Resistance TV

Dr Piers Robinson a political scientist & Prof Fabio Vighi a Professor of critical theory at Cardiff university, The Unspoken truth behind the Covid crisis

This week Chris Williamson and Lizzie Fletcher(after internet gremlins take Chris out) take on Covid.

Is the Covid crisis is being used by government, big business and big pharma to push through measures that diminish our civil liberties and boost profits resulting in even greater inequality and subservience to the corporate giants?

Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People’s Party. With a socialist take on things we look at areas of concern for the left wing, Anti Racism, Anti Imperialism, MMT, Injustice, Britain’s role in foreign affairs, 21st century Socialism, Alternative Media and more…

Live Wednesday’s on all our Social Media at 7pm and audio Podcast on Friday’s

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Resist at the Rialto

Resist was down in Brighton this week for the Resist Event. Chris, Sian and Lizzie interview a selection of people also down there.

Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People’s Party. With a socialist take on things we look at areas of concern for the left wing, Anti Racism, Anti Imperialism, MMT, Injustice, Britain’s role in foreign affairs, 21st century Socialism, Alternative Media and more…

Live Wednesday’s on all our Social Media at 7pm and audio Podcast on Friday’s

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It is well known that Britain supported General Pinochet, after he came to power in Chile in a military coup in 1973, but British covert action in Chile prior to the coup is not.

Recently declassified documents demonstrate how, between 1960 and 1973, a secretive propaganda unit within the British Foreign Office sought to prevent, and later weaken, Salvador Allende's socialist presidency. 

Britain’s role in Chilean coup

#Chile #Coup #Pinochet #UK #BritishForeignOffice #Allende #Socialist

Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People’s Party. With a socialist take on things we look at areas of concern for the left wing, Anti Racism, Anti Imperialism, MMT, Injustice, Britain’s role in foreign affairs, 21st century Socialism, Alternative Media and more…

Live Wednesday’s on all our Social Media at 7pm and audio Podcast on Friday’s

Join Resist here www.resistmovement.org.uk

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We are in a housing emergency, with Will McMahon

This week we are talking to Will McMahon, director of action on empty homes about their day of action on 9 October.

1) Over 100,000 families are living in Temporary Accommodation while over half a million homes have no permanent resident.

2) The wrong kind of housing is being built across the country - they are unaffordable to anyone on an average income to either rent or buy. These new builds are also being sold off-plan and ending up as Airbnb short lets, second homes or buy to leave empty wealth investments with no permanent residents.

3) Communities are being broken up as council estates that could be refurbished are being left to decline, to be replaced by yet more unaffordable new build.

4) The Climate emergency demands refurbishment, not demolition. Retrofitting 270,000 long term empty homes and council estates can help solve the climate crisis.

On October 9th there are street actions highlighting all of these issues and a national rally calling for empty homes to be used by those living in temporary and overcrowded accommodation and to meet the climate emergency.

https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/news/day-of-action-october-9th

#ActionOnEmptyHomes #ResistanceTV #ChrisWilliamson #WillMcMahon #Housing #Council #ClimateEmergency #EmptyHomes

Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People’s Party. With a socialist take on things we look at areas of concern for the left wing, Anti Racism, Anti Imperialism, MMT, Injustice, Britain’s role in foreign affairs, 21st century Socialism, Alternative Media and more…

Live Wednesday’s on all our Social Media at 7pm and audio Podcast on Friday’s

Join Resist here www.resistmovement.org.uk

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"A hard-left, metropolitan liberal" - Nigel Farage

Man Behaving Dadly Aka Simon Harris

This week on Resistance TVChris Williamson talks with Simon Harris aka Man Behaving Dadly we talk about his fundraising and trolling of the hard right. He runs more blogs and Facebook pages than he cares to mention but Southend News Network and Man Behaving dadly are just two to note.

One of his latest fundraisers "Help Are Own First" and its description “I have started this fundraiser because at the moment too many people seem to have forgotten that WE SHOULD BE HELPING ARE OWN FIRST!! “All money will be used to help ARE OWN.” has helped raise over £32,000 up to now.

It certainly appears to be from the Ukip line of thinking. But all was not as it seemed.When visitors scrolled down a little further to the note section they discovered what the fundraiser was truly all about. “For the purposes of this appeal ‘ARE OWN’ refers explicitly to Afghan families who are currently being resettled in the United Kingdom, This is because a lot of them risked their lives to help our armed forces and government officials with translation, interpreting and other tasks during the last twenty years, and to be honest if they didn’t, the United Kingdom may have had the teeniest, tiniest, weeniest role to play in this whole s***show.”

Simon has previously trolled Farage by fundraising for the RLNI to name a hovercraft after him, following Farage's claims about the charity.

you can donate here https://gofund.me/366f98aa

Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People’s Party. With a socialist take on things we look at areas of concern for the left wing, Anti Racism, Anti Imperialism, MMT, Injustice, Britain’s role in foreign affairs, 21st century Socialism, Alternative Media and more…

Live Wednesday’s on all our Social Media at 7pm and audio Podcast on Friday’s

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This weeks Resistance TV is a little different. Chris and Sian are unavailable this week so we are re running a Resistance TV classic from our early days.

Off the back of last weeks Resistance TV Sian mentioned a personal hero of her's being Jane McAlevey. In this video Jane McAlevey talks about organising and the power of winning.

Last weeks Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDdkq0LLlDE

Jane McAlevey is an author, trade union & community organiser, who has, over 30 years, developed a tried and tested method for successful organising in the work place, electioneering and community campaigns. Now, more than ever, we need to develop our skills from activists, into effective organisers to challenge the big issues that we are facing. With looming austerity, rent arrears, job losses, food poverty, homelessness etc. Jane shows us, in this video, how we can overcome barriers to WIN!

#JaneMcalevey #TradeUnion #Organising #Winning #Power

Grassroots movements need to organise! so this week on Resistance TV Jonathan Cooper takes us through some theory for organising and how that can help grassroots movements like our own at Resist Movement for a Peoples Party. The theory is based on the Ella Baker School of Organising.

https://www.ellabakerorganising.org.uk/about

The Elephant in the room Ep 8

Psychology, How we are Manipulated by the Rich and those in authority

The most important aspects of human psychology which allow powerful people to manipulate us.

Psychologists use terms like obedience to authority, desire to conform, and wilful blindness to explain what is going on. We will also discuss why powerful people commit so many criminal and unethical acts without a guilty conscience.

The Elephant in the Room Ep. 7: How the media distort reality

The main purpose of the media in Britain and the US is to present information in a misleading way, to make people accept the existing economic and military systems. The ownership and control of the media by governments and big companies filters out dissenting views. It limits the range of acceptable opinion, whilst pretending to allow lively debate.

'How the media distort reality'. Is based on posts 11 and 12 of Rod Driver's blog at

medium.com/elephantsintheroom

They are entitled

11) How the media distort reality: Filtering out the important stuff

https://medium.com/elephantsintheroom/11-how-the-media-distort-reality-filtering-out-the-important-stuff-ddbcdb307d6

12) The main form of media deception: Censorship by omission

https://medium.com/elephantsintheroom/12-the-main-form-of-media-deception-censorship-by-omission-8cb8754481d6

#Media #Propaganda #FakeNews

Tony Blair & Gordon Brown Patrons of a Criminal 'Charity'?

Guests Amina Abdel-Khaliq is a nurse and educator, and a member of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Mick Napier: Chair Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Join Chris Williamson this week on Resistance TV to ask, Are Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Patrons of a Criminal 'Charity'?

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are patrons of the Jewish National Fund-UK, which has funded the development of a Park on the ruins of ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages. A sign at the entrance to the park – which remains Palestinian property – reads "British Park, A gift of the Jewish National Fund of Great Britain".

#TonyBlair #GordonBrown #Palestine #Israel #Criminal #Labour #UK #JewishNationalFund #ChrisWilliamson #ResistanceTV #ResistMovement