wants to scrap the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/2022625006019379307)  2026-02-14T10:52Z 15K followers, 23.2K engagements


"And here the long influence of radical puritan tendencies shapes parts of the left: were the moral elect the simple the community of saints in the here & now no need for these things what we do will be spontaneously good because of who we are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023163299123134490)  2026-02-15T22:31Z 15K followers, [---] engagements


"On the older middle class liberal audience given the Guardian is happy to run columns with "as Kissinger wrote Europe without the US could turn ever more into an appendage to the reaches of the Middle East" they're fine with this horror anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/putin-trump-brexit-europe-britain-eu https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/27/putin-trump-brexit-europe-britain-eu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1079671727536386048)  2018-12-31T09:32Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Should be remarkable isn't that the Guardian want to run "stop brexit to fox Trump and maintain the EU as a junior partner in imperialism to stop Eurabia as the worst war criminal says""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1079671729721671680)  2018-12-31T09:32Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@ILotem @DrDionGeorgiou I'm struggling with this tbh if anything FPTP has generally served integrative functions when it comes Labour not radical ones & given the perspectives of the "political homeless" have been well served by leaderships of both Parties it feels an odd complaint"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1153040838844452866)  2019-07-21T20:35Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements


"The commitment to party democracy & popular knowledge here in RLBs piece is encouraging. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/rebecca-long-bailey-labour-party-britain https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/29/rebecca-long-bailey-labour-party-britain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1211626856950177793)  2019-12-30T12:35Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"The pretence that MPs are independent professionals with their own staff & expenses is part of the grim constitutional settlement that RLB is right to criticise gentlemans club. Telling to see it pop up here to justify an appalling action. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rebecca-long-bailey-rob-marris_uk_5e32b29bc5b69a19a4aa861c https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rebecca-long-bailey-rob-marris_uk_5e32b29bc5b69a19a4aa861c"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1222972207153938434)  2020-01-30T19:57Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lisa-nandy-labour-should-be-a-party-of-patriotism-not-placards_uk_5895fdf6e4b0a1dcbd029a2a https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lisa-nandy-labour-should-be-a-party-of-patriotism-not-placards_uk_5895fdf6e4b0a1dcbd029a2a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1226419252355268608)  2020-02-09T08:15Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Alternatively if you dont want to be constantly miserable & embarrassed and endless compromises & sell-outs for no benefit vote RLB. https://politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/109723/rebecca-long-bailey-vows-back-workers-every https://politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/109723/rebecca-long-bailey-vows-back-workers-every"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1226428283044143104)  2020-02-09T08:51Z 15.3K followers, [--] engagements


"The other big thing that comes out of these Thatcher documentaries is what an absolutely inept clown & dickhead Neil Kinnock was & is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1365777099156566019)  2021-02-27T21:33Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Just reading about capitalist beekeeping & the fully industrialised hive model based on the modern factory & its very grim"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1385198790601236480)  2021-04-22T11:48Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@HuwL1oyd It seems really grim - writing about it for a thing on how the sheer grimness of how capitalism works through nature massively exceeds climate change and its just awful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1385200720027209740)  2021-04-22T11:56Z 14.8K followers, [--] engagements


"I presume that all the shits saying that one rancidly antisemitic placard defined the whole of the Palestine solidarity March will be saying the same about Tommy Robinson & Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1396494198711402499)  2021-05-23T15:52Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements


"I quit the Labour Party because the SCG are pathetic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1499094541663678470)  2022-03-02T18:49Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements


"This seems largely to have got quite a good reception which is nice a bit of gloating fuck off entryist stuff - which shows quite how degraded the concept has become - am slightly disappointed it hasnt prompted much discussion but there you are. http://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/no-more-cruel-optimism-leaving-labour-party/ http://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/no-more-cruel-optimism-leaving-labour-party/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1500175723222421507)  2022-03-05T18:25Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Nationalisation also leads to contradictions (but enables them to hopefully become non-antagonistic). What once would have been profits goes to the public and can be used for investment including vital ecological investment - but also prices need to be kept down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1557074153320112130)  2022-08-09T18:39Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@simon_mair Yes definitely - and equally thats something that should have happened years ago. I do think though its important to distinguish temporalities: an immediate problem that is going to need money thrown at it and then a much longer process"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1557290231178698753)  2022-08-10T08:58Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Also Capital isnt a work of economics. It wont help a centrist Chancellor better understand and manipulate the economy. The economy is not an object of Marxist analysis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1612046988442312704)  2023-01-08T11:22Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I think this is some of the point. If youre a worker in the imperial core improvements to your own material conditions dont give a determinately left politics. They might include intensifications of imperialism more violent cheapening of goods you consume"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1612103347364061184)  2023-01-08T15:06Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Moreover the slippage allows a set of other connotations to be deployed. TERFS represent all women. The unsaid agent must be a man (the deniable but meant meaning is trans women are men)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1681318305674690566)  2023-07-19T04:17Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I also feel reaching for this stuff suggests an absence of other criticisms of Starmer & Akehurst which you know seems a blunder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1685601807551115265)  2023-07-30T14:09Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@pgofton I did wonder for a moment if it was some previously unemergent Musk glitch"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1685914606051475456)  2023-07-31T07:26Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Every I would simply criticism should actually engage with why the simple thing hasn't happened - eg. in this case for example the organic weakness of the left has meant that things tend to get launched "from above" even though almost everyone knows this is a non-ideal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1689922064285581312)  2023-08-11T08:49Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I think it's necessary to go much further than this: Labour has ended up in a position where it's not even carrying out (or set to carry out) some of its functions for the general reproduction of capital as a part of the apparatuses of the capitalist state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1692443645826490428)  2023-08-18T07:49Z 14.7K followers, 14.2K engagements


"On workers' rights there's an integrative function alongside the trade unions: to show interests can be asserted (to a certain degree) conflicts managed by legal & parliamentary means. More generally Labour has to offer something to the popular classes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1692443648527327645)  2023-08-18T07:49Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Given the level of attacks and more importantly the lack of a platform to make a positive case (striking how much that mattered in 2017) I'm surprised Corbyn would be just ahead. That's the story here surely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1693018647529226712)  2023-08-19T21:54Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Eric Williams: "British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1694384007574597731)  2023-08-23T16:20Z 14.7K followers, 47.8K engagements


"@breadandposes @barneycarroll I don't think he paid the maximum price on unity - could have been a much bigger and much more destructive split than CUK-TIG - maybe in the long term that would have been good but it would have wrecked the next election at a point where it was possible to imagine it as winnable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1696090339109404683)  2023-08-28T09:20Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@breadandposes I'm not sure at all I think this implies a level of politicisation of the membership on the one hand (which is contradicted by the numbers voting for Starmer) and a lack on the other (would just believe this when it probably wasn't true)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1696090707239334305)  2023-08-28T09:21Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@sebsfortress Yes definitely especially if they "seem nice" - middle class culturally interesting (etc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1699163977501061368)  2023-09-05T20:53Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements


"It's interesting Michael Walker would never make this argument about other areas of "law & order""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1700887786537079057)  2023-09-10T15:03Z 14.7K followers, 19.9K engagements


"The obvious point here: we have a print saying "abolition means believing in the possibility of transformation" this applies to people & social relations their effects the argument about this breed of dog is precisely that that capacity for change doesn't apply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1700897839721644337)  2023-09-10T15:43Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Sure but also: The left: stop romanticising Rory Stewart his voting record is appalling. *Stewart defends Corbyn* The left: Rory Stewart is however much one might disagree with him on certain issues a fundamentally thoughtful admirable and intellectually honest man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1701594068017652144)  2023-09-12T13:50Z 14.7K followers, 25.8K engagements


"@mynnoj 90% herself 10% the disgraceful disparagement of Woody Allen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1702023569872453723)  2023-09-13T18:16Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Presumption of innocence is about the legitimacy of state punishment. For the state to punish there's a legal process rules by which claims become legitimate evidence. The question here by contrast is essentially should people think the worse of Brand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1703316546884403708)  2023-09-17T07:54Z 14.7K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Finding this generally very good I'm halfway through at the moment. I have some slight reservations in parts - especially around some unclarity on mode of production & social formation with slavery and capitalism - but I'm getting a lot out of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1703861997060686208)  2023-09-18T20:02Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"In general actually it's too short which isn't the worst thing in the world for a book it's very sharp as a result but does mean arguments are sometimes underdeveloped"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1703862586624659666)  2023-09-18T20:04Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Stonehenge isn't part of the history of "the UK" though it's barely part of the history of Britain or England either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1704202950938177622)  2023-09-19T18:37Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Absolutely perfectly appointment in Samarraed myself. Took a walk away from work to write in the Tate cafe between classes thought this way I would avoid my students and colleagues yet it is the Tate cafe that has the students I'm teaching at [--] in it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1704446591413694501)  2023-09-20T10:45Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"One tries to run from Wessex (Winchester Palace the surplus of "High Farming" substantial wage labour in Weesex's almost transition to capitalism in the 13th century) but fate is always there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1704447792926580944)  2023-09-20T10:49Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@paddywireland But we then need to ask why this is playing out so oddly in politics and around what we might think a general interest of capital is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1704804988269015388)  2023-09-21T10:29Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements


"It's very telling that the idea that the legitimacy of the police's right to deadly force depends on a very small measure of legal accountability is received so poorly. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/23/dozens-of-met-officers-refuse-armed-patrols-after-colleagues-charge https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/23/dozens-of-met-officers-refuse-armed-patrols-after-colleagues-charge"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1705873946774577430)  2023-09-24T09:16Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements


"You compare the reading lists on this to (given this is meant to a basis for MA study I think this a fair comparison) to eg. 3rd year sociology undergraduate modules well it's academically feeble. eg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1709229944335655284)  2023-10-03T15:32Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"The striking thing is how determined this is by fashion by the hegemony of the press over other ISAs & the centrality of the concerns of the executive as linked to state apparatuses. It is ultimately incredibly vulgar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1709267201918681372)  2023-10-03T18:00Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements


"A far far worse journey to work than usual roads too are absolutely packed shows how much everyday life & a minimally ok urban environment relies on railworkers & what a disgrace it is the government is preventing the strike being settled. Solidarity with @ASLEFunion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1709460286187487604)  2023-10-04T06:47Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"There is a right to resist under international law & it is that that merits solidarity not the oppressor that has made that resistance inevitable because there are things human beings won't put up with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1710583026592239971)  2023-10-07T09:09Z 14.7K followers, 30.7K engagements


"The "nobody is a bigger supporter of Palestine than me but this violence won't help the people of Palestine" is craven & infuriating. Might the people living through oppression have more strategic grasp of it than some dickhead idly looking at the news"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1710658953737101549)  2023-10-07T14:10Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Good. Justice for Palestine is good. Ending Apartheid now also good. Defending the right to boycott also good. A protest against Israeli occupation Yep also good. Solidarity with Apsana Begum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1710754239767519632)  2023-10-07T20:29Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"A heroic challenge to the way the division of labour limits us all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1710778317463249102)  2023-10-07T22:05Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I learnt such a lot editing this piece it's welcome I think that there is a left interest in class struggles with regard to monetary policy & inflation but often work is very superficial - this very much is not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1710951337087717422)  2023-10-08T09:32Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"On the one hand this is preposterous ridiculous behaviour from a ridiculous man on the other it's absolutely chilling both from a journalistic perspective & for how Prevent functions against freedom of expression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1711073088895398333)  2023-10-08T17:36Z 14.7K followers, 21.5K engagements


"I could have sworn I was on a very substantial march against attacking Afghanistan but I guess I must have dreamt it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1711417563928739920)  2023-10-09T16:25Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Personally I think helping snitching on racialised people at a Palestine solidarity protest is shameful wrong & utterly idiotic. But then I'm not a prick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1714005386150264974)  2023-10-16T19:48Z 14.7K followers, 17.3K engagements


"The useful thing about Madley is that he's fucking stupid. This means you get the quiet part loud of the state ideology in its full clarity without any dishonest nuance to stop the obvious conclusions being drawn from its premises"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1714173769458053324)  2023-10-17T06:57Z 14.7K followers, 27.1K engagements


"@pedantic_cat Definitely Unite members in BAE Rolls Royce & Babcock - though hard to confirm exactly how involved unionised workers are in Israeli weapons manufacturing. Trying to find out about Elbit. Links in the 3rd footnote here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1714298410285649928)  2023-10-17T15:12Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Very important to emphasise in any discourse around hostages that Israel holds thousands of Palestinian hostages including children in its jails"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1715400156495982610)  2023-10-20T16:10Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


""For Mohammed my Spinozan friend his solace in despair is the thought of Palestinian liberation." A really wonderful piece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1715639834717323548)  2023-10-21T08:03Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"The argument that the Palestine solidarity marches are a priori anti-Semitic has to be made because of how vanishingly little anti-Semitism there is on them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1715810704836436307)  2023-10-21T19:22Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Thinking a lot about a white South African I worked with years back who was quite explicit on how she left South Africa after apartheid ended because she didn't want to teach black children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1716371105403814268)  2023-10-23T08:28Z 14.6K followers, 12.2K engagements


"The list of signatures here very useful for grasping the ways respectable far-right politics works in Britain it's sites personalities and articulations - & the connections between issues (Glinner & Bindel striking)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1716421928506847639)  2023-10-23T11:50Z 14.6K followers, 10.6K engagements


"It clearly isn't & no serious person believes this. This utterly diminishes the evil of Nazi Germany"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1716556575563710760)  2023-10-23T20:45Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"An ontologised division & hierarchisation of coloniser & colonised & "imperialist colonial domination which has tried to create theories which in fact are only gross formulations of racism and which in practice are translated into a permanent state of siege" (Cabral)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1716725147170656395)  2023-10-24T07:55Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Shabi's point entirely obfuscates that determining level. On the other hand there are of course raced contradictions within the "Israeli" (considered as outside the West Bank & Gaza analytically meaningful but need to be careful) social formation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1716725152820453457)  2023-10-24T07:55Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements


"So much wrong & disgraceful about this. One element totally glossed over in this weird moral hair-splitting is sheer numbers of course. But then there's also the very public genocidal statements of major figures of the Israeli state - hard to argue they don't show "deliberately""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1717159797722911201)  2023-10-25T12:42Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Met police please arrest me for ripping down SWP posters. I confess I managed to do about a thousand for their shitty conference & most recently I've defaced some "what does Barbie tell us about feminism" ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1717174725636411782)  2023-10-25T13:42Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


""not an easy one to say what's right or wrong" isn't a conspiracy theory. I thought conspiracy theories were meant to be moralising simplifications not acknowledgements of moral complexity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1717303747280359739)  2023-10-25T22:14Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"We've been working on this for a bit with some other good comrades and I hope it can maybe generate something useful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1717941470689177658)  2023-10-27T16:28Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Compared to almost any other demo in Britain (& almost all have been far far smaller) [--] people being charged is an absolutely minute yet no Cobra meeting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1718916649795867090)  2023-10-30T09:03Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"From the River to the Sea is a call for genocide if you think a free Palestinian people with equal democratic rights rather than subject to vicious repression would act like vicious animals and exterminate the Jewish population"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1719117653623673275)  2023-10-30T22:22Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"It is important to insist on what Andy MacDonald said but also if he had said "from the river to sea Palestine will be free" that would have been good not anti-Semitic and suspending him an outrage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1719307835408875634)  2023-10-31T10:58Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"There's something interesting about how the practicalities of policing mean even the Met end up against elements of the state ideology (this also tells us something about how far gone the state ideology is)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1719688183460385051)  2023-11-01T12:09Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"A peculiar thing about journalism on Palestine is that on the one hand it has never been easier for ordinary people to find out information especially on what Hamas's leadership thinks but also stuff that is being censored but no British journalist will report this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1719834315406598148)  2023-11-01T21:50Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@SzMarsupial @ettingermentum Yes definitely and in oy a slight analogical stretch the overspill of impotent violence without a capacity to subdue to Laos & Cambodia/the West Bank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1720071425992835473)  2023-11-02T13:32Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


""No killing no fucking killing whatever side". Scratch a hard-bitten disillusioned nihilist get a hippie sentimentalist too stupid and lazy to think about things"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1720899195337371721)  2023-11-04T20:21Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Apartheid works to a fair extent with Israel (& I'm very sympathetic for example to how Perry Anderson uses "Bantustans" particularly in his deep and correct animus for Abbas) but it doesn't capture everything - particularly with Gaza it lets it off lightly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1721227465727594920)  2023-11-05T18:06Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Across the Palestinian resistance factions and in the rubble of Gaza with one voice they call out: "without Owen Jones & Piers Morgan we would be bereft with them we advance to victory.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1726029524406583620)  2023-11-19T00:08Z 14.7K followers, 24.9K engagements


"@OwenJones84 Frankly both of us have failed utterly and culpably in the immediate term - there's no ceasefire Britain calling for one is fundamentally blocked there's been no effective labour movement challenge to supplying arms to Israel. Palestinians are being killed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1726335423243579657)  2023-11-19T20:23Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


""Hostages being treated in a hospital can't be genuine must prove something like it's a Hamas command centre" doesn't tell us much about Hamas it tells us a lot about how you would treated captured prisoners (or if you're the Israeli state how you do)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1726538302512382205)  2023-11-20T09:49Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"However as well as doing everything possible to turn the former into the latter it's necessary that a longer ceasefire isn't the restoration of the "normal" permanent state of siege of Gaza but stabilised & under worse conditions due to over a month of horror & destruction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1727235418595205376)  2023-11-22T07:59Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"A meaningful democracy is not just voting for someone every [--] years though. Pressuring MPs is an assertion of democracy not its opposite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1727394195680416040)  2023-11-22T18:30Z 14.7K followers, 11.9K engagements


"It's very telling how desperate Israel are to keep both the freed hostages and freed Palestinian prisoners away from the press and how the opposite is the case with Hamas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1728188549277863986)  2023-11-24T23:07Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"A lot of silly billies here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1728472275530506525)  2023-11-25T17:54Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Vans and vans of the fuckers including TSG coming down Charing Cross Road. Blocking each other up to the extent they're angrily sirening at each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1728475350340911428)  2023-11-25T18:06Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"There have been situations where national liberation has to be socialist-led where national liberation and socialism are entangled. This was quite possibly the case in Palestine in the 70s. It's not now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1729413720764305526)  2023-11-28T08:15Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"In Palestine (not just Gaza & the West Bank but from the river to the sea) national liberation is a good in itself and a precondition of socialist struggle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1729413724996346059)  2023-11-28T08:15Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"PFLP were correct to have a class perspective in the 70s they're correct to have an acceptance of Hamas hegemony over the resistance factions (& this is a hegemony that has impacts on Hamas) now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1729413732571247077)  2023-11-28T08:15Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"A major aim of Al-Aqsa flood was taking hostages in order to liberate Palestinian prisoners. That only works if the hostages survive Hamas has a huge interest in keeping all hostages alive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1729913536082538901)  2023-11-29T17:21Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Yet still we get a discourse based essentially on racist tropes of "barbarism" (etc) and a complete obfuscation of the prisoner question that the inherent "savagery" of Hamas means they would kill hostages they just can't help themselves I guess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1729913537835733039)  2023-11-29T17:21Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Kissinger was a nothing a mediocre functionary for an evil empire in its most malevolent phase"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1730336896075608349)  2023-11-30T21:23Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Shane MacGowan wrote "Still there's a light I hold before me You're the measure of my dreams The measure of my dreams""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1730336899347169517)  2023-11-30T21:23Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Might be good to focus on the atrocities Israel is committing now backed by Britain & which are ongoing & therefore need to be stopped rather than October 7th"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1731645537890304010)  2023-12-04T12:04Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Corbyn's still trying to be Prime Minister Fucking brilliant things are a lot better than they seemed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1731963982997574008)  2023-12-05T09:09Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Israel censoring this is bad but it's what tends to happen in wars the British press have no need to be bound by that but they are and very willingly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1734956469064183826)  2023-12-13T15:20Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Even if we accepted the spiteful & ignorant "banal and formulaic at its average" the idea that it's ok (good) to assassinate a bad poet because of the badness of their work is absolutely grotesque"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1737449694760951859)  2023-12-20T12:27Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The grossest thing here isn't even "Israel has a right." it's "a celebration of joy and positivity" in such close contact to apartheid & genocide. An evil superficiality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1737978885784879237)  2023-12-21T23:30Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"This is very touching in its way but also I can't help but feel there's a slightly false note and maybe it's the false note of pacifism of man's inhumanity to man of "was killed""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1738270657245282320)  2023-12-22T18:49Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Hardy's pacifism was brave and aimed at food effects given the main enemy is at home and at home was the major imperialist power - an imputed () pacifism with Refaat Alareer and with it an obfuscation of who killed him works differently I worry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1738270661871599877)  2023-12-22T18:49Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"As a Wessexman I find this very moving & correct. "From the river to the stones . . . Palestine you're not alone" Today at #Stonehenge #WinterSolstice https://t.co/a8C3gD6aUb "From the river to the stones . . . Palestine you're not alone" Today at #Stonehenge #WinterSolstice https://t.co/a8C3gD6aUb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1739071187676749830)  2023-12-24T23:50Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Load of fash in the QTs trying to claim Stonehenge for the race or nation - nope Stonehenge is far too weird to be absorbed into such squalid and prosaic stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1739072285279940997)  2023-12-24T23:55Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Odd response this - surely the fact one person (& this is why they're notable) has refused to serve in the IOF suggests that generalisation about Israelis isn't wrong. Those of you who have spent the past [--] weeks tarring all Israelis with the same brush should watch this and understand that if you actually want peace you need to make sure someone like Tal can live safely and securely. Those of you who have spent the past [--] weeks tarring all Israelis with the same brush should watch this and understand that if you actually want peace you need to make sure someone like Tal can live safely and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1740040196899705102)  2023-12-27T16:01Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"It seems that another hostage was killed by the IOF/in a botched rescue attempt - important enough but also that they were being held not by Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad but by the PFLP's armed wing the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. This is significant surely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1741163365496492477)  2023-12-30T18:24Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Also leading figures from Hamas PIJ PFLP DFLP and PFLP-GC seem to have met in person in Beirut and put out an agreed set of lines around the various Egyptian and Qatari "peace" proposals. Again the degree of unity and that they were able to meet in person seems significant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741163367144816686)  2023-12-30T18:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"A quick search it seems this has only been reported in Middle East Monitor and it's not hard you can just do what any journalist does with a competently done press release"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741163370173112650)  2023-12-30T18:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"Another story that also has some nice colour: Hezbollah claiming to have destroyed the vast majority of "Israeli" military security cameras being used to monitor them and calling for people in South Lebanon to turn off shop CCTV in case a desperate IOF hacks them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741163372719046659)  2023-12-30T18:24Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"Never praised a pro-western leader or government isn't really a gotcha though is it There was never a single example of Pilger praising a pro-western leader or government. Instead it was dictators such as Fidel Castro Hugo Chvez Saddam Hussein Vladimir Putin or the communist rulers of Vietnam that were sympathetically portrayed https://t.co/HttgdMIOO9 There was never a single example of Pilger praising a pro-western leader or government. Instead it was dictators such as Fidel Castro Hugo Chvez Saddam Hussein Vladimir Putin or the communist rulers of Vietnam that were sympathetically portrayed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1742162942043234503)  2024-01-02T12:36Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"From the PFLP statement on the assassination of Al-Arouri - and I think this is completely right a flailing power incapable of defeating the Palestinian resistance or of any non-genocidal war aims desperate for something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1742273315530555825)  2024-01-02T19:55Z 14.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Weird which countries are allowed to bomb targets in a country they're not at war with isn't it But that's another story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1742273653201408327)  2024-01-02T19:56Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"The US (& possibly Britain) attacking targets in Iraq. Probably the kind of thing that should be reported who knows though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1742941867086368974)  2024-01-04T16:11Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"They've collectively put out a big statement today the ICJ case "we also salute South Africa." represents half a sentence in one point out of eight saluting "the free peoples of the world""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1745518722255556747)  2024-01-11T18:51Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Not saying that need determine our line as free people within the imperial core what we can do what our reality is is distinct from the situation the resistance factions but it also is relevant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1745519735507235318)  2024-01-11T18:55Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Britain will cheerfully kill a lot of people. This is very bad and one should do what one can to resist it. Britain will also lose. This will not inhibit the capacity of Yemen/Ansar Allah to act in solidarity with Palestine. This is good. BREAKING: Rishi Sunak is holding a full cabinet call at [----] this evening Ministers believe its about UK and US military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen Move has been heavily telegraphed by Grant Shapps and by senior figures in the US. It is thought UK aircraft and Navy BREAKING: Rishi Sunak is holding a full cabinet call at [----] this evening Ministers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1745537828883214447)  2024-01-11T20:07Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Very easy to restore normal shipping in the Red Sea lads. Has the additional positive effect of ending a genocide (not that that concerns Britain & the US)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1745538561825251742)  2024-01-11T20:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"In what way has the response to this been anything similar in its extent or passion to the lead up to the Iraq War Wally. Honestly youd think we were on the cusp of invading Iraq. Were likely talking targeted & limited attacks on Houthi missile facilities. Good or bad effective or futile its not major escalation & its not going to lead to a major war. Honestly youd think we were on the cusp of invading Iraq. Were likely talking targeted & limited attacks on Houthi missile facilities. Good or bad effective or futile its not major escalation & its not going to lead to a major war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1745558662586708153)  2024-01-11T21:29Z 15K followers, [----] engagements


"Also even from the most base pragmatic perspective something that might well lead to attempts to stop British bound ships going through the Red Sea probably merits a bit of discussion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1745559127517024462)  2024-01-11T21:31Z 14.6K followers, [---] engagements


"But I think we lose quite a lot strategically & analytically in a failure to periodise capitalism to understand what is constant & what isn't. We need concepts between the structural/organic & the conjunctural"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1745822490402693277)  2024-01-12T14:58Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Feels a little bit of a misstep from PSC (etc) to have no mention of Yemen in the official publicity (etc)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1746153230386479143)  2024-01-13T12:52Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Probably a basic point but hey seems widely missed Saudi propaganda about Ansar Allah "slavers" probably isn't entirely unbiased & trustworthy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1746496442288517551)  2024-01-14T11:36Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I agree. There should be immediate rent controls secure tenancies & a major programme of council house building to get things under control and then the total decommodification of housing. To live on the Southbank in Central London you'd pay [----] a month for a one-bed on average. But immigrants in social housing many of whom are unemployed are paying ONLY [---] a month on average. They are subsidised whilst you are extorted. Not fair and must change. https://t.co/tSimGWFrk7 To live on the Southbank in Central London you'd pay [----] a month for a one-bed on average. But immigrants in social"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1746602253014716680)  2024-01-14T18:36Z 14.7K followers, 37.1K engagements


"Grimly fascinating to have loads of fash in my mentions suggesting deporting millions of people is a more practical and cheaper way to resolve high housing costs & insecurity than building council housing secure tenancies & rent control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1746944163222872260)  2024-01-15T17:15Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


""Murder weapons" now we're in hilarity territory. Are the British weapons made by unionised British workers that Mason loves not "murder weapons" How"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1747309473679450472)  2024-01-16T17:26Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"This is nonsense though - one could imagine the Tick Tock lad in a Delacroix but this derives far too much from that. Almost all the support has been austere and moral at it's core: something must be done to try to stop the genocide & Ansar Allah are doing that. People are attracted to the Houthis because they look like swashbuckling hearties and please both a kind of plebeian and an orientalist romanticism People are attracted to the Houthis because they look like swashbuckling hearties and please both a kind of plebeian and an orientalist romanticism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1747671216884691046)  2024-01-17T17:24Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Ultimately the Greens are a nice moral rational not very political party. They're overwhelmingly left-liberal with a basis in middle class people who want things to be nice for everyone and that everyone extends beyond Britain (& to an extent beyond the human)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1748027061833183519)  2024-01-18T16:58Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I'll probably vote for them in the General Election but not with huge enthusiasm. I think one ends up in trouble expecting much more of them or criticising them for not being something they can never be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748027068573478928)  2024-01-18T16:58Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"@FisunGuner I think this is mine too - probably a more anti-Labour move than not voting at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748286655121809819)  2024-01-19T10:09Z [--] followers, [---] engagements


"@nrgsrhc Read this a couple of days ago it's remarkable so sprawling and messy and I think less "successful" than the other two yet there's so much in it such life I guess almost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1749511987724173784)  2024-01-22T19:18Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Does this hateful prick think Ansar Allah are just doing it for a laugh or something Hate him so much. "I totally reject the Houthis claims that attacking ships from around the world is somehow linked to the conflict in Gaza. These attacks do absolutely nothing for the Palestinian people" says Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. https://t.co/xItZsH7tea 📺 Sky [---] Virgin [---] https://t.co/SSNdLiLRE6 "I totally reject the Houthis claims that attacking ships from around the world is somehow linked to the conflict in Gaza. These attacks do absolutely nothing for the Palestinian people" says Labour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1749842470555283874)  2024-01-23T17:12Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"An absolutely great critic and really exemplary for how at the core of the anger was always hope betrayed a sense of how incredible things could be and sometimes are inversion of Grosz a huge yes prior to the small no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1749910967805153763)  2024-01-23T21:44Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Also a wonderful DJ at the Colosseum in Cov. I would really like an 80p double vodka while listening to the T. Rex in his memory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1749910995567325464)  2024-01-23T21:44Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"This is where scrupulously (well apart from [--] tweet in over [---] days) wrecks the analysis. Why is Biden losing support Jeremy What does that mean about the specific stakes of contemporary centrism beyond the vapid "more to lose than gain from meaningful reform" Dem leaders would rather let Trump win than fight him with a viable candidate. Same basic problem here - upper bureaucracy of the only viable progressive electoral vehicle occupied by a political class with more to lose than gain from meaningful reform. https://t.co/UWTS8KD7Cz Dem leaders would rather let Trump win than fight him with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1750185956060115010)  2024-01-24T15:57Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"And based on all polling Starmer will walk the election - the indifference to specifities isn't just as it is with Palestine an abject moral cowardice it makes for a completely mechanical model a domineering application of theory indifferent to the conjuncture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1750185962657796414)  2024-01-24T15:57Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Quite a basic point you'd think but there's a difference between incivility abuse and murder. Jo Coxs tragic murder in [----] was a horrendous attack on democracy. The level of threats and intimidation that so many elected representatives are continuing to experience shows that there is still so much to be done. 1/2 Jo Coxs tragic murder in [----] was a horrendous attack on democracy. The level of threats and intimidation that so many elected representatives are continuing to experience shows that there is still so much to be done. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1750281390136889673)  2024-01-24T22:16Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@alexcj Yes definitely the "since" does considerable work around imperialism & then there's the ambiguity of other WW2 genocides: the Bengal "famine" Japan in China & elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1751187245548109842)  2024-01-27T10:15Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Got a tedious & inconvenient journey to work because of the train strike - solidarity with the strikers the inconvenience a strike leads to shows the importance of their work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1752238613998309574)  2024-01-30T07:53Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"I think often there's an implicit point underpinning this criticism that there's a certain quantity of "left" political energy and this can be parcelled out in various ways above all between "electoralism" and "organising" but that's not really true at all. dont wish to be rude but sick of seeing this take. whats being advocated for is for 200k people to take their attention away from organising workplaces communities unis etc across the country to pour energy into trying to elect [--] [--] people in a system designed to crush them dont wish to be rude but sick of seeing this take. whats being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1753029793199603924)  2024-02-01T12:17Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The end of Corbynism hasn't seen the extent of the surge into organising workplaces and communities that such a model would suggest equally pre-Corbyn there wasn't a quantity of fungible energy that was then transferred to "electoralism""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1753029796404027410)  2024-02-01T12:17Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I agree that a new party like Corbyn's Labour but without any bad stuff is a dead end but it's not a dead end because of an implicit theory of political energy it's a dead end because that path is blocked and effective action now requires coming to terms with that blockage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1753029798446637378)  2024-02-01T12:17Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"BUT. From the point of view effectiveness - what determines these problems could be solved quite easily on a political level it's worth an effort there. From the point of view of politics it's very rare this moves beyond being grasped as a service or charity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1753032848347378083)  2024-02-01T12:29Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements


"And I mean trade unions are often at least as reactionary and conformist particularly on ecology and arms production as the fucking Labour Party and the reasons why are similar. Both are part of the state apparatuses of a capitalist imperialist state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Tom_Gann/status/1753033605155086572)  2024-02-01T12:32Z 14.7K followers, [---] engagements

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