Alexander Pushkin (1799) – Eugene Onegin, The Captain's Daughter, Ruslan and Ludmila. One of Russia’s greatest poets, writers. His Ode to Liberty (“Let me Sing to the world of Liberty And shame that scum upon the thrones") led to his exile and strict surveillance by secret police
Police-state riot outside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall as 300 immigrants continue hunger and labor strike - World Socialist Web Site https://t.co/D4lZGx8Q1T
@kriticalkan@gilmcgowan The issue is the class character of the trade union bureaucracy, which has been transformed into a police agency of capital and the state. The trade unions serve to control the working class. They no longer represent our interests.
https://t.co/K1JMxA5jlI
On May 29, a general strike will bring large parts of Italy’s transport network to a standstill for the third time this month.
May 29 general strike in Italy: What way forward for the working class? - World Socialist Web Site https://t.co/kNub2yyhdd
@YvetteCooperMP The Global Sumud Flotilla has been illegally detained in international waters while carrying out their democratic right to protest against the genocide against the Palestinian people, & Ben Gvir flaunts his criminality & all you can say is that you’re “appalled”? 1/
The far-right danger in the UK and the soporifics of the SWP and RCP
"Marxists do not view the fight against fascism and the far-right as a question, fundamentally, of numbers, but of political perspective." https://t.co/SrKB9Z7V6U
"I voted to strike because if I didn't have a roommate or my husband, then I wouldn't be able to survive. Gas is almost five dollars a gallon, rent up over a thousand, car insurance, groceries, everything in general."
A 24-hour general strike against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the militarism of the Meloni government and its social implications for the working class brought Italy to a halt on Monday, May 18 - Italian general strike opposes Gaza genocide
https://t.co/1yW3dPXm9M
Union officials ordered members back to work without disclosing a single term of the agreement, let alone allowing a vote on it. WSWS reporters on the ground Tuesday confirmed that workers had received no information - Details emerge of LIRR sellout deal
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Per @HoustonChron, ICE spends $1,125 per person per day detaining people at Dilley.
That means ICE charged taxpayers $2,187,000 to detain the El Gamal family (5 kids + mom) for 324 days!
Honoré de Balzac (1799) gives us a “wonderfully realistic history of French ‘Society’… describing, chronicle-fashion, almost year by year from 1816 to 1848 the progressive inroads of the rising bourgeoisie upon the society of nobles, that reconstituted itself after 1815” -Engels
This letter, signed “A. Lincoln”, appeared in my email this morning. Despite its unexplained origin, the signature demands that attention be given to the letter; and, for this reason, it is being made available to readers of the WSWS.
https://t.co/71fyDjqNMW