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-interested in labor history

[zaytung @zaytung]

NATO Zirvesi Nedeniyle Öğretmenlerin Açlık Grevini Yasaklayan Ankara Valiliği: ''Sayın Trump sorarsa 'Yaz Diyetindeyim' diyeceksiniz…''
https://t.co/iWsSnGv5SG

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Clara Mattei brilliantly debunks a century of capitalist propaganda by explaining how capitalism is unnatural, has existed for only 0.1% of human history, took control of the world through violence, and is maintained by coercion and the superficial facade of liberal democracy.

[La Fletcher 🛸 @dasfletcher]

Not being able to afford rent.

[Terrabayt @Terrabaytt]

Terrabayt Sohbetleri’nin yeni bölümünde @KKirmizisakal ve Onur Alptekin, neoliberalizmden erkosfere, incellikten okul saldırılarına, looksmaxxing’den online dünyanın yeni belalarına uzanan geniş bir tartışma yürütüyor.

https://t.co/cBoI3AzPRk

[Terrabayt @Terrabaytt]

Iason Athanasiadis; ABD-İsrail'in İran'a karşı yürüttüğü savaşın teknoloji boyutunu ve bu savaşta yapay zekanın rolünü anlatıyor.

"Bu çatışma, insanlık tarihinde tarafların her birinin yapay zekâ kullandığı ilk üç taraflı savaş hâline geldi."

https://t.co/RwZjyGF6D8

[Zugasti @irezugasti]

Se prohíben anuncios de hamburguesas o filetes en Ámsterdam, la ciudad donde las mujeres se venden en escaparates y los guiris van a hincharse a porros de mala calidad porque “libertad”.

Progresismo estético para lavar la cara a un nido del capitalismo financiero más salvaje.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Michael Parenti on what pure capitalism looks like

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

Michael Parenti, from 'Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit'

[Pablo Iglesias 🔻{R} @PabloIglesias]

Parece que este vídeo de @irezugasti está molestando mucho a varios grupos neonazis. Ni se os ocurra compartirlo o darle difusión 👇🏻

[💗 @ma1ybe]

women are 32% more likely to die if their surgeon is a man. Women make up 51% of the population but receive only 4% of healthcare R&D funding. women experience 75% more side effects because 4/5 medications are only tested on men. 5X more research goes into erectile dysfunction, which affects 19% of men, than PMS which affects 90% of women. women are half as likely to receive painkillers after surgery. women are 2X more likely to be discharged from hospital when reporting pain….Strange that on average women pay 30% more for healthcare. Medical misogyny is real

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

“Death is a very real possibility for Heba right now."

Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers – Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed – are at risk of imminent death as they reach 65 and 58 days without food respectively.

Read the full feature from @harriepw at our link in bio. https://t.co/Jpmc2j0LKz

[Hampton Institute @HamptonThink]

The US ruling class attack on Venezuela is certainly motivated by oil, as the theft of resources has always been a primary driver of colonialism/imperialism. But it's also about something much deeper. It's about imposing an economic model (capitalism) on to the world -

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US government bombed Venezuela, and Trump kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and flew him out of the country to be tried in a show trial on politically motivated charges.

In this video, I explain the real reasons behind the USA's imperialist war of aggression on Venezuela:

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

People from the Global South immigrate to western countries because the West makes it impossible to thrive in our own. While here you endure the most vicious nativism while killing yourself to find jobs whose taxes fund the killing of your families back home. An insane cycle.

[Pablo Iglesias 🔻{R} @PabloIglesias]

Bombardean Venezuela para robarles el petróleo e imponerles un gobierno títere. Permanecer en la OTAN es colaboracionismo con un Estado criminal. Hoy seguirá otra guerra, la de la desinformación y allí estará Canal Red frente la propaganda pro Trump

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

Happy Birthday to socialist revolutionary Thomas Sankara! Read on to find out what he accomplished and how a coup, with suspected US and French connections, devastated the country he shaped. 🧵

[Avantika Tewari @avantikatewari]

“Let me insist that “the academic” and “the intellectual” are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale.”

Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney.

https://t.co/4z9hddEA1L

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

At some point you just have to look at stuff like this and say “skill issue.” This kind of defeatism is ahistorical. Serious intellectual life has always existed outside the modern university and will continue long after the modern university ceases to exist.

[Tausif Noor @tausifnoor]

“ The lonely hour—and truly it would be a lonely one—when we finally become ourselves never arrives.”

One of the most lucid, moving essays of the last few years

https://t.co/85S6I1c3eJ

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Social democracy cannot serve as a true alternative to capitalism. It appears attractive on the surface but is built upon deep contradictions that eventually collapse under their own weight.

At its core, social democracy seeks a balance between capitalist profit motives and socialist calls for fair wages, quality public services, and ecological protection. Yet these progressive demands inherently threaten capital itself because they raise production costs, empower workers, and weaken the endless drive for accumulation that capitalism depends on.

There are two ways to address this contradiction. One is to reject the logic of accumulation altogether and move toward a post-capitalist system organized democratically around human needs and ecological balance. Social democracy, however, remains loyal to capitalism. It manages the contradiction not by overcoming it but by exporting its costs. Through imperialism, social democratic states extract cheap labour and natural resources from the global South, allowing them to sustain prosperity, high wages, and welfare systems at home while keeping capital accumulation intact.

Even those states often praised as moral examples, such as the Scandinavian countries, rely on vast transfers of value from the global South through unequal exchange. Their social stability is built on the hidden exploitation of others.

This imperial outlet is not available to nations on the periphery. When workers and environmental movements in the South demand justice, their ruling classes cannot offset those demands through external exploitation. With no outside to draw from, they turn to coercion. Repression becomes the only means to preserve accumulation, often with the direct or indirect support of the core powers.

The violence that marks many capitalist states in the South is therefore not cultural or accidental but structural. Capitalism itself requires violence to survive. The imperial core can appear peaceful only because the brutality is displaced elsewhere.

Social democracy, then, is not a step beyond capitalism but a softer version of it. The illusion works only for those who benefit from it. The miners in Congo and the garment workers in Bangladesh who feed Western industries see through it clearly.

A real alternative must go further. It must build an economy centered on human well-being and ecological balance rather than profit. Such a system is entirely possible, but it demands abandoning the drive for accumulation once and for all.