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Elon Musk and Twitter: all that is solid melts into air
KEITH FLETT pours scorn on the liberal-minded pretensions of the ‘world's richest man’ and his claim that Twitter can be an open forum for free debate, somehow abstracted from the perversions of capitalism
The Twitter social media app showing Elon Musk running on a mobile phone
DOUG NICHOLLS welcomes a turning point at this year’s Congress, where many motions call for a co-ordinated plan to revive British industry, a perspective outlined in his new book
HOPE VIRGO of campaign Dump the Scales warns MPs voting today they should be alert to the threat legalised assisted death poses to people with eating disorders
The Together Alliance is hosting two summits, North and South, to build power and plan action against the scourge of racism peddled by the right. DANIEL KEBEDE urges mass participation
The drift toward militarisation in Europe is not inevitable, left-wing and peace movements can preserve sovereignty and prevent war, says DÁIRE HUGHES MP
Whatever differences exist among international sympathisers of the Bolivarian revolution about its current trajectory, they should unite against the imperialist power that is the source of an enforced retreat, argues ROGER D HARRIS
Trade unions need to step up and force a turn in the policies of the labour movement to effectively confront the far-right threat, argues NICK WRIGHT
ELON MUSK, who claims to be the world’s richest man (and also probably the most indebted one), has bought the social media giant Twitter.
In doing so, he has sacked, often illegally, thousands of Twitter employees, and raised the question of whether it will continue at all.
As often with capitalism, appearance and reality differ. Twitter is a free-to-use platform for anyone to raise and discuss more or less anything, with limited constraints. That means it has numbers of racists and fascists using it, but also significant use by those from marginalised areas of society that the mainstream media reliably ignores.
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