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Kevin McGuire

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Marxist historian, political activist, revolutionary journalist

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1h
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Supreme Court opens 2026 term amid deepening crisis of US democracy
The Supreme Court has begun its new term with ceremony and pomp that masks a deepening constitutional crisis and growing disrespect arising from its reactionary rulings and obvious bias in favor of th...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 3h
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US makes bizarre claims of Iranian plot against UK’s RAF Fairford base
Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb used 117 drones, smuggled in on lorries, in coordinated strikes on Russia’s long-range aviation at five airbases. Repeating such an operation with no shared border and no...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 3h
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At town hall, students, workers denounce University of Michigan–Los Alamos nuclear weapons data center
The IYSSE distributed a statement outlining a socialist strategy to oppose the militarization of AI and harness the revolutionary technology to meet social needs.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 14h
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ProPublica documents over 500 US citizens detained by immigration Gestapo in Trump’s mass deportation operation
The findings underscore that the attack on immigrants is an attack on the entire working class regardless of citizenship status.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bill O'Reilly in 2005, inviting Al Qaeda to bomb San Francisco: "And if al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, 'Look, every other place in America is off limits to you except San Francisco.'"
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Vasily Grossman’s reporting on the Nazi-Soviet war
Although best-known for his major novels, Vasily Grossman's powerful social realism was rooted in his active involvement in the Red Army’s struggle against Nazism. His war-time writings are now presen...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Zohran Mamdani’s “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism”: A capitulation to Zionism and the capitalist oligarchy
Mamdani's "Strategy to Combat Antisemitism" embraces the narrative used to slander opponents of the Gaza genocide as antisemites.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Mexico arrests alleged leader of migrant caravan
The detention of a Honduran migrant accused of guiding the “Faith and Hope” caravan shows that the Sheinbaum government continues to place the repressive apparatus built by Morena at the service of Tr...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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US Supreme Court allows resumption of immigrant deportations to third countries
The day before the ruling, two dozen UN human rights experts warned that the mass deportation of migrants from the US to third countries would set off a “cascade of human rights violations” that could...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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With complicity of media and Democrats, Trump prepares major escalation of Iran war
Having failed to achieve its objectives through a massive bombardment and then a blockade of the country, the White House is preparing a new and desperate gambit.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Michigan nurse prosecuted for freeing immigration police detainee: Drop the charges against Chloe Freeman!
The Trump administration has brought charges against a Michigan nurse for the “crime” of refusing to hand over a wounded immigrant worker to the deportation Gestapo.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Mobilize the working class to defend French student protests, stop war!
Over the last week, protests at high schools across France against spending cuts and police repression have grown into a confrontation with the state machine.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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September US jobs data shows stagnant employment and lagging wages, as AI-driven layoffs deepen
The September US Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report, which was greeted as positive by Wall Street, showed that workers face worsening employment opportunities and wages that continue falling behin...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Trump administration sends aircraft carrier and up to 10,000 troops toward Iran, threatens to resume bombing
The Trump administration is sending the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and three amphibious warships carrying about 2,000 Marines to the Middle East.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wealth of America’s richest 0.1 percent doubles since 2019, as profits hit record share of income
The richest 0.1 percent of American households more than doubled their wealth between the end of 2019 and June 30, Federal Reserve figures released last month show.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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New Census poverty report conceals the social catastrophe facing working people
Official poverty statistics expose a deepening crisis for which Democrats and Republicans bear joint responsibility.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.workers.org/2026/09/95044/ In his commentary “A perfect storm is coming – World capitalist economic crisis today” posted on Sept. 1, Workers World’s First Secretary Larry Holmes describes a “shadow banking system” of non-bank financial institutions,
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We don’t fear AI – just its greedy billionaire owners
Hardly a day goes by without there being another article or pundit’s commentary over the danger of artificial intelligence — AI. Just this week on Sept. 24, in an interview with NBC News’s Meet the Pr...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Judge denies bail, continues detention of anti-Zionist Hasidic father in bid to deport him to Israel
Yehonatan Ovadia, a member of the anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic community and outspoken opponent of the Israeli state and Gaza genocide, has been detained since August 28 and is being threatened with de...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Nearly 1,000 private armed guards deployed in USPS plants, as Trump continues offensive against mail-in balloting
The guards are being rushed into USPS facilities five weeks before the midterms, as the Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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US government charges ICE victim Garces Perez, refuses medical care
Eight days after shooting Wilber Garces Perez in the back, the US government has charged him with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering with and impeding a federal officer. The government de...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Is the world on the brink of nuclear war?
Russia's warning that it is ready to use nuclear weapons if NATO blockades Kaliningrad shows that the US-NATO war in Ukraine is escalating into an open confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, a da...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Supreme Court allows expanded Homeland Security database to purge voter rolls ahead of midterm elections
Just five weeks before the November 3 midterm elections, with early voting having already begun, the Supreme Court ruling could enable Republican officials to run multiple checks of voters in Democrat...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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As Trump rejects Iranian cease-fire proposal, Wall Street Journal reports plans to resume bombing after midterms
US President Donald Trump rejected an Iranian proposal for a seven-day cease-fire Saturday, after the <em>Wall Street Journal<em> reported he told aides he expected to resume bombing after the Novembe...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.wsws.org/en/articles/... ....Reasoning that people who haven’t used their health insurance will never need it is the logic of someone who has never worried about a medical emergency that could spell bankruptcy overnight....
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Trump administration purges 760,000 from ACA Marketplace health plans, claiming fraud
The mass disenrollment of 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act plans is the latest bipartisan assault on healthcare that aims to drive millions of workers and their families deeper into poverty.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.wsws.org/en/articles/... The 250th anniversary of Section 44 arrives amid the systematic attack on the right to education. The US ruling class, implementing a presidential dictatorship and embarking on world war, is dismantling the public school system as part of the same drive.
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250 years since the Pennsylvania Constitution: The American Revolution and the origins of the public school
Pennsylvania's radical 1776 constitution issued the first American mandate for public schools. Its 250th anniversary arrives with the right to public education under attack.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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New York City experiences the second outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease this year
Inadequate control measures result in about 5,000 to 8,500 cases of Legionnaires’ disease currently diagnosed in the US each year.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Trump administration moves to gut Head Start, including mandating English-only classrooms
A proposed rule would strip out some 1,400 Head Start standards, hand class ratios to the states and mandate English-only instruction, deepening the administration’s assault on poor and immigrant fami...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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US government continues to torture gunshot victim Wilber Garces Perez
Four days after an ICE thug shot him in the back, Garces Perez remains imprisoned with a bleeding wound and a bullet near his spine, despite a specialist’s recommendation that it be surgically removed...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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White House bars CNN, MS NOW, Politico reporters from state dinner
The action appeared to be in direct defiance of a restraining order issued by a federal judge, requiring the Trump administration to restore access to the White House for the three media outlets.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Delcy Rodríguez thanks Trump at the UN: Chavismo and American fascism embrace
Nine months after US forces abducted Nicolás Maduro, his successor went to New York to thank his captor. Her appearance is the logical outcome of the “Bolivarian revolution” and of bourgeois nationali...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Mamdani hosts Trump, Trump threatens “annihilation” of 90 million Iranians: The DSA as an appendage of American imperialism
Mamdani’s silence on Iran is a political position expresses the DSA’s acceptance of, and support for, the global aims of American imperialism.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.wsws.org/en/articles/... Trump’s murderous language marks a new stage in the criminalization of imperialist foreign policy amid the eruption of global war.
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.wsws.org/en/articles/... The treatment of Garces Perez follows a now-familiar pattern. Federal agents shoot an immigrant worker, DHS brands the victim an “illegal alien,” the camera footage is missing or withheld, the agency investigates itself,
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Federal judge blocks deportation, as ICE continues torture of Wilber Garces Perez in Texas concentration camp
The wounded husband, father and DoorDash delivery driver remains isolated in ICE custody with a fractured collarbone and a bullet near his spine, while the agent who shot him remains unidentified and ...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Triumphal Arch, the East Wing bunker, these are not just vanity projects. They are signs that this madman is on the verge of plunging us into World War III and nuking Iran.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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The Smithfield meatpacking walkout and the toll of death in America’s workplaces
In the “richest country on earth,” corporations treat death on the job as a routine cost of production, and a worker is killed every 104 minutes.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Trump administration covered up deaths of US troops in war against Iran
At least 22 US troops have died in the US war against Iran, the Washington Post reported Friday, four more than the official death toll of 18.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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From the Declaration of Independence to the Third American Revolution
We are publishing here the report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US) given by Tom Mackaman. This report introduced the sixth resolution, “From the first to the third American R...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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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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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Trump’s torture boxes for immigrant detainees: Guantánamo Bay comes to America
From the torture cages in Florida to the killings in Minneapolis, the state is turning methods used against “enemies abroad” on those it treats as “the enemy within.”
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.wsws.org/en/articles/... Great events put people to the test. Sheeran and Pink have shown themselves to be self-centered weaklings or worse. Macklemore and the musicians who supported him by leaving the tour have shown courage, solidarity with the oppressed and a sense of justice.
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Rapper Macklemore booted from tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, other bands drop out in solidarity
All the musicians on the tour—except headliner Ed Sheeran—have withdrawn in solidarity with the outspoken artist, who has steadfastly opposed the genocide.
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.wsws.org/en/articles/... The vaccine works, and the government study proving it was suppressed. Transmission is rising, and the measurements were retroactively relabeled downward.
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The 13th COVID-19 wave and the further dismantling of US public health
The United States has entered its thirteenth COVID-19 wave as federal agencies suppress evidence of vaccine effectiveness, retroactively relabel transmission data, strip pandemic preparedness from res...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Drone hits Mykolaiv detention center holding Bogdan Syrotiuk—all prisoners reported safe
A drone struck the Mykolaiv pre-trial detention center where Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk is imprisoned. Bogdan and the other prisoners were not injured. The incident underscores the urgency of...
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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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The appeal of Bogdan Syrotiuk exposes a political frame-up
The appeal against Bogdan Syrotiuk’s 15-year sentence demonstrates that political views, journalism and socialist opposition to war were transformed into alleged acts of high treason without evidence ...
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