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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...

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...

Today, officials from the European Union plan to sign off on a major trade and investment agreement with Japan, known colloquially as JEFTA. The deal, which is multiple years in the making, has drawn intense concern from environmental and labour campaigners due to its lack of provisions on whaling (amazingly still a problem in 2018), weak commitment to sustainable development, and inclusion of rules that could facilitate the privatisation of public services, including water, in Germany and other EU states. In addition, the deal refuses to recognise the precautionary principle and includes restrictions on the right of states to regulate multinational corporations.  JEFTA, written behind closed doors by lobby shops, is only visible to campaigners because it was leaked to Greenpeace. Yet, bar a freak accident, it will be signed off tomorrow without a public referendum in any country.  The agreement, like its sister deal CETA and the WTO, should be reminders of the dark ...

#TrumpNotWelcome: 250,000+ People Manifest Against Donald Trump In London In Biggest Weekday Protest In UK History #CarnivalOfResistance: Protestors Fill The Streets En Masse As Baby Balloon Flies Overhead "Take Boris Back With You!" "No To Trump, No To War" - Slogans And Banners Against Trump Protests Biggest In UK Since Bush-Blair Iraq War Britons Incensed Over Trump-Boris Johnson Brexiteer "Coup Plot" "United Against Fear" - Corbyn Addresses Huge Crowd Opposing Trump Visit Owen Jones DESTROYS BBC Interviewer Painting UK As Fans Of Trump Trump Plots "Shock Doctrine" Disaster Capitalist Trade Deal As He Stokes Plans For Hard Brexit Anti-Trade Deal Activists Appear In Chlorinated Chicken Suits Antifascist Blocs Mobilise With Flares, Smoke Against Trump In Brighton EXPOSED: The US-UK Think Tank Network That Pushes Climate Denial, Lobbies #NuclearBan Considered By Trump In Rare Move For Peace Home Office ...

European Far-Right And Centre Unite To Pass Brutal Refugee Policy SPD Cheers CSU Efforts In Imposing Even-Harsher Policy On Migrants As Anti-Semitic AfD Takes Credit For "Cleansing" Of Germany..... Extreme Centre Parties Create Repression Philosophy To Pathologise Left-Wing Thought, Action Emmanuel Macron Launches New, Direct Attack On The French Social Model And The Constitution Europe's Ongoing Genocide: More Than 200 Migrants Drown In Three Days Another Boat Full Of Refugees Capsizes As EU's New Social Murder Policy Blocks Ships A Detailed Analysis Of The European Union's New Refugee Policy Denmark: Harsh Conditions Intensified In Ghettos For Refugees And Immigrants #RefugeesGR: Plans To Close Pikpa Refugee Camp Slammed By Activsts Left-Wing Groups Denounce Increasingly Barbaric Policies In European Parliament Deportation Targets And The Deterrent Dogma: UK Immigration Enforcement From Straw To May #OccupyICE Movement Explodes ...

World Refugees Day: To Those Who Fight For Human Beings And Their Future Young Socialists Kick Trump Official Out Of Restaurant For Immigration Policies (VIDEO) Guardian Prints List of 34,361 Refugees Who Died On The Way To Europe EU Cops Unleash Teargas, Batons Against Pro-Refugee Open Borders Protestors A Real Solution To The Refugee Crisis - Stop The Wars And Arms Sales Exposed: Migrant Children Forcibly Injected With Drugs In Trump-Obama Camps Right Wing's Anti-Human Response To Trump Concentration Camps: "Womp, Womp." Naming And Shaming The Corporations Profiting From Caging Of Children Trump’s Plan To Stop Family Separations Is To Imprison Families In Camps Together Tories Won’t Cancel Trump’s Visit Despite “Deeply Disturbing” Images of Caged Children Meet The Blairites' New Hero Who Advocates Limiting Democracy, Subverting Socialist Media Corbyn's Labour Blasts Ahead Of Tories In Latest Poll - Best Result Since January New Stu...

Salvini’s ‘Roma Register’ Marks A Dangerous Step Towards Fascism Shelter Cities For Refugees: A Growing Desire Among The Citizenship Immigration Divides Europe and the German Left Manifestations For Refugees, Students, And ZAD Coalesce In France Communiqué from the Occupation of Paris-8, Facing Imminent Eviction Emmanuel Macron Set To Diminish Space For Philosophy In French Curriculum, Leftists Speak Out Updates On Repressive Operation Following The Disorders At The G20 In Hamburg #StopKM: First Of 202 Trans Mountain Pipeline Protesters Await Sentencing Activist Poetry: Grey Walls - A Night In A Police Station #AntiG7: Every Bank is a Blank Canvas US Quits UN Human Rights Council Amid Outrages Over Children, Gaza, Income Equality Trump Administration Planning Massive Expansion Of Jails For Immigrant Children Child Psychology Expert Warns Of Life-Changing Damage From Child-Parent Separation Of Immigrants PODCAST: The War on Children Under Neoliberal F...