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"To the factories, not to the Democratic Party!" Writer for the World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/authors/Sandy-Engli… Educators Rank-and-File Committee www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/educa…

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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rapper #Macklemore booted from tour for pro-Palestinian remarks, other bands drop out in solidarity www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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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All the musicians on the tour—except headliner Ed Sheeran—have withdrawn in solidarity with the outspoken artist, who has steadfastly opposed the genocide.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ICE Moved Hundreds of Detainees from Delaney Hall as Protests Raged Outside www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/09/10/d...
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ICE Moved Hundreds of Detainees from Delaney Hall as Protests Raged Outside
According to new data, more than 700 people were transferred out of the Newark detention facility in what advocates say was an attempt to break a strike by detainees.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Turkish preface to A Socialist Opponent of the NATO War in Ukraine: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Turkish preface to <em>A Socialist Opponent of the NATO War in Ukraine: The Case of Bogdan Syrotiuk</em>
The Turkish edition of this volume appears under conditions in which the International Committee of the Fourth International has intensified its campaign for Bogdan’s freedom globally following the ve...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
WSWS readers in Asia demand the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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WSWS readers in Asia demand the release of Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Bogdan has not done anything wrong; he is making a great contribution to world peace and democracy. He is uniting Ukrainian and Russian workers against a war that does not belong to them.” — A young ...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
La France Insoumise calls for the freeing of Bogdan Syrotiuk #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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La France Insoumise calls for the freeing of Bogdan Syrotiuk
Mélenchon is a front-runner in next year’s French presidential elections, which currently are expected to produce a runoff between Mélenchon and a neo-fascist candidate.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ICFI members from Britain and France interviewed by London Tamil TV on campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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ICFI members from Britain and France interviewed by London Tamil TV on campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk
During a 31-minute programme, "The Ukraine-Russia conflict planting the seeds for a world war", the presenter Anas posed questions regarding the Ukraine war and the arrest and sentencing of Bogdan.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Historians Wendy Goldman, Lewis Siegelbaum, other academics and workers demand freedom for #BogdanSyrotiuk #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Historians Wendy Goldman, Lewis Siegelbaum, other academics and workers demand freedom for Bogdan Syrotiuk
Letters demanding the release of the Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk continue to arrive at the Pervomaisk City District Court and the Mykolaiv Court of Appeal from historians, workers and opponent...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk launches a new website #FreeBogdan #Ukraine #FreeSpeech www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk launches a new website
The new platform at FreeBogdan.org gathers the petition, the letters of protest and the statements of support in one place, and gives every reader a tool to write to the Ukrainian courts in both Engli...
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Mr. Bees @workers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“War is the classical capitalist resolution of the crisis of overproduction and overaccumulation: the physical destruction of capital, the seizure of resources and markets… and the disciplining of the working class under conditions of national emergency.“ Much to consider here—>
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An assessment of the decade of socialist revolution and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to Aug...
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Liz Cabrera @sanaenfermera.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Brian Morales, a US citizen deported to Mexico finally brought back to the US by his attorneys who launched a fight for his return.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This week in #history: August 31-September 6 ▪️Volkswagen workers strike in Puebla, Mexico ends ▪️Soviet pilot defects to the United States with MiG-25 ▪️Bandaranaike founds the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ▪️British gunboats bombard the Chinese city of Wanhsien www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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This week in history: August 31-September 6
Volkswagen workers strike in Puebla, Mexico ends; Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko defects to the United States with MiG-25; S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike founds the Sri Lanka Freedom Party; British gunboats bomba...
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ICE just arrested Sisi Rose—a 33-year-old Indigenous U.S. citizen—for protesting their illegal detention of Native Americans outside their Sacramento office! Locking up First Nations people on their own stolen land is peak tyranny. End this lawless terror and free Sisi Rose now 🎥 916EyesOnICE
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Living Record is without question a profound and moving memorial, and one whose significance goes beyond the killing fields of #Gaza. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Online exhibition: <em>The Living Record: Gaza’s journalists remember their martyred colleagues</em>
The exhibition documents the lives, courage and determination of Palestinian journalists murdered by the Israeli regime in Gaza.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets. #Ukraine www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Ukrainian government reinters another Nazi collaborator
The fascistic Ukrainian regime repatriated the remains of the founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yehven Konovalets.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Leading fighter for Julian Assange’s freedom calls for mobilisation behind Bogdan Syrotiuk #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Leading fighter for Julian Assange’s freedom calls for mobilisation behind Bogdan Syrotiuk
Maxine Walker emphasised that the fight for Bogdan’s freedom means combating NATO’s pro-war messaging and falsifications: “In my experience, the narrative surrounding the Ukraine war is the most succe...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Johannes Stern discusses the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk on The Katie Halper Show #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Johannes Stern discusses the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk on The Katie Halper Show
Johannes Stern joins The Katie Halper Show to discuss the 15-year sentence against the 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk and the international campaign to win his freedom.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
At least a dozen left-wing political organizations in 11 countries have publicly backed the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison on August 10 for opposing the war. #FreeBogdan www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Left-wing organizations in Latin America, Europe, North America take up the defense of imprisoned Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
At least a dozen left-wing political organizations in 11 countries have publicly backed the campaign to free Bogdan Syrotiuk, the 27-year-old Ukrainian socialist sentenced to 15 years in prison on Aug...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Total Whitewash”: New Pentagon Report Claims U.S. Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes theintercept.com/2026/08/11/w...
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“Total Whitewash”: New Pentagon Report Claims U.S. Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes
Government officials told The Intercept the War Department’s latest civilian casualty report was “sickening” and a “joke.”
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly open.substack.com/pub/caitlinj...
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If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly
Reading by Tim Foley:
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
At least one of those poseurs has ALREADY "done an AOC" & announced they'll vote for the incumbent Speaker even before the General "election". The DNC estab bitching on TV adds insult to injury 'cos you know it's just bad theater. The DSA is a DNC sheepdog op and nothing more. (cartoon Apr 2015)
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Jude Jackson @judejack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party An Assessment of the Decade of Socialist Revolution and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party - World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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An Assessment of the Decade of Socialist Revolution and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party
We are publishing here the opening report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), given by David North, the national chairman of the SEP. The congress was held from August 2 to Aug...
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Federal agents are terrorizing Seattle neighborhoods, ripping families apart right outside local cafes like Javasti on 35th & 95th. No one is safe! Stand up, speak out, and protect your neighbors! ICE out of Seattle now! 🎥 boringjournalism
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#SocialistSunday #KnowYourEnemy #WeAreAllHamas
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#SocialistSunday #IranWar #poverty (cartoon May 2026) sinkers.org/stage/?p=4258
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
These electronic shackles—bound to a wrist and ankle—are a degrading form of modern-day slavery. Forcing a pregnant Haitian mother and her husband through this daily humiliation while they try to build a life is morally wrong. Digital incarceration is not freedom. Human dignity NOW! 🎥freedomnews.tv
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
NYC Tenants Sue Over Spying Operation in Public Housing @nysfocus.com
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A new humiliation. ICE is calling in Haitian immigrants in Ohio only to shackle them with ankle monitors that require constant, degrading charging routines. As leader Vilès Dorsainvil warns, treating legal, hard-working residents like criminals isn't policy—it's pure human degradation! 🎥HaitianTimes
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Lucille Ball--actress, comedian, producer & film-studio executiver--was born #OTD in 1911. In 1962, she bought out Desi Arnaz's interest in Desilu Productions & became the 1st woman to own & run a major TV studio. Desilu produced many popular TV series including Mission: Impossible & #StarTrek. 🖖
This classic black-and-white studio portrait captures the legendary Lucille Ball (1911–1989), an American actress, comedian, and pioneering studio executive. Best known for her iconic role in I Love Lucy, Ball was the first woman to lead a major television studio, Desilu Productions. In this elegant, close-up composition, Ball looks directly at the camera with a calm and poised expression. Her light-colored hair is styled in elaborate, high-volume rolls that sweep upward from her forehead, typical of the sophisticated 1940s glamour. She wears a shimmering, light-toned jacket with a subtle grid pattern that catches the light. Her ensemble is accented by large, round, sparkling cluster earrings that draw attention to her face. The lighting is soft yet focused, highlighting her perfectly applied makeup—defined brows, dark mascara, and a polished, dark lip color. The background is softly out of focus, featuring a neutral, textured wall with organic, leaf-like shadows that create a sense of depth.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The aspirations that drove hundreds of thousands to the polls—an end to genocide and war, to social inequality, to the dictatorship of money over political life—cannot be realized through the Democratic Party. #ElSayed www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Michigan primary shows continued shift to the left in US
The victory of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic Senate nomination is a significant repudiation of the pro-Israel policy of the Democratic Party leadership, which has refused to condemn the Gaza g...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Parts of #Odyssey are successful, other portions are not at all. In any event, it has become without question an important social and cultural phenomenon, perhaps a barometer. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Christopher Nolan’s <em>The Odyssey</em>: A social and cultural phenomenon
Tens of millions of people worldwide have already seen the new film, and sales of Homer’s epic in book form are brisk as well.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Israeli forces killed at least 26 people in #Gaza over the weekend, striking apartment blocks, tent camps and the medicine warehouses of a hospital in the territory’s deadliest days in weeks. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Israel launches massacre in Gaza, as Trump threatens Iran with “decapitation”
Israeli forces killed at least 26 people in Gaza over the weekend, striking apartment blocks, tent camps and the medicine warehouses of a hospital in the territory’s deadliest days in weeks.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Farewell to Herma Huber, a fighter for #Trotskyism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Farewell to Herma Huber, a fighter for Trotskyism
Herma’s willingness to help others was almost boundless, but she was also a fighter for justice and equality and, above all, against war and fascism.”
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#Columbia University graduate student union drops demand for divestment from pro-genocide companies #Palestine #rankandfilecommittees www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Columbia University graduate student union drops demand for divestment from pro-genocide companies
Under pressure from the UAW bureaucracy, the leadership of Student Workers of Columbia, the UAW-affiliate, dropped its demand the university administration divest from companies and institutions tied...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
In a country where anti-communism is virtually a state religion, and socialist views have been largely excluded from official politics for nearly a century, nearly 40 percent of registered voters said they would consider voting for a socialist candidate for president www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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American workers and youth are turning towards socialism
A series of new opinion polls give a glimpse of the rapid shift to the left among working people in response to Trump’s wars, inflation and attacks on democratic rights, and the refusal of the Democra...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Register your opposition to this incitement to violence! Email the UAW at feedback@uaw.org to demand that it publicly repudiate the threat against Lehman, with a copy to the Will Lehman campaign at info@willforuawpresident.org www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Oppose the death threat against UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman!
The IWA-RFC calls on workers and all defenders of democratic rights to denounce this incitement to violence against Will Lehman and demand its unequivocal public repudiation by the UAW.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Palestinians launch #TheyLiedtoYou campaign to debunk Gaza 'ceasefire' narrative www.middleeasteye.net/trending/the...
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Palestinians launch #TheyLiedtoYou campaign to debunk Gaza 'ceasefire' narrative
Activists and concerned social media users spotlight Israel's ongoing genocide in the besieged enclave
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Plain white craft vans: The "Black Helicopters" of the streets.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
To stop the ICE murder machine, build a movement in the working class! Go to wsws.org/stopice #StopICE youtube.com/shorts/IhH_F...
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To stop the ICE murder machine, build a movement in the working class!
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The statement makes no reference to the hundreds of Palestinian journalists, poets, scholars, filmmakers, visual artists and intellectuals who have been deliberately liquidated by the IDF as part of its genocidal policies. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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PEN America president resigns over organization’s pro-Zionist statement
The president of PEN America has resigned over an article published by the organization that blames discrimination against Israeli and Jewish writers on cultural boycotts by anti-genocide activists.
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oh, christ, i need a fuckin' drink. #CapitolHill
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"Scoundrels raised from the dust by the merits of their vices." -- Swift
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We cannot let #ICELawlessness continue! Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a 52-year-old, kind & very hard-working man "who lived here for 35 years, raising 3 sons with his wife & was dedicated to giving his family the American dream.” He did not deserve to be murdered by ICE! Speak out!
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
LATEST'N'GREATEST: "Screwed Blue And Tattooed" sinkers.org/stage/?p=4284 #Platner #Democrats #Maine #Nazism #Fascism #Rape #AbuGhraib #Iraq As I post this, we're still waiting to hear if the Nazi tattoo-wearing, woman-harassing, domestic violence-committing DNC Senatorial candidate is...
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
With the #WorldCup final approaching, is now the time for New York transit workers to prepare a strike? www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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With the World Cup final approaching, is now the time for New York transit workers to prepare a strike?
With public attention throughout the world focused on the World Cup, transit workers have an unprecedented opportunity to go on the offensive.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The purpose of the #Prairieland prosecution is to treat opposition to ICE, possession of left-wing literature and association with political activists as terrorism. The target is left-wing, anti-capitalist and socialist opposition. youtube.com/shorts/Wz-Ks...
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Prairieland defendants get 556 year sentence
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Palestinians have a right to exist. Iran has the right of self defense.
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The present government, and the social order over which it presides, are in every sense a repudiation of the American Revolution and of the principles that found their most profound expression in the Declaration of Independence. #July4 www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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250 years since the Declaration of Independence
The 250th anniversary of the founding document of the American Revolution is being marked by the staggering crisis and decay of those original democratic principles.
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Mike Flugennock @flugennock.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Ukrainian-Polish diplomatic crisis over Nazi collaboration exposes NATO war with Russia www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Ukrainian-Polish diplomatic crisis over Nazi collaboration exposes NATO war with Russia
The diplomatic crisis over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s promotion of anti-Polish Nazi-collaborationist forces during World War II is stripping away the political lies in which the NATO imp...
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