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<em>Life of a Showgirl</em>: Taylor Swift’s latest self-portrait

stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 1d

Life of a Showgirl: #TaylorSwift latest self-portrait. The new album confirms Swift’s indifference to virtually anything outside her bubble of fame, wealth and romance. While an artist can ignore it, the world, and youth in particular, need more. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The new album confirms Swift’s indifference to virtually anything outside her bubble of fame, wealth and romance.

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

stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 2d

After the June No Kings, Trump sent troops to 5 cities. #NoKingsOct18 demonstrated a force that can defeat dictatorship but Trump prepares military under the Insurrection Act. The #SEP program for the power of the working class needs to be implemented. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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.

Letter from Christchurch building collapse victims in New Zealand to the families of the Tennessee explosives plant disaster

stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 2d

Letter from Christchurch, #NewZealand building collapse victims in New Zealand to the families of the #Tennessee explosives plant #disaster. The lives-over-profits capitalist system destroys lives globally in many ways and must be abolished by the working class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Maan Alkaisi, whose wife was one of 115 people killed in the preventable collapse in 2011, addressed the families of the 16 people killed in the Accurate Energetic Systems munitions factory explosion ...

This week in history: October 20-26

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stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 2d

This week in history: October 20-26. 25, 50, 75, 100 years ago. 50 years ago, a Soviet Union space probe sent the 1st photo from the surface of another planet, Venus. Capitalism already expands war preparation into space, and seeks to claim private territory on the moon. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Ivory Coast military coup leader ousted; Soviet Venera probes send back first images of Venus; Australian government outlaws Communist Party; Fascist Italy expands Somalia domain.

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

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Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

The recent No Kings protests showed that Trump is not all-powerful. At the same time, the massive and deep opposition to dictatorship will be derailed unless it becomes a revolutionary movement for socialism. Contact the Socialist Equality Party. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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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Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 3d

Giant turnout in Austin, Texas

I’ve seen estimates of an upper limit of 8.5 million participants on Oct 18
#NoKings

Paul Underbrink @punder.bsky.social · 3d

Another view of the march, crossing the lake.

Raila Odinga’s funeral turns into another Ruto government massacre

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Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

The lesson of Raila Odinga’s death is that Kenya’s future cannot be built through the politics of bourgeois nationalism, but only through the independent struggle of workers and youth against the capitalist order that Odinga defended. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Nothing could more starkly capture the bankruptcy of Odinga’s legacy than the massacre that unfolded at his funeral, carried out by the “broad-based” Kenyan government he helped forge.

Texas State University upholds firing of Professor Tom Alter for political speech

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Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

Texas State University fired Prof. Thomas Alter, a historian of labor and the American left, for his political remarks. This is an assault on freedom of speech and political organization, and on college students' right to education. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

A letter to Alter reveals that his firing is due to his advocacy for socialism.

Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests

stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 3d

Mass #NoKingsDayOct18th demonstrations of millions likely largest protest in US history including small rural American towns & in Europe too. Calls to mobilize the working class for an #GeneralStrike have increased. Join the Socialist Equality Party. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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

Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests

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stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 3d

Mass "#NoKings" demonstrations of millions likely largest protest in US history including small rural American towns & in Europe too. Calls to mobilize the working class for an #GeneralStrike have increased. Join the Socialist Equality Party. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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

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

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Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 3d

On CNN the other day, AOC and Bernie Sanders displayed their craven willingness to negotiate with the Republicans on reopening the government. They breathed not a word about the advanced plans for fascist dictatorship. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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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stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 4d

But from Sanders then nothing except keep with the olgarch-bound, bi-partisan-negotiating with fascists Democrats. The socialist strategy: www.wsws.org/eticles/2025...

Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests

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atomsdna.bsky.social @atomsdna.bsky.social · 4d

Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests. 'Mass demonstrations likely largest protest in US history.’ #NoKings #NoKingsInAmerica www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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

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

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Emory Like Memory @emorymemory.bsky.social · 4d

No Kings, Portland, Oregon

Giant mass of Oregonians - stretching down the entire waterfront across bridges and throughout downtown - begin to march

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stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 7d

And in one of the two political factions of the oligarchs.

stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 7d

#NoKings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the working class against Trump’s dictatorship! Eestablish genuine democracy based on socialequality. The Socialist Equality Party calls on all workers and young people to build rank-and-file committees, join the #SEP. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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...

Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the Democratic Party

stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 7d

#Mamdani channels growing opposition into the dead end of the #Democrat Party. In the face of Trump's drive to #dictatorship, Mamdani's mild reforms are not a challenge to the oligarchs' rule but rather continued political suffocation of real working class power. #DSA www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Offering a reform program far more modest than those of garden-variety liberals in the 1960s, the Mamdani campaign serves to disarm working people in New York City—and nationally—in the face of the Tr...

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

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Erik Schreiber @socialistschreiber.bsky.social · 7d

The Rose Garden ceremony honoring Charlie Kirk was an obscenity. Trump is openly promoting neo-Nazis and racists as he prepares a crackdown on political opposition. The working class can and must put an end to this atrocity. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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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stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 8d

You agree with US imperialism back to the Russian Revolution. That logic makes the US an extension of the British Empire. Your "how Ukrainians remember the Maiden " does not apply to Bogdan Syrtiuk & many others. Only 4 months left, so ok for coup? The divide is too great for further discussion.

Is Russia an imperialist state? A letter from a Russian socialist to David North

stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 8d

You do not comment to the role of the US but also not on the brutal detention of Bogdan Syriutuk for promoting the Trotskyist position of mobilizing the working class of both Ukraine and Russia against both their oligarchies as the necessary way to end the war, with the same applicable to the US.

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stevelightwsws.bsky.social @stevelightwsws.bsky.social · 8d

Most directly to your point of including Russia as imperialist, it is not, in the scientific sense of the Marxist analysis of Lenin's 1916 "Imperialism", explaining WW1. I refer you to "Is Russia an imperialist state? A letter from a Russian socialist to David North" at www.wsws.org/en/articles/....

The <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> has received this letter from a Russian socialist, commenting on a letter written by David North, posted on the WSWS on April 2.