some HTS fighter got his nephew in the west to whip up something on a pirated copy of adobe illustrator and got it changed before anyone else could notice.

Were what, 6 months into the trump presidency? Literally a quarter of his term and he's done cataclysmic damage to the US in terms of economy, education, human rights, election integrity, and god knows what else.

This "big beautiful bill" is a drop in the ocean for what Trump has accomplished and will continue to accomplish. But liberals will run in 2029 on a campaign that promises to maybe overturn the last 5-10% of whatever trump is up to in office.

The previous 90%, including most of this bill, sweeping cuts to the civil service, totally undermining the few departments that had some semblance of public good instilled onto them, the elevation of ICE into a paramilitary race police... that's all going to stay. Unless some kind of revolutionary force overturns the state, I could guarantee everything that happens from here until maybe mid-2027 is going to stay unchanged until they're made worse by some new ghoul.

The US is a shopping mall of stores that are all slowly shutting up shop for good. What remains is a liminal husk of what was, and the question of who will replace the lights when they burn out.

Absolutely agree. I do however think it says a lot about the poor state of class struggle that this is imo still the closest to the nucleus of such a movement, especially in an age where surveillance and infiltration are rife.

EDIT: they abstained.

Did Plaid Cymru abstain? I cannot find the proscription vote on any of their voting records, which I would have expected to be there under "abstain". Im aware Welsh MPs cannot vote on certain bills in England.

Liz Saville Roberts, for example, spoke in commons against the proscription, but didn't actually have a vote recorded for it. Any electoralist heads know more?

Direct Actionists have already begun to change tactics, launching actions in the name of "Yvette Cooper" (UK Home Secretary, basically a Secretary of State) which they will argue is a totally different organisation.

Not sure how that works legally-speaking but a lot of far right orgs just "disbanded" following proscription and then started again. PA has the advantage of being able to do that whilst having an non-hierarchical organising strategy that limits risk to organisers and empowers actionists to continue the movement under pressure from the state.

With an active campaign underway, unlike the fash that usually wait around for a chance to riot, the momentum can continue under any name actionists choose, and they dont really need much funding to maintain it. I cannot make predictions, but I do hope that YC (lol) has a fruitful and not-at-all-afiliated career in disrupting the war machine.

Yeah this only escalates the risk appetite of actionists who were always playing the long game of less-violent actions to rely on the lenience of the courts: Most of which have largely absolved actionists apart from explicit cases (ie. The Filton 18) where the Israeli govt. requested harsher responses from the state.

I disagree with the suggestion that proscription only came from the RAF raid. The British state was toying with the idea ever since the org began smashing drones in Elbit's factories. As I said already, some actionists are already held under terrorism charges!

This proscription was inevitable following a months of momentum towards PA's goals and a number of victories for the wider movement. The raid may have catalysed the state, but the current field situation would be little different in any universe where those planes were never vandalised.

Yeah i disagree with the entire premise. The only performative UK groups on Palestine are the PSC and the SWP.

They used a massive diversity of tactics to meet actionists' risk appetite, and managed to shutdown 30% of Elbit's official locations in the UK. All whilst isolating Elbit from the UK economy via targeting their suppliers, insurers, landlords. Even getting Barclays bank to shift on its israeli/elbit investments was a major victory for the BDS movement.

Pal Action is about as close to a socialist vanguard that the English people have seen in a generation.

1. Russia cant build them very quickly and is at war.

2. not much?

3. Probably not unless they do it all in house? Israel has more stealth aircraft than Iran has all aircraft atm.

factory lines for anything beyond basic small arms are gonna take too long to build to impact the war for Ukraine.

Takes years to reverse industrial and engineering capacity when its basically shit itself to death for decades.

there's medical and scientific reasons to go higher too right? But yes the stockpiling of HEU was always a dipomatic threat used to punish the US for reneging on the JCPOA.

It's going to be a long decade

yeah some weeks can feel like that

I love how the democrats are so spineless their grand plan is to make a crappy imitation of some thinktank whitepaper over a weekend on a shared microsoft word document. It wont get distributed because no one can figure out how to save it as .pdf