George Actual

Progressive / Power Engineer / Business Student / Canadian

[George Actual @george_actual]

@kenbitz @kim_siever Consider the Socialist Equality Party (Canada) with an unbroken heritage reaching all the way back the the 1st International in 1864.

Our website https://t.co/UmW0HBw97p is the most widely read socialist website in the world.

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[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

The May Day of the ICFI rally is underway, with a large international audience. The speakers are presenting a powerful strategy a global struggle against capitalism.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and its aftermath would open up these differences even further. The strike was sparked by the announcement of a 10 percent pay cut on July 17, 1877, by the Baltimore & Ohio Co. Already driven to the brink by the depression, workers rebelled and the strike spread like wildfire.

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[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Year after year the depression worsened. By 1877, according to some accounts, the number of unemployed had risen to nearly three million—in a nation of forty-five million people. As many as fifteen million, moreover, were living at the poverty level. 9/11

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

The explosive growth of American capitalism brought with it the first crisis of overproduction. The panic of 1873, followed by a depression which lasted until 1879, while not the first, was by far the worst economic crisis the country had yet experienced. 7/11

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Eighteen months later, on November 11, 1887, four leading anarchists—Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer and George Engel—were executed by hanging at Cook County Jail. Another defendant, Louis Lingg, committed suicide the day before his scheduled execution. These men were the Haymarket Martyrs, and they occupy an honored place in the history of the class struggle both in the United States and internationally.

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[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

In no city were the class divisions more starkly juxtaposed than in Chicago.

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, far from wiping the city off the map, served to accelerate its growth into the major manufacturing, transportation and financial center of the Midwest, and the country’s third largest city. Among the leading capitalists of the day in Chicago were Marshall Field, George Pullman, Phillip D. Armour and the already-mentioned Cyrus McCormick, Jr. 8/11

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

The post-Civil War period witnessed the explosive development of American capitalism and the emergence of the working class. Having vanquished the Confederacy, Northern industrial capitalism could now expand westward unhindered. This geographical movement, combined with enormous advances in the productive forces, put an end to the predominance of the small manufacturer and individual craftsman.

6/11

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

The police, led by the notorious Inspector John Bonfield, retaliated furiously, firing indiscriminately into the crowd, killing as many as eight workers and injuring many more. Later, a total of 67 casualties killed or wounded were counted. 4/11

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

The rally at Haymarket was called in response to the police violence the previous day at the reaper works and was proceeding peacefully, despite the buildup of tensions fueled by a vicious campaign in the capitalist press designed to provoke violence against the leaders of the movement in Chicago. The most prominent and popular of these leaders were the anarchists Albert Parsons and August Spies. 3/11

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

On May 1, the first May Day, more than 300,000 workers nationwide, including 40,000 in Chicago, walked off the job in support of the demand for an eight-hour day. 2/11

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

On the night of May 4, 1886, a crowd of several thousand workers gathered for a public rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago. Because the crowd was smaller than expected, it was moved to a different location a short distance away, to Desplaines Street and Crane’s Alley behind the Crane Brothers metal products factory.

Read more on the origins of May Day: https://t.co/Y9WUDqHohQ 1/11

[Clara Weiss @claraweiss_wsws]

@MintPressNews Thanks for posting about Bogdan's case. Please sign the petition demanding his freedom, support the campaign with a donation & read up on his politics:

#FreeBogdan!

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[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Prominent Ukrainian socialist, Bogdan Syrotiuk, was arrested on April 25, 2024 and charged with “treason under martial law.” His crime, prosecutors say, was publishing “Russian propaganda” on the World Socialist Website (https://t.co/S7Lp8Bim76).

Since then, Syrotiuk has been held in an overcrowded prison under terrible hygienic conditions and has had his contact with the outside world curtailed. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment.

[Kristina Betinis @KristinaBetinis]

✍️ Sign the petition to demand Bogdan Syrotiuk's freedom:

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[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Massive Attack 👏👏👏👏👏

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

💲 As oligarch fortunes soar: The case for expropriating the billionaires 💲

Read the full perspective: https://t.co/thfa3bbDrU

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

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[Nicholas - Read WSWS.ORG @NicholasJN85]

Apparently ICE is writing its own 'administrative' warrants without judicial approval. These are not court-issued warrants, but can simply be issued by ICE agents. https://t.co/3cLiXqYG9H

[Hakan @bilginvedivit]

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#Sallandık #Depremİstanbul #depremoldu #DepremVergileriNerde

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[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

The arrest of Judge Dugan takes place amidst a coordinated assault on the judicial branch and a hysterical campaign against any judges that rule against the White House.
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