Dominic Gustavo

SEP/ICFI. Writer for the World Socialist Web Site (

[Clara Weiss @claraweiss_wsws]

@yanisvaroufakis Everyone who supported the fight to free Julian should also fight to free Bogdan, a 25-year old Ukrainian socialist who was imprisoned by the NATO-backed Zelensky regime for his opposition to the war.
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[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/

[Carlos @Carlos_WSWS]

Zionists and their imperialist allies have no arguments to defend the genocide in Gaza and can only resort to violence. Force is their only argument.

Yet, once workers and youth are organized and politically conscious, the working class will win the argument of force as well.

[Jerry White @jerrywhiteSEP]

Tuesday’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the death of at least six workers is a disaster that exposes the real state of American capitalism.

The corporate and government officials whose negligence led to this disaster must be held fully accountable and all those affected by this disaster must be made whole. The surviving family members of the six immigrant workers who were tragically killed must be provided economic security for the rest of their lives.

Workers can have no confidence that a real investigation into the causes of this disaster will be carried out by the Biden administration, the governor of Maryland, the myriad of federal and state agencies or the trade union bureaucracies.

From the BP Oil Spill in 2010, to the East Palestine derailment in 2023, the official response to every industrial disaster is driven by two major concerns: to cover for the corporate criminals responsible and to uphold the capitalist profit system which makes these disasters inevitable.

That is why I call for rank-and-file maritime, dock, construction and public sector workers to organize an independent investigation in collaboration with trusted engineers and safety experts who are dedicated to bringing out the truth.

Nowhere has the contempt for workers' lives been demonstrated more than in the official response of the Democrats and Republicans to the ongoing pandemic. Their prioritization of corporate profit over human life has led to the deaths of more than 1.2 million people and the debilitation of millions more from Long Covid.

The catastrophe Tuesday morning expresses the collision between the needs of a modern, mass society and the outmoded capitalist system. The Port of Baltimore is a crucial node in the world economy, whose growth has made possible incredible advances in productivity as well as in science technology, all of which could be used to make such disasters a thing of the past.

Instead, the tens of trillions of dollars created by the global working class are used to enrich the corporate oligarchy and defend its interests through wars abroad and repression at home.

While safety upgrades on the bridge and at the Port were clearly neglected, the city of Baltimore is building a $1 billion new jail. It is being reported as the most expensive state-funded project in history.

And only three days before, President Biden signed into law the biggest military budget in the history of the United States. American society, including basic infrastructure and public education, is being bled dry to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza and prepare a nuclear Third World War against Russia and China, which would mean the end of civilization.

The working class must put an end to capitalism and reorganize economic and political life based on scientific planning, the international unity and cooperation of the world’s producers, and the priortization of social needs, not corporate profit and imperialist war. That is socialism.

The question is not a lack of resources, but who controls them. The giant shipping companies and major corporations must be transformed into public utilities, collectively owned and democratically controlled by the working class.

The ill-gotten fortunes of the finanical oligarchcy must expropriated and the military industrial complex dismantled.

By taking political power into its own hands, the working class will be able to allocate the necessary resources to upgrade and construct new bridges, ports, roadways, airports and other critical infrastructure necessary for a thriving, safe and sustainable world economy.

#socialism2024 https://t.co/IZvx0JsGG4

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

On Tuesday, March 12, I spoke at the University of Michigan on "The Gaza Genocide and the Death of #Aaron_Bushnell: What are the political Lessons?" This is the last section, in which I outlined the SEP's strategy to end the genocide. For more info, go to https://t.co/gu9KMQfavT

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

I will be speaking this Tuesday on the tragic death of #AaronBushnell, and explain why Marxists oppose acts of self-sacrificial individual protest and fight, instead, for the building of a mass anti-war and anti-imperialist movement based on the power of the working class.

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

67-year-old Chris Hedges' glorification of 25-year-old #AaronBushnell's tragic suicide as "divine violence" is politically irresponsible and reprehensible. Hedges should not use his influence to encourage such acts. Self-immolation is not a political perspective, let alone an example to be emulated.

The movement against imperialist war needed idealistic Aaron alive, not dead. The Socialist Equality Party (@SEP_US) and International Youth and Students for Social Equality (@IYSSE_US) say to all young people: Honor Aaron's memory but take another road.

Victory over imperialism requires active involvement in the building of a mass working class movement, not isolated acts of personal martyrdom.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

US military veterans burn their uniforms outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, in solidarity with Aaron Bushnell.
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[Dominic Gustavo @DomGustav]

“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

UPDATE: I got footage of the self-immolation at the Israeli embassy in DC.

The individual, wearing fatigues, introduces himself as “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”

After ignition, he repeatedly yells “Free Palestine.”

[Dominic Gustavo @DomGustav]

@j_em_bee A timeless principle of war/politics: the strategy of divide and conquer, and of us/them polarity. Indispensable weapons for any minority sect.

Of course, the early Christian zealots spoke of an imaginary paradise in the sky. The paradise we seek will be built here on earth.

[Dominic Gustavo @DomGustav]

Even in the book of lies, you’ll find kernels of truth, provided you strip away the mystical shell..

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

The tribute by @CornelWest to #Navalny is a telling exposure of the political bankruptcy of this pseudo-left demagogue. He insults genuine left-wing victims of oppression by associating them with the fascistic Russian bagman for US-NATO imperialism.

[Dominic Gustavo @DomGustav]

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The rotten pro-imperialist politics of DSA are leading to its end. It was never a socialist organization. Now, its petit-bourgeois leadership is no longer able to dupe left-wing workers and youth.

Let it fall into the trash heap where it belongs!

[Dominic Gustavo @DomGustav]

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The US ruling class, led by Biden, cannot fund genocide in Gaza, bomb several countries, prepare for war against Iran, Russia and China without whipping up a xenophobic frenzy. It has begun to do so with the poorest and most vulnerable of the population.

[Dominic Gustavo @DomGustav]

@j_em_bee @DavidNorthWSWS Plagiarism allegations are merely a pretext. The actual reason she is being removed is because she has not banned anti-genocide protests. She will be replaced by someone who will. This is a witch hunt aimed at ending free speech on campuses, that is why it must be opposed.

[Dominic Gustavo @DomGustav]

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Terrorism and Communism (1920)

Trotsky cuts through the moralizing phrases of the opportunist Kautsky to reveal its true character: Opposition to socialist revolution and a desire for the workers to surrender to the capitalist bloodsuckers.

[Jude Jackson #FreePalestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @JudeJack]

We have lost one of the most principled journalists on the planet. A man of true integrity. #JohnPilger your legacy will live on. #FreeJulianAssange.

[Thomas Mackaman @MackamanThomas]

Scenes from Netanyahu and Biden’s “Massacre of the Innocents,” and from a selection of paintings of the same name. A popular theme of art beginning in the Renaissance, “The Massacre of the Innocents” was derived from the Nativity story…1/

[Thomas Mackaman @MackamanThomas]

#COVID19 delivers cruel lessons in materialism. You may deny science, silence the experts, stop counting the sick and dead. But the pandemic is nonetheless real. Read & follow @BenjaminMateus7 and like-minded scientists. https://t.co/a4Bz0WAsSD