Arsenal sack kit man for supporting Palestine

Former Arsenal kit coordinator Mark Bonnick has launched legal action against the club after being dismissed for expressing solidarity with Palestine on social media.

Bonnick, who worked with Arsenal’s first-team staff and players for a number of years, reportedly shared pro-Palestine posts last year, including images calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. A seemingly decent thing for someone with a conscience to say but within weeks, he was suspended, and shortly after, sacked. He’s now suing for unfair dismissal and discrimination and rightly so.

He made no threats, no abuse, nor was there any support of so-called "extremism" that people are often accused of, he just publicly professed his sympathy for a people being bombed and starved to death. His club Arsenal’s response? They sack him and take away his wage just for being a decent human.

This isn’t isolated. Celtic fans were banned for Palestinian flags and the club was previously fined, and Gary Lineker was censured by the BBC for mild criticism of government cruelty, yet pundits and players regularly make political gestures when it suits imperialist narratives.
Ukraine badges, anti-Russian slogans, kneeling before the whistle or support for “the troops” are welcomed, even encouraged; solidarity with Palestine or criticism of Israel is penalised.

It’s a pattern of selective morality that mirrors the state’s line — dissent is tolerated only when it reinforces imperial power.

In football, as in every workplace, it’s clear: you can speak freely, as long as you say what capital wants to hear.

Serbia's Acquisition of PULS Systems and Hermes 900 UAVs from Israel

Serbia ordered 1,000 kamikaze drones from Iran in 2023. In 2025, it made significant purchases from Israel's Elbit Systems: a $335 million rocket and drone deal in January, and a $1.6 billion PULS (Precise and Universal Launching System) multiple launch rocket system in August.

This autonomous platform is designed for precision strikes with a range of up to 300 km and can fire various rocket types.

Since 2023, arms trade between Serbia and Israel has surged over 3,000%, making Serbia one of Israel’s key wartime suppliers—even under EU pressure to halt exports.

“We will not stop helping Israel,” President Vučić said, defending the deals as “strategic, not political.”

Belgrade Demonstration

The new systems were first displayed publicly at the "Power of Unity" military parade in Belgrade on September 20, 2025; the Hermes 900 UAVs and PULS launchers were among the most prominent.

So, why is Serbia—described by Vučić as a "small Balkan country"—buying so many weapons?

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Manchester United goalkeeper and a Munich air disaster survivor Ray Wood.

If you’ve ever wondered why Nigel Farage gets so much media coverage in the British media, then you also must consider why Zack Polanski is being given so much media coverage, too.

Bourgeois democracy has many shop fronts. But they all sell the same crap.

Strikers were blocked some months ago from taking the kind of effective picketing action that would have brought about a quick resolution to the dispute.

Court injunctions threatened sequestration of funds and the union caved.

The anti-trade-union laws will need to be defied en masse by our movement if they are to be removed from the statute books.

While they remain, they will continue to undermine the efforts of workers in struggle.

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The Class Consciousness Project has leveled up. We have finally created our own paper! This will be a twice yearly publication with articles from our blog and ones created especially for this paper.

They will be available to get from us in the midlands, North West and in Glasgow. As we progress we will look at postage.

We will inform you all of where you can pick up our publication and hope you enjoy it as much as we did creating it!

Copies available in News from Nowhere, Bold street, Liverpool. £1.50 a copy.

Or if you're having a pint in the Casa Bar, Hope street, Liverpool, you can have a read for free.

Looking at the public antics of the various factions struggling for control of the new organisation, even before it has any members or branches, one can’t help but wonder whether it really is possible to be this incompetent by accident.

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What is the real content of the ‘patriotism’ that workers are being asked to exhibit?

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While most of us are juggling bills, ex-Prime Ministers and cabinet men are busy hosting private dinners with Silicon Valley billionaires.

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg, the old “opponents” turned business partners, have been wining and dining tech executives and sitting ministers in a series of secret meetings, supposedly to talk about “innovation” and “digital governance.” Obviously linked around the digital ID narrative, but then won't be all. What these meetings really create is access: a revolving door between parliament and finance capital.

This is how policy is made now, not in parliament, but in private dining rooms and board retreats. The faux democracy of parliamentarism; it’s deal-making. Tech firms get lighter regulation, softer taxation (if any at all), and first pick of government contracts. In return, politicians get future consultancy gigs, advisory posts, and a seat back at the table once they’ve “retired.”

It’s a reminder that beyond the pantomime elections, these people aren’t rivals, they’re colleagues. Blair, Clegg, Cameron, Starmer, Sunak, different brands, same investors. If those left of imperialism, like Corbyn and Sultana, have their place. The entire political class has merged with finance capital. They don’t govern for the public; they manage on behalf of the market.

And this is why every election feels like groundhog day. Because behind the noise, the real policies, privatisation, deregulation, cuts, and tech-capital partnerships, will never change.

If you want to know who runs Britain, don’t look at Parliament. Look at who is sat at Tony Blair's dinner table.

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Wages, therefore, are not a share of the worker in the commodities produced by himself. Wages are that part of already existing commodities with which the capitalist buys a certain amount of productive labour-power.

Consequently, labour-power is a commodity which its possessor, the wage-worker, sells to the capitalist. Why does he sell it? It is in order to live.

- Karl Marx
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