Class in Waterloo Region

Exploring issues of social class in Waterloo Region, working to enable change by understanding our local context through examples.

[Class in Waterloo Region @ClassIssuesInWR]

Watching genocide unfold live: we know what is happening & can act. We're on the verge of a holocaust: more than half of people in Gaza are currently being starved.

Waterloo Region hosts weapons companies/manufacturers aiding genocide - we must act now to stop this genocide.

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

According to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, the genocidal Israeli regime has now killed more than 10,000 infants and children since the start of its attack on the Gaza Strip on 7 October.

https://t.co/DZ4sXDjiob #gaza #genocide

[Blueprints of Disruption Podcast @BPofDisruption]

NEW EPISODE!

Anti-Imperialist Organizing

A discussion on how one organization is working to "intensify the class struggle here in the heart of the Empire".

w/The Alliance of Workers and Students (AWAS)

https://t.co/HM9f5oV4qW

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Remembering the Holocaust while helping with another one

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Workers Are Set To Block All Shipments & Transfers To Israel At 100 International Ports

The day of protest is set to take place on October 30 & will be an enormous day of action that will seek to cut arms shipments to Israel.

[Canadian Labour @CanadianLabour]

Canada has opposed the U.S. embargo on Cuba for decades. But its recent abstention at the UN raises serious concerns about whether we're bowing to pressure from Trump.
Canada must stand firm.
Tell the government to vote to end the embargo.
https://t.co/yj0u2h4iRC

[Canadian Dimension @CDN_Dimension]

On October 28, the United Nations will vote to condemn the US embargo on Cuba. Every Canadian government since 1992 has supported the resolution.

If Mark Carney is to make good on his call for a new global order, Canada must vote yes—and do much more. https://t.co/n94ZtEQir5

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

Stephen Harper was so impressed by Mark Carney's CEO investment summit that he said he wishes he had come up with the idea himself.

The former Conservative prime minister seemed to have nothing but praise in this speech for Carney.

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

NEW: A newly declassified report reveals that the CIA was actively involved in resettling Nazis in Canada and that a leading CIA officer in charge of resettlement operations was later the CIA’s representative in Ottawa.
https://t.co/sme8GSjWaC

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Walmart has long stymied attempts to unionize any part of its business.

Which is why the breakthrough union victory won by 800 workers at a Mississauga, Ontario, regional distribution center is worth closely examining. https://t.co/r5rFG6zCqp

[Marxist777 📕🇵🇸 @Marxist777]

What is happening in France, Albania, Spain, Italy and all over the world is capitalism in crisis.

The old world is crumbling, and the ruling class is desperately trying to stay on the stage of history.

This is a class war. Don’t let the reactionaries tell you otherwise.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Around four years ago, I was discussing the war in Ukraine with an Irish journalist on a balcony in Berlin. I told him that the West miscalculated and that NATO countries could not, in the long run, resolve the contradictions that this confrontation would unleash. Cracks would soon begin to emerge, and that, surely, was part of the calculus.

He seemed aghast. He repeated that mantra — apparently mandatory for Western journalists — that Putin hoped for his “full-scale invasion” to succeed in three days, that NATO had now dramatically expanded its border with Russia, and that the West was more united than ever. I told him that we should speak again in a few years.

We never did, but I wonder what he would say now. It is breathtaking how deeply Europe has transformed since then. The loss of affordable energy, now exacerbated by the NATO-backed US-Zionist war in Iran, is decimating its industrial base. In Palestine, Europe supported a colonial genocide to the hilt, destroying its political standing on the world stage.

With two pillars of its hegemony in tatters, Europe’s final recourse is militarization. It has launched a rearmament drive comparable in scale to that which preceded the First World War, it is actively toying with the apocalyptic danger of nuclear war, it is decimating the social democratic compact to pay for the transition to a war economy, and it is deploying extreme violence against its citizens to secure these policies.

European capital is on the back foot, and the objective conditions for fascism’s return to the political center are in place. It is clearer than ever that this crisis is only going to deepen, producing irreparable fractures in the edifice of Western power.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Western media: “What could the 'Houthis' possibly want?”

Yemenis: “Stop bombing us. Stop besieging us.”

Western media: “Their motives remain unclear.”

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Oh well then.

[Kimiko Shibata 🦋 @ESL_fairy]

Why would a school board supervisor meet with concerned parents when they can meet with… *checks notes*… real estate developers?

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

The Saudis broke the ceasefire in the first place and attacked the Houthis in a Yemeni airport. Condemnation only goes one way with this government

[Dimitri Lascaris @dimitrilascaris]

The con-man Mark Carney told the Davos crowd that his government would apply the same standards to allies and rivals.

Carney has not uttered a peep of criticism of Saudi attacks on Yemen, which have killed vastly more civilians than Ansar Allah has killed.

Not one peep.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Protests have spread to Belgium, half of Europe is now protesting against the poverty enforced by a handful of billionaires greed.

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

A reminder that OpenAI’s Sam Altman’s sister is suing him for sexual abuse. We hardly hear about it since violence against women is not only tolerated but a predatory, ritualistic ethos of male success

https://t.co/QtsVK6n5HW

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium.

People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.

[Jessa 🎙️🔻 @Jessa_McLean]

Do not keep quoting International law when Israel hasn’t signed on to be subjected to most of them.

And don’t selectively ignore the rulings which have reaffirmed Palestine’s right to ARMED resistance.

Centrists waiting for court rulings to liberate us from imperialism.

[Danielle Ryan @itsdaniryan]

Love how Israeli media is openly like "yes, we run torture camps" and Western media is like "nah, no you don't."