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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

7 months

Powerful affirmation of the socialist solution to imperialist war and genocide. #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide

David North

@DavidNorthWSWS

7 months

Capitalist barbarism must be defeated! The working class can change the world. Join the global fight for #socialism against imperialist war, #genocide , exploitation and inequality.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

🧵Last week ICE carried out a police state raid in Dearborn, MI arresting my Palestinian client & refusing to let me speak w/ them for 5 days. This was a high level decision to intimidate & block opposition to US support for Israeli war crimes. Here's what happened, pls share:

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

This should be front page of every world newspaper. A horrific crime against asylum seekers carried out by the government of Spain. Exposes the total hypocrisy of the lie that the US and NATO are waging war v Russia for "democracy." #MelillaMassacre

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Everyone read about @AOC 's interview w @DemSocialists . She attacks socialist critics of Biden as "privileged" "bad faith actors" & racists who oppose "human rights" & praises Dems for “totally reinvent[ing] themselves in a far more progressive direction."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces socialists and praises Biden administration, Democratic Party

On March 19, the Democratic Socialists of America’s magazine Democratic Left published an interview with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez combining lavish praise for the Democratic Party with vicious...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

. @AOC gave campaign money to Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), ex-aide to John Negroponte, who was ambassador to Honduras from 1981-85 & helped train/support dictators & death squads killing tens of thousands in Central America. And she claims to defend immigrants? Now THAT is Bad faith!

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

Here is what we've learned about the DSA this year: DSA supports: -war against Russia/arming Azov Battalion -funding the Israeli occupation of Palestine DSA opposes: -left criticism of Biden -railroad workers having the right to strike The DSA is a capitalist, imperialist org.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

At a mass meeting of rail workers held by the Railroad Workers Rank-&-File Committee tonite, hundreds of rail workers voted 98% in favor of the following resolution: "We resolve...we will not accept any act by Congress that violates our democratic right to strike..." #railstrike

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Workers at the Amazon warehouse in Evansville, Illinois died from being forced to work in a tornado so that Jeff Bezos could fly himself to space.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

This is part of a nationally-coordinated effort by DHS to intimidate Palestinians & block opposition to US support for Israeli war crimes. Agents are surveilling mosques/intimidating ppl across the US. This cannot be allowed to happen! #FREEPALESTINE 6/6

FBI Targets Muslims and Palestinians in Wake of Hamas Attack, Civil Rights Advocates Warn

The domestic policing comes amid reports of harassment against Muslims and Palestinians around the country.

theintercept.com

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

1 year

My first formative political experience was watching the green glow of Baghdad on TV 20 yrs ago on March 19, 2003, as the US initiated "Shock & Awe" & began destroying the city at the cradle of human civilization. The war was an imperialist, sociocidal crime against humanity. 1/3

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

What about the Azov Battallion that you voted to arm?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

2 years

There is absolutely no room in this country or world for antisemitism. It is important to see how harmful + dangerous Kanye’s words are - not only to our Jewish brothers, sisters, & siblings, but also to our collective society at large. We must reject this 🚮 wherever we see it.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

I have *never* had such difficulty reaching a detainee, even when ppl are detained at rural jails along US-Mexico border. This was not incompetence, it was a decision to essentially hold the detainee incommunicado for nearly a week. That is what happens in a police state. 4/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

When I finally was able to speak to client, a court date had been set days earlier (w/o informing me) leaving little time to prepare. Agents had already conducted interviews w/o me present in flagrant violation of 5A right to due process. Held incommunicado for almost a week. 5/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

. @aoc donated to a slate of ex-CIA agents & military officers involved in perpetrating wars in Iraq/Afgn. Not only Slotkin/Lamb, also Spanberger, Malinowski & other CIA Dems. Shows dynamic of Dem Party politics, trapping left opposition/supporting war.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez funds the CIA Democrats

According to Politico, Ocasio-Cortez donated $160,000 to 32 “frontline” Democrats, a list that includes many prominent “CIA Democrats,” former representatives of the Pentagon and intelligence...

www.wsws.org

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

ICE agents staked out home for many hrs, intimidating neighborhood. When the individual left home, ICE followed & carried out high-visibility arrest w > half dozen vehicles & many agents. Such ops are not conducted on whim of local officers, but are directed from DHS HQ in DC. 2/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

When I was informed of the arrest, I began attempting to reach my client. Agents at the detention center acknowledged the individual was there, but refused to let me speak to them. I called dozens of times--literally--and was not put through. It took me ~5 days to get through. 3/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

11 months

DSA efforts to block interest in socialism & prop-up Dems continue. Leaders of DSA met w/ Dem officials & here's a 🧵on what they said: "We’re not going to have a third party of the left. We’re not going to have a socialist party in the United States.” 1/

On eve of 2023 DSA convention, leaders strategize to suppress socialist and anti-war views

This year’s DSA convention will attempt the impossible: to present the strikebreaking, pro-imperialist DSA as "socialist."

www.wsws.org

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

The Socialist Equality Party & Int'l Youth and Students for Social Equality will continue to do everything we can to mobilize the international working class in support of the people of Palestine & against the imperialist-backed Israeli onslaught.

Down with Netanyahu’s government! Stop the imperialist-backed Zionist onslaught against Gaza!

The International Committee of the Fourth International unequivocally denounces the Netanyahu government’s declaration of war on the Palestinian people following the uprising in Gaza against the...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

Today at Wayne State in Detroit, YDSA president Harrison Cole orchestrated the police removal of a table set up by volunteers for rank-&-file autoworker Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president. Cole approached our table said to another YDSA leader "I'll get them removed." 1/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

New: WSWS details the political origins of @AOC & the role of the Democratic establishment, nat'l sec'y apparatus & @DSA in transforming the young Dem/entrepreneur into the false icon of socialism in order to suppress social opposition to capitalism.

The Democratic Party and the political origins of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Ocasio-Cortez’s defense of the right wing of the Democratic Party against socialist opposition reveals her role in preempting the development of a movement of the working class independent of the...

www.wsws.org

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

WSWS responds to @AOC 's interview in @NewYorker , in which she defends Biden/Pelosi, complains of criticism from the "principled left" & urges ppl not to lose "hope" in reforming two-party system. AOC is nothing but a conventional capitalist politician.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

DSA members explain @TheDuhalde leads DSA's right wing. In 2020 his job was to stop “Bernie or Busters” & block DSA from endorsing Greens. He backed Dem Senate candidates in GA. Has ties w/ pro-austerity Podemos in Spain. What is he doing in a "socialist" org? Thread: 1/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

10 months

🧵What is happing in DSA? Since 2015, DSA promoted itself as largest socialist org in US. Now: 📍Membership collapsing 📍>$1 million budget deficit 📍Chapters "dissolving entirely" & members "burned out" 📍Convo voted to remain Dem faction Here's what all socialists must know:

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

John Deere workers vote 90% "no" on sellout UAW contract. The rank-and-file movement grows stronger!

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

@JonahFurman FYI

Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

At a mass meeting of rail workers held by the Railroad Workers Rank-&-File Committee tonite, hundreds of rail workers voted 98% in favor of the following resolution: "We resolve...we will not accept any act by Congress that violates our democratic right to strike..." #railstrike

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

. @AOC , I'm an immigration attorney, I inspected a child detention ctr in TX, took affidavits of separated children and interviewed staff. These aren't "influx facilities," they are concentration camps. They don't need "licenses," they must be shut down, full stop. Thread: 1/

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

3 years

1 short term shift is requiring influx facilities w/ children to be licensed. Another issue is whether these services should be contracted out the way they are And whether facilities w/ controversial records (ex. Homestead) should even be reopened

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

SEP held a powerful meeting last night at Wayne State University in Detroit in support of Palestine and against US imperialism and its support for the terrorist state of Israel. Read about it here:

More than 50 students attend Wayne State IYSSE meeting to oppose Israeli genocide in Gaza

Sentiment on the campus is overwhelmingly opposed to Israel’s assault on Gaza, particularly after the hospital bombing this week that killed 500 Palestinians.

www.wsws.org

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

Prosecutor mocks "sweet little Radonda Vaught" and asks for 6 yr sentence bc Vaught doesn't show respect for "sanctity of this court." This entire trial is an insult to millions of nurses who suffer burnout, understaffing & poor pay thru a neverending pandemic. #RaDondaVaught

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

4 years

It is astonishing that these views are openly stated among academics. In other words, historians are to be judged on their race, age and gender, not the content of their research. And if you disagree, this prof says, you'd better shut up.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Biden proposes $753 billion defense budget, 16% increase. Millions are unemployed, hungry, homeless & Biden/Dems prepare for world war. This is the admin that @AOC / @DemSocialists say it is "bad faith" & "privileged" to oppose from the left. Tell that to victims of imperialism.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

On Monday, "progressives" including @AOC & @DemSocialists members of congress call for negotiations w/ Russia & warn of nuclear war. On Tues they capitulate & demand escalation. Such is the reactionary dynamic of Democratic Party politics. WSWS responds:

24 hours after calling for negotiations to end Ukraine war, DSA and “progressive” Democrats demand...

On Monday, 30 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter to President Joe Biden suggesting the US negotiate with Russia to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, they...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

The vote by @AOC & DSA squad to block rail strike & frog march workers back to work against their will to generate profits for rail corps shows definitively that she & DSA have absolutely nothing to do with left-wing or working class politics. #Railroadstrike

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

. @Twitter : stop censoring Will Lehman's campaign for UAW president! This AM, Twitter locked rank-&-file autoworker ( @WillforUAWpres ) out of his account for "violating one of its rules." The rule wasn't stated. He filed appeal but hasn't been answered. The tweet in question...1/5

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Yes, as Vladimir Lenin famously said, "All power to Tsar Nicholas." The @DemSocialists leadership is a mockery of itself.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

7 months

My remarks at the SJP/IYSSE rally at Wayne State yesterday.

Andre Damon (WSWS)

@Andre__Damon

7 months

"We must never forget the names of the imperialist politicians who have stood behind Biden & endorsed these war crimes, especially those like Sanders & AOC who previously postured as opponents of war." -SEP political cmte member @EricLondonSEP at IYSSE/SJP rally at Wayne State

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

At least 42 immigrants have died the most horrifying death, asphyxiated in a semi-truck trailer on a 100 degree day, because of the Biden administration's restrictions on immigration and asylum. Open the borders.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

The 12,000 migrants at the border is not a "surge." A "surge" describes enemy troop levels. This is a group of impoverished Haitians desperately trying to escape a country devastated by over a century of US imperialist exploitation, invasion and dictatorship.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

In 2018 I witnessed horrific treatment of detained immigrant children at a facility in Texas. Here, I believe for the first time, read at length how the children describe their conditions, their daily life in captivity, the punishments, the rules... 1/

Witness to a social crime: The reality of US immigrant child detention

American imperialism justifies its military provocations against Russia by claiming to defend “democracy” and “freedom” abroad. This WSWS article provides a detailed review of conditions at one...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

American society is collapsing. Millions w/o power in Louisiana as eviction moratorium ends. Pandemic spreads, the gvmt forces the schools back open & states ban mask mandates. Layer after layer of crimes against the working class. This must be ended through socialist revolution.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

A 🧵: Here's how the US government built a fake Ukrainian "resistance" funded thru the Nat'l Endowment for Democracy, Solidarity Ctr & other CIA-linked orgs, & here's why DSA members are promoting this "resistance" to justify imperialist war vs Russia.

The Democratic Socialists of America and the invention of the pro-imperialist “Ukrainian resistance”

On June 3, Tempest published an article titled “Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance!” by Ashley Smith, a prominent member of the DSA. An investigation of the political background of this...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

California Democrats consider spending $20k per trash can to stop homeless people from scavenging. How much worse can capitalism get?

San Francisco might spend $20,000 per trash can to block garbage...

The city has about 3,000 garbage cans in public places, but the existing ones are preyed on by human scavengers who leave behind a mess, the acting director of the Public Works department said.

nypost.com

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Jeez all I did was criticize the fact that the @DemSocialists / @jacobin are nothing more than a faction of the capitalist, imperialist Democratic Party.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

8 months

As bombs fall on ppl of #Gaza , @AOC says pro-Palestinian protests are full of "hatred" & "should not be so hard to shut down." She/DSA have long been part of imperialist Dem Party, but now she is revealing herself to be nothing but a pig. Full article:

Ocasio-Cortez says pro-Palestinian demonstrations should be “shut down” as opposition to Israeli...

As the fascistic Israeli regime pounds the Gaza strip with American bombs and carries out collective punishment against the civilian population of Palestine, DSA Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Co...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

A brief history of US imperialism's 100+ year record of bloody occupation, dictatorship, regime change & suppression of working class & peasant rebellion. Do NOT buy the lie that US imperialism does anything for democracy. Here are some general facts: 1/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

4 years

I dare you to find a better image that embodies the Democratic Party #Demexit

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

This is the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party in 1917--the people who dedicated their lives to socialism and led the first successful socialist revolution in history. #Stalin murdered 14 of the 17 who lived into the late 1920s.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

Cole was a delegate to the nat'l YDSA convention & a candidate for nat'l leadership in the "Marxist unity" group. He carries out this struggle for "unity" by working w/ admin/police to violate the free speech rights of a rank-&-file autoworker's campaign for UAW president! 4/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

After the police told us to leave campus, we stood on a nearby sidewalk and signed up even more people than at the table we had previously occupied before. A very successful campaign for @WillforUAWpres among Detroit youth! 8/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

9 children die each day of covid in the United States. That is the equivalent of 4 Columbine massacres every week. And both parties, the corporate media and the trade unions rush to open the schools. A socially criminal policy by the capitalist class.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Do not let this crime be forgotten. Ledell Lee was executed in 2017 for the murder of Debra Reese. DNA evidence just proved his innocence. Abolish the death penalty.

Niles Niemuth | WSWS.org

@niles_niemuth

3 years

This hasn't been covered much in the media but it has been determined that an innocent man, Ledell Lee, was executed by the state of Arkansas in 2017.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Yes, Donald Rumsfeld was a war criminal. But don't forget that nearly the entire Democratic Party went along w/ him, that the @nytimes pushed his lies about WMDs, that Clinton, Kerry et al. voted for the war, that Obama increased troops in Afghanistan, that Gitmo is still open.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

The #RittenhouseVerdict is a milestone in the legitimization of fascist violence by the American legal system. What a travesty.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

Today we spoke to many young ppl as well as a few DSA members. One member of YDSA said of the org, "Yes, they are just Democrats." A former YDSA member said, "I quit the DSA bc all they do is back Dems." A student of Lebanese descent said she opposed DSA's support for Israel. 6/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

And @AOC & the squad cast the votes to make her Speaker.

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

Pelosi husband gained nearly $5 million on Alphabet stock ahead of vote to advance five antitrust bills targeting major tech giants -husband-won-big-on-alphabet-stock

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3 years

The claim that the US ruling class wants kids to go back to school because it cares about children's' education, after decades of bipartisan cuts to public schools, is a JOKE. They are sending parents back to work so the corporations can exploit them, no matter the death toll.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

🧵 A major scandal in the rail industry that you haven't heard of bc the corporate media is covering it up to stop a strike: Large # of workers report IBEW never sent them ballots to vote on TA that IBEW says barely passed. Massive disenfranchisement. 1/

Electricians demand revote on rail contract after IBEW fails to mail ballots to many members

Multiple members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers have contacted the World Socialist Web Site to report serious irregularities in voting on the recent tentative agreement...

www.wsws.org

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@EricLondonSEP

1 year

. @DemSocialists and @DsaElectoral just removed me from a public meeting called to discuss the DSA's electoral strategy. I was removed for asking the speakers about the DSA's support for the war in Ukraine and its representatives' vote to illegalize a railroad strike.

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@EricLondonSEP

4 years

U Penn political scientist Adolph Reed: the @nytimes #1619Project is “reinventing the past to suit the purposes of the present”

An interview with political scientist Adolph Reed, Jr. on the New York Times’ 1619 Project

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Professor Reed at his University of Pennsylvania office.

www.wsws.org

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@EricLondonSEP

2 years

The DSA calls the SEP sectarian, but by their actions they are the true sectarians, working with the state to suppress the rights of socialist workers looking for a broader audience. This shows the DSA, like the UAW fears competing with Lehman in the marketplace of ideas. 5/

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@EricLondonSEP

2 years

Like Mussolini, Joe Biden and AOC make the trains run on time by making strikes illegal.

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@EricLondonSEP

2 years

PA State Education Ass’n official Connor Lewis has attacked the WSWS/SEP, & it’s worth looking at where this attack comes from. He is a case study in the social physiognomy of the American trade union apparatus. What is the source of the extreme hostility to the WSWS/SEP? 🧵1/

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@EricLondonSEP

2 years

First, Cole blocked our table to prevent passers by from seeing the sign "Will Lehman: Socialist for UAW President." When many students continued to stop, he became frustrated and made the statement about removing us. He left, and 2 minutes later, admin showed up w/ police. 2/

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At a meeting of the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee held tonight, 100s of rail workers gathered from almost every rail yard in America & voted 96% in favor of endorsing & enforcing the following resolution. Please share widely. #Railroadstrike #RankAndFileCommittees

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1 year

Highly revealing: Chuck Schumer (D-Wall St) applauds when @AOC said Jan 19 "we now have DSA members elected at every level of office." @DemSocialists plays a critical role helping the Democrats trap left-wing sentiment & kill it w/in 2 party system. Nothing to do w socialism!

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Last year @DemSocialists called WSWS "bad faith" for criticizing @AOC . Now AOC, Sanders & DSA reps have voted for US/NATO's war against Russia. Parties are defined by their attitude to imperialist war. AOC/DSA have crossed a rubicon. The WSWS response:

Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and the DSA vote for war

Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders have risen to national prominence by promoting themselves as representatives of the “anti-war” and “left-wing” sentiments of masses of people, but their pro-war actions...

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2 years

"I'm Richard Engle with NBC News, reporting from Ukraine. According to what the CIA officers just told me to say, everyone here hopes the United States government starts a war that might trigger nuclear exchange. Back to you Lester."

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. @AOC promises to "put aside" differences with right-wing of Democratic Party as @jacobin argues the right-wing takeover of congress shows possibility of working w/in 2-party system. More DSA gymnastics promoting illusions in Dems. Latest from WSWS:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pledges to “put aside” differences with Democratic leadership after...

In the first days of 2023, the reactionary and repulsive dynamic of American capitalist politics has been on full display. The Democratic Socialists of America and its congressional representatives...

www.wsws.org

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3 years

In the past week, numerous prominent leaders of the @DemSocialists posted tweets celebrating the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky. By laughing at Trotsky's death they solidarize themselves w/ the mass murder carried out by Stalin’s totalitarian regime.

Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky

During the past week, numerous prominent leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America have posted tweets celebrating the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky and portraying the murderer, the...

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And the DSA's congressional representatives are so pathetic they did it for free.

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Cole explicitly said he was doing this because he opposed Lehman's campaign. "I don't like Lehman, I support [Shawn] Fain. When we explained to police that we have a 1st Am right to campaign in public, the police simply said they were instructed to ask us to leave campus. 3/

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Reminder: thousands of immigrant children are still detained by Biden w/o their families. 1.5 yrs ago I spoke at an immigration rally in Detroit about what I saw visiting a child detention facility in TX & the Democratic Party tried to kick me off stage.

Eric London addresses pro-immigrant rally in Detroit on July 12, 2019

"The Socialist Equality Party demands open borders, the immediate liberation of all immigrants detained, the building of a mass movement of millions of worke...

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3 years

America: the country where a jobs report showing increased unemployment leads to calls to cut unemployment benefits.

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3 years

. @Fiorella_im travels to Honduras to fraudulently posture as friend of the oppressed, then promotes German neo-Nazis who call for mass deportation & legitimize crimes of Hitler. Disturbing rightward mvmt of Dore, Greenwald, et al. reflects bankruptcy of middle class radicalism.

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3 years

I recently talked with @ProudSocialist about the history of the socialist movement, the Democratic Party, @DemSocialists and the fight againat pseudo-left politics. Watch!

Power to the People ☭🕊

@ProudSocialist

3 years

On this week’s @AmpedUpPodcast , I chat with @EricLondonSEP about his article in the @WSWS_Updates , which exposes how the Democratic party uses figures like AOC to present a “left” face in order to trap social opposition and prop up the capitalist order.

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2 years

Irish socialist James Connolly on the monarchy (1910): The king [George V] "adds fresh fuel to the fire of hatred with which we regard the plundering institutions of which he is the representative. Let the capitalist and landlord class flock to exalt him; he is theirs..." 1/5

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2 years

Abortion criminalized, death penalty, mass detention of immigrants, world's largest prison population, Guantanamo Bay, 1,000 police killings a year... By what right can the US lecture the world on "democracy" and "human rights"?

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In the course of the invasion & occupation, the Bush/Obama administrations killed hundreds of thousands of people, almost certainly > 1 million. As in Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria (to name just a few), it was bipartisan. Today both parties are escalating war w Russia. 2/3

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As the danger of nuclear war grows, do not forget that on May 10, @AOC , @BernieSanders , @CoriBush , @RashidaTlaib and @JamaalBowmanNY (all @DemSocialists members of congress) voted to arm the Ukrainian military & fuel a war which threatens all of humanity.

Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders and the DSA vote for war

Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders have risen to national prominence by promoting themselves as representatives of the “anti-war” and “left-wing” sentiments of masses of people, but their pro-war actions...

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Eric London

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A 🧵breaking down what happened at the #DSA convention. It was total prostration before Democratic Party & US imperialism, at every step. 1st, DSA leadership produced agenda blocking debate on res criticizing DSA votes to fund occupation of Palestine & for US war on Russia... 1/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

4 years

So after that, who still thinks the capitalist system can be reformed? Anyone?

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Eric London

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3 years

It's revealing: We went on a podcast, criticized the Democratic Party/AFL-CIO/identity politics, & the next day we're derided by DSA leadership, WaPo reporters, sr advisors to Sanders & trade union bureaucrats. Confirms everything we said re: @AOC / @DemSocialists defending Dems.

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Eric London

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3 years

Duhalde has long attacked left-wing @DemSocialists members who opposed Biden and the Democratic establishment. That is his role. In Jan 2021 he wrote: “The Bernie or Bust resolution of DSA’s 2019 convention exemplified such a voluntary foreclosure on political possibility.” 2/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

4 years

@_ericblanc This was a rebellion against the UAW. A worker at Sterling Heights Assembly told @WSWS_Updates : "We had to take action ourselves because the UAW wanted to keep us in the plants."

Two Fiat Chrysler workers die from COVID-19 in US

The deaths, at FCA Sterling Heights Assembly in the Detroit area and at Kokomo Transmission in Indiana, are the predictable outcome of the combined effort by the auto companies and the UAW to keep...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

So many socialists & anti-imperialists of my generation owe a big part of our radicalization to #JulianAssange . In the name of the war on terror, US launched wars based on lies killing millions. Noxious jingoism, xenophobia, the emerging police state & it was all bipartisan... 1/

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Eric London

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A 🧵 on the groveling pro-Democratic Party press release by @BMarchetich in @jacobin attacking socialist criticism of @AOC as "unwarranted" & praising AOC/DSA's "many progressive accomplishments." Why did Dems commission this puff piece, & what are the lies it tells? Read: 1/

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Eric London

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3 years

The WSWS responds to @jimmy_dore & co. "YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy"

YouTube personality Jimmy Dore promotes fascist Boogaloo Boy

The effort by YouTube personality and former comedian Jimmy Dore to promote the fascist Boogaloo Boys is a significant political episode that reveals the ignorant and reactionary character of middle...

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

10 months

Great segment by @leecamp reviewing WSWS's exposures of DSA convention. The DSA is in crisis because ppl are realizing they are nothing but a faction of the Democratic Party.

Lee Camp [Redacted]

@LeeCamp

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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) admitted they're just sad servants of the Democrats:

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Dear corporate media: The only words we ever want to hear from George W. Bush are "I am guilty" from the dock at a war crimes tribunal.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

Our team even spoke to multiple members of the YDSA's Wayne State own chapter leadership who expressed frustration over DSA's promotion of Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez & Rashida Tlaib. A major element is anger over the DSA's support for imperialist war vs Russia. 7/

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

John Fetterman denouncing "illegals" during PA Senate debate and calls for "secure borders." And this passes for "progressive"? Pathetic.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

Very important--Hunts Point Produce workers turning back trucks to maintain their picket line.

World Socialist Web Site

@WSWS_Updates

3 years

/1 In this video, taken last night by one of 1,400 striking workers at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx, workers force back trucks attempting to access the market. #HuntsPointStrike

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Eric London

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2 years

If you are sick to your stomach over the possibility of war between nuclear-armed powers, consider it the next time you are told to vote for the "lesser of two evils." #NoWarWithRussia

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

If you are a @DemSocialists member who opposes @AOC and the DSA leadership's pro-Democratic Party, pro-imperialist politics, DM me.

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Eric London

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3 years

The American ruling class initiates a diplomatic boycott of the olympics in China on "human rights" grounds after enacting covid policies that lead to the death of 800,000 people in US alone & after jailing 30k immigrants & ending right to asylum through Title 42.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

2 years

War criminal.

Sahil Kapur

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2 years

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

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Eric London

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Few people recognize the danger of what is becoming a direct conflict between nuclear-armed states. There is no social force but the working class which can lead the struggle against war, dictatorship & their source: capitalism. 3/3 Watch this:

The war in Ukraine and how to stop it: An online discussion of socialist anti-war strategy

Saturday, February 25, 1pm US Eastern

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

1 year

Staggeringly anti-democratic position taken yesterday by a YDSA member at U Mich strike. These affluent Democrats are open opponents of the presumption of innocence. Consider the implications of this statement for millions of incarcerated people. Has nothing to do w/ socialism.

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Eric London

@EricLondonSEP

3 years

At the 2019 DSA convention, he spoke against those DSA members who did not want to endorse a Clinton/Biden/Buttegieg Democratic candidate if Sanders lost. He said DSA/ @YDSA_ members should work within DNC, & Sanders dels must endorse whichever right-wing candidate might win. 3/

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