Tim Avery

Journalist @WSWS_Updates. DMs = open, like/RT/hashtag ≠ endorsement. 🍄

[Mehring Books @Mehring_Books]

Find Mehring Books at #ALA2026 in Chicago this weekend!

New titles:

“OLIGARCHY. Trump & the Breakdown of American Democracy”

“Art & the Influence of Revolution. Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Chaplin, Shostakovich, Gorky & others in 1925”

[Kristina Betinis @KristinaBetinis]

“A generation is awakening to the reality that it is being prepared as cannon fodder in the ruling class’s expanding world war. This requires a clear political program and organization. There is no fight against war without a fight against capitalism and for socialism.”

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

The webinar starts in 10 minutes!

The American Revolution and Its Place in History https://t.co/EggJySgMLY via @YouTube

[Kristina Betinis @KristinaBetinis]

In representing genuine revolutionary socialism, it is only the ICFI that has gathered such an illustrious group of historians to publicly discuss the American Revolution and its legacy on the semiquincentennial.

The reason for this is pointed out in the new book, Oligarchy:

[Evan Blake @EvanBlake17]

Register to attend this critical webinar! https://t.co/jbLPYG2exw

[Joseph Kishore @jkishore]

This is a major political and intellectual event. The only serious discussion with historians on the significance and relevance of the American Revolution, sponsored by the World Socialist Web Site. Register to attend today at https://t.co/ugznjCzrUY

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

As candidate for UAW president, I denounce the visit of Donald Trump to my home plant, Mack Trucks in Macungie, Pennsylvania. Read my statement.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Alexander Rabinowitch (1934-2026), historian of the October Revolution https://t.co/cKUqopDm9L

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Register to attend "The American Revolution and Its Place in History," a discussion with historians sponsored by the World Socialist Web Site, at: https://t.co/eb8350S49w

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Read this thread to learn more about the panelists who will feature at Thursday's global webinar, "The American Revolution and Its Place in History," a discussion with historians sponsored by the World Socialist Web Site. Register to attend at WSWS dot org slash 1776. 🧵 ⬇️

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

In the midst of democratic breakdown and oligarchic rule, historical understanding of the American Revolution remains critical. Join me and a distinguished panel of historians on June 25 to discuss its place in history. Register here: https://t.co/zXzTBbf5MU

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Free Ercan Akpolat, the Turkish mayor of the historic Prinkipo (Büyükada) island where Trotsky lived!
Mayor Ercan Akpolat's detention by the Erdogan government is a blatant attack on democratic rights. The charges against him are a total fabrication. Demand that he be immediately released!

https://t.co/KS2xbTNgcn

[John Wilson @JohnWilsonWSWS]

I asked Grok

"If the principles of the 1776 Declaration of Independence were applied today would there be another revolution?"

RESPONSE:
"Something went wrong, ..."

It got that part right!

[John Wilson @JohnWilsonWSWS]

SOCIALISM AI

PROMPT:
If the principles of the 1776 Declaration of Independence were applied today would there be another revolution?

RESPONSE:
The question is more penetrating than it may first appear, because the Declaration is not a neutral historical curio — it is a revolutionary manifesto whose logic, applied consistently to the present, leads far beyond what its eighteenth-century authors ever intended.

Let me draw on the Marxist analysis of this question.

Yes — and that is precisely the point. The Declaration of Independence is not a museum piece. Its logic, applied honestly to the present, is explosive.

The right of revolution is the Declaration's most radical principle

The text is explicit: "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." This is not a suggestion. It is the founding justification of the American republic itself. The ruling class that wraps itself in the Declaration every July 4th has no intention of honoring this clause — because if it were taken seriously today, it would be a direct indictment of the existing order.

Consider the grievances leveled against George III and substitute the contemporary reality. The Declaration condemns a monarch who "affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power" — what would the Founders make of a Pentagon budget that exceeds the next ten nations combined, or a national security state that surveils the entire population without warrant? It denounces "depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury" — what of a president who claims the right to assassinate anyone on Earth by drone strike without charge, trial, or due process? It protests "obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners" and "refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither" — what of mass deportations and concentration camps for immigrants? As Patrick Martin wrote in a 2018 WSWS Perspective, "Every basic right enumerated in it is openly flouted."
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[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

The webinar will feature a distinguished panel of historians who have written extensively on the complex legacy of the American Revolution: James Oakes, Richard Carwardine, Sean Wilentz, Adam Hochschild, and Thomas Mackaman. The webinar will be moderated by David North, International Editor of the World Socialist Web Site.

https://t.co/1eWmxoET50

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

Yesterday, on the floor of the UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit, I was honored to be nominated as a candidate for UAW International President. I want to thank the two delegates who rose to nominate me. I also want to thank every delegate who pledged to nominate me but was denied the chance under the rule limiting nominations to two.

And I want to thank every worker who made this nomination possible — every autoworker, parts worker, academic worker, healthcare worker, casino worker and retiree who shared this campaign and contributed to it.

https://t.co/DGPlJqDdAt

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

The events of the first two days of the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention have made clear why my nomination is necessary. This is a convention of the bureaucracy, by the bureaucracy, and for the bureaucracy.

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

"One thing I like about Will's campaign is that he wants to take a stand and say workers can withhold their labor if the majority of us don't think a war is necessary. Which is true, the majority of us don't."

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

"Workers lose lives and limbs in these plants to make money for a class of people that do not care for their well-being... The biggest issue is to have the power of the people returned back to the shop floor." Martaz Crutchfield, a worker at Ford's Rouge plant

[Will Lehman | WillforUAWpresident.org @WillforUAWpres]

This morning, I was confronted by my union rep and was told that campaigning at the UAW constitutional convention could cause my company to fire me. I reported this to the federal monitor in this letter below.

If I am being threatened with termination for fighting for the rank and file at a union convention, I can't imagine what other workers are facing in terms of intimidation. I have watched the UAW bureaucracy treat multiple delegates here in an anti-democratic manner, and I was told by multiple long-time UAW members that this is the least democratic convention they have ever seen. Workers must take action against these betrayals.

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Dear Monitor:

At around 9 AM this morning, in the hallway outside the floor of the convention, Mr. Lehman was threatened with being terminated from his job for campaigning for delegates to nominate him. Local 677 President Mike Shupp approached Mr. Lehman and told him that UAW International Representative for Heavy Trucks Doug Irvine communicated to Mr. Shupp that Mr. Lehman could be fired from his position at Mack Trucks. Mr. Shupp communicated this threat to Mr. Lehman by saying that if Holly Georgell, Director of Employee and Labor Relations at Mack Trucks, found out Mr. Lehman is campaigning for his nomination at the convention, he could be fired.

Election Rule 4-4's "Freedom to Advocate" provision states, "Any threats, intimidation, retaliation, penalty, discipline, or improper interference of any kind, or any similar conduct is strictly prohibited, and reports of such violations shall be investigated by the monitor." Election Rule 4-5,'s "Retaliation and Discrimination" provision states that the proscription of "threat of retaliation" against a Union member "specifically includes each member's freedom...to run for or seek to run for International office as a Candidate."

As a result of these threats, Mr. Lehman has temporarily stopped campaigning outside the convention hall out of fear of losing his job. Mr. Lehman has lost several hours of campaigning time as a result of the intimidation. The harm is irreparable if not remedied immediately--today.

We demand that the Monitor initiate its obligation under the rules to conduct an investigation into the intimidation of Mr. Lehman, including by investigating whether other delegates are being threatened if they nominate Mr. Lehman. The proper remedy for the ongoing violation is for Mr. Lehman to be given 5 minutes to address the full convention before the nomination of candidates.