I haven't used bluesky or mastodon for what seems like an eternity. Nor facebook. But Twitter is now useless. So I'll at least try alternatives in the hope something works. I don't have high hopes though.
Still here. Still waiting for HMP Bronzefield to call an ambulance for Qesser Zuhrah, who is on day 46 of her hunger strike and needs urgent hospital care now.
Just got back from HMP Bronzefield.
Most importantly: Qesser Zuhrah was transferred to hospital via the ambulance she’d been demanding since 5pm yesterday.
David Lammy, Keir Starmer — you are on the brink of causing the deaths of multiple young Palestine hunger strikers.
From 2am, in freezing temperatures, we were forced to protest for more than 12 hours before an ambulance was finally dispatched to HMP Bronzefield so that Qesser Zuhrah could receive the urgent medical care she needs.
We demand immediate bail for all remand political prisoners.
Israeli forces are minutes away from illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla.
One of the ships - the Ohwayla - sails under a UK flag. Onboard are humanitarians with vital aid, demanding a humanitarian corridor.
The Labour government must act NOW to protect UK citizens.
I am shocked and appalled by the attack on a synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day for the Jewish community.
My thoughts are with the victims, their loved ones and everyone affected.
Zarah and Rev Pam Howell standing outside St Anne’s Church
Yesterday I held a surgery at St Anne’s Church, helping with issues from housing and debt to passports and school places.
Always grateful for the warm welcome from Rev Pam Howell 💞
I'm always here to help constituents - feel free to reach out via email (address in bio)! 😊
Zarah speaking on a panel at Sheffield Trades Union Council
A packed room at SADACCA (Sheffield And District African Caribbean Community Association) community centre
Thoroughly enjoyed speaking at Sheffield Trades Union Council yesterday – the first trade union body to host a Your Party speaker!
Grateful to everyone who came to fight for our communities, our trade unions and a democratic socialist party led by the grassroots ❤️
Tony Blair tried this 20 years ago. We stopped it then, and we must stop it again.
Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state.
Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.
The #GlobalSumudFlotilla is delivering life-saving aid to Gazans deliberately starved under Israel’s genocide, including 1 million children.
Spain is sending a naval vessel to protect the flotilla and ensure aid reaches those in desperate need.
The UK must do the same.
Having armed and enabled this genocide, the very least this Labour government can do is act now to protect the 13 British citizens on board.
For those who joined the previous system: data and membership will be migrated across in due course.
We have a world to win. Let’s get to work! ✊🏽
I’m a member of Your Party - and if you haven’t joined yet, you should too.
I’ll remain a fierce advocate for the grassroots – and will continue to fight hard for maximum member democracy.
Email to Zarah: “Zarah WE ARE ALL EPPING NOW If you don't like it fuck off back to your own shit hole country and stop polluting this one. Sent from Outlook for Android”
This is the rhetoric that politicians from Starmer to Farage have normalised and emboldened.
Racism, hate and division dressed up as ‘legitimate concerns’.
We will fight back. And we will defeat their politics of hate.
Brilliant Zarah, we're right here for it.
I assume that is you. I hope it is. I don't recognize anyone in that picture because I'm very shortsighted. If that isn't you with your back to us then I don't recognize anyone.
Zarah speaking on the main stage at Forwards festival in Bristol
Something special is happening.
Congrats to students in Coventry & across the country receiving A Level, T Level & BTEC results today!
No matter your results, you’ve worked incredibly hard to get here & should be immensely proud🫶🏽
I’m looking forward to welcoming those joining Warwick & Coventry universities!
Quote in photo: “The goal is to change politics forever. When we have a government abetting genocide and waging war on its own citizens, and a far right gearing up to enter Downing Street, we can't deny the urgency. So I am ready to give everything to this fight. That's what I owe to my community and to my class. Now's the moment.”
The new left party must be different: member-led, shaped by the people it serves, honouring and learning from the past, and building the future.
Me in the New Left Review: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
The smears won’t work this time.
I say it loudly and proudly: I’m an anti-Zionist.
The smears won’t work this time.
I say it loudly and proudly: I’m an anti-Zionist.
Tweet from Zarah Sultana MP: “Delete and apologise, otherwise you better lawyer up. Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism. The smears won't work this time.” Quote-retweeting: Oliver Kamm @OliverKamm, who posted: “Ms Sultana is evasive. She's an antisemite. x.com/ zarahsultana/s...”
Anti-Zionism is not Antisemitism.
Zarah in a group photo
Zarah speaking at the front of the room, others listening to her around tables that have cake and tea
Zarah and Caroline listening to Margaret at the Coventry Irish Society event. On the table there are sandwiches, tea and cake.
Zarah being hugged and spoken to by one of the attendees
Honoured to join Coventry Irish Society to celebrate women who shaped Coventry.
From Lady Godiva to Mo Mowlam and Pauline Black, from factory workers to trade unionists, Coventry’s women have always led with courage.
Their legacy inspires us and reminds us that the struggle continues.
IPSOS article: One in five Britons would consider voting for a new left-wing party, rising to one in three young people and Labour voters One in five (20%) British adults would consider voting for a new left-wing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. The party's appeal is strongest among young people, with one-third (33%) of 16-34s considering it, alongside a third of 2024 Labour voters (33%) and 43% of 2024 Green Party voters.
This is just the start.
We’re not here to beg for crumbs.
We’re coming for the lot.
Join us: yourparty.uk
We’re building something special and we’re going to change British politics forever.
Join us: yourparty.uk
I did mine one hundred and fifteen years ago. #ImVeryOld
I did my GCSEs *15 years ago* but I still remember the nerves of Results Day like it was yesterday! 🥲
Huge congratulations to everyone getting their results today. You’ve worked so hard and should be really proud of yourselves! 🥰
ALL SYSTEMS GO ELBIT Systems, which as Israel's largest arms firm is a key cog in the Israeli war machine, is close to winning a £2bn contract that would make it a "strategic partner" of the Ministry of Defence, working on the training of 60,000 British soldiers every year. Elbit Systems UK, its British arm, is bidding for the Army Collective Training Service contract. The chosen bidder will work with the MoD to transform military training "through digitalisation, simulation, a different relationship with industry, and by changing how and where the military trains" Many defence giants put in bids, but in February the MoD reduced the bidders to two: Elbit and Raytheon. The MoD paid the companies €2m each to develop their bids. The development period was supposed to run until mid-August, meaning the final decision is imminent. Elbit has certainly done its best to get the inside track with the ministry, appointing two top former MoD figures to its UK board of directors: Sir Simon Bollom (who made the move in June - see Eye 1651) and Sir Mark Poffley. The firm already has similar contracts with the MoD. Since 2023 it has run Project Vulcan, a €57m, ten-year contract of simulation-based training for tank crews. But the new deal would be a significant step up, both in value and in its relationship with the MoD. The Eye asked the MoD if it would be appropriate to give a company so involved in the Gaza war such a major contract, but it did not respond. • Meanwhile, the anger across Europe over Israel's attacks on Gaza didn't prevent Serbia from agreeing a $1.64bn deal, announced last week, for Elbit to supply "a range of defence solutions" including artillery-rocket systems and attack drones.
Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide.
This obscene deal must be stopped.
They have Palestinian blood on their hands.
