Resistance TV

Is Labour really antisemitic? Reaching over the noise. This week on Resistance TV we are talking to the producers of the documentary "Reaching Over The Noise"  When Panorama enabled and funded John Ware to create a narrative about anti semitism in Labour, a group of independent media decided to speak to real people who had been persecuted in his search for racists.  The Prole Star, Unity N...

This week we are talking to the Insulate Britain activists, Tracey Mallaghan and Steve Gower, who are calling on the Government to prepare our housing stock for the climate issues we are facing. Too many people are facing fuel poverty, because of the poor quality of our housing stock. Just insulating our houses properly would lift most people out of that poverty, stopping immediately their having...

This weeks Elephant in the Room Rod Driver takes a look at The UK and USA's war crimes from 2001 onwards. The five worst crimes of the 21st Century are probably the destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Yemen - all driven by US foreign policy, and with the active involvement of Britain. Tonight's discussion will look at the real reasons for these wars, and the propaganda that...

David Miller and Tony Greenstein. The Problem with Hope not Hate This week Chris Williamson is joined on Resistance TV by David Miller a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby and Tony Greenstein a British left-wing activist and writer. They talk about Hope not Hate an advocacy group based in the United Kingdom which campaigns against racism and fascism but has seemingly allied itself with an A...

The Elephant in the Room Ep 9. The US Government is the Biggest Criminal Organisation in the World. This talk summarises the crimes of the US and British governments overseas between 1945 and 2000. It explains that the US and Britain never have 'good intentions' when attacking other countries. These wars are always about controlling resources and trade. This episode is based on the first 2...

This week we talk to Steve Topple about the G20 & COP26, the theft of our NHS & controversy over some medical guidelines. Steve is a journalist for The Canary, a music writer & an activist - who's been recently focused on justice for people living with conditions like ME.  https://twitter.com/MrTopple?t=0wIQj7nZpXGUTGZ6R5KOkQ&s=09  https://twitter.com/TheCanaryUK?t=54nnYerG3QIx...

Ronnie Barkan is an Israeli dissident and BDS activist. As a serial disrupter to apartheid representatives, he recently stood trial in Berlin along with fellow activists for speaking up against representative Aliza Lavie and her direct responsibility for Israeli crimes against humanity. Ronnie Barkan negates the patently false liberal-Zionist discourse whose sole purpose is the legitimising of apa...

Insulate Britain and XR Scientists in conversation Following their workshops at The Festival of Resistance and their prominence in the news for their actions, Lizzie (Chris Williamson and Sian Bloor are taking a well deserved break) speaks at length with Steve Gower (IB) and Chris Jones (XR Scientists) Steve refutes the Gallagher tweet, saying, he's forgotten where he comes from. Chris tells u...

The Festival of Resistance was held this weekend gone 16/17th Oct in Nottingham. We had speakers from all around the globe here and via Zoom call to expose the inequalities we fast in todays world. Be it climate catastrophe, neoliberalism, injustice, witch-hunts, corporate media, NHS Privatisation or the drum beats of war. In this weeks Resistance TV we got to talk with a few of the guests at the...

This week we have a collection of short interviews with people speaking at the Festival Of Resistance. The Rapper and Activist Lowkey, Journalist Max Blumenthal, GP Dr Bob Gill, Joti Brar of the Workers Party GB, XR Scientists' Chris Jones, Israeli Author Miko Peled and Jason Cridland from the Dorset Eye and independent citizen media outlet. #FestivalOfResistance #Resist #LeftUnity #Socialist...

Dr Piers Robinson a political scientist & Prof Fabio Vighi a Professor of critical theory at Cardiff university, The Unspoken truth behind the Covid crisis This week Chris Williamson and Lizzie Fletcher(after internet gremlins take Chris out) take on Covid. Is the Covid crisis is being used by government, big business and big pharma to push through measures that diminish our civil liberties an...

Resist at the Rialto Resist was down in Brighton this week for the Resist Event. Chris, Sian and Lizzie interview a selection of people also down there. 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 Racis...

It is well known that Britain supported General Pinochet, after he came to power in Chile in a military coup in 1973, but British covert action in Chile prior to the coup is not. Recently declassified documents demonstrate how, between 1960 and 1973, a secretive propaganda unit within the British Foreign Office sought to prevent, and later weaken, Salvador Allende's socialist presidency.  Brit...

We are in a housing emergency, with Will McMahon This week we are talking to Will McMahon, director of action on empty homes about their day of action on 9 October. 1) Over 100,000 families are living in Temporary Accommodation while over half a million homes have no permanent resident. 2) The wrong kind of housing is being built across the country - they are unaffordable to anyone on an average i...

"A hard-left, metropolitan liberal" - Nigel Farage Man Behaving Dadly Aka Simon Harris This week on Resistance TVChris Williamson talks with Simon Harris aka Man Behaving Dadly we talk about his fundraising and trolling of the hard right. He runs more blogs and Facebook pages than he cares to mention but Southend News Network and Man Behaving dadly are just two to note. One of his latest f...

This weeks Resistance TV is a little different. Chris and Sian are unavailable this week so we are re running a Resistance TV classic from our early days. Off the back of last weeks Resistance TV Sian mentioned a personal hero of her's being Jane McAlevey. In this video Jane McAlevey talks about organising and the power of winning. Last weeks Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDdkq0LLlDE J...

Grassroots movements need to organise! so this week on Resistance TV Jonathan Cooper takes us through some theory for organising and how that can help grassroots movements like our own at Resist Movement for a Peoples Party. The theory is based on the Ella Baker School of Organising. https://www.ellabakerorganising.org.uk/about

The Elephant in the room Ep 8 Psychology, How we are Manipulated by the Rich and those in authority The most important aspects of human psychology which allow powerful people to manipulate us. Psychologists use terms like obedience to authority, desire to conform, and wilful blindness to explain what is going on. We will also discuss why powerful people commit so many criminal and unethical acts w...

The Elephant in the Room Ep. 7: How the media distort reality The main purpose of the media in Britain and the US is to present information in a misleading way, to make people accept the existing economic and military systems. The ownership and control of the media by governments and big companies filters out dissenting views. It limits the range of acceptable opinion, whilst pretending to allow l...

Tony Blair & Gordon Brown Patrons of a Criminal 'Charity'? Guests Amina Abdel-Khaliq is a nurse and educator, and a member of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Mick Napier: Chair Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Join Chris Williamson this week on Resistance TV to ask, Are Tony Blair and Gordon Brown Patrons of a Criminal 'Charity'? Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ar...

Marc Wadsworth's court win and Proscription. With all the talk of proscription and removal of members of Labour by foul or unfair means , we will be looking at some of the positive results from this last week. We will be talking with Marc Wadsworth and his win in court . The positive publicity that came from Labour's attempt to proscribe groups. The influx of new members to those groups an...

If people hear the word propaganda, they usually think about World War 1 and 2. But propaganda is actually one of the most powerful forces in 21st Century Britain. We are bombarded with it every day, and it affects the way we think about most important issues. In particular, it is intended to make us uncritical of the economic, financial, corporate, political and military systems. This weeks episo...

It looks like the Labour Party hierarchy are determined to quash any possibility of future challenges to their 'authority' by making it financially impossible for grassroots members to have their say and take them to court or even on trial. A After members lost their fight against the Labour Party at the final hearing last week, the allocation of judges should be questioned too. With Guest...

Crimes of the Financial System | The Elephant in the room ep.5 Following the financial crisis that began in 2007, it became clear that banks were engaged in a huge range of criminal and unethical activities – mis-selling, rigging markets, money laundering, tax evasion, sub-prime mortgages, ripping off customers, and fraud on a massive scale. These crimes have not gone away, and the activities of t...

MMT: Fiat Socialism for the 21st Century with Carlos García Hernández ‘Fiat socialism’ would enable an open and prosperous society governed by the principles of modern monetary theory (MMT). A society without unemployment or poverty, in which everybody had a decent job (either in the private sector, or in the public sector) allowing people to fulfil all their basic needs and coordinate their worki...