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Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on. - Ash Sarkar
#Clear
#Labour
#Me
#Necessity
#Party
Immigration has tremendously changed the fabric of this country. Immigration is what built our NHS, when Britain invited people from the Commonwealth, from nations it had formerly colonized, in order to rebuild this country after the ravages of the Second World War. - Ash Sarkar
#Country
#Immigration
#People
#War
#World
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. - Ash Sarkar
#Acknowledge
#More
#Private
#Property
You can't debunk memes with facts. It's like bringing tap-shoes to a gunfight. - Ash Sarkar
#Bringing
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#Like
#Memes
#You
But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you'd call that communism. I think in the future, we'll have to call that common sense. - Ash Sarkar
#Common Sense
#Future
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As in health, so in crime - prevention is better than cure. - Ash Sarkar
#Better
#Cure
#Health
#Prevention
#Than
Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically. - Ash Sarkar
#Care
#Health
#Mental Health
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Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century. - Ash Sarkar
#20th Century
#Aesthetic
#Most
#Movement
The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status. - Ash Sarkar
#Demand
#Housing
#Race
#Religion
#Social
Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment of things you had previously thought were fine. - Ash Sarkar
#Death
#Life
#Literature
#Nothing
#Taxes
Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But the way in which the idea was first used was to describe a relationship of dominance and exploitation between a global ruling class and a globally subjugated one. - Ash Sarkar
#Cooking
#Relationship
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The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn't going to be finessing a reprieve for the status quo. It's about actively creating consent for meaningful change, and expanding democratic participation beyond a second referendum. - Ash Sarkar
#Beyond
#Brexit
#Change
#Key
#Status Quo
My great-great-aunt was a terrorist. I'm not talking about the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I'm proud of it. - Ash Sarkar
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It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure. - Ash Sarkar
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#Indigenous
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International Women's Day, if it is to claim any kind of political relevance, has to reject ladies' Christmas consumerism and lowest-common-denominator universalism. Look beyond the pink beer and pyjamas; as feminists we need to be concerned with payslips and passports. - Ash Sarkar
#Christmas
#Day
#Look
#Political
#Women
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