Jon Gamble
@jongrumble.bsky.social
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Grizzly Socialist, retired civil servant, PCS ARMs member, CAMRA member, jazz fan and movie buff. No war but class war. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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This week's offering has two obscure British 1980s horrors sandwich with a classic noir and an arthouse love letter to Paris filling. Xtro is my movie of the week - a gory sci-fi/horror mash-up. Van Hefflin is a close second monster. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
Jack Nicholson is never less than compelling.
The standout film of the week is the low budget adaptation of HP Lovecraft by Andrew Leman which captures both the cosmic dread and existential anxiety of The Call of Cthulhu. Carnal Knowledge is also pretty bleak in its own way. #letterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched #letterboxd #filmsky #moviesky
‪Working my way through my Moviedrome unwatched list but a forgotten Italian masterpiece of the Italian Civil War (1943-45) and a "don't go knocking on the doors of strangers" slowburn, gory horror got in the way. You can't live on a diet of cult candy. Bella ciao
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
The Agitator (Otto Rühle Speaks), 1920. Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Otto Rühle (1874-1943) was a German Marxist active in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars, and a founder with along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring of the Internationale group.
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what a fucking disgrace. with a labour party like this, you really don’t need tories or reform
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
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Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September.

💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST!

Let's make it absolutely massive.

stoptrump.org.uk
George Grosz (German, 1893-1959)
Der Stammtisch, ca. 1928 - 1930. Watercolor and ink on Paper, 59 x 46 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Der Stammtisch denotes a table in a restaurant or café that is reserved for a particular group of people who meet regularly to discuss politics.
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Trump's actions, Starmer's support are a shameful indictment of the 'western democracies' driving our planet & its people into war, disease, poverty & climate catastrophe. If Bush & Blair's crimes had been punished, this wouldn't be happening. What is the point of the UN? We are the rogue states.
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CND condemns US’s illegal attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities. It risks all-out war. Starmer must rule out military support & end its complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Palestine. We must all mobilise flat out to stop the bombing now. #NoWarOnIran

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
US BOMBS IRAN NUCLEAR SITES; IRAN FIRES MISSILES AT ISRAEL
Iran says ‘outrageous’ US attacks on ‘peaceful nuclear installations’ will have ‘everlasting consequences’.
www.aljazeera.com
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In 2003, anti-war activists broke into RAF Fairford to stop US bombers heading to Iraq.

Keir Starmer defended their actions and said it was justified to prevent war crimes.

Now his government is banning Palestine Action for doing the same.

The Prime Minister is a hypocrite.
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Trump bombs a country that poses no immediate threat to the US without Congress approval or reference to the UN and all Starmer does is whine about who is on at Glastonbury. We deserve much, much better than this.
George Grosz, The Agitator, 1928
Rudolf Schlichter (German, 1890-1955)
Strike in Berlin (Grand Palais, Paris), 1920. Watercolor, pencil on paper. Moscow, Rushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The works of this artist were shown in the 1937 exhibition of degenerate art organized by the Nazis.
Konstantin Korovin, Nightlife on the Rue Venis, Paris