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Jude Jackson

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Retired. Politics, arts and environment. Socialist Equality Party Read the World Socialist Website - WSWS.org No War!💥 Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 WSWS fights for a United Socialist States of the Middle East.

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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 1h
Thousands will demonstrate in Britain and internationally on Thursday in a “People vs Palantir International Day of Action”, demanding that governments tear up their contracts with the American data corporation Palantir Technologies. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Thousands to protest Palantir's role in NHS, US deportations and Gaza genocide
For all talk of Burnham being prepared to end Palantir’s National Health Service contract—but only through a break clause, leaving its other contracts intact—the first attempt to force the issue was s...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 1h
Birmingham bin workers’ struggle: Behind the media talk of an 'imminent deal' lies a sellout — the rank and file must take control www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Birmingham bin workers’ struggle: Behind the media talk of an 'imminent deal' lies a sellout — the rank and file must take control
The secrecy surrounding the proposed deal is a warning. Birmingham bin workers must establish a rank-and-file committee to enforce direct oversight of negotiations, agree on non-negotiable demands and...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 2h
Trump condemns regulation in meeting with technology oligarchs www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Trump condemns regulation in meeting with technology oligarchs
US President Donald Trump hosted the heads of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology companies for lunch at the White House Tuesday, condemning any government oversight or regula...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 2h
Germany: Demonstrations against social cuts, workers’ anger met with trade union maneuvers www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Germany: Demonstrations against social cuts, workers’ anger met with trade union maneuvers
The union bureaucracy pretends it is fighting the attacks by the federal government and corporations. The opposite is true.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 3h
Turkish government, shaken by fund crisis, attacks freedom of expression www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Turkish government, shaken by fund crisis, attacks freedom of expression
Facing a severe political crisis, the Erdoğan government is seeking to suppress the social powder keg through police state measures.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 3h
Hundreds of thousands march in French public sector strike against austerity and war www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Hundreds of thousands march in French public sector strike against austerity and war
Workers and youth spoke to the WSWS at yesterday’s march in Paris of their growing anger and concern over economic hardship, war, and the fear of far-right dictatorship
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 7h
German Morenoites tie workers and young people to the right-wing policies of the Left Party www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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German Morenoites tie workers and young people to the right-wing policies of the Left Party
The pseudo-left RIO admits the Left Party's record is one of cuts, rearmament and paving the way for the far-right AfD—yet its conclusion is that workers should stay inside the party, not break with i...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 7h
Shawn Fain wins Eugene Debs award: Desecrating the memory of America’s great socialist leader www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Shawn Fain wins Eugene Debs award: Desecrating the memory of America’s great socialist leader
On the centenary of Debs’ death, the foundation bearing his name honors a union official who embodies everything the socialist leader fought against.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 8h
Milei exploits Malvinas to build up Argentina’s repressive apparatus www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Milei exploits Malvinas to build up Argentina’s repressive apparatus
Milei’s “National Sovereignty Defense Law” uses a real grievance of an oppressed nation to arm the state against the working class, while the pseudo-left offers a nationalist perspective that excludes...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 9h
B’Tselem’s The Elimination Project: Dismantling Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank is Israeli policy www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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B’Tselem’s <em>The Elimination Project</em>: Dismantling Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank is Israeli policy
B’Tselem’s report finds, “The genocide in Gaza and the elimination project in the West Bank are different manifestations of the same regime project, directed against Palestinians’ ability to exist as ...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham’s UK Labour conference speech: cynical promises of reforms after next election, but more pain now www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Burnham’s UK Labour conference speech: cynical promises of reforms after next election, but more pain now
With British imperialism facing debt interest payments at £110 billion a year and plans to ramp war against Russia, along with deeper involvement in Middle East conflicts, Labour today has even less p...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The eviction of Maricarmen in Spain and the global housing crisis www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The eviction of Maricarmen in Spain and the global housing crisis
On September 23, police in Madrid evicted 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, from the flat in the city’s Retiro district where she had lived since 1956.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mass arrests of 150 Palestine Action protesters at UK Labour Party conference, as total nears 4,000 www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Mass arrests of 150 Palestine Action protesters at UK Labour Party conference, as total nears 4,000
The Burnham government is backing the genocide in Gaza and criminalising opposition to it at home every bit as brutally as Starmer, despite his crocodile tears.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The US Army Reserve has asked for preparations to supply the US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) for a military assault against Cuba, “possibly needed in 90-120 days,” according to an internal Army message reported Friday by CBS News. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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US military makes preparations for assault on Cuba within “90-120 days”
An internal Army message reported by CBS News shows the Pentagon preparing logistics, military police and surgical units for an operation aimed at Cuba, days after Trump told the UN that the Cuban gov...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US midterm elections: Growing opposition to Trump, as both parties support war and austerity www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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US midterm elections: Growing opposition to Trump, as both parties support war and austerity
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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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Stop conscription in Germany! Stop the Ukraine war! Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk! www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Stop conscription in Germany! Stop the Ukraine war! Freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk!
As Berlin escalates its confrontation with Russia, school students across the country are striking for the fourth time against the reintroduction of conscription.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
While Trump and Netanyahu threaten the world at UN, class struggle grows on every continent www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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While Trump and Netanyahu threaten the world at UN, class struggle grows on every continent
While the representatives of the capitalist nation-states gathered at the United Nations this week amid escalating war, trade conflict and threats of repression, another international force was making...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Joseph Kishore discusses fight to free Bogdan Syrotiuk on the Punch Up Pod www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Joseph Kishore discusses fight to free Bogdan Syrotiuk on the Punch Up Pod
Kishore discussed the Ukrainian socialist’s imprisonment for opposing the war and the growing international demand for his freedom.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Bond markets in a “meltdown”
The yield on the 10-year bond rose 0.15 percentage points on Wednesday and then followed this with a further increase of 0.11 percentage points yesterday, taking it to 5.23 percent, with no indication...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Netanyahu delivers genocidal tirade at the United Nations as Mamdani’s police arrest more than 100 protesters www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Netanyahu delivers genocidal tirade at the United Nations as Mamdani’s police arrest more than 100 protesters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a genocidal tirade at the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, calling the victims of Israel’s rampage throughout the Middle East “barbarians,”...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Britain’s ruling elite stokes war fever against Russia, demanding conscription and the jailing of opponents www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Britain’s ruling elite stokes war fever against Russia, demanding conscription and the jailing of opponents
Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his anti-Russia address to the UN General Assembly to announce a National Centre for Information Defence that will be used to suppress political dissent at home.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the consequences of the intensifying contradictions of the global financial system is that an attempt to solve problems in one area often leads to their emergence in another. This is certainly the case with the value of the Japanese yen in global currency markets www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Pressures building up in yen carry trade
Moves to arrest the slide of the yen can cause another problem by undermining the so-called yen carry trade, which plays a major role in US financial markets.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Burnham government’s takeover of Speciality Steels UK: a blueprint for war production, not a rescue plan for jobs www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Burnham government’s takeover of Speciality Steels UK: a blueprint for war production, not a rescue plan for jobs
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said the four sites will play “a vital role supporting the Government’s modern Industrial Strategy”, as the Department of Business highlighted Speciality Steels UK...
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The elevation of the yield (interest rate) on the 10-year US Treasury bond to above 5 percent last week is a significant milestone in what is an emerging crisis in the US financial system.
The elevation of the yield (interest rate) on the 10-year US Treasury bond to above 5 percent last w
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) latest report on the prospects for the world’s youth points to a deepening worldwide crisis of youth unemployment and the growing difficulty of young people finding a secure income in their working life.
The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) latest report on the prospects for the world’s youth p
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin on Sunday, September 20, ICE transported the wounded Venezuelan delivery worker from the hospital to its South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, roughly 130 miles away.
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in Austin o
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Less than 24 hours after Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver, spoke about being shot by an ICE agent and denied medical care, guards at the South Texas ICE Processing Center took his tablet, revoked communication privileges, and moved him from the infirmary to isolation, said his attorney.
Less than 24 hours after Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a DoorDash driver, spoke about being shot by an
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump’s threat to “annihilate” Iran: The criminalization of imperialist foreign policy www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Trump’s threat to “annihilate” Iran: The criminalization of imperialist foreign policy
US President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday that he is deciding whether to “annihilate the Islamic Republic” of Iran and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Berlin funds rearmament over education: Pupils record lowest PISA scores since 2000 www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Berlin funds rearmament over education: Pupils record lowest PISA scores since 2000
Germany posted its worst PISA scores since testing began in 2000, as the government funds the largest rearmament drive since the Nazi era.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A survey published last week in the newspaper Evrensel is testimony to the brutal exploitation of children and young workers in Türkiye.
A survey published last week in the newspaper Evrensel is testimony to the brutal exploitation of ch
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Inside Pearsall, the ICE prison holding wounded delivery worker Wilber Garces Perez www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Inside Pearsall, the ICE prison holding wounded delivery worker Wilber Garces Perez
“To me, it looked like a modern-day concentration camp in there,” a former Pearsall detainee told the WSWS.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Disposable apprentices” Survey exposes dire conditions facing young and child workers in Türkiye www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Survey exposes dire conditions facing young and child workers in Türkiye
According to its findings, long working days, poverty wages, workplace accidents and exhaustion define the daily lives of these young people in Türkiye.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Holborn and St Pancras by-election brings into sharp focus the need for the working class to formulate a socialist response to the pro-war, pro-austerity, anti-immigrant and authoritarian programme of the Burnham Labour government.
The Holborn and St Pancras by-election brings into sharp focus the need for the working class to for
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
International Labour Organisation warns of deepening global youth jobs crisis www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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International Labour Organisation warns of deepening global youth jobs crisis
The International Labour Organisation warns of a worsening global youth jobs crisis, with youth unemployment rising, 257 million young people classified as NEET, and secure entry-level work becoming h...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Holborn St Pancras by-election: why socialists oppose Labour, the Greens and Galloway us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Holborn and St Pancras by-election brings into sharp focus the need for the working class to formulate a socialist response to the pro-war, pro-austerity, anti-immigrant and authoritarian programme of the Burnham Labour government. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The political issues in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election
Neither a victory for Burnham’s Labour Party nor the Greens will advance the interests of the working class a single inch. What is necessary now is to carefully examine the bitter lessons of the polit...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
US-UK relations in turmoil over Falklands and Ireland www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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US-UK relations in turmoil over Falklands and Ireland
US President Donald Trump has called into question Britain’s control of the Falkland Islands, and called for a united Ireland—each intervention calculated to remind London of its subordinate position ...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump bans 3 media outlets from White House in further step towards dictatorship www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Trump bans 3 media outlets from White House in further step towards dictatorship
The ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico took effect Saturday morning, in a brazen violation of the First Amendment.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Massive drone attack on Moscow marks new stage of US-NATO war with Russia www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Massive drone attack on Moscow marks new stage of US-NATO war with Russia
Ukraine's attack on Moscow with 450 drones, carried out with weapons paid for, jointly developed and often directly supplied by the NATO powers, marks a new stage in the de facto war between NATO and ...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hackney Greens Anti-Austerity Summit 2026: a coalition to impose council cuts www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Hackney Greens Anti-Austerity Summit 2026: a coalition to impose council cuts
The 1.95 million people nationally who voted Green in May's elections now face the reality that Greens-led councils are preparing to enforce the same cuts as their Labour predecessors. This was unders...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Solidarity is not conditional on convenience. Standing with Bogdan means recognising that the logic which imprisons him for anti-war writing is the same logic that imprisons Palestinians for resisting their oppressors. Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Students and youth in London demand freedom for socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Are Russians and Ukrainians willing to stop and say, ‘Nope, we’re not going to do this anymore and we’re going to shut it down’? It’s a huge endeavour, but it’s the best way.”
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fight war, oligarchy and climate catastrophe! Fight for socialism! International Youth and Students for Social Equality (UK) www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Fight war, oligarchy and climate catastrophe! Fight for socialism!
Imperialist wars abroad are coupled with class war at home. Students will graduate into a society ransacked by the capitalist oligarchy.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A jury at the Old Bailey on September 18 unanimously acquitted Sarah Cotte, the 22-year-old SOAS graduate prosecuted under Section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act 2000 for allegedly supporting the proscribed organisation Hamas. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Sarah Cotte acquitted: Jury rejects British state frame-up
The verdict is a humiliating defeat for the prosecution and for the wider campaign led by successive Conservative and Labour governments to criminalise solidarity with Palestine.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trades Union Congress uses “Burnham bounce” to fall into line with more austerity and war www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Trades Union Congress uses “Burnham bounce” to fall into line with more austerity and war
The alignment of the bureaucracy and pseudo-left with Burnham is most starkly exposed on the issue of war. The TUC’s call for “prioritising investment in workers and public services” replaced any stat...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Europe and Canada pursue realignment with new security architecture amid escalating inter-imperialist rivalries www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Europe and Canada pursue realignment with new security architecture amid escalating inter-imperialist rivalries
The realignment of the European powers and Canada is an escalation of inter-imperialist antagonisms. While neither Von der Leyen nor Carney directly addressed the United States or its fascist-minded P...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gloria Steinem (1934–2026): The CIA, the Democratic Party and the politics of feminism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Gloria Steinem (1934–2026): The CIA, the Democratic Party and the politics of feminism
Gloria Steinem began her career directing a CIA operation against a Soviet-sponsored youth festival and ended it as an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America and a campaigner for Hilla...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her annual State of the (European) Union address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg Wednesday to unveil plans for a European security bloc operating independently of NATO. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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EU head von der Leyen announces European security pact, including Canada and independent of NATO
The State of the Union speech was a declaration that the European bourgeoisie must act independently of the Trump administration to assert its predatory interests on a world scale, above all by waging...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The “Pro-Human Assembly” on AI: Sanders and the trade union bureaucracy join hands with the fascist right www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The “Pro-Human Assembly” on AI: Sanders and the trade union bureaucracy join hands with the fascist right
Bernie Sanders, Liz Shuler and Randi Weingarten shared a platform with Steve Bannon and January 6 rally organizer Amy Kremer at an event that marks the emergence of am alliance between the Democratic ...
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The US Federal Reserve has lifted its base interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to take it to 4 percent in the first such decision since 2023. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Fed raises interest rate for first time in 3 years
The decision was largely forced on the Fed by the financial markets, which had priced in a 90 percent probability of an increase.
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jewish-Kurdish Conference in London: Kurdish nationalism in the Türkiye-Israel rivalry www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Jewish-Kurdish Conference in London: Kurdish nationalism in the Türkiye-Israel rivalry
Israel does not want to abandon the effort to forge an alliance with the Kurdish movement, both in the war against Iran and in its rivalry with Türkiye.
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