Patrick Smith

Writer for the World Socialist Website and member of the Socialist Equality Party in Florida

[Dylan Lubao | wsws.org @DylanLubao]

The filthy "unvaccinated deserve it" campaign spewed by the corporate media is dehumanizing.

Most unvaccinated are children. There are poor immigrants, who find it difficult to get it. And there are those duped by the oligarchy's anti-science stance. None deserve to die.

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Trotsky died 81 years ago today, on August 21, 1940, of a wound inflicted the previous day by a Stalinist murderer working on behalf of the Soviet secret police. Trotsky lives in history alongside Marx, Engels and Lenin as one of the greatest fighters for socialism. 1/

[Tom Carter @CarterWSWS]

Republicans: Open the schools!

Democrats: "Safely" open the schools!

The Democrats are just "diet" Republicans. Artificial sweeteners and a different label, but you're still drinking the same poison: "Diet Trump."

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

The world faces a stark alternative: Either the eradication of COVID-19 or the continuation of the pandemic for years to come, resulting in the long-term debilitation and deaths of millions of infected people.

https://t.co/iSWTiGw8Ta

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

A predictably shameful end to a criminal war. Amidst this disaster, Obama — who presided over this miserable war for eight years, authorizing killer drone strikes every Tuesday — celebrated his 60th birthday with a multi-million dollar bash.

[Joseph Kishore @jkishore]

A new report from the UN warns of a "code red for humanity" from climate change.

The capitalist oligarchs are incapable of responding in a global, scientific and rational as the catastrophic response to the #covid pandemic has demonstrated.

https://t.co/gV5bVpTwGY

[Dylan Lubao | wsws.org @DylanLubao]

It seems fairly clear that the new "anti-hate speech" law is directed squarely at the Socialist Equality Group.

It targets groups "influenced by communist" ideology and am "extra-parliamentary struggle against capitalism and refuse to compromise..."

https://t.co/PWxA4Nbvdb

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

Only half the US population is fully vaccinated, leaving tens of millions of adults extremely vulnerable to the pandemic, as well as nearly all children.

https://t.co/E9rYePwFHw

[Eric London @EricLondonSEP]

Photo of @DemSocialists members of congress praying *really hard* for the Democratic Party--a 200-year-old capitalist party responsible for slavery, Jim Crow, Vietnam, Korea, Hiroshima/Nagasaki--to magically turn into a socialist party.

[Andre Damon (WSWS) @Andre__Damon]

Warning about breakthrough COVID-19 infections is not a a criticism of vaccines. It is a condemnation of the Biden administration's lie that the availability of vaccination means social distancing, masking, and the closure of schools and businesses are not necessary.

[Cordell Gascoigne | Free Bogdan Syrotiuk @CordellSEP]

Don't forget German internment (Wilson), Japanese internment (FDR), and the jailing of socialists (Wilson and FDR). Oops! Did I add to the roster of Democratic Party reaction? @DemSocialists, help a brother out!

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

This is by no means a consolation. One only derives a small glimpse on such occasions of what could be if the profit system were done away with.

https://t.co/bA3rKkzB8S

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

The ability of human beings who look very much like the rest of us to accomplish astonishing feats, in the face of conditions imposed on them by a social order indifferent to everything but the accumulation of personal wealth, has to be inspiring.

[Eric London @EricLondonSEP]

Those who say January 6 wasn't a coup attempt are deceiving the working class.

(Miller is Acting Defense Sec'y Christopher Miller)

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

In the workers, explained the founders of socialism, Marx and Friedrich Engels, “What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own gravediggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”
https://t.co/xfyFHgK34s

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

The UAW is dying. You can't just ram a "deal" down workers throat and expect there to be no repercussions. The Volvo Workers Rank and File Committee must be expanded!
https://t.co/GX5E3xujEV

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

Here is a quote from a Volvo worker. “This is our occupation, our future. They are trying to strip everything away. If they can’t offer [health] insurance, what’s the point of working for them?” This is yours and my occupation too!

https://t.co/sCGndb9Zpf

[Patrick Smith @Patrick87403438]

The Volvo workers demand to see the sellout contract, and rightly so! But let us be clear, the ultimate goal is Socialism, replacing the system of private profit with human need.
https://t.co/lHjfbuucFr

[Joseph Kishore @jkishore]

The union has announced that striking Frito-Lay workers in Topeka will be paid $105 a week, which is clearly designed to starve them into submission after rejecting a union-backed contract. The president of the union, the BCTGM, makes $288,000 a year.