TODAY is IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia & Transphobia

It's the anniversary of the day, 24 years ago, when the World Health Organisation finally removed homosexuality from its list of diseases!

Exposing how #Spotify exploits musicians and has built its success on the backs of workers - the musicians - and made the CEO a billionaire whilst wilfully and ruthlessly exploiting the creators for its own ends.
Hey #Spotify pay the #Musicians properly!
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🚨 Want #NHS to replace doctors with non-doctors making healthcare even more unsafe?🤔
➡️ No? Then please join the pushback against this dangerous agenda! 🙏🏼
➡️ Spread the word 👊🏽
#NoDoctorSubstitution
#StopNoctors

Your mortgage had to go up to DOUBLE HSBC’s profit.
Your petrol had to go up to QUADRUPLE Shell’s profit.
Your gas had to go up to x10 British Gas' profit.

Brexit Britain working to bankrupt you.

Arts in crisis - great piece in the Big Issue
Musicians' Union Big Issue
Funding must be restored to the arts if people are to be able to wash away the dust of every day life!

Trussell Trust says a record 3.1 million foodbank parcels were provided to people facing hardship between April 2023-March 2024.
When the Tories came into office the number of foodbank parcels issued was 60,000.
This is the scale of the rising poverty they’ve inflicted on UK.

TUC warns…
“Far more women are being forced by long-term sickness to give up work than their male counterparts, new research suggests”

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This is going to force people with health problems or disabilities to work more in order to retain benefits.
Similarly those with irregular work/fluctuating incomes.
If they don’t or can’t, they will lose their benefits.
Tories again penalising the poor.

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If you’ve never been to Derby Trades Council Silk Mill Festival - you should check it out.
Politics and music for the masses - a bit of trade union history too - Saturday 8th June👍✊

Fire Brigades Union (FBU) urges firefighters not to assist police in removing Palestine protesters

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Government has hollowed out music education, starved the arts of funding, cut benefits for struggling artists/shifting them to Universal Credit, wrecked public transport and economy, and given us the cost of living crisis.
But a levy will save venues 🤔

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The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama told its staff today that it is axeing its junior department at the end of this term. Almost 200 children study there on saturdays. That will all stop in July. This is not rich kids playing expensive instruments. One of them texted...

How many drones, how many missiles, how many bombs - how many weapons?

A watering down of Labour’s New Deal For Working People is going to be the final nail in the coffin for many trade unionists on how they view the Party.
Expect an almighty row and pushback.

Fact.

This 👇

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🚨NEW: Unite the union: join a union say Labour's draft New Deal for Workers is “unrecognisable”, accusing the party of turning it into a charter for bad bosses.

Comes after the union, Labour's largest financial backer, threatened to withhold funds over the watering down of key pledges.

50 years ago this week, South Asians at Leicester's Imperial Typewriters factory went on strike to demand respect and dignity at work — confronting the racism of their bosses and the unions that failed to support them.

My latest piece for Tribune
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