France - Supermarkets Free Food!

France: Email – Free Supermarket Food! (15.4.2025)

It is incredible to think that prior to 2010 in the UK – there had been no food-banks. The rolling back of Socialism on all fronts is creating intense poverty – but chosen incoming groups (not all) are being perceived as receiving preferential treatment – leading to the strengthening of the far-right. The Labour government not only forcibly deported 600 Brazilians (I wasn’t even aware Brazilians lived here as incomers – with some reports stating the number returned to Brazil could be as high as 10,000) but removed (cancelled) the British citizenship of the children born in the UK – so that they could all be deported as families! This is how Kier Starmer dealt with the problem of what the far-right terms “anchor children” – or those children who gain British citizen by being born to incoming parents (not born in the UK). I suspect this is illegal – but it will probably take decades for this to be ruled as such – by which time nobody will be held accountable (like the illegal Iraq invasion of 2003). 

Socialist Outbreak in Barking!

London: Barking Opens First Permanent Showers for Homeless! (2.4.2025)

The idea for the permanent facility came about after a number of pop-up events at Barking Learning Centre, where guests could see a doctor without an appointment and could also get haircuts, showers, clothes and food.

According to the council, most people who were surveyed at the events said they attended for free food and showers, as well as to see a doctor.

ShowerBox Barking is currently open on Fridays but Maureen Worby, the council’s cabinet member for adult social care, said she hoped to recruit volunteers to have a women-only day.

People walk past a closed bakery in Gaza City, on April 1, 2025. The aid blockade has forced the shuttering of 25 bakeries in Gaza as food supplies shrivel, Israel's evacuation orders increase and bombardments continue, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

UN: Zionists Murder 408 Aid Workers as Gaza Aid Blockade Closes Bakeries – Evacuation Orders & Hostilities Continue! (2.4.2025)

“The available information indicates that the first team was killed by Israeli forces on March 23 and that other emergency and aid crews were struck one after another over several hours as they searched for their missing colleagues,” OCHA said. “They were buried under the sand, alongside their wrecked emergency vehicles, clearly marked ambulances, a fire truck and a UN car.”

Quaker Friends Meeting House - 2025

UK: Quakers “Withhold” Cups of Tea – as Heavy-Handed [Zionist-Supporting] Met Police Smash Their Way into Meeting House! 31.3.2025)

He added that the police raid apparently interrupted a counselling session and a life drawing class – “although fortunately they didn’t see the model”.

Youth Demand described the arrests as “an unprecedented level of police repression”.

‘Democracy has got to have some upsides’

The arrests led to an outcry, with former Downing Street director of communications Guto Harri telling Sunday Morning With Trevor Philips: “Democracy has got to have some upsides, and one of the upsides is that the police don’t come crashing through your door just because you say something that upsets someone.”

When Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was asked about it by Trevor Philips, she said: “We have a long tradition, not just of free speech, but of freedom of assembly.”

She added, however, that the police have operational independence and “the police need to operate independently from the home secretary”.

Cuba Remembers Socialist Soldiers!

Cuba: “Defenders of the Homeland” & “Soviet Internationalist Soldiers” Remembered! (24.2.2025)

During his speech, the Defense Attaché, Captain 1st Rank Valery N. Zubarev, thanked their Cuban friends for their efforts to preserve the Mausoleum where the remains of Soviet soldiers who died fighting in Cuba rest, and highlighted the special and friendly nature of their bilateral relations. In his speech, the Head of the Directorate of Educational Institutions of the FAR, Brigadier General Juan Antonio Sánchez Fabré, highly valued the solidarity and assistance provided to the Island by the USSR since the first days of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, as well as recalled the contribution of the USSR (and Russia) to the creation of the professional army of the Cuban Republic.

Trump Makes His Mark in London!

London: Chinese New Year Dim Sum (Yum Cha)! (26.1.2025)

We knew that the Saturday before Chinese New Year would mean that London’s Chinatown (Gerrard Street) would be packed so we got early (ish) to get out on the road by around 10am (early for a Saturday). We drove to Morden Tube Station (Northernline) and headed into Central London (Leicester Square). Actually, although busy, I think the crowd numbers were down on previous (pre-Covid) years! Still, less crowds equals less stress – although the staff of the New Loon Fung Restaurant were on edge – expecting a massive influx for “Dim Sum” (Chinese breakfast)!

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