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  1. The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That | Aaron Bastani Talks to Ash Sarkar

    "What can be learned from Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York? Does the left hate Britain? What do we need to do, in order to establish a ‘majority rule’? And is there such a thing as a middle-class dog?"

    youtube.com/watch?v=wY5Xb_t79SM

    #AaronBastani #AshSarkar #politics #Changemaking #UKpol #USPol #masculinityCrisis #StopReform

  2. The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That | Aaron Bastani Talks to Ash Sarkar

    "What can be learned from Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York? Does the left hate Britain? What do we need to do, in order to establish a ‘majority rule’? And is there such a thing as a middle-class dog?"

    youtube.com/watch?v=wY5Xb_t79SM

    #AaronBastani #AshSarkar #politics #Changemaking #UKpol #USPol #masculinityCrisis #StopReform

  3. The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That | Aaron Bastani Talks to Ash Sarkar

    "What can be learned from Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York? Does the left hate Britain? What do we need to do, in order to establish a ‘majority rule’? And is there such a thing as a middle-class dog?"

    youtube.com/watch?v=wY5Xb_t79SM

    #AaronBastani #AshSarkar #politics #Changemaking #UKpol #USPol #masculinityCrisis #StopReform

  4. The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That | Aaron Bastani Talks to Ash Sarkar

    "What can be learned from Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York? Does the left hate Britain? What do we need to do, in order to establish a ‘majority rule’? And is there such a thing as a middle-class dog?"

    youtube.com/watch?v=wY5Xb_t79SM

    #AaronBastani #AshSarkar #politics #Changemaking #UKpol #USPol #masculinityCrisis #StopReform

  5. The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That | Aaron Bastani Talks to Ash Sarkar

    "What can be learned from Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York? Does the left hate Britain? What do we need to do, in order to establish a ‘majority rule’? And is there such a thing as a middle-class dog?"

    youtube.com/watch?v=wY5Xb_t79SM

    #AaronBastani #AshSarkar #politics #Changemaking #UKpol #USPol #masculinityCrisis #StopReform

  6. #AshSarkar's analysis of #ZarahSultana's #YourParty is incisive and concise, tho kinder than my take:

    1/ #Sultana tried to hijack YP at the ourset, by unilaterally announcing herself as co-leader. The resulting mistrust was inevitable, and fatal.

    2/ Sultana is primarily a revolutionary socialist allied with entryist factions. #Corbyn is a Bennite, seeking a parliamentary path to socialism. I have sympathies with both traditions, but they don't mix. They should not be joined together.

    #ukpol

  7. #AshSarkar's analysis of #ZarahSultana's #YourParty is incisive and concise, tho kinder than my take:

    1/ #Sultana tried to hijack YP at the ourset, by unilaterally announcing herself as co-leader. The resulting mistrust was inevitable, and fatal.

    2/ Sultana is primarily a revolutionary socialist allied with entryist factions. #Corbyn is a Bennite, seeking a parliamentary path to socialism. I have sympathies with both traditions, but they don't mix. They should not be joined together.

    #ukpol

  8. #AshSarkar's analysis of #ZarahSultana's #YourParty is incisive and concise, tho kinder than my take:

    1/ #Sultana tried to hijack YP at the ourset, by unilaterally announcing herself as co-leader. The resulting mistrust was inevitable, and fatal.

    2/ Sultana is primarily a revolutionary socialist allied with entryist factions. #Corbyn is a Bennite, seeking a parliamentary path to socialism. I have sympathies with both traditions, but they don't mix. They should not be joined together.

    #ukpol

  9. #AshSarkar's analysis of #ZarahSultana's #YourParty is incisive and concise, tho kinder than my take:

    1/ #Sultana tried to hijack YP at the ourset, by unilaterally announcing herself as co-leader. The resulting mistrust was inevitable, and fatal.

    2/ Sultana is primarily a revolutionary socialist allied with entryist factions. #Corbyn is a Bennite, seeking a parliamentary path to socialism. I have sympathies with both traditions, but they don't mix. They should not be joined together.

    #ukpol

  10. #AshSarkar's analysis of #ZarahSultana's #YourParty is incisive and concise, tho kinder than my take:

    1/ #Sultana tried to hijack YP at the ourset, by unilaterally announcing herself as co-leader. The resulting mistrust was inevitable, and fatal.

    2/ Sultana is primarily a revolutionary socialist allied with entryist factions. #Corbyn is a Bennite, seeking a parliamentary path to socialism. I have sympathies with both traditions, but they don't mix. They should not be joined together.

    #ukpol

  11. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.

    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  12. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.

    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  13. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.

    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  14. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.

    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  15. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.

    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  16. CW: yt rec: Hamas

    I really recommend this fascinating discussion about the history and the politics of Hamas between Tareq Baconi and Ash Sarkar:

    youtube.com/watch?v=_GyAXRWqa-M

    #Hamas #AshSarkar #TareqBaconi

  17. "... add up the value of everything you own and minus your debts. Could you live on that for the rest of your life? ... If not, you're part of the big we, right? You're part of the movement, you're the 99%. If you can live off it for the rest of your life, we're coming for you."

    #AshSarkar, 2025
    shows.acast.com/bold-politics-

    This is a great interview. Lot's of insights I think are relevant to the social democratic left here too.

    #podcasts #BoldPolitics #ZackPolanski #WeAreThe99%

  18. #AshSarkar

    In one small speech, she has made everything else on #BBCQUESTIONTIME seem like 'small beer' she speaks of (summary)

    £200bill of our money paid to privatised utilities: rail, water, mail, energy, buses that's money that could have gone into reducing customer's bills or infrastructure

    Or social care, run by private equity, looking for 20% profit costing local authorities milions

    There are 50 families in the UK who have more wealth than 50% of this country combined

  19. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    the heartless shall spread their darkness
    revoke the #RomeStatute and the #MagnaCarta
    bleak #omerta so the good disheartened
    and the weak shook for car, house, job, and garden
    so you can’t find #LikeMinds to try be part of
    leave nowt for #SignsOfTheTimes to spark off
    track the #activists , block the march off
    law’s just arse arc made a farce of
    artists #Kneecap ped; fed to impalas (feathered and tarred)
    #NoKnockRaids for kids in pyjamas
    search the #journalists ’ phones regardless
    is it #Nazis yet or simply parlous?
    #KeithPalarver, never the sharpest
    when he reads you can see him blink as he parses
    #PrincipalSkinner if war crimes are tardiness
    sadism without the pleasure - Marquis
    #Starmer 's gormless smarmy arsekiss
    half hearted carp while an army starve kids
    #ScaredtoCare and #ZarahSultana
    prang in the bones by #AshSarkar
    and #DianeAbbott three’s a charm, eh?
    Truly now it’s #StarverStarmer

    2/7

    #Bars
    #Poetry
    #Lyrics
    #Songs
    #writing
    #rhymescheme
    #geopol
    #MiddleEast
    #IsraeliWarCrimes
    #FreedomFlotilla
    #Sumud
    #ConvoyOfSteadfastness
    #FreePalestine
    #Madleen
    #AntiFascist
    #Genocide
    #UKpol
    #Labour
    #RuleOfLaw

  20. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    the heartless shall spread their darkness
    revoke the #RomeStatute and the #MagnaCarta
    bleak #omerta so the good disheartened
    and the weak shook for car, house, job, and garden
    so you can’t find #LikeMinds to try be part of
    leave nowt for #SignsOfTheTimes to spark off
    track the #activists , block the march off
    law’s just arse arc made a farce of
    artists #Kneecap ped; fed to impalas (feathered and tarred)
    #NoKnockRaids for kids in pyjamas
    search the #journalists ’ phones regardless
    is it #Nazis yet or simply parlous?
    #KeithPalarver, never the sharpest
    when he reads you can see him blink as he parses
    #PrincipalSkinner if war crimes are tardiness
    sadism without the pleasure - Marquis
    #Starmer 's gormless smarmy arsekiss
    half hearted carp while an army starve kids
    #ScaredtoCare and #ZarahSultana
    prang in the bones by #AshSarkar
    and #DianeAbbott three’s a charm, eh?
    Truly now it’s #StarverStarmer

    2/7

    #Bars
    #Poetry
    #Lyrics
    #Songs
    #writing
    #rhymescheme
    #geopol
    #MiddleEast
    #IsraeliWarCrimes
    #FreedomFlotilla
    #Sumud
    #ConvoyOfSteadfastness
    #FreePalestine
    #Madleen
    #AntiFascist
    #Genocide
    #UKpol
    #Labour
    #RuleOfLaw

  21. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    the heartless shall spread their darkness
    revoke the and the
    bleak so the good disheartened
    and the weak shook for car, house, job, and garden
    so you can’t find to try be part of
    leave nowt for to spark off
    track the , block the march off
    law’s just arse arc made a farce of
    artists ped; fed to impalas (feathered and tarred)
    for kids in pyjamas
    search the ’ phones regardless
    is it yet or simply parlous?
    , never the sharpest
    when he reads you can see him blink as he parses
    if war crimes are tardiness
    sadism without the pleasure - Marquis
    's gormless smarmy arsekiss
    half hearted carp while an army starve kids
    and
    prang in the bones by
    and three’s a charm, eh?
    Truly now it’s

    2/7



















  22. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    the heartless shall spread their darkness
    revoke the #RomeStatute and the #MagnaCarta
    bleak #omerta so the good disheartened
    and the weak shook for car, house, job, and garden
    so you can’t find #LikeMinds to try be part of
    leave nowt for #SignsOfTheTimes to spark off
    track the #activists , block the march off
    law’s just arse arc made a farce of
    artists #Kneecap ped; fed to impalas (feathered and tarred)
    #NoKnockRaids for kids in pyjamas
    search the #journalists ’ phones regardless
    is it #Nazis yet or simply parlous?
    #KeithPalarver, never the sharpest
    when he reads you can see him blink as he parses
    #PrincipalSkinner if war crimes are tardiness
    sadism without the pleasure - Marquis
    #Starmer 's gormless smarmy arsekiss
    half hearted carp while an army starve kids
    #ScaredtoCare and #ZarahSultana
    prang in the bones by #AshSarkar
    and #DianeAbbott three’s a charm, eh?
    Truly now it’s #StarverStarmer

    2/7

    #Bars
    #Poetry
    #Lyrics
    #Songs
    #writing
    #rhymescheme
    #geopol
    #MiddleEast
    #IsraeliWarCrimes
    #FreedomFlotilla
    #Sumud
    #ConvoyOfSteadfastness
    #FreePalestine
    #Madleen
    #AntiFascist
    #Genocide
    #UKpol
    #Labour
    #RuleOfLaw

  23. CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

    the heartless shall spread their darkness
    revoke the #RomeStatute and the #MagnaCarta
    bleak #omerta so the good disheartened
    and the weak shook for car, house, job, and garden
    so you can’t find #LikeMinds to try be part of
    leave nowt for #SignsOfTheTimes to spark off
    track the #activists , block the march off
    law’s just arse arc made a farce of
    artists #Kneecap ped; fed to impalas (feathered and tarred)
    #NoKnockRaids for kids in pyjamas
    search the #journalists ’ phones regardless
    is it #Nazis yet or simply parlous?
    #KeithPalarver, never the sharpest
    when he reads you can see him blink as he parses
    #PrincipalSkinner if war crimes are tardiness
    sadism without the pleasure - Marquis
    #Starmer 's gormless smarmy arsekiss
    half hearted carp while an army starve kids
    #ScaredtoCare and #ZarahSultana
    prang in the bones by #AshSarkar
    and #DianeAbbott three’s a charm, eh?
    Truly now it’s #StarverStarmer

    2/7

    #Bars
    #Poetry
    #Lyrics
    #Songs
    #writing
    #rhymescheme
    #geopol
    #MiddleEast
    #IsraeliWarCrimes
    #FreedomFlotilla
    #Sumud
    #ConvoyOfSteadfastness
    #FreePalestine
    #Madleen
    #AntiFascist
    #Genocide
    #UKpol
    #Labour
    #RuleOfLaw

  24. Although I am interested to to learn about Sarkar's thoughts on identity politics, I am particularly keen to read about her experiences with the UK media and her reflections on Corbyn and Brexit.

    #UKPolitics #AshSarkar #IdentityPolitics #Labour #Brexit #Politics

    tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/split

  25. 11.37minute mark, who is there #50pLee, the #farright #racist and a few of his boneheaded mates, who were explicitly racist and rude to #AshSarkar

    #WTF

    16.24minute mark, another far right opportunist who said he's from UKIP interrupting Ash's interview

    #farmers #UK #UKpol

  26. I'm quite sure if #AshSarkar ever had to attend a funeral for a transman or transwoman who unalived him- or herself because they could no longer stand the hate and the attacks on transrights, may be she would lose interest in Dave Chappelle!

    #TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans: :heart_nb:

  27. 'He sounds like a middle manager at a corporate away-day that no one wants to listen to' -- #AshSarkar said about P.M. Squarehead

    #UKShitShow #UK