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The World Socialist Web Site is a daily source of news and analysis published by the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Joined February 2010
1/ WSWS New Year Statement: Underlying the interlinked crises of the capitalist system is an oligarchy that subordinates all of society to profit and the accumulation of personal wealth. The fight against the oligarchy is by its very nature a revolutionary task. ⬇️🔗
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"I am an anti-Zionist Jew. I've been there. It's an apartheid system. I was allowed to use one road, other people weren't. I was allowed to have water that others weren't. Not right!". "The settlers are from New Jersey! From New York!". #GazaGenocide
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"What did I breathe in?. I thought I was going to die. I broke out totally red for 5 days on my chest. Numb lips for 7 days, burning throat and draining sinuses for 7 days.". Residents of #EastPalestine #Ohio demand answers after #NorfolkSouthern train derailment/chemical burn.
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Former Colombian President Álvaro #Uribe linked to international drug trafficking through Sinaloa Cartel - World Socialist Web Site
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Breaking–.Hundreds of workers at the Volvo Cars plant in Ghent, Belgium downed their tools and shut down production Thursday, in a wildcat protest over the company’s plans to increase the workweek from 37.5 hours to 40 hours. More to come. #VolvoStrike
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The publication by #WikiLeaks and #Assange of leaked US military, diplomatic and intelligence files is not a crime. It is critical and independent #journalism that has exposed imperialist war crimes, corporate abuses and anti-democratic intrigues.
Resolution of the SEP (US) Fifth National Congress: Free Julian Assange! - World Socialist Web Site
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#JulianAssange “in jeopardy” of being forced into UK and US detention - World Socialist Web Site
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Film director Ken Loach: “The persecution of Julian Assange must end” - World Socialist Web Site
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"I have a 14 year-old, she goes to school here. She has no future. You don't know what the long term effects are. ". "I just want it over with, and it's not going to happen. Our houses are worthless. I live right down the street. My neighbors have left.". #EastPalestine
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"You know what's going on in Gaza? Our dollars are funding mass graves of Palestinian women and children, day in and day out.". What if workers stopped production to stop the war?. "Then we would stop that war. Because we would stop the country.". ✊🌎🇵🇸
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What is #Fascism?.A video thread with @DavidNorthWSWS ."There is a growing movement throughout the world of the working class against conditions that exist. The ruling elites see this. They know where this is going. Their response to this threat is to move further to the right."
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"There is no 'lesser of two evils' when it comes to the death of this many people.". "They shut down a factory that was producing weapons to send to Israel. I really think that's the only way we can get change, because clearly Biden is not doing anything.". #GenocideJoe #Gaza
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On September 6 the Nevada Supreme Court ordered Jill Stein and the Nevada Green Party removed from the ballot despite the fact that petitioners for the party had submitted some 29,500 signatures, nearly three times the required minimum. #JillStein.
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🧵THREAD:. The US gvm't says the population is “united” behind its war drive. This is a lie!. Here’s how US workers & youth really feel about the US/NATO drive to World War 3 & Putin's invasion. RT, tag friends & add your voice! Post your video/pic & use #SpeakOutAgainstWW3!. 1/
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Why has Ecuador silenced Julian Assange? -WSWS
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"Last night the smell was so bad it was making us sick. [My son] woke up with a bloody nose.". "They knew what was on those cars and they didn't care. They didn't care about people, it was all about money.". Residents of #EastPalestine discuss train derailment/chemical burn.
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What about the role of the Democrats in the #Gaza_Genocide?. "I'm horrified. They're a wolf in sheep's clothing. Biden is no better than Bush. In fact, I think he's worse. The fact that those are the choices we have, there's something seriously wrong.". 👉
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"We have to go to a public space while the executives who decided on this can safely work remotely from home. It's hypocritical, tyrannical and just unfair. These billion dollar corporations that pay their workers pennies." - 12th grader.#SchoolWalkOut .#CPSWALKOUT .#CPSSickOut
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"The occupation must end. Palestinians need their rights. The Israeli government is a racist, apartheid gov. With the Internet the American people know what's going on.". "We're stronger together. They're trying to separate us. It's a class war.". #Gazagenocide #GazaUnderAttack
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"Israel's targeting of hospitals, of healthcare workers, and the constant bombardment for the last 34 days is disgusting. It's the responsibility of healthcare workers to put an end to this state-sanctioned violence and senseless genocide.". #GazaGenocide
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What do you think of the campaign to smear opponents of Israeli genocide as anti-Semitic?. "That's why it's so important for Jews across the world to speak out against the occupation and in support of the freedom and safety of Palestinians.". ✊ #Gaza
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has made this statement calling for the release of socialist and anti-war activist Bogdan Syrotiuk, who has been imprisoned by the Ukrainian government for opposing the US-NATO war against Russia.
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House to vote on giving Amazon $53 billion deal to become main Pentagon supplier
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"They're sending a ship to Israel, it's going to stop in Tacoma first, w/ weapons meant to support genocide. I'm here bc I can't stand by and allow the US to aid this genocide anymore." - protester in Oakland, California. #GazaGenocide #GeneralStrike
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"We're all against this genocide. It's the government that is defying us. Democracy is not real anymore, it's fake.". Stop Israel's genocide in Gaza! Get involved now 👉 . #GazaGenocide #GenocideJoe #UCSantaBarbara
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New report reveals #Assange under 24/7 surveillance in Ecuadoran embassy - World Socialist Web Site
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Today, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 29 President Raymond Leyba threatened any dockworkers who spoke to reporters from the World Socialist Web Site outside the union hall. “If they talk to you, I have a right to not give them any work," Leyba declared. 1/🧵
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PETITION | Stop internet censorship! End #Google’s blacklist of the World Socialist Web Site! @wikileaks
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On Friday, Facebook carried out a purge of left-wing, antiwar and progressive pages and accounts, including leading members of the SEP. Facebook gave no explanation why these were disabled or even a public acknowledgement that the deletions had occurred.
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"Let's fuse this mass anti-war movement in defense of the Palestinian people with the growing movement of the working class. Mobilize working people in the US, the Middle East, and all over the world to put an end to capitalism!". - Barry Grey @wswsgrey.
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Pamela Anderson defends #JulianAssange: “Journalism is not a crime!”: In an interview with the World Socialist Web Site, actress @pamfoundation says imprisoned journalist Julian Assange is “depending on all of us to save him.”.
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"I did vote for Biden in 2020 but now it's like, do I even want to vote for anybody? What is the point of engaging with this system if all it does is fuel governments like Israel who are committing genocide?". . #GenocideJoe #GazaGenocide
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22-year-old meatpacking worker Casen Garcia was electrocuted at Tyson Foods in Joslin, Illinois on July 9. Management covered it up and the union is silent. But Casen's family and coworkers are fighting to expose the truth. Read the extended interview:
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Protesters marching now in defense of #ColumbiaUniversity students and against the #GazaGenocide in Manhattan on Frederick Douglass Blvd walking north from 110th st. #cu4palestine #Columbia
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#Facebook is engaged in an escalating campaign of internet #censorship targeting the socialist left. Entire Facebook pages are being taken down, and individual accounts permanently disabled, without any explanation given or recourse allowed.
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"I'm in Jewish Voice for Peace, and there should not be #genocide done in my name.". What do you think about Bernie Sanders' support for Israel's war crimes?. "I'm so deeply disappointed with Senator Sanders, as someone who's done campaigning for him.". 👉
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A conspiracy is well advanced, involving the US, British, Ecuadorian and Australian governments, to have #Assange hauled before a show trial in the US. #WikiLeaks #JulianAssange.
Ecuadorian president arrives in Britain as #JulianAssange’s fate hangs in the balance - World Socialist Web Site
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Despite Google and Facebook censorship, World Socialist Web Site records one million monthly visits: A statement by David North
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#UCLA student: “The conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is just the go-to tactic of the Zionist agenda. You know, if I had to estimate, there are more Jewish people inside our encampment than #Palestinian people.". #FreePalestine
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"Why are people getting sick? There's no answer! This is why we're getting frustrated. We keep getting blown smoke, and told to call another number, and it circles back.". "We're told there's nothing in the water and the air is fine. Why are people getting sick?". #EastPalestine
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"We're Christians, Muslims, Jewish people together protesting against apartheid and oppression. It is not anti-semitic. Protesting against your government and saying no to genocide has nothing to do with religion. It's a human issue.". 👉 #GazaGenocide
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"Look at the Iraq war, based on a lie. They said we've got to get rid of Saddam Hussein. They always come up with a boogeyman. The mainstream media talks about Hamas, Hamas, Hamas. In reality they're not killing Hamas. They're carpet bombing kids.". #Gaza
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"I love the idea of forming rank-&-file committees. If we all did a #GeneralStrike we would bring this country to its knees. Rank & file from all unions across the board should get together. That is the answer: a worldwide socialist movement.". #SAGAFTRAstrike
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Rejecting the lies of every major imperialist government, millions of people around the world participated in mass demonstrations on Saturday demanding an end to the Israeli genocide against Gaza. 1/.
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"We are here demanding ceasefire. Their voices are shut down and we're not going to stop.". "If people are here right now, it means they're on the right side of history.". #WashingtonDC .#ceasefire #GenocideJoe #Gaza_Genocide
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"This is genocide. The white phosphorous, it's horrible. So many of my family members have died. My family members were in the hospital and the hospitals were bombed. It's not okay at all.". 👉 #Gaza_Genocide #WashingtonDC
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#ColumbiaUniversity student: "We want to stop the killing of innocent people . there's nothing that we're here fighting beside #genocide."
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"You can't come back after experiencing that and be the same.". Read our extended interview with Jane, an anti-Zionist Jew, on the World Socialist Web Site:. #GazaGenocide
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"I find it absolutely disgusting how Zionists try to use our history to justify what they're doing when all these Jewish people and Holocaust survivors are trying to tell them not to do this.". #Gaza #GenocideJoe
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Boeing workers describe using food banks while the company makes billions. "Boeing makes money hand over fist. We're here 6, 7 days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day, sacrificing our lives for this.". There is massive opposition to the sellout contract pushed by the IAM union.
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A large number of former operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, NSC and DOS are running as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 #midterms. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in #USpolitics.
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"[In nearby Negley, Ohio] we don't have city water, we have well water. If that stuff gets into the water table, everybody's water is going to be ruined, and they just seem to be ignoring us. I don't think people should actually be back in their houses yet.". #EastPalestine
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The working class and the fight to free Julian Assange - World Socialist Web Site
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#SpeakOutAgainstWW3! #UkraineRussiaWar #WW3 #nowar #Ukraine #нетвойне . "I don't support the buildup to war by the US against #Russia. I would be much more interested in fighting internationally as class for the things we need". William, Mack Trucks worker in Macungie, PA. 48/
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"I'm just a youth for now, hopefully the future, if they don't kill us all first.". "Oppression anywhere is oppression everywhere. What we're seeing over there, that could be us any day. And nobody would say anything unless we say something for them.".
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186,000 people. That is the estimated death toll of the genocide in Gaza according to the medical journal Lancet. It's time to take a stand! Join the July 24 rally in DC!. Watch this powerful video by Lawrence Porter (@porter25900) and sign up now! 👇
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Police in the United States killed at an unprecedented rate in 2022, taking the lives of at least 1,176 people, for an average of 3.2 deaths every day, according to a year end tally by Mapping Police Violence. There were just 12 days where police did no.
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Hundreds of youth marched today in New York City to oppose the genocidal politics of #AIPAC at its headquarters on E 44th St & 3rd Ave. Signs said "Genocide Joe has got 2 GO!"
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This Saturday, Feb 25, 1PM Eastern:. The War in Ukraine and How to Stop It - .An online discussion of socialist anti-war strategy.
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The CEO of a scientific modeling company speaks to the WSWS about the firm's COVID-19 research.
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"We remember Amazon workers were worked to death, under harsh conditions, unable to go to the bathroom. One of the companies we are fighting is Prime Video–the same company.". "UPS is striking, that's the same union as the people who drive us to and from set.". #GeneralStrike
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"Workers of the whole world need to unite and have each other's backs. The rich are not going to do that for us. History has shown that. Working people need to unite internationally. Stop the killing. In the name of humanity.". #Gaza_Genocide #GenocideJoe
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Australia tiene la obligación legal de proteger a #JulianAssange - World Socialist Web Site
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18-year-old in Dearborn, Michigan:. "All of us coming together and standing against this genocide is very important.". "I've seen a lot of people in my age group speaking up for Palestine. I think there's a lot of us on the same page.". #Gazagenocide
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"I cannot let my Jewish anti-Zionist friends & Palestinian friends stand alone. The world is with them & the world is watching.". What do you think of Biden's support for Israel?. "Cowardly. From cracking down on unions to supporting [Israeli attacks on] Palestine". #Gazagenocide
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"How we pay our bills is not actually by paychecks from television, film, media. I work at a restaurant almost full time.". "That Deadline article said 'We're going to let them bleed out until they lose their houses.' They picked the wrong ones to say that to.". #SAGAFTRAstrike
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"Capitalism is showing masses of workers that it is at war with their basic needs.".- Op-ed in Newsweek by rank-and-file autoworker and 2022 UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman (@WillforUAWpres). Read it here:.#UAWStrike #GeneralStrike #StrikeTheBig3
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UN Rapporteur on Torture #NilsMelzer replies to feminist legal critics on #Assange: "Assange is not a powerful man shielded by impunity, but an isolated and frail political prisoner persecuted for exposing war crimes and corruption.".
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Youth in Chicago denounce #GazaGenocide:. "As a country, we're spending billions of dollars funding wars. and we're not funding infrastructure and we're not taking care of the working class." . /1
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Betraying my principles is “a much worse prison than the government can construct” After nearly two months in jail, #ChelseaManning submits powerful appeal for release - World Socialist Web Site
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Workers denounce sellout of strike by Teamsters union: . "We don't have any clue what the contract says. We're lost. We didn't get a chance to sit down and read the contract at all." - Ronald, worker at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx.#HuntsPointStrike #GeneralStrike
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/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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The WSWS demands Assange’s immediate release from the maximum security prison and his transfer to a hospital with the best medical care available and with doctors of his choice. #JulianAssange.
Amid grave concerns for his health, Assange transferred to Belmarsh Prison medical wing - World Socialist Web Site #JulianAssange
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"What Israel is doing is genocide. They have broken international laws & committed so many war crimes.". "Bombing schools & hospitals. They tell Palestinians to take a certain route & then they bomb that route. There's no other way to describe it, it's genocide.". #Gazagenocide
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"You can't convince the American people that this is right.". "Now matter how much social media suppresses us, when you come and you see it in person you realize that the whole world is with Palestine.". 👉 #Gaza_Genocide #WashingtonDC
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To justify their appeal for weapons, the speakers at a recent DSA event minimized the role played by neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian military and denounced all left-wing criticism of NATO and US imperialism as “justifying genocide.”
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What do you think can stop the #Gaza_Genocide?. "We need to mobilize mass support in the US. The US is propping up the Zionist project. Young people in the US are starting to see the truth. This is a new generation and that's what I'm optimistic about.". 👉
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"Whether we are muslim or not, We should all stand. There are innocent kids dying. We should stand for them and talk for them.". #GazaGenocide
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Read and share this statement of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board: . "US, European powers fully implicated in Israeli mass murder". 👉 #GazaUnderAttack #Gazagenocide . 1/🧵
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"We're not going to stop until Palestinians are given equal rights, and are not subject to apartheid, occupation, and dehumanization. A lot of our Jewish brothers and sisters are out here protesting with us.". ✊ #Gaza_Genocide
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"You can't be bystanders!". Holocaust survivor Rene Lichtman has endorsed our July 24 rally and meeting in Washington DC, called to strategize the building of a movement in the working class to stop genocide and war. Will you be there?
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On the SAG-AFTRA picket line:. "For writers and actors. it's got to be in every contract that you can't just replace people in the union with a computer. Hopefully [this fight] will spread to other industries. It's a strike wave around the country right now.". #GeneralStrike
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Julian Assange’s extraordinary record of investigative journalism - World Socialist Web Site
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"We do not approve of genocide! We are not going to watch people die.". "The protests are so important. The people of Palestine need to see that the world cares about them, because we do.". ✊ . #GenocideJoe #Gaza
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"The US is funding and turning a blind eye to a mass genocide. We can't be silent anymore.". What do you think about the intimidation of student protesters in the US?. "There are a lot of forces at play pushing this war line. It's not democratic and it's not just.". #Gazagenocide
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"I never expected anything like this in 2023. I'm shocked that our own president, that I unfortunately voted in, can't even say one word of sympathy for the Palestinians. It's a really shocking time and that's why we have to educate ourselves and be involved.". #Gazagenocide
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"The Democrats and Republicans are parties that support the new Holocaust. Continue to protest, build it even bigger, but turn to the real force, the working people all over the world who can carry out a revolution.". Lawrence Porter, Socialist Equality Party (US).#GazaGenocide
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"Using our money to fund this entire #genocide makes me so angry.". "I've been calling my representatives, I've got nothing but 'Oh, you're being antisemitic.' We're not OK with this. We have to do something.". 👉 #GenocideJoe #Gaza
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Guardian newspaper condemned for publishing “deliberate lies” about Julian Assange - World Socialist Web Site
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"Everybody just wants to pay their bills and have a good life, to support their families. We're in here working hard, every day. We deserve it.". Ford worker at Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Michigan. #UAWStrike #GeneralStrike #ExpandTheStrike #StrikeTheBig3
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What about the call by Palestinian unions for workers of the world to shut down weapons coming into Israel?. "I hope it happens. I don't see any other way to stop the genocide that's happening.". Through the mobilization of workers internationally!. "Absolutely.". #Gaza
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Listen to Holocaust survivor Rene Lichtman's powerful speech denouncing the genocide in Gaza, delivered to a rally in front of a Holocaust museum, as Zionist counter-protesters curse his name in the background.
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“Julian Assange has done us a very great service”: New York City transit workers demand freedom for #JulianAssange - World Socialist Web Site #unity4J
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"I felt like breaking from the Democratic Party for a long time because of past issues. And this really is the straw that's breaking the Camel's back.". #Yale #GazaSolidarityEncampment
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Richmond, Virginia, USA. "We are going to end the occupation, we are going to end the apartheid.". "You can do whatever you want, we will not stop fighting. A thousand people came out here today. We won't stop until we get not only peace but justice as well.". #Gazagenocide
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