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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 5h

Following its victory in the Berlin state election, the Left Party is preparing to form a government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens that will not end the capital’s rightward political course but continue it.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 7h

On Friday, September 25, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can utilize an expanded Department of Homeland Security (DHS) database of citizens and noncitizens alike, to carry out a March 2025 Trump executive order aimed at purging state voter rolls.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 9h

On September 22, former Vice President Kamala Harris joined Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for US Senate from Michigan, for a campaign event in Detroit.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 12h

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 14h

On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from her flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 16h

On September 23, New Zealand’s opposition Labour Party presented a foreign policy approach described as “independent, principled and unafraid.”

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 18h

The public sector strike in France is part of an international resurgence of social struggles against the backdrop of war and the rise of the far right.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 20h

B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights group, has published a report arguing that Israel is pursuing a systematic and ongoing political project to dismantle the conditions required for Palestinian collective existence in the occupied West Bank.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 22h

Prime Minister Andy Burnham spoke at Labour’s annual conference this week in front of a backdrop reading “Hope Again”.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

About 160 people returned Sunday to the North Austin intersection where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez one week earlier.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stellantis is moving to permanently close its Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario, eliminating 2,200 jobs or close to a quarter of its Canadian workforce.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

US President Donald Trump on Saturday publicly rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire, after the Wall Street Journal reported Friday night that he “has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms.”

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America’s most prominent elected official, has assembled a 15-person Business Advisory Council to guide City Hall’s economic policy.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On September 23, the Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, voted to set aside the Constitution’s requirement that two-thirds of all 24 senators—16 votes—were needed to convict Vice President Sara Duterte.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Transit workers: Tell us what the conditions are like where you work by filling out the form below.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Repression of anti-Gaza genocide protests took another leap at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Sunday, confirming that Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government is continuing the pro-Zionist and pro-war agenda of his predecessor, Keir Starmer.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Frida: The Making of an Icon, Tate Modern, London until January 3, 2027

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The result of the Berlin state election had barely been announced when a smear campaign erupted against the Left Party, the clear election winner.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The US midterm elections of November 3, just five weeks away, are taking place under conditions of extreme economic, social and political crisis.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Trump administration is moving to gut Head Start, the nation’s largest federally funded early childhood program.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the ICC for war crimes in Gaza, delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly Thursday, labeling the victims of Israel's actions in the Middle East as "barbarians," "monsters," "butchers," and "the worst mass murderers on earth.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On Wednesday, September 23, Socialist Equality Party (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore appeared on the Punch Up Pod to discuss the 15-year sentence imposed by the Ukrainian government on Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk and the fight to secure his freedom.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The virtual unfurling of a Herculaneum carbonised scroll and the posting of the full text of a carbonised scroll along with the partial reading of two other scrolls represents a major advancement for science and the study of ancient Greek and Roman thought.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Workers at German seaports have rejected the fourth wage offer presented to them by the Verdi trade union working in conjunction with the Central Association of German Seaport Operators (ZDS).

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On September 22, the Trump administration canceled the health insurance of 760,000 ACA marketplace enrollees, citing fraudulent sign-ups or non-existent enrollees. Announced by Vice President JD Vance and CMS Administrator Dr.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded 3,659 confirmed measles cases across 47 jurisdictions as of late September.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On October 1, 2001, a devastating terrorist attack struck the state legislative building located in the Indian-controlled territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Forest and land fires in Indonesia have exposed more than 12.5 million people to hazardous smoke, closed schools and disrupted transport.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) club at Australia’s University of Melbourne last week held its Annual General Meeting (AGM), titled “Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On Friday, school students in more than a hundred German cities took strike action against conscription for the fourth time.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As the representatives of the capitalist nation-states gathered at the United Nations this week to plot escalating war, another force was making itself felt in a growing movement of the working class on every continent.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This statement was submitted to the World Socialist Web Site by Maxim Goldarb, the head of the Ukrainian “Union of Left Forces—For a New Socialism!” party.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One week after 1,200 workers at the Bradford White water heater plant in Middleville, Michigan walked out for the first time since 1978, the struggle is entering a decisive phase.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On Thursday, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), under the leadership of Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, arrested an estimated 104 people organized by the anti-genocide organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the morning of March 18, 2026, two Homeland Security officers knocked on the door of a rented house in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Democratic Party congressional leadership responded to a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping with accusations that the fascist president, who had just threatened to “annihilate” Iran, was “appeasing” China.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Only hours after restoring the press passes of reporters for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, Trump administration officials denied access to reporters for all three media outlets when they attempted to cover the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner in his honor at the White House.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Global bond markets, led by the US, continued to fall yesterday in what has been described as a “meltdown,” sending yields (interest rates) to their highest levels since before the 2008 financial crisis.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

United mechanics: tell us why you voted down the contract by filling out the form below.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The sellout of this year’s Victorian public school educators’ fight contains critical political lessons for teachers, school staff and workers.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tensions between Türkiye and Greece are again mounting, accompanied by mutual accusations, military deployments and regional realignments.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Israel’s far-right government has responded ferociously to NAZA, a film that exposes some of the Zionist regime’s crimes against the defenceless Palestinians in Gaza.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Members of the Greater Manchester Unite Community branch in northwest England have unanimously passed a resolution demanding freedom for Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, jailed for his opposition to the Zelensky regime and the NATO-led war in Ukraine.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amid a massive escalation of the US/NATO war on Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Canada for three days earlier this month to drum up additional financial support and military equipment for his dictatorial regime.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the space of one week this month, two of the most prominent figures of American “democratic socialism” have appeared alongside prominent fascists in the United States.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Earlier this month, Ford announced a $1 billion investment in a new paint shop at its Kentucky Truck Plant (KTP), presenting it as a triumph of “American manufacturing.” The new facility will replace the existing paint shop as part of a broader modernization of the plant.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Monday, Zohran Mamdani, the most prominent elected official of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), hosted Donald Trump at Gracie Mansion.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This year’s United Nations General Assembly has been transformed into a war summit by the US and European imperialist powers, who have turned an institution whose charter prohibits aggressive war into an arms convention.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the first parliamentary elections held in Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the ruling United Russia party, which is associated with President Vladimir Putin, won a clear majority with 355 seats.

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