Resistance TV

This week on Resistance TV. Sian talks to Pete Gregson. Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People's Party. With a socialist take on things we look at areas of concern for the left wing, Anti Racism, Anti Imperialism, MMT, Injustice, Britain's role in foreign affairs, 21st century Soci...

Tonight we are talking to Ben Timberley, the man in front of "Behind Labour" We all know how corrupt the government is but Ben manages to blow all the doors off the so called "opposition" Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People's Party. With a socialist take on things we...

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most corrupt industries in the world, with the biggest companies being fined billions of dollars for fraud. They have a long record of understating the harms of their medicines, and exaggerating their benefits. They have repeated this pattern during the covid pandemic, aided by governments who have bombarded us with propaganda to exaggerate the threat of a...

On Resistance TV this week we talk to Steve Topple from the Canary about the local elections https://bywire.news/articles/the-lib-dems-won-hull-with-just-10percent-of-the-electorate-voting-for-them And his project Amplify https://www.thecanary.co/amplify/ Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a Pe...

This week is a replay from July 2020. Worker Cooperatives have the potential to bring about an irreversible shift in the balance of wealth and power in Britain In tonight's program we will be discussing the inspirational examples at home and abroad and explaining the Mechanisms to establish them Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leade...

Poverty: How much do councils really care As society emerged from the first COVID lockdown in Spring 2020, a window for potentially reimagining society, poverty and inequality opened up. Cllr Mandy Clare (NW Co Ordinator for RESIST) discusses what a genuine social justice and localised approach to tackling poverty might look like and shares some recent experiences and insights from working to embe...

Elephants in the room | How the international economic system is rigged to transfer wealth from poor to the rich. Mainstream commentators and economics textbooks present free trade as a way to help poor countries. However, in the real world, we force poor countries to adopt an extreme economic system that is intended to transfer wealth from poor countries to the rich. More information, references...

Elephants in the room | How the international economic system is rigged to transfer wealth from poor to the rich. Mainstream commentators and economics textbooks present free trade as a way to help poor countries. However, in the real world, we force poor countries to adopt an extreme economic system that is intended to transfer wealth from poor countries to the rich. More information, references...

Elephants in the Room | US and British Human Rights Abuses The mainstream media give the impression that other countries commit human rights abuses, and that the US and Britain do not. This is incorrect. The US has the worst human rights record in the world, and Britain participates in many of these abuses. Both countries have also supported dictatorships that commit human rights atrocities. More...

The Big Power Off: Energy Crisis. Over 6 million people took part in the big switch off just on twitter ! We will be talking to Paula Peters of DPAC about how it went and whats next in the battle to stop our government and the corporate energy sector robbing us for their profit. Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of...

Following recent revelations about advanced British weaponry being used in Ukraine, this week's presentation is about the weapons trade. It will look at how weapons companies fuel wars, and profit from them. It will also discuss the corrupt relationship between governments and the biggest weapons companies, and the illegality of most weapons deals. More information, references and further read...

War Propaganda, Following on from the earlier presentation about exaggerated threats, this presentation is about other forms of war propaganda. This covers a wide range of strategies. At the simplest level, it involves governments and the media lying to us about events overseas, and about the motives for war. At a deeper level, it involves years of conditioning to manipulate our understanding of p...

Zionism in Ukraine. With David Miller We have all seen footage of Nazi sympathisers in torchlight procession and of the Nazi Azov Battalion (now integrated into the Ukraine armed forces), but what role does the far right play in Ukrainian nationalism? ResistanceTV will take a look at its history from the early Twentieth Century until now. We will particularly assess its activities in relation to a...

Elephant in the room | Exaggerated threat's Since 1945, the US and British governments have bombarded their populations with propaganda to exaggerate threats. This includes the exaggerated threat of a communist invasion (from 1945-1989), Weapons of Mass Destruction (to justify invasions of Iraq and Syria), and terrorism (to justify the invasion of Afghanistan). Tonight's show will explain...

Chris Williamson with Dave Nellist With the by-election in Erdington this week and Dave Nellist standing for MP we replay last time Dave was on Resistance TV. #Erdington #byelection #socialism Prospects for Socialism in the 21st Century Britain has been subjected to a neoliberal consensus for over 40 years. This has left 14 million people in poverty, public services used as a cash cow for corporat...

Introducing InterUnion4Equity This week we are talking to Aysha Choudhury, Professor Jim Todd, Akic Lwaldeng and Bunja F.K Kebbeh about the inequality in trade unions. Their voices as security and cleaning staff in their workplaces, though unionised are not valued. This has to change! And perhaps IU4E is the group to do that! #Equality #WorkersRights #TradeUnions #BameRights Resistance TV is a wee...

Following the events all across the country last Saturday, seeing the largest mass movement of people since the poll tax protests, we are going to be talking to Maria Nelson and Jen from DPAC Sheffield about the cost of living crisis .. Many of us are suffering 💔 and many more of us are going to be suffering too if we don't stand up and speak out now .. 2nd wave of protests are on March 5th a...

This week we are talking with Issa Amro and Nat Strecker about Einat Weizman's play "How To Make A Revolution" A moving story of one man's resistance to apartheid... Released at the same time as Amnesty's report on Israel apartheid, it adds to the growing evidence that someone somewhere is trying to suppress the truth... Watch the play here https://youtu.be/07KnZLtqt_o Resistan...

Barriers to Bridges This week we are talking with Dawn Sanders, Caitlin Stimpson and Celeste Pearce. The editors of an online magazine for and about the most marginalised in society. • People with additional needs; • Single parents; • Those facing gender inequality; • Those facing racial inequality; • People struggling with addiction; • Those identifying as LGBTQ+; • Working-class or people on a l...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won the right to ask the Supreme Court to block his extradition to the US. The High Court ruled on Monday he had an arguable point of law that Supreme Court justices may want to consider. The ruling means Mr Assange can petition the UK's highest court for a hearing, stalling any extradition from the UK. Dr Deepa Driver joins us to discuss what now? Resistan...

Zionism is a settler colonial ideology and racism is central to its doctrine. Ronnie Barkan and Tony Greenstein join Chris Williamson to discuss whether the Zionist State of Israel has manifested as a white supremacist State. Resistance TV is a weekly show hosted by Chris Williamson the former Labour MP, Derby Council Leader and the founder of Resist Movement for a People's Party. With a socia...

Why Britain should become a republic. With Steve Freeman and Chris Williamson It’s just over 30 years since Tony Benn introduced his Commonwealth of Britain Bill in the House of Commons, which proposed wide ranging constitutional reform including the abolition of the monarchy and the introduction of a codified constitution. Following the controversy over the Queen’s decision to make Tony Blair a k...

Resistance TV Replay: 21st Century socialism with Kerry Anne Mendoza from  @The Canary  at the time, Ben Norton from  @The Grayzone  and Tommy Sheridan. Originally recorded in November 2020 the day Jeremy Corbyn had the Labour whip removed from him. The four decades long obsession with corporate capitalism has singularly failed to deliver a good society. Does socialism in the 21st century have the...

Matt Kennard: STARMER AND THE ESTABLISHMENT. Resistance TV Replay This week as its the Christmas break we have a video from the vault in Resistance TV:Replay. Matt Kennard, co-founder of DeclassifiedUK Joined Chris Williamson in June 2020 to talk about DeclassifiedUK's investigations into GCHQ, Starmers connections to MI5, the trilateral commission, Murdoch and his role in the case of Julian A...

Last week, Chris Williamson was awarded a Labour Heroes lifetime achievement award for his contributions to socialism in this country. This week we are talking with some people who have been expelled from The Labour Party for supporting Chris Williamson, even though Chris wasn't expelled. It's obvious Labour is no longer supportive of ordinary people, and we will be discussing what our opt...