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[b @banzincperorate]

@tomaskenn The problem with libertarianism is that you eventually run out of IMF money

[David Ramírez Álvarez 🇨🇺 @DvidTwit]

🚨After 29 hours, our electrical system is fully operational again. In Latin America, it can take weeks to restore national electrical grids.

The fact that Cuban electrical workers accomplished this in such short time is a testament to the tenacity, and ingenuity of our people.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Prof. John Mearsheimer: Between 1971 and 2021, the US murdered 38 million people

[Spring-Nuts @SpringNuts_]

Official @springsteen video of Streets of Minneapolis. Powerful. #springsteen #Minneapolis

[Paola Cammilli @PaoCamm]

Working class rising. 🇵🇸❤️

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

One cannot watch this genocide in real time, perpetrated and enabled by the core states, and conclude anything other than that the whole system of international law has to be rebuilt from the ground up.

[Suntracs Panama ⚒ @SuntracsPanama]

🧵 1/8
Hoy se cumplen 15 años de la masacre de Changuinola.
Una herida abierta en la memoria del pueblo panameño.
Una historia que no se borra ni con poder ni con gas lacrimógeno.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This is not business as usual.
My new UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, is out today.
It shows how corporations have fueled and legitimised the destruction of Palestine.
Genocide, it would seem, is profitable. This cannot continue, accountability must follow.

https://t.co/PV5wgeLpr2

#EconomyofOccupation #EconomyofGenocide

[Paola Cammilli @PaoCamm]

🇵🇸 "We reject the logic of endless war, occupation and forced displacement, and call for a just political resolution grounded in international law, the dismantling of the occupation, and full accountability." @BWIglobal

Full ➡️: https://t.co/0guOf5puE5…https://t.co/PX00YjjVsk

[Adam @AdameMedia]

Any politician that enabled this should be hounded out of office.

Any celebrity that endorsed this should be cancelled.

Any business that supported this should be boycotted.

Any person that was silent about this should lose your respect.

[Evo Morales Ayma @evoespueblo]

Exigimos de la manera más contundente que el gobierno de Bolivia otorgue el correspondiente asilo diplomático en favor del compañero Saúl Méndez, de @suntracspanama quien, junto a sus compañeros, es víctima de persecución en Panamá.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

To kick off International Workers' Day, here's a thread of #MayDay posters from around the world.

Let's start with a 1973 May Day poster from Czech artist František Kopenec.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

South-South coordination is more crucial now than ever.

Trump is using tariffs to force global South governments to accept US demands (to cut their export prices, abolish their industrial policy frameworks, devalue their currencies, and accept reduced US payments on bonds). This will be devastating.

If Southern governments negotiate alone, they are likely to lose and suffer. If they negotiate together, they can win and force Trump to retreat.

Remember, the US is *utterly* dependent on labour and resources from the global South. Through collective action, the South can leverage this power, increase their prices, and force Trump back.

Better yet, Southern governments can and should take the opportunity to delink from the US altogether by shifting to South-South trade and swap lines. Cooperation and planning with China and other key industrial powers in the South is crucial to this.

The South faces a fork in the road. Either submit to intensified US imperialism, or organize to make a break for it.

Here’s a plan for delinking from the US. Buckle up:

1. First, reduce all unnecessary imports from the US (luxury goods, etc), and from all core states for that matter.

2. Substitute necessary imports where possible with domestic production (food is a big import category that can easily be substituted).

3. For goods that cannot be provided domestically, obtain these through South-South trade or swap lines (using national currencies or special-purpose currencies for trade rather than the US dollar). China is crucial here.

4. For products that currently cannot be obtained from the South, buy them from other core states for the time being.

5. Use industrial policy and planning to build sovereign industrial capacity to further reduce dependence on the core.

6. Use regional planning to develop capacity to produce and trade necessary goods that currently cannot be sourced in the South or which cannot be produced by a single country (like how European countries cooperate to produce Airbus jets).

7. Increase state control over foreign exchange earnings through nationalization of key export industries (especially resource extraction), and taxation of private exporters, and use the foreign currency to prioritize imports of capital goods that can further reduce dependency on the US.

Nobody should be going tail-between-legs to accept a beating from Trump. Turn the tables and take the fight to him instead.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Whoever controls production, and the surplus we produce, determines the shape and direction of our civilization. If we do not have democratic control over our production and surplus then we can hardly say we live in a democracy.

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Leonard Peltier: “But I’m free. They didn’t break me.”

After nearly 50 years behind bars, Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier returned home today. Indigenous activists from @ndncollective and residents of Belcourt, North Dakota, gathered to celebrate his freedom after the decades of injustice he endured.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

If the country's finances are so bad, then why are we still spending £50 billion a year on the military?

If there's no money left, why are we spending £12,000 a minute on nuclear weapons?

If we can afford to bomb people, why can't we afford to feed people?

[Alex @alepraca]

@garyseconomics It is not the ONLY power, unionisation and collective bargaining are equally as effective as taxation

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

90% of all labour that powers the world economy—and 93% of all manufacturing labour—is performed by workers in the global South.

Any political theory that does not foreground Southern workers as key agents of revolutionary change is simply missing the point.