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James Foster ☭

@james-z-foster.bsky.social
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📕 Marxist-Leninist, 📍central Appalachia, ⭐️WWP, workers.org , ✊🪧class-struggle trade unionist ⚙️🛠️

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics” The free speech party is really the fascist party.
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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics
"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“The reason they’re doing [this] is to try to create an environment of fear, to try to get people like myself... to shut the fuck up,” Piker said on a stream recounting the details of the incident. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...
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Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics
"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently"
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 07/04/2025
From Washington, DC to California, Boston to Cleveland, Salt Lake City to New York City, America’s unions and working people turned out by the millions to tell this administration: #HandsOff our unions, contracts, rights, and essential services!
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Israeli bulldozers are tearing down a wedding hall in the town of Beit Liqya, located west of Ramallah, citing the lack of Israeli-issued construction permits as the reason.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A massive Israeli airstrike on the Al-Salam neighborhood, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, a short while ago.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Just moments ago, Israeli forces stormed Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, in the occupied West Bank, unleashing stun grenades and tear gas on students.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Twenty-three people were injured as Israeli forces raided Al-Quds University in the town of Abu Dis, in occupied Jerusalem.
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Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO @dpeaflcio.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Union professionals have higher wages than their non-union counterparts because they can negotiate with their employers. Check out recent wage improvements of @steelworkers.bsky.social, UWUA & @wgaeast.bsky.social members. Learn more about the union difference: www.dpeaflcio.org/professional...
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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 04/04/2025
Last week, ICE agents violently removed farmworker organizer and advocate Alfredo Juarez from his car while dropping his partner off at work. He was likely targeted because of his work for farmworkers’ basic rights, such as overtime pay & protections from extreme heat. www.epi.org/blog/ice-und...
News headline reading: "Farmworker activist Alfredo Juarez detained by ICE; Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez is an outspoken advocate for farm worker rights. His supporters believe he was targeted for those beliefs.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A Palestinian boy refuses to shake the hand of an Israeli soldier whose unit was involved in demolishing homes in Beit Liqya, Palestine — a silent but powerful act of defiance.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Wolff Responds: "The Trump Slump" Dated March 12, 2025 youtu.be/Juaf-9tc8ls?...
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Wolff Responds: "The Trump Slump" Dated March 12, 2025
YouTube video by RichardDWolff
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Photo shows spme of the destruction caused by Israeli forces in Tulkarem, occupied West Bank.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Israeli forces raid the village of Burin, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
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Josep Goded @josepgoded.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Israeli settler mobs raided Wadi Al-Jwaya in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, chasing Palestinians and obstructing them from herding their sheep.
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
www.workers.org/2025/03/84377/ #socialism #union
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Workers unite to say, ‘We are its owners, India is ours.’
The 11th National Conference of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU), held February 24-26, brought workers from a range of sectors together. They included sanitation workers, construction workers, domestic workers, miners, street vendors, scheme workers, gig workers and others from
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 11/03/2025
BREAKING: Police have been called on current and former Starbucks workers in Pittsburgh. This store went on strike, with workers demanding the company finalize fair contracts - and now some are being arrested. Shame on Starbucks for letting it get to this point. #ToBeAPartner
Workers are led out by police, with union supporters seen chanting around themA Starbucks worker gets led away by police
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 11/03/2025
Starbucks workers all over the country are participating in a strong showing of solidarity today - including these NYC baristas. Civil disobedience, strikes, solidarity actions, & more are happening at stores all over the country. Hear us yet, Starbucks? ITS TIME TO FINALIZE CONTRACTS NOW.
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
www.workers.org/2025/03/84264/
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Solidarity with pro-Palestine students: Free Mahmoud Khalil! -- WW editorial
It should come as no surprise that the MAGA administration has targeted activist students. Or that they have especially focused on international students who need permission to stay in the United Stat...
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ACLU of West Virginia @acluwv.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We’ll be joining local protesters in Parkersburg tomorrow as Elon Musk’s DOGE team descends on the Fiscal Service Building. This peaceful protest begins at noon in Bicentennial Park. Let's send the message that our personal data matters and should not be in the hands of unelected billionaires.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Banning noncompetes. Changing OT pay rules to include more workers. Capping credit card fees. Erasing student loan debt. All Biden Admin executive actions to help working people that were blocked by Trump-appointed judges. And Republicans didn't have a problem with any of it.
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Alarm as JD Vance says federal judges ‘aren’t allowed’ to control president
Experts argued expansive view of executive power could cause constitutional crisis
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
SAY, BOSS
Photo of Kendrick Lamar saying "say, Drake," at the halftime show, edited so he is wearing an EWOC hat and holding the EWOC organizing handbook
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 10/02/2025
The NLRB protects workers’ right to form unions in their workplaces. President Trump illegally firing Gwynne Wilcox from the NLRB effectively shuts down their operations. This is bad for working people and good for bosses that want to deny workers’ their right to organize.
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Democracy At Work @democracyatwork.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Listen to @profwolff.bsky.social on the relationships between #corporations, #government, #debt, and the %1! #economics #politics #democracyatwork #democracy #educate #agitate #organize #taxes More on our @democracyatwork.bsky.social #youtube channel!
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
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IATSE // #IASolidarity @iatse.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!
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Dede Bell, NBCT @dedebellnbct.bsky.social @dedebellnbct.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Geopolitical analysts Scott Ritter & Larry Johnson, joined by Ray McGovern and Danny Haiphong, react to Trump's outrageous plan to displace all of Gaza during Netanyahu's visit to Washington… … consequences of this move, including a war igniting to fever pitch in (cont) youtube.com/watch?v=JToo...
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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Israel supporters are constantly looking for new ways to suppress supporters of Palestinian rights. ADC's Abed Ayoub shared practical advice for those now under more threat than before: electronicintifada.net/blogs/eli-ge...
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How to protect ourselves from Trump's Palestine advocacy crackdown
On this week's Livestream, we spoke to Abed Ayoub of ADC, reported on the prisoner exchange in Gaza and much more.
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“Frederick Douglass, a formerly enslaved man, was a leading spokesperson and consciousness-raiser of the abolitionists. He was also a political collaborator with John Brown, who in 1859 led the raid on an arms depot at Harpers Ferry in West Virginia” www.workers.org/2025/02/83742/
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The case for reparations: The rise and fall of U.S. enslavement
The U.S. independence revolution of 1776 would have been a good time to bring enslavement to an end. Tragically it was not done. Enslavement was discussed a few years later during the Constitutional C...
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump’s promotion of tariffs is harmful to workers all over the globe. Imperialist protectionism and isolationism are an obstacle to working-class unity, and they should be opposed. International solidarity is necessary in resisting anti-worker tariffs www.workers.org/2025/01/83607/
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Trump, tariffs and the working class
Before returning to the White House for a second term, President Donald Trump warned he planned on imposing tariffs on several different countries. He stated he would enforce an “emergency executive a...
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Who made this 🤣
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
“Over recent years, China has been dedicated to establishing policies to address global warming. The U.S., on the other hand, has pushed ever-expanding militarism — the number one cause of the climate catastrophe.” www.workers.org/2025/01/83082/
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The hypocrisy of climate change deniers
Where there is the potential for profit, even the most ardent climate change deniers will seize the opportunity to take advantage of the damage caused by the climate catastrophe. Such is the case with...
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Po Murray @pomurray.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The new President of Mexico will not put up with any shit from Trump!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/01/2025
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum claps back at Trump using a map from 1607 to say that parts of the United States should be renamed 'Mexican America' (voice translated with AI)
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Jose is spraying the grape vines. His work ensures that when new branches grow they will not have pests or fungus on them. He wears protective gear and a protective mask as he sprays. #WeFeedYou
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
“It is critical for the anti-imperialist movement to understand that Trump makes these threats not as an individual but as the next head of the world’s major capitalist and military power — made all the more dangerous because its economic system is in serious decline.” www.workers.org/2024/12/82905/
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The Panama Canal: from Teddy Roosevelt to Donald Trump
Just what is motivating President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to take over the Panama Canal, buy Greenland and make Canada the 51st U.S. state? Does he think he can impose a new historic era of U.S. ...
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Economics is war by other means. Every use of force anywhere and everywhere equals profiteering of some section of the capitalist class. They all don’t agree w each other but they are more class conscious than we are. That’s the “state” in Marxism a committee for ruling class common interests
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 24/12/2024
Workers have SHUT DOWN the Seattle Roastery for 5 days straight after going out on an unfair labor practice strike on Friday 🪧😡✊ The Roastery will remain closed until 12/26 Our sympathies to all the people who were hoping to snag that $5.9k espresso machine for Christmas 🤪
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 20/12/2024
Happy holidays - Starbucks baristas are ON STRIKE!! We're going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting today in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle - and many more to come!
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
www.workers.org/2024/12/82640/
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Global labor actions and the role of the working class
Many labor actions and strikes have broken out around the world in recent months, intensifying in early December. One major event that shook the world was the militant response by South Korea’s large...
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James Foster ☭ @james-z-foster.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Individualistic adventurist assassinations and terrorism is incompatible with Marxism. Let’s be Lenin, not his brother. #luigi #socialism #communism
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ACLU of West Virginia @acluwv.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
During his first term, Donald Trump oversaw more executions than any president in 120 years. President Biden, who pledged to call for the abolition of the death penalty in 2020, must act now to commute all federal death sentences. The death penalty isn't justice. It's a racist relic of the past.
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