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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 12h

Robin Blackburn on Andrew Hartman’s new book on Marx and the US. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Triumphs and Travails of American Marxism

Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

www.thenation.com

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 10h

I still hate Thatcher.

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 14h

@alexcallinicos.bsky.social for @socialistworker.bsky.social : Will #Trump make the ceasefire stick?: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Alex Callinicos: Will Trump make the ceasefire stick? - Socialist Worker

The Zionist state has an appalling record of breaking the agreements it’s signed

socialistworker.co.uk

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

“They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…They do not bear arms. They have no iron. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” Columbus on the Arawaks, exterminated by European colonialism, and barbarity.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
#FuckColumbusDay

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck #ColumbusDay and the butchery that passes for "Western civilisation".

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

#Thatcher100 - the only good thing she ever did:

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Parsnip Day, 22nd day of Vendémiaire in Year 234 of the French Revolutionary Calendar.

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 1d

RMT to ballot Eurostar staff for strike action

Rail union RMT, will ballot Eurostar members for strike action in a row over safety and conditions at work.
rmtunion.org/4mY5yIL

RMT to ballot Eurostar staff for strike action

Rail union RMT, will ballot Eurostar members for strike action in a row over safety and conditions at work.

rmtunion.org

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

The @mstaronline.bsky.social ran my letter two years ago. The racist #SuellaBraverman was still #Tory #HomeSecretary and was trying to stop the pro-Palestinian movement.
On Saturday 11/10/25 600,000 of us were on the streets of London for #Gaza chanting #FromTheRiverToTheSeaPalestineWillBeFree

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

‘We have to be in the streets and we have to protect people’: interview with US writer @saraparetsky.bsky.social : socialistworker.co.uk/us-elections...

‘We have to be in the streets and we have to protect people’: interview with US writer Sara Paretsky - Socialist Worker

Sara Paretsky is the award-winning author of the hugely popular VI Warshawski novels. Sara spoke to Judy Cox about militarisation and the threat to democracy in Donald Trump’s America. SW: What have ...

socialistworker.co.uk

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 1d

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 2d

@sashasimic.bsky.social in The @mstaronline.bsky.social says racist #KeirStarmer is to the right of #Thatcherite #Heseltine on immigration....

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 2d

The shocking truth about the photograph of the ‘ordinary’ Nazi and its chilling message for us today: www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

The shocking truth about the photo of the ‘ordinary’ Nazi and its chilling message

It is the picture which showed the true horror of the Second World War – a man blithely shooting Jewish prisoners and watching them fall into a mass grave. His identity has finally been revealed and i...

www.independent.co.uk

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 3d

So sad - the world’s lost some of its joie de vivre.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 3d

The #Solidarity movement for #Palestine put 600,000 on the streets of London today.
Was proud to march with my @socialistworker.bsky.social comrades.
The movement for Palestine is still huge.
It is one answer to the racism of scum like #Jenrick #Farage and #Robinson.

Photo by #JoHolland

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 3d

Like his Nazi predecessors #NigelFarage is denouncing teachers who refuse to peddle racist myths.
#Solidarity with the #NEU.
#SmashUKIP

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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 4d

Forty years since the astonishing Orson Welles died. Thanks to Joseph McBride for the link to this documentary. youtu.be/ZK9myZTvJkA

Remembering Orson

YouTube video by Ray Kelly / WELLESNET

youtu.be

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Joseph Choonara @jchoonara.bsky.social · 4d

Heading in to negotiations on day ten of strike action at the University of Leicester. This is my negotiating team.

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4d

How the police "protect" society: Man found guilty of possessing more than 1,300 photographs and videos of children being abused was a police informer who infiltrated prominent environmental and animal rights protests for six years in the 1990s and 2000s: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Man convicted of 38 paedophile offences revealed as police informer who spied on UK activists

Trial of Nick Gratwick, 68, who schemed to rape children as young as six, exposes previous role among green protesters

www.theguardian.com

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4d

The "new order" proclaimed from the podium by the racist shadow justice minister @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social at the #Tory Party conference isn't "new" at all.
We were celebrating the 80th anniversary of its defeat just this Summer.
Keep the promise #NeverAgain.
@standuptoracismuk.bsky.social

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4d

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally.

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4d

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally.

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4d

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally

Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4d

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4d

10 (or 19) October 1609 - The birthday of the revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers. During the English civil war they took over enclosed lands and farmed them communally