Renae Cassimeda

Writer for Member of @SEP_US. History/ELA Teacher.

[Dr. Benjamin Mateus, MD @BenjaminMateus7]

@DavidNorthWSWS A brilliant rebuttal by Barbara Slaughter, David North and Eric London on Beatty's slander against the ICFI and Socialist Equality Party.
@mrslizzybennet
@DavidNorthWSWS
@EricLondonSEP

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

On November 23, a podcast sponsored by Bay Area middle-class radical Steven Zeltzer - a longtime opponent of the Socialist Equality Party - invited DSA member and Zionist-funded historian Aidan Beatty to promote his scurrilous biography of Gerry Healy. Zeltzer assembled a panel of four other SEP haters to laud Beatty's hackwork.

After 90 minutes of diatribes against Healy and the SEP, I was finally allowed to speak. Within little more than three minutes, Zeltzer interrupted me to stop my exposure of Beatty's lies as well as his decade-long reliance on funding from Zionist and pro-Israel organizations.

Despite the disruption, I challenged Beatty to explain his falsification of history and why Zionist foundations funded his anti-Healy and anti-SEP project.

Beatty refused to explain his connections with pro-Zionist organizations. Beatty was also challenged by labor historian Tom Mackaman (@MackamanThomas), who elaborated on Beatty's historical falsifications, and SEP national secretary Joseph Kishore (@jkishore).

We are posting the audio record of my remarks and those of Mackaman and Kishore, as well as Beatty's refusal to respond to the issues raised by these speakers.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Of, by and for the oligarchy: Trump’s cabinet & the restructuring of the American state https://t.co/Q3hIuqG2dM

[Eric London @EricLondonSEP]

The 2024 election showed all @jacobin and DSA's efforts to "advise" the Democrats and push them "left" failed.

Jacobin advises you to "push back" within Democratic Party, SEP/WSWS urges fight for independent movement of working class AGAINST this 200 year old imperialist party.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

We’re holding an extremely important online event TODAY at 3 p.m. EST, "The election debacle and the fight against #Trump’s dictatorship."

The panelists will analyze how Trump was reelected with the complicity of the Democratic Party, and will present the socialist strategy to fight a Trump dictatorship.

Don't mourn! Organize and strategize!
Register now: https://t.co/eIDoz3JP5r

#fascism

[Joseph Kishore @jkishore]

1. This statement of the Socialist Equality Party campaign has been mailed out to 5 million registered voters in Washington, as part of a summary of all the presidential candidates on the ballot in the state. It provides a concise summary of the basic issues in the election.

[Momodou ✊🏿 @MomodouTaal]

Thank you for a great discussion. The International Youth and Students for Social Equality and the World Socialist Web Site hosted an interview with myself and my attorney Eric Lee. @EricLeeAtty. @IYSSE_US. @WSWS_Updates

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

The PSL epitomizes the political and intellectual bankruptcy, inveterate dishonesty and sheer stupidity of American middle-class radicalism. No, the slaves did not, and could not, free themselves. 1/

[Norisa Diaz @NoraDia43199887]

Free Bogdan! Free Assange! Stop the assaults by Police on campuses!

The suppression of political opposition is seen across the US in the brutal crackdown of students and professors, and in the long persecution and attempts to extradite Julian Assange

#FreeBogdan #FreeAssange

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk, a fighter for a unified struggle of Ukrainian and Russian workers against the reactionary war of the regimes in Kiev and Moscow, has been arrested on trumped-up charges by the fascistic Zelensky dictatorship. Demand his freedom! #FreeBogdan

[Jerry White @jerrywhiteSEP]

As vice presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party #socialism2024, I fully support the stand taken by teachers today in Flint, Michigan. I call on educators and all workers across Michigan, the US and internationally to support their fight against poverty wages, overcrowded classrooms and relentless budget cutting.

On Wednesday morning, 119 teachers in Flint, or 95 percent of the educators, called in sick to protest the unilateral decision by the Democratic Party-controlled school district to overturn their labor agreement and renege on promised pay increases. The agreement, reached last October, included the first pay increase after a years-long wage freeze. However, it still left educators with salaries of $38,000, barely above the poverty level.

Flint teachers face staggering challenges educating young people after the lead poisoning of the city’s water supply almost exactly 10 years ago. Large numbers of children suffer attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia or mild intellectual impairment as a result of lead ingestion. According to the New York Times, a staggering 70 percent of the students evaluated by the city’s Neurodevelopmental Center of Excellence have required school accommodations for learning disabilities.

The United Teachers of Flint (UTF) union, which is aligned with the Democratic Party and has accepted years of concessions, has refused to call a strike against the unprecedented abrogation of the teachers’ labor contract. This is what has forced rank-and-file educators to take matters into their own hands.

Flint, the birthplace of GM and the United Auto Workers union, once had the highest per capita income in the United States, along with Detroit. After decades of plant closures and mass layoffs, aided and abetted by the UAW bureaucracy, capitalism transformed Flint into one of the poorest cities in America. Even as state and city officials shower GM, Ford and Stellantis with billions in tax concessions, they insist that there is no money to pay teachers adequate wages.

This crisis is not limited to Flint. School districts across the country are implementing layoffs, budget cuts and other austerity measures. Teachers and school workers in St. Paul, Minnesota, are currently voting on a sellout contract backed by the teachers union which would maintain overcrowded classrooms and pave the way for massive cuts.

A chief proximate cause of the accelerating school cuts is the Biden administration’s decision to end all Federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds, which expire in September 2024. The relief money, totaling roughly $190 billion, was meant to help schools address needs arising from COVID-19, including making up for learning loss during the pandemic.

At the same time, the Biden administration and both corporate controlled parties agreed to spend a record $886.3 billion for the US military. The White House is seeking tens of billions more to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to escalate US imperialism’s military conflict with Russia and China, which threatens the world with nuclear annihilation.

Joseph Kishore, the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for US president, and I are encouraging the expansion of every struggle to defend jobs, stop budget cuts and defend the social rights of the working class, including high-quality public education.

Workers around the world face the same fight, and these struggles should be coordinated through the expansion of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees. We call on all workers throughout Flint, across Michigan and beyond to support the Flint educators.

The working class confronts a political fight against both Biden and Trump, and the two parties of austerity, war and dictatorship. The Socialist Equality Party is fighting for socialism, the expropriation of the financial corporate oligarchy and a vast redistribution of wealth to meet social needs, not private profit.

[Jerry White @jerrywhiteSEP]

The cost of Biden’s expanding wars will be imposed on the working class. Everything from public education to Social Security will be targeted #SOTU #socialism2024

[Renae Cassimeda @RCassimeda]

More lies from #Biden at his #StateOfTheUnion on K12 education. Calling for more tutoring for reading and summer programs, never mind these are currently being slashed across the US!
Also claims he will "give teachers a raise."

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Bragging about the US economy. "Wages keep going up. Inflation keeps going down." Delusional. #StateOfTheUnion

[Evan Blake @EvanBlake17]

The @SEP_US is running the only US presidential campaign fighting to stop the #COVID19 pandemic. Every other candidate presents the pandemic as over, while the SEP connects the fight for public health to the fight against war, inequality & fascism. Join our campaign today!

[Norisa Diaz @NoraDia43199887]

My review of JA Bayona's Society of the Snow. ❤️ A celebration of humanity & destroys the lie that human nature is innately rotten, pessimistic, individualistic as claimed in Golding’s Lord of the Flies.

#LaSociedadDeLaNieve
#societyofthesnow #JABayona https://t.co/khnKGXAJeK

[Emma Arceneaux @EArceneaux3]

NEW ORLEANS, this Friday, 6 pm
Hosted by the IYSSE - this mtg will explain the political program, history and socialist perspective upon which youth and workers can fight the genocide in Gaza and emerging world war. #NewOrleans #StopTheGenocideInGaza #GazaGenocide

[Bryan Dyne @BryanDyne]

If the CFA really wanted a #betterCSU and to #RaiseTheFloor for its members, the bureaucrats wouldn't have betrayed the strike in less than a day. Real #SolidaritySeason means uniting with all sections of workers, breaking with the unions and Democrats and expanding the struggle!

[Andre Damon (WSWS) @Andre__Damon]

Read more about Helen's revolutionary life:

https://t.co/PUwPhPvcE1

[Andre Damon (WSWS) @Andre__Damon]

Helen Halyard was an beacon to all socialists of my generation.

Inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, forged in the civil rights movement, Helen was a lifelong and devoted fighter for Trotskyism.

She was a revolutionary in the truest sense of the word. We will never forget her.