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Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty arrested under terror laws (www.thenational.scot)

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Laverty, who has won the Palme d’Or for his collaborations with director Ken Loach, was detained by officers in Edinburgh on Monday.

It is understood that Laverty faces a terrorism charge for wearing a T-shirt stating: “Genocide in Palestine time to take action”.

In other cases, the garment has been alleged to be in support of Palestine Action, a protest group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the Labour Government in July.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Unions aren’t even left-wing. Trump has the support of one of the biggest unions. If Starmer threw money at them they’d lick his feet.

[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

How do you define left wing? I would define it as pro-worker, and in the UK, that has historically meant working closely with unions. It makes sense given we have a representative democracy, and unions represent their members, so the government talking to union leaders is consistent with being left wing (at least in the UK, no idea about the US tbh).

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Starting with the first Red Scare, the US government spent decades trying (with some success) to force unions to not be even slightly socialist, to the point of letting Mafia-controlled unions like the Teamsters gain members. The corrupt and useless AFL/CIO was set up as a trades-based (and racially segregated) alternative to the IWW.

The Thatcher government waged war on the unions in the UK, but with less success; some are still fairly leftwing. Meanwhile, Labour centrists have had a long policy of trying to reduce the influence of unions on the party, as well as purging its membership of socialists.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Unions aren’t even left-wing.

unions represent the workers against the capitalists, thus left wing. If there are unions that do not do that, they are a scam.

Trump has the support of one of the biggest unions.

Yeah, but he doesn't support the unions in general. A fool and his support are soon parted.