MPs have been given no time to debate the awful Pharma deal with Trump, which will cost our NHS billions. But MPs have a couple of weeks to at least register their opposition. Has your MP signed?
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Big Pharma is unable to produce the medicines we need at a price we can afford. I chatted to Critical Takes about how we can build a medicine system that really meets our needs 👇
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Starmer’s desperation to get a trade deal with Trump has proven a disaster - from appointing Mandelson, to signing agreements with terrible terms - and for what? To give Trump a vehicle to persistently bully us.
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“We haven’t really seen any so-called bad volatility”
Death on the front lines, economic pain for the majority, champagne for the financiers and monopolists.
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“If you criticise Palantir’s platform one more time, you are going to lose your job.”
Solidarity to all NHS workers opposing this toxic corporation. Shame on those bullying them. But they won’t stop us. We’re going to ditch Palantir.
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Mexico and Brazil should join Colombia at the Santa Marta conference next week and create an ISDS-free zone – the first step to an ISDS-free world. Great piece 👇
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The government has given Trump the right to dictate how much of our NHS budget we hand over to Big Pharma.
This is less a trade deal, more an agreement to pay tribute to Trump’s mates. Stop the Pharma deal!
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
So why has the government given in to this bullying and agreed to pay Big Pharma even more?? Starmer has let Trump and his cronies dictate NHS budgets. 2/2
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The NHS is vastly overpaying for a new Merck cancer drug - up to 5 times as much as it should. Despite the fact the drug benefitted massively from public research and Merck last year pulled investment in the U.K. to bully the government 1/2
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The Crime and Policing bill is trying to target activists who take direct action - take action now and email your MP to oppose this repression:
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Finally a proper investigation into the government's toxic pharma deal with Trump👇 It will cost billions and many thousands of lives.
"The government faced a clear choice - back the NHS and stand up to Big Pharma, or don’t. And it decided not to.”
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When you’ve already shot yourself in one foot, and you decide to shoot the other one.
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Another great victory of the Trump-Starmer trade deal: a data centre that will tear through Scottish greenbelt for less than 50 long term jobs
‘The fact it was agreed on the day of Trump’s State visit tells you all you need to know about who benefits’
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Police arrest 523 including 87-year-old during mass protest in central London against ban on Palestine Action
“This is not policing. This is the state criminalising dissent.”
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Of all the bad things this government has done, one of the most significant yet underreported is this: the handing over of the “advice, intelligence and decision-making that underlie every government decision” to Big Tech models we do not control.
www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
So hang on, Britain isn’t involved in Iran but we’re providing support ‘invaluable’ to the US military.
It’s one or the other John.
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Good. We need to stop these data centres to halt the Tech barons AI rollout.
But it forces the question what the government got out of these trade deals? As with the Pharma deal, an open ended commitment to be bullied by big business?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Really looking forward to chatting to my old friend @tahiramin.bsky.social about his new book Pharma Monopoly. 27.04 in London 👇
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💯 And trade with Britain (& Europe as a whole) is very important to Israel. It’s an area where we really do have power. Trade sanctions would be right, popular and effective. Get involved 👇
act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4333
Not long to go till 'Resisting Big Tech Empires', our conference in London on Saturday 25 April!
Join us to hear from incredible speakers including Cory Doctorow on how we can build resistance against Big Tech.
Free tickets - get them before they're gone: www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...
I suspected Iran was the beginning of the end for Trump. This is confirmation. Nothing face saving here. The US lost, yet the economic pain will go on and on.
There is a gigantic hole where Europe should be. It will be studied in history books for centuries to come. If we survive.
Stop the state visit now. It’s the bare minimum. Sending the King as a gift to Trump is complete madness.
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Hormuz is America’s Suez 👇
‘It has made the end of American hegemony imaginable. It has also shown that, perhaps for the first time, the Global South possesses the political will and ideas needed to build a new international order.’
www.equator.org/articles/the...
Surely not. I thought we weren’t involved.
Remembering Julius Nyerere.
Nyerere was a giant in the movement for African socialism. This is a great primer for those who don’t know much about him 👇
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Pope Leo is going full TWAIL and I am here for it.
Full text of the Pharma Deal here. This isn’t a trade deal, it’s an agreement to pay tribute, a totally one-sided imposition.
The idea we makes promises to Trump as to how we’ll allocate the NHS budget 🤯
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