Debra Watson

Educator, Retired. SEP/ICFI, Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee/International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees

[James Clayton @JamesClay1917]

🧵I have been arguing with Austrian "economists" about the source of value again. This primer from #socialismAI provides a concise summation of what's wrong with the arguments of the Austrian school of economic falsification & mystification. 1/3
https://t.co/Un1LKjj7mL

[David Walsh @DavidWSWSarts]

"I have been a nurse for 47 years. There’s so much change that’s taken place, and a lot of it not for the better" - “This is capitalism gone awry. It’s just not working for everyday people”: A veteran nurse speaks about worsening conditions in healthcare
https://t.co/J9gmKDzlwt

[James Clayton @JamesClay1917]

My latest: "The celebration of the fascist war criminal Melnyk by the Ukrainian oligarchy is part of the systematic rehabilitation of fascism worldwide, as the ruling class prepares for even greater crimes as part of its descent into a new world war."
https://t.co/41GKglF1Zs

[Socialist Equality Party (US) @SEP_US]

UAW apparatus shuts down grad student strike at Harvard University: The political issues https://t.co/fVLtAqYHEm

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

The radicalism of the youth of the 1960 was not "drug inspired." It was a response to Vietnam, the struggle for civil rights, and, even more fundamentally, the fresh and not-forgotten horrors of the two World Wars. The 1917 October Revolution had not disappeared from memory, capitalism and anti-communism were in bad odor, Stalinism was increasingly discredited, and there was a revival of interest in Trotsky, whose extraordinary books were recognized as political and literary masterworks. This resurgence was suppressed by the reactionary political climate of the Reagan-Thatcher years to which Mr. Luce was exposed, to his own misfortune, during his intellectually formative years.

But Mr. Luce correctly detects a process of radicalization among the world's youth. The question is, at what point will this radicalization break beyond the bounds of the media-vetted pseudo-leftism of people like Sanders and Mamdani and reestablish contact with the the genuine Marxian-socialist political perspective and culture that was exemplified in the October Revolution and figures like Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg. This break must and will occur, and the rediscovery of Trotsky's extraordinary political legacy and writing will be a critical element of the reemergence of Marxism as a mass socialist movement based on the working class.

[Socialist Equality Party (US) @SEP_US]

My Life could just as well have been given the title, Our Epoch. Even after the passage of a century, the autobiography has not been overtaken by history. We are living in a world that #Trotsky would understand

https://t.co/SPTgjm42qF

[David Walsh @DavidWSWSarts]

“Over 10 million people with long COVID would go entirely undetected by the diagnostic code that health systems and policymakers rely on to track the disease burden” - Long COVID affects twice as many Americans as official counts show, new AI study finds
https://t.co/IbE5WKCnqB

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

WSWS speaks to Australian disability advocate Megan Spindler-Smith on Labor’s NDIS cuts https://t.co/QXJQkQyZxp

[Debra Watson @DebraDSW]

“Labor share of income hits record low as corporate profits soar” … “Corporate profits are soaring. After taxes, they now take 12.3 percent of national output, far above their postwar average of 7.3 percent…”
https://t.co/AzS4PC8uFc

[Socialist Equality Party (US) @SEP_US]

On Friday morning, for the third time in less than two months, 1,300 workers at the auto parts plant voted down a pro-company tentative agreement brought forward by the United Auto Workers apparatus.

https://t.co/6WP5tZR9E8

[John Wilson @JohnWilsonWSWS]

FILM: "Reds" (Warren Beatty, 1981)
https://t.co/XfptnXLIAR
(3 hrs 15 mins)
Free on YouTube

IMO it is still astonishing that this film was produced by a Hollywood studio.

Perhaps American capitalism was comfortable that Stalinism had so discredited Marxism and Communist that there was no threat from a film which supported the October Revolution and the first workers' state?

--

BELOW, FROM THE WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE:

... Many people may be familiar with the name of John “Jack” Reed from the 1981 movie Reds, in which Warren Beatty portrayed the intrepid and principled journalist and for which Beatty won the Academy Award for best director.

What the film cannot convey, among other things, however, is the vital, muscular and poetic quality that made Reed’s writing so influential in his time and to later generations. Reds only hints at the full complexity of the man who, more than any American writer of his generation, followed the demands of his political conscience to their revolutionary conclusions. ...

FROM Author of Ten Days That Shook the World: 100 years since US socialist journalist John Reed’s death
Sandy English @Sandy_English , James Macdonald,
2 December 2020 https://t.co/LxWzvhhZdN]

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Piker reminds one of Trotsky's description of Kerensky: "He had no theoretical preparation, no political schooling, no ability to think, no political will." He has "that kind of eloquence which operates neither upon mind or will, but upon the nerves."
https://t.co/u0UdgBzo3C

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Nexteer auto parts workers in Saginaw, Michigan denounce the third sellout contract brought to them by UAW bureaucrats.

[Debra Watson @DebraDSW]

One of the 50,000 residents displaced in CA: “The government doesn’t think about us. I hate this government. They only think about them. You don’t see them leaving their houses. You don’t see them poor, with no food or no gas.”

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

50,000 residents forced to evacuate following a chemical leak at GKN Aerospace in Orange County, California.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

USCIS rule change means millions have to go thru consular process, separate fr fam, leave US & protection of Constitution. Remember: Biden admin petitioned for cert. after 9th Cir. ruled that my client US citzn Sandra Muñoz had due process interest in husband's visa application.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

🧵Here's how an El Gamal child describes armed ICE agents arresting family (5 kids + mom), putting them on a private jet to deport them in violation of court order 2 days after fed court ordered them released.

From yesterday's declaration submitted in Flores litigation.

1/5

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

This letter, signed “A. Lincoln”, appeared in my email this morning. Despite its unexplained origin, the signature demands that attention be given to the letter; and, for this reason, it is being made available to readers of the WSWS.
https://t.co/71fyDjqNMW

[Jack Temple @TMPLjck]

“That’s why I argue that in America right now, a low-wage job—increasingly gigified or contracted out and stripped of basic benefits—is homelessness waiting to happen.” https://t.co/FcdjrRkB4j

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

"They are very hard workers. And we are very hard workers as well. And we deserve a fair contract as well." New York City bus operators support the Long Island Rail Road strike.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Nuclear double standard as the pretext for war against Iran in alliance with Israel https://t.co/8kbQbIIS0f

[David Walsh @DavidWSWSarts]

The report details the persecution of Chinese researchers at University of Michigan and Indiana University. The report names the FBI operative at the center of every prosecution - 'Science' magazine investigates FBI’s witch-hunt against Chinese researchers
https://t.co/w2Clmesoss