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Seema Syeda

@seemasyeda.bsky.social

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Global liberation from below. Research & Campaigns on Big Tech, Trade & Islamophobia. Co-author, Creeping Fascism. She/They. Talking about class, colonialism, race & revolutions. Own views.

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · Mar 4

It takes time for people to get that we’re in the fascist timeline.

Fascism is rooted in colonialism. We’ve seen it in Palestine & the imperial boomerang is bringing it to Europe.

I spoke to BBC five live listeners to point out the danger, & that’s why @ukstoptrump.bsky.social is mobilising ✊🏽.

Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · Mar 4

Cancel Trump's state visit? Are we serious? 🤯

Our spokesperson @seemasyeda.bsky.social on Radio 5 Live.

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 1d

Watch all the way to the end.

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 3d

Checking out @nogamesforgenocide.com at The World Transformed.

Did you know that playing Xbox, Candy Crush and Call of Duty, all owned by Microsoft, helps fund Israeli apartheid and genocide?

See how you can stop this complicity on nogamesforgenocide.com

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Join us this Fri 10 Oct at TWT in Manchester!

We'll be joined by activists and researchers from India and Latin America to understand how trade is used as a weapon of empire - and what we can do to build democratic digital sovereignty for the masses.

theworldtransformed.org/twt25/twt25p...

Text reads: Trade as a weapon of empire: Big tech, tariffs and neoliberal trade deals. Windrush Conference. 10.10.2025. 4.30 - 6pm.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 10d

It scraped in as Sussex local news on the BBC...

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Ali Haydor @alihaydor.bsky.social · 12d

Statement from the Manchester Council of Mosques 👇🏾

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 12d

Thousands and thousands marching through Rome right now to say: Hands off the Flotilla. A whole day of action and general strike tomorrow.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 14d

🇧🇪 #BREAKING | Around 200,000 people flooded the streets of Belgium to say end the genocide of Gaza.

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 15d

Or the US military is the world’s biggest polluter

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 15d

The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is a terrifying example of what happens when politicians create performative, divisive policies to appease the far-right.

We’ve joined 100+ orgs asking the new Home Secretary to end the scapegoating of refugees and migrants 👇🏼

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

More than 100 charities call for home secretary to stop ‘scapegoating’ migrants

The letter claimed that blaming migrants for societal issues had sown ‘anger and division’ in the community

www.independent.co.uk

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 16d

'The TikTok saga is not an anomaly. Social media platforms, AI models, semiconductor supply chains, even rare earths — all are being pulled into the gravitational field of geopolitics. Tech is no longer supra-national. It is geo-national.'

www.indiatoday.in/opinion/stor...

TikTok and the Death of Borderless Tech

The TikTok saga signals the end of borderless tech. Platforms, AI, and supply chains now align with national priorities, marking a shift from supra-national to geo-national technology governance…

www.indiatoday.in

Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 18d

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18d

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat

In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

www.independent.co.uk

Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 21d

When Trump says ‘your countries are going to hell’ take it seriously. We need a new world order to fight fascist imperialism effectively.

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 23d

What are the actual implications of war criminal David Lammy’s comments about the 1917 Balfour Declaration and Britain’s ‘historic responsibility’ in the colonial oppression of Palestinians? #Palestine #Gaza #Recognition

Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 23d

The word genocide in captions gets blocked by social media algorithms but next time I’ll keep it in

Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 24d

So many people who consider themselves left are now decrying identity politics whenever racialised women raise concerns about how they’re treated. It’s the same attitude they had to the racism around Brexit - avoid identity politics, don’t alienate the white working class! Look where that got us.

Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 24d

Arms embargo and full trade sanctions on Israel NOW.

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 25d

Far right want free speech for racist hate but arrest & imprisonment for activists criticising Trump’s links to Epstein.

Law & order won’t save us. Trump, Farage, Starmer & the politicians inflaming racist hate are responsible for the violence on our streets today.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 25d

My latest, on how concepts like the populist hype and reactionary centrism can help us understand how our media and political system normalises dangerous far right talking points and policies

shado-mag.com/articles/opi...

Rethinking the rise of the far right

shado editor Elia Ayoub looks at how populist hype and reactionary centrism have fuelled misunderstanding about the rise of the far right.

shado-mag.com

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 26d

I fully back @zarahsultana.bsky.social. You are amazing & the misogyny, racism, islamophobia & authoritarianism present on the institutional left needs to be exposed and tackled.

It’s killing genuine transnational mobilisation of the multiracial working class.

Love & solidarity to you xx

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · 27d

Trump could stop the genocide with a click of his fingers.

Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 27d

Kicking things off at Portland Place with @seemasyeda.bsky.social 🍉

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 28d

Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social preparing for the Trump Not Welcome rallies, speaks to Ashna Hurynag @ashnahurynag.bsky.social Sky News @news.sky.com.

🔗 stoptrump.org.uk/protest/

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · Sep 15

It’s time to expose these greedy rich freaks for what they are.

Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · Sep 15

Yesterday Ben Habib, leader of Advance UK, formerly Reform, refused to condemn Elon Musk’s speech at the far right #UniteTheKingdom rally.

Our spokesperson @seemasyeda.bsky.social debated him on BBC Radio 5 Live, where he defended the ‘carnival’ of hate supported by the US billionaire oligarchy.

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Seema Syeda @seemasyeda.bsky.social · Sep 14

Trump is bringing the US tech bros to the UK next week to sign a toxic tech pact with Starmer.

Join @ukstoptrump.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept to oppose it.

Join @makethempay.bsky.social on Sat 20 Sept to make tech billionaires pay.

& follow @globaljusticenow.bsky.social to stop toxic trade deals.

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.

Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.

This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · Sep 13

Many many thousands of anti fascists out in London. But we need more. We face the biggest threat since the 1930s. We need a massive movement.

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