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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 2h

The October 18 “No Kings” demonstrations and the fight against Trump’s dictatorship

The entry of the working class into political struggle on its own independent basis will transform the entire situation.

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The October 18 “No Kings” demonstrations and the fight against Trump’s dictatorship

The more than 2,700 separate demonstrations, involving an estimated 7 million people, were, collectively, one of the largest political demonstrations in the history of the country.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt the Democratic Party would like to keep the protests contained within electoral politics. But many of the workers and youth we spoke to today are looking for other solutions to the crisis of capitalism.

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World Socialist Web Site on X: ""Every day, you wake up and Trump is signing some new law, breaking some constitutional right that we have. I think of Nazi Germany, and how things didn't happen overnight, but one day people woke up and they were in the middle of a war." #NoKings Newark, New Jersey https://t.co/hVIUgd1CIw" / X

"Every day, you wake up and Trump is signing some new law, breaking some constitutional right that we have. I think of Nazi Germany, and how things didn't happen overnight, but one day people woke up and they were in the middle of a war." #NoKings Newark, New Jersey https://t.co/hVIUgd1CIw

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 1d

Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests

The massive turnout showed that the effort to intimidate the population w/ fascist rhetoric, and military deployments failed—and in many cases backfired, drawing even larger crowds into the streets.
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Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests

Reflecting mass anger against attacks on democrats rights, rising inequality and fascism, millions of people have gathered at thousands of demonstrations against dictatorship.

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Joel Lesko @sunshowerlearning.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings Ashland Oregon. Joyful. Love for America. Free speech.

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Lynn Heider @lynntheheckheider.bsky.social · 1d

No kings. Oregon City, OR #NotaWarZone

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Christopher Nelson @wetriver.bsky.social · 1d

Thousands show up in Madras #NoKings @wyden.senate.gov

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Cedro Buckman @roguebass.bsky.social · 1d

Easily the biggest protest I’ve seen in Southern Oregon. #NoKings #SouthernOregon FDT

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John Brown Reloaded @angrytsun.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck to everyone going to a protest today, remember to stay with your comrades and watch out for undercover cops and kettling of protestors.

This is the perfect moment to spread class consciousness, it’ll take more than a protest to change this imperialist nation.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 2d

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez plead for GOP to negotiate, downplay Trump’s dictatorship

Throughout the event, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez touted their bipartisan credentials and their readiness to work with Republicans to reopen and fund Trump’s government.
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Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez plead for GOP to negotiate, downplay Trump’s dictatorship

The “Democratic socialists” were virtually silent on Trump’s drive to dictatorship, repeatedly touting their willingness to negotiate with the Republicans to reopen the government in exchange for an e...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 2d

If you are attending a #NoKingsDayOct18th rally tomorrow, the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS.org) urges you to fight for our policies by copying and distributing our leaflet.

#GeneralStrike #RankAndFileCommittees #IWARFC

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No Kings statement Oct 18.pdf

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 2d

Actress Diane Keaton dies at 79

The most substantial film in which Keaton appeared, the one with the most enduring and valuable influence, was Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981).

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Actress Diane Keaton dies at 79

Keaton, with her freshness and liveliness, her “free-spiritedness,” spoke to a generation—or generations—that were shedding stale morals and old prejudices in the US, including in some cases anti-comm...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 2d

Trump authorizes CIA regime change operations against Venezuela

Washington’s long history of covert interventions—coups, assassinations, rigging elections, and corrupting unions—now unfolds without even a pretense of plausible deniability.

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Trump authorizes CIA regime change operations against Venezuela

Trump did not equivocate in acknowledging his extraordinary escalation of US imperialist aggression in Venezuela and beyond.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 3d

Jacobin magazine attempts to conceal the pro-genocide record of @aoc.bsky.social

It is a testament to the deep dishonesty of Jacobin’s article that the statement withdrawing the DSA's endorsement of Ocasio-Cortez is never mentioned in the course of the interview.

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<em>Jacobin </em>magazine attempts to conceal the pro-genocide record of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The DSA, through <em>Jacobin</em>, is attempting to rewrite the record of support for genocide and present the Democratic Party and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not as defenders and enablers of the genoci...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 4d

Leaders of Republican youth movement praise Hitler, joke about Holocaust in internal discussion

The messages shared on the chat are not those of fringe internet trolls. They are political operatives and aspiring leaders of the Republican Party...

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Leaders of Republican youth movement praise Hitler, joke about Holocaust in internal discussion

Following the exposure of the Telegram messages between Young Republican operatives, filled with admiration for Hitler and racial slurs, Vice President JD Vance has repeatedly defended the fascists as...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 4d

No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!

The entire historical experience of the 1930s demonstrated that the fight against fascism cannot be separated from the struggle against capitalism and for socialism.

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No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship!

The October 18 demonstrations express deep hostility to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a fascistic dictatorship, but what is lacking, and what is most critical, is a clear program and co...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 5d

Trump’s attempt to equate the Democrats with “socialist” and even “semi-communist” policies is false. In fact, Democratic administrations enacted these programs many decades ago in order to stave off the threat of revolution.

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Trump preparing target list of “semi-communist” federal programs to be eliminated

The would-be dictator did not elaborate, but clearly further massive cuts are being planned for New Deal and Great Society-era programs of the 1930s and 1960s such as Social Security, Medicare and Med...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 5d

Subu Vedam, falsely imprisoned for 43 years, seized by ICE for deportation

Subu Vedam’s exoneration and immediate seizure by ICE for deportation are an indication of the type of retaliatory “justice” the Trump administration is seeking to cultivate.

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Subu Vedam, falsely imprisoned for 43 years, seized by ICE for deportation

The 64-year-old Vedam, who came to the US from India as a baby, was exonerated and released from prison in Pennsylvania, then immediately detained by the immigration Gestapo.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 5d

The victims were young and old, recent hires at AES and veteran workers, and like so many other workplace fatalities in America and around the world, they leave behind grieving spouses, children and other loved ones and friends.

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All 16 victims identified in Tennessee munitions factory explosion

The victims were young and old, recent hires at AES and veteran workers, and leave behind grieving spouses, children and other loved ones and friends.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 5d

Trump, GOP, neo-Nazis honor racist Charlie Kirk with highest official honor in Rose Garden ceremony

The canonization of Kirk is being used to accelerate the criminalization of political opposition to capitalism & the transformation of the US into a police state.
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Trump, Republicans, neo-Nazis honor racist Charlie Kirk with highest official honor in Rose Garden ceremony

At a Rose Garden event attended by the entire cabinet and far-right leadership, Trump framed Kirk’s death as a “demonic act” carried out by the “left.”

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6d

The AI slop / The reality

Joe Biden tweet:

@JoeBiden
I am deeply grateful and relieved that this day has come – for the last living 20 hostages who have been through unimaginable hell and are finally reunited with their families and loved ones, and for the civilians in Gaza who have experienced immeasurable loss and will finally get the chance to rebuild their lives.

The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line.

Now, with the backing of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on a path to peace that I hope endures and a future for Israelis and Palestinians alike with equal measures of peace, dignity, and safety.
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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 5d

“Peace” through genocide: Trump proclaims “historic dawn” for Middle East on the bones of the Palestinians

The Zionist state can only be maintained through genocide and as a garrison outpost of US imperialism.

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“Peace” through genocide: Trump proclaims “historic dawn” for Middle East on the bones of the Palestinians

The only way to realise the democratic and social rights of the long-suffering masses of the Middle East and establish a genuine basis for peaceful coexistence is through the fight for the perspective...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran Mamdani is seeking the approval of New York’s developers and landlords—some of the most parasitic gangster elements of the ruling class, denizens of the underworld out of which the current occupant of the White House crawled.

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Zohran Mamdani schmoozes with executives and landlords, praises Trump phony Gaza “ceasefire”

In the lead-up to the November mayoral election the Democratic Socialists of America member is doing everything in his power to reassure the ruling class his campaign presents no threat to their profi...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 7d

16 workers killed in Tennessee explosion: Industrial carnage followed by media cover-up

The same system that sends workers to die on the battlefield also sacrifices them in the factories that feed the war machine.

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16 workers killed in Tennessee explosion: Industrial carnage followed by media cover-up

Sixteen workers were incinerated in a US weapons plant—the largest mass death in an industrial disaster since the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine explosion—and the news networks and other corporate media s...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 9d

Trump’s war on American cities escalates, as troops arrive in Memphis and immigration Gestapo assault and kidnap Chicago residents

Gov JB Pritzker, following in the footsteps of Gavin Newsom, has deployed State police to protect the immigration Gestapo
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Trump’s war on American cities escalates, as troops arrive in Memphis and immigration Gestapo assault and kidnap Chicago residents

Far from opposing Trump’s coming dictatorship, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, following in the footsteps of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has deployed State police to protect the immigration Gesta...

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 10d

Fascist gathering in the White House signals mass repression and violence

The #October18 protest demonstrations should mark the beginning of a counter-offensive against Trump’s dictatorial and fascistic rampage.

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Fascist gathering in the White House signals mass repression and violence

The White House has been transformed into the headquarters of a conspiracy to legitimize fascism, brand anti-fascism as “terrorism,” and mobilize the repressive machinery of the state against the popu...

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