Poverty: How much do councils really care

As society emerged from the first COVID lockdown in Spring 2020, a window for potentially reimagining society, poverty and inequality opened up.

Cllr Mandy Clare (NW Co Ordinator for RESIST) discusses what a genuine social justice and localised approach to tackling poverty might look like and shares some recent experiences and insights from working to embed this at local council level.

#Poverty #UK #WorkingClass #Foodbanks #councils #UKGov #ResistanceTV #ResistMovement

Elephants in the room | How the international economic system is rigged to transfer wealth from poor to the rich.

Mainstream commentators and economics textbooks present free trade as a way to help poor countries. However, in the real world, we force poor countries to adopt an extreme economic system that is intended to transfer wealth from poor countries to the rich.

More information, references and further reading can be found in 3 beginners' guides at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

33) State of the world: Poverty is everywhere

34) Shock therapy: How austerity and privatisation destroy nations

35) Free trade is code for forced trade

Rod Driver is a semi-retired academic who specialises in explaining how the world works, with a special emphasis on modern-day US and British propaganda. This relates to many topics, including war, economics, finance, corporate crime, the failings of the media, the failings of democracy, and the failings of academia.

All of his writing can be found at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

He teaches online courses at sscc.teachable.com

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…

#GlobalEconomy #RichPoor #Stealing #USA #UK

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Elephants in the room | How the international economic system is rigged to transfer wealth from poor to the rich.

Mainstream commentators and economics textbooks present free trade as a way to help poor countries. However, in the real world, we force poor countries to adopt an extreme economic system that is intended to transfer wealth from poor countries to the rich.

More information, references and further reading can be found in 3 beginners' guides at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

33) State of the world: Poverty is everywhere

34) Shock therapy: How austerity and privatisation destroy nations

35) Free trade is code for forced trade

Rod Driver is a semi-retired academic who specialises in explaining how the world works, with a special emphasis on modern-day US and British propaganda. This relates to many topics, including war, economics, finance, corporate crime, the failings of the media, the failings of democracy, and the failings of academia.

All of his writing can be found at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

He teaches online courses at sscc.teachable.com

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…

#GlobalEconomy #RichPoor #Stealing #USA #UK

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Elephants in the Room | US and British Human Rights Abuses

The mainstream media give the impression that other countries commit human rights abuses, and that the US and Britain do not. This is incorrect. The US has the worst human rights record in the world, and Britain participates in many of these abuses. Both countries have also supported dictatorships that commit human rights atrocities. More information, references and further reading can be found in two beginners' guides at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

9) The irrelevance of human rights in British and US foreign policy

10) Brutal human rights abuses: Torture, sanctions and the failure to discuss economic rights

Rod Driver is a semi-retired academic who specialises in explaining how the world works, with a special emphasis on modern-day US and British propaganda. This relates to many topics, including war, economics, finance, corporate crime, the failings of the media, the failings of democracy, and the failings of academia.

All of his writing can be found at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

He teaches online courses at sscc.teachable.com

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…

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#HumanRightsAbuse #UK #USA 

The Big Power Off: Energy Crisis.

Over 6 million people took part in the big switch off just on twitter ! We will be talking to Paula Peters of DPAC about how it went and whats next in the battle to stop our government and the corporate energy sector robbing us for their profit.

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…

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Following recent revelations about advanced British weaponry being used in Ukraine, this week's presentation is about the weapons trade. It will look at how weapons companies fuel wars, and profit from them. It will also discuss the corrupt relationship between governments and the biggest weapons companies, and the illegality of most weapons deals.

More information, references and further reading can be found in two beginners' guides at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

8) Selling Weapons: The most corrupt industry in the world

8a) Selling weapons part 2: The Military-Industrial complex

Rod Driver is a semi-retired academic who specialises in explaining how the world works, with a special emphasis on modern-day US and British propaganda. This relates to many topics, including war, economics, finance, corporate crime, the failings of the media, the failings of democracy, and the failings of academia.

All of his writing can be found at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

He teaches online courses at sscc.teachable.com

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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War Propaganda, Following on from the earlier presentation about exaggerated threats, this presentation is about other forms of war propaganda. This covers a wide range of strategies. At the simplest level, it involves governments and the media lying to us about events overseas, and about the motives for war. At a deeper level, it involves years of conditioning to manipulate our understanding of patriotism and militarism. More information, references and further reading can be found in two beginners' guides at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

15) War Propaganda: Lie, Lie and Lie Again

15a) War Propaganda 2: The Cult of Militarism

Rod Driver is a semi-retired academic who specialises in explaining how the world works, with a special emphasis on modern-day US and British propaganda. This relates to many topics, including war, economics, finance, corporate crime, the failings of the media, the failings of democracy, and the failings of academia.

All of his writing can be found at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

He teaches online courses at sscc.teachable.com

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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Zionism in Ukraine. With David Miller

We have all seen footage of Nazi sympathisers in torchlight procession and of the Nazi Azov Battalion (now integrated into the Ukraine armed forces), but what role does the far right play in Ukrainian nationalism? ResistanceTV will take a look at its history from the early Twentieth Century until now. We will particularly assess its activities in relation to anti-Semitism. The history of Zionism in Ukraine is also long, but how has it interacted with nationalism in Ukraine? And what is its role in the current conflict with Russia?

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…

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Elephant in the room | Exaggerated threat's

Since 1945, the US and British governments have bombarded their populations with propaganda to exaggerate threats. This includes the exaggerated threat of a communist invasion (from 1945-1989), Weapons of Mass Destruction (to justify invasions of Iraq and Syria), and terrorism (to justify the invasion of Afghanistan). Tonight's show will explain how small these threats were in reality, and look at how the media helped to exaggerate them. More detailed information, references and further reading can be found in three beginners' guides at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

5) Scary 'R' Us 1: The exaggerated threat of Communism

6) Scary 'R' Us 2: The exaggerated threat of terrorism

7) Scary 'R' Us 3: The exaggerated threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Rod Driver is a semi-retired academic who specialises in explaining modern-day US and British propaganda. This relates to many topics, including war, economics, finance, corporate crime, the failings of the media, the failings of democracy, and the failings of academia.

All of his writing can be found at medium.com/ElephantsInTheRoom

He teaches online courses at sscc.teachable.com

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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Chris Williamson with Dave Nellist

With the by-election in Erdington this week and Dave Nellist standing for MP we replay last time Dave was on Resistance TV.

#Erdington #byelection #socialism

Prospects for Socialism in the 21st Century

Britain has been subjected to a neoliberal consensus for over 40 years. This has left 14 million people in poverty, public services used as a cash cow for corporate fat cats and foreign policy geared to the interests of the military industrial complex. But following the defeat of the Corbyn project what are the prospects for socialism in the twenty first century?

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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