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Two days ago, a list of individuals who, in many cases have absolutely no other alleged connections to each other, was produced by an activist and student named Kester Ratcliff . The "International Assadists Reference Dictionary," comprised of 151 separate figures, is based on absurd premises and lumps together individuals across the left-wing political spectrum - from social democrats to anarchists to communists to ecologists - with alt-right trolls like Mike Cernovich and UKIP's Paul Joseph Watson. While it has become increasingly common to identify a small sector of (largely American) leftists such as Caitlyn Johnstone as in cahoots with the far right on some issues, this list goes above and beyond that, identifying nearly all prominent figures who could reasonably be described as "left-wing," including Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, Slavoj Zizek, Jill Stein, Vijay Prashad, Tariq Ali, Leila Khaled and countless others as Assadists before everything else...

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With the second rise of UKIP, the toxic rallies for Tommy Robinson, and the normalisation of genuine fascists like Steve Bannon by British radio shows and Gammon-baiter Piers Morgan, the far-right is seemingly gaining more ground in Britain than ever, and – in a moment of “literal communism” and manifestations against Trump – the tone of the Brexit debate has thus become increasingly – how would I put it? – divisive. The battle flags have been unfurled, and, especially after the release of convincing reports on fraud by Team Leave during the referendum, it is becoming seemingly impossible for a left-winger to approve of Brexit publicly, let alone make a case for it. Which is why Jeremy Corbyn’s speech last week saw comments across the board that he was echoing the language of UKIP and Trump, and even becoming the “far-right’s new hero.” Combined with the scare over anti-Semitism (a reactionary tradition), one could be forgiven for believing that the leader of the opposition w...

Europe Places Monetary Value On Africans As Plan To Pay Member States 6000 Euros Per Refugee Gains Traction Report Shows Growing Threats To Eco Activists And Land Defenders Globally By State And Corporate Goons Reflecting On The Belem Ecosocialist Declaration, Ten Years Later Greek Wildfires Kill 74+ People Amid Climate Crisis As Migrants, Anarchists Help Rescue Efforts Also, The Arctic Circle Is Currently On Fire. (Voracious Consumption) x (Rising Population) = Planetary Crisis As Wildfires Rage and Heat Records Broken Worldwide, Corporate Media Urged to Cover Human Responsibility For Extreme Weather #AffaireBenalla: Macron Admits Role As 80% Of Public Expresses Outrage, No-Confidence Motion Tabled In Crisis Macron's Monarchal Worldview Means He Sees Any Protestors As Unruly Subjects Melenchon Defends CRS Riot Police Even As Students And Unionists Slam Violence Alexandre Benalla: Henchman At Centre Of French Watergate Tony Blair Institute Working ...

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The Establishment’s Question Times, commentators, and newspapers: how they long for a “sensible” and “responsible” opposition, and how the public vehemently rejects their every appeal. From the Centrist Dads’ knight in armour, David Miliband, to the ghost-like Liberal Democrats, the options on the table are unpopular at best and objects of ridicule at worst. Attempts at creating a prepackaged, out-of-the box neoliberal party along the lines of Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche have flopped, despite the best efforts of Renew and similar elitist watering holes. Seeing this situation, it is only natural that Tony Blair, whose supporters can’t even muster 5 percent of the vote in the party he nearly destroyed, is seething with anger. His pet think tank, The Tony Blair Institute For Global Change, described by the New York Times of all outlets as “a front for the restoration of the global elite,” has worked overtime railing against “extremism” and “ideology,” as if it were still 1991...