Justice for Tyrin Johnson! Release all the video! Demanding to open police archives is an elementary act of self-defense to expose the crimes of the capitalist state.
Special episode of Gimme a Break! Lital and Edward are joined by Tom from @twfu_now to talk about the “red wave” elections that weren’t. We talk about why workers see DSA as little different than the hated libs and how to go forward. Listen here:
https://t.co/ApJxY45xML
New via Haymarket, the paperback version of “Notebooks for the Grandchildren,” memoir of Ukrainian Trotskyist Mikhail Baitalsky, translated and edited by Marilyn Vogt-Downey! See link below!
#OTD 1892, in 12-hour-battle during Homestead strike against Carnegie Steel Company, workers defeat attempt by 300 Pinkertons on barges to land and break strike. Days later, Pennsylvania governor sends National Guard troops to break strike.
“I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland.” —Mumia Abu-Jamal
On July 3rd, 1982, Mumia was unjustly sentenced to death. 44 years later he remains wrongfully imprisoned.
Let America 250 be a rallying cry to free all political prisoners from the US to Palestine.
FREE MUMIA! FREE THE HOLY LAND 5! FREE DR. HUSSAM! FREE THEM ALL!
New Gimme a Break! Lital and Edward are joined by Elliot from @foroneunion and Chantelle from @MaoistCommUnion and @Teamsters_Mblz to talk Labor Notes, how to build a fighting workers movement, and why DSA’s labor strategy isn’t up to snuff. Listen here:
https://t.co/jrcaLAMS9q
#OTD 1894, troops sent by President Cleveland arrive to break strike against #Pullman railway car company, whose workers had been on strike since May against 25% wage cut. In late June, under leadership of #Debs, 150+ thousand railway workers refuse to handle Pullman cars.
#OTD 1835, some 2000, many children, strike for two months, to shorten 13.5-hour workday. One of first strikes in US, and first of many NJ textile strikes. Read groundbreaking Marxist analysis of youth oppression in Women & Revolution: https://t.co/YfvOQY5Dgk
Jacobin is right! DSA’s strategy is Harringtonism without Harrington. Drop the anti-communism and open support for Israel and you get today’s DSA plan to elect Dems as lesser-evil to GOP and “positive good” for socialism. Wrong then, wrong now.