Thread by @paulmasonnews

In addition to all the #Pride this weekend saw 3x mass events: London anti-Trump; Edinburgh anti-Trump plus around 200k at Durham Miners Gala. The point is now to unite these forces into a movement...

2/ People stuck in political tribes and structures often forget the transformative power of mass demonstrations. These mobilised Labour, Green, Libdems and SNP/Plaid - plus masses of working class people from the North of England...

3/ The first question is not "how does Labour capitalise on it" - though it should; it's how do we find ways of uniting progressive forces to defend democracy, press freedom and rule of law in the face of Trump/Brexit?

4/ Once we see what Trump does with Putin we'll know the true scale of the attack on multilateralism - see here for analysis: inews.co.uk/opinion/column…

5/ Here's my outline of what Labour, Libdems and progressive nationalists could unite on: a) a second referendum b) vote down Brexit white paper c) joint mobilisations for these two objectives d) break up right wing media monopolies...

6/ short term unity list continued... e) stigmatise racism and xenophobic narratives; f) regime change at Brexit Broadcasting Corporation - end editorial policy of suppressing debate about Brexit because "a done deal" - May clear that not leaving is on agenda

7/ Spent 4 days in Durham/Northeast - not just with pro-Labour ppl on Miners Gala but in wider civil society: confirms what Labour MPs reporting. No surge of regret among Leave voters for Leave -

8/ The Tory poll collapse is entirely the "betrayal" narrative and is coming from the golf clubs as well as the left-behind towns. "If we cannot have the nationalist fantasy we're no longer interested in the Tories"...

9/ When Robinson gets out of jail he will likely join UKIP, and backed by Trump's State Department and Bannon's money (yes pinch yourself) relaunch far right project around no-deal/betrayal narrative...

10/ Do not fear either authoritarian xenophobes or the far right. Durham Miners Gala showed, majority of working class people ready to resist fascism and racism and defend minorities, democracy and human rights. Didn't make these banners for nothing!