Miles Driver

Socialist Bus Worker fighting for Rank & File committees against the unions who align themselves with the management, for the class struggle and socialism.

[Miles Driver @Topdeck1917]

Very important day. Founding of London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Safety Committee to wage a fight against the companies and their union collaborators in defence of our lives against the spread of COVID-19.

Please read, share — and join the fight: https://t.co/5QFr50kcqK

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

https://t.co/n7QNu6LQgN

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

"In the Congress ... and on the networks, the righteous grandstanding creeps ... were everywhere out moralizing to beat the band: all of them in a calculated frenzy with what Hawthorne ... identified in the incipient country of long ago as 'the persecuting spirit'..." 3/3

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

The MeToo witch-hunt, which has posthumously targeted Roth (via an attack on his biographer), was anticipated by the author in the opening of his book, "The Human Stain," in which the author described the atmosphere surrounding the 1998-99 anti-Clinton Impeachment drive: 2/

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

W.W. Norton has announced that it is taking Blake Bailey's biography of Philip Roth out of print. The book, quite literally, is being pulped. This cowardly action has far reaching implications, and confirms the right-wing anti-democratic character of the vicious "MeToo" campaign.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

Far-right #Vox Party leader Santiago #Abascal delivered a fascistic rant in Congress, blaming socialists for the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which was triggered by a fascist coup

https://t.co/3ZwRXHh7kG

[Tom Scripps @ThomasScripps]

Those crying out for Alexei Navalny's "human rights" and "democratic freedom" are the architects of #Assange's decade-long persecution
https://t.co/jlQm96TrVc

[David North @DavidNorthWSWS]

Fantasizing about a rebirth of a progressive American liberalism -- which died of old age in 1917 -- @jbouie invokes in today's NY Times Roosevelt's New Deal as "the lodestar for liberals and the left alike, from Joe Biden to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez." 1/

[Clara Weiss @claraweiss_wsws]

The tributes for Prince Philip, a vile, racist, misanthropic, right-wing aristocrat, who hated the working class &, like the entire royal family, led a socially parasitic existence, would be ludicrous if they didn't reveal so much about the crisis of the ruling class.

[Clara Weiss @claraweiss_wsws]

The Bolsheviks & Trotsky had drawn the lessons of the Paris Commune when they took power in 1917: https://t.co/AN0hQrtVYs

[Tom Scripps @ThomasScripps]

Workers face a massive assault on their lives and livelihoods as they are made to pay for the capitalist crisis. They must break free from the stranglehold of the Labour Party and the corporatist trade unions to fight back.
https://t.co/NzMWJP6FgT

[peter skinner @skinnerzboy]

Can I ask how many, exactly, London bus drivers have died during the pandemic? Is the truth too unpalatable? We are only statistics after all. @MLiebreich @comadad @LBC @MayorofLondon @MattWestern_ @steveallenshow @NickFerrariLBC @MickWhitleyMP @markibishop @BusSafetyRep

[Miles Driver @Topdeck1917]

@bhargavihemmige https://t.co/PrnXwtZ9Mo. Modi and his BJP government,which have incessantly sought to fan the flames of communalism by labelling the farmers’ agitation as a subversive movement infiltrated,if not controlled,by Sikh separatists,have been shaken by this upsurge of popular support.

[Miles Driver @Topdeck1917]

@ThomasScripps Oppose the union sell out of the Chicago teachers, and the forced reopening of schools, which is the main vector for COVID-19. The Johnson will be following this to do the same here with the full support of the Labour Party and the unions

[Tom Scripps @ThomasScripps]

The Chicago Teachers Union has sold out its members' health and lives. Only the Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee provided political opposition to the unsafe reopening of schools. Important lessons for school workers everywhere who face the same threat!

[Andre Damon (WSWS) @Andre__Damon]

We have just confirmed that Facebook has disabled the page of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan, as well as the accounts of all admins. This is an unprecedented attack on the speech rights of an official campus student group.

[Andre Damon (WSWS) @Andre__Damon]

We are following and writing on the ongoing mass disabling of left-wing Facebook accounts, including the official accounts of the SWP (UK) and members of the Socialist Equality Party. If you have had your account disabled, please reply with more info.

[Eric London @EricLondonSEP]

The worst job I ever had was working at Subway and I was paid $6 an hour but one time my coworker left a knife IN A SANDWICH and so on that day I felt like I was making more than that.

[LBC News @LBCNews]

Another 1,564 people who had tested positive for Covid-19 have died in the UK, the highest daily figure since the pandemic began, taking the total death toll to 84,767. A further 47,525 positive cases have also been recorded in the latest 24 hour period.

[LBC News @LBCNews]

Analysis of death registrations from across the UK now suggests Covid-19 has been mentioned as a contributory factor on the death certificates of 100,000 people.