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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 8h

Please do so. The more the merrier.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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louderthanwar.com @louderthanwar.bsky.social · 2d

This afternoon, tune into @iainkey.bsky.social 'In Conversation' with @billybragg.bsky.social exclusively on Louder Than War Radio and Mixcloud from 1pm

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Chris Barton @chrisbarton01.bsky.social · 3d

@dropkickmurphys.com & @billybragg.bsky.social School Days Over open.spotify.com/track/5yryjH...

School Days Over (feat. Billy Bragg)

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not that I know better, it’s that I’ve received letters from people of colour asking for stickers expressing support for the campaign. Should I disregard their lived experience?

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 4d

This week in my little corner of Bluesky I've been feeling a bit like the guy in the famous H M Bateman cartoon 'The Man Who Suggested We Should Reclaim The English Flag From The Racists'

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 5d

Is anyone going to address my question or are you just going to queue up to attack me for asking it? Yes it’s a tough one, but it has to be addressed if we hope to build a mass movement to counter the rise of racism in this country

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not suggesting we build solidarity with racists. For most working class people, this is what the England flag represents - our multiracial team. If we treat everyone who identifies with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 as the same as the racist lamppost flaggers, how can we build solidarity with them to defeat the racists?

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 6d

But the majority of the white working class identify with that flag and you can't dictate to them how they identify any more than the TERFs can dictate to you how to identify. And how do you expect to build a better society for everyone if you dismiss 'white' as a synonym for 'racist'?

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 6d

The fact that you dismiss the white working class as racists I find really troubling. Those gammons on X are a tiny but noisy minority. Most are fair-minded people who struggle to make ends meet. If our politics is not about making their lives better, what is it for?

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 6d

I recognise that some on the left think the flag is irredeemable. It's an argument I've heard many times. But it begs the question of how you hope to build solidarity with the working class when you're telling them that the symbol with which many of them identify is the same as the swastika?

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