Shannon Jones

Writer WSWS

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Local authorities in Jalisco, Mexico move to silence well-known labor rights activist Luis Daniel Prieto Moreno https://t.co/EeUvF4fDzP

[David Walsh @DavidWSWSarts]

Trotsky's 'My Life' could just as well have been given the title, Our Epoch ... Though the death agony of this social system has been more protracted than Trotsky might have expected, his historical prognosis retains its validity. The capitalist system must give way to socialism.

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

"The slogan that must be counterposed to the war is not the defence of one or another nation-state, but socialist internationalism: For the unity of Russian and Ukrainian workers!" https://t.co/P7DzpteewU

[Jack Temple @TMPLjck]

“This faith in reason, in truth, in human solidarity, which at the age of eighteen I took with me into the workers’ quarters of the provincial Russian town of Nikolaev—this faith I have preserved fully and completely.” - Trotsky https://t.co/XnhvtJGNkv

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

The right wing makeover of the US media accelerates. https://t.co/iKR6DItC3Y

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that New Jersey Democratic Party officials are orchestrating the brutal crackdown on anti ICE protesters outside the Delaney Hall detention center. https://t.co/FvDTeHHTh9

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

On the spot report by WSWS - Democrats sponsor police riot.
https://t.co/eTDJcaUUS3

[John Wilson @JohnWilsonWSWS]

El gobierno boliviano autoriza el despliegue militar contra el levantamiento de la clase trabajadora

- World Socialist Web Site
https://t.co/m0E4E2WTxO

... Las huelgas obreras también se expanden en las ciudades. Los choferes de La Paz declararon un paro indefinido el 27 de mayo, citando escasez de combustible, daños causados por gasolina adulterada e incumplimientos del gobierno en materia de resarcimiento. En una declaración que resulta reveladora tanto del estado de ánimo predominante entre los trabajadores como del papel que juega la burocracia sindical, el dirigente Santos Escalante, de la Federación Chuquiago Marka, señaló: 'Las bases pedían sumarse al pedido de renuncia del presidente Rodrigo Paz, pero la dirigencia persuadió para no incorporar este tema.'

La administración Paz, respaldada plenamente por el imperialismo estadounidense y sus aliados regionales, ya encubre sus crímenes mientras se prepara para multiplicarlos.

El sábado pasado, durante un operativo policial-militar de 3.000 efectivos para abrir la carretera La Paz–Oruro, cínicamente denominado 'Corredor Humanitario de las Banderas Blancas', el comunario Víctor Cruz Quispe, de 24 años, fue baleado en el municipio de Calamarca y murió en cuestión de minutos. La autopsia forense es inequívoca: causa de muerte, traumatismo cervical penetrante por proyectil de arma de fuego.

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Los trabajadores bolivianos han sostenido 28 días de huelgas, bloqueos y resistencia a la represión con notable determinación. Pero la determinación por sí sola no puede resolver el problema político fundamental: las organizaciones que encabezan el movimiento — la burocracia de la COB y las distintas facciones del MAS, incluida la de Morales — no representan los intereses independientes de la clase obrera. Representan a sectores de la burguesía y la pequeña burguesía boliviana cuyo objetivo, independientemente de sus disputas tácticas actuales con Paz, es contener la lucha de clases dentro del marco de la gobernabilidad capitalista y eventualmente negociar un acuerdo. Los trabajadores no pueden depender de estas fuerzas para conducir una lucha que ya ha avanzado más allá de lo que ellas están dispuestas a hacer.

El estado de excepción de facto hace que la situación sea inequívoca. No hay nada que negociar con este gobierno. Lo que se requiere es la movilización política independiente de la clase obrera — a través de comités de base, responsables ante los trabajadores en las minas, escuelas, hospitales y bloqueos, y unidos al movimiento obrero internacional que enfrenta los mismos ataques capitalistas y la misma represión fascista en todos los continentes. Los trabajadores de todo el mundo deben hacer propia la defensa de la clase obrera boliviana.

[SEP London @Sep_london]

Bolivian government authorizes deployment of military against working class uprising

Workers in every country must make the defense of the Bolivian working class their own cause. https://t.co/sxorwOGYLi

[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?

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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]

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

Behind his radical sounding rhetoric, Piker's role is to contain social anger safely within the framework of Democratic Party politics. https://t.co/g9sQqNYfhu

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

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

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

On the shutdown of <em>The Late Show with Stephen Colbert</em> by CBS https://t.co/DCOaxFmW17

[IYSSE (Australia) @IysseA]

Join the @SEP_Australia and IYSSE public meetings, "Stop the imperialist war on Iran! Oppose Labor's austerity program! Fight for socialism!"
#nowar #IranWar‌ #GazaGenocide‌ #auspol
Click the link below to find a meeting near you!
https://t.co/nsz0sgd2Iv

[John Wilson @JohnWilsonWSWS]

There will be no spontaneous solution to the threat of fascism. That wishful thinking has been tried.

On 1 Apr. 1933 (a week after the Enabling Act had given Hitler dictatorial powers) the Executive of the Comintern in Moscow wrote:
"The establishment of an open Fascist Dictatorship, by destroying all the democratic illusions among the masses and liberating them from the influence of social democracy, accelerates the rate of Germany's development towards proletarian revolution."

I.E. THE STALINISTS THOUGHT NAZISM WOULD ACCELERATE THE PROCESS TOWARDS SOCIALISM (and covered up their role in the catastrophe unfolding for the German and international working class)!
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Communist International Vol. X No. 8
May 1, 1933
https://t.co/BE9uJO2twR

"... Every day of the Hitler Government will reveal with greater clearness the manner in which the masses who follow Hitler have been tricked.

Every day will show with greater clearness that Hitler is leading Germany to catastrophe.

The present period of calm after the victory of Fascism is temporary.

The revolutionary upsurge in Germany will inevitably grow in spite of the Fascist terror. The resistance of the masses to Fascism is bound to increase. The establishment of an open Fascist Dictatorship, by destroying all the democratic illusions among the masses and liberating them from the influence of social democracy, accelerates the rate of Germany's development towards proletarian revolution. ... "
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[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

Two of the El Gamal kids spoke to CBS in their 1st video interviews since being detained last June.

Hear them describe detention, last month's deportation flight, their message for victims of father's attack, & why they view Americans positively despite gvm't mistreatment:

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

Students and workers in Germany demand the release of Ukrainian Trotskyist Bogdan Syrotiuk - World Socialist Web Site https://t.co/WvKR0hd1qR

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

The Democratic Party now managing the emergency response is the party that deliberately starved Cal/OSHA of inspectors, tolerated fake investigations, accepted token fines, and renewed GKN’s license https://t.co/tipDwnUFsu

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

“People on the shop floor are saying, ‘Hell no’”: Nexteer workers denounce third UAW-backed agreement https://t.co/FfO50oa2hN

[Shannon Jones @FShan09]

Four weeks of general strike in Bolivia: US imperialism and its regional allies move to crush an uprising https://t.co/3iEyCjRkVW