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"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."

Joined July 2015
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HABAŞ'ta 19 işçinin önlenebilir ölümünün, bu katliamın hesabını sormak isteyen, bağımsız bir soruşturma talep eden işçiler az önce jandarma tarafından gözaltına alındı. Aliağa ve ülke genelinde işçiler, HABAŞ'taki sınıf kardeşlerini savunmak üzere harekete geçmeli, tüm sorumlulardan hesap sorulması için bağımsız soruşturma talebine kitlesel eylemlerle destek vermeliler. #Habaş
Patronlara hizmet edip iş cinayetlerine yol verenlerin "İnsanca yaşamak istiyoruz!" diyen işçilere yaptığı muamele işte bu! Gözaltılarla HABAŞ işçisinin çığlığını susturamayacaklar! Gözaltına alınan işçiler derhal serbest bırakılsın! HABAŞ işçisinin talepleri kabul edilsin!
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"While the democratic petty bourgeois want to bring the revolution to an end as quickly as possible ... it is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions ..." – Marx
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Democrats rescue War Secretary Hegseth a week after election repudiates war. A thread:
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Callum Cant and Matthew Lee's book on the 1926 British General Strike is a sharp example of the dangers of syndicalism; it underscores the need for workers and young people to turn to Trotsky's account of this critical strategic experience for the international working class. wsws.org/en/articles/2026/11…
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Democrats pledge to work with Trump. After the massive repudiation of Republicans in the elections, the Democratic Party has launched a campaign to rescue the Trump administration.
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On November 9, 1918 the revolutionary uprising of the German working class against war and monarchy shook capitalism to its foundations. The SPD leadership organized one blow after another against the revolutionary workers, culminating in the murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht.
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Proclamation on the Assumption of Soviet Power, November 7, 1917: "Backed by the will of the vast majority of the workers, soldiers and peasants, and backed by the...uprising of the workers and the garrison...in Petrograd, the [Soviet] Congress takes power into its own hands."
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Part four of a 10-part series on British historian Hakim Adi’s book on the Communist International and Africa examines how it erases Leon Trotsky’s role in founding the International and his theory of Permanent Revolution.
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The greatest day in world history, until we repeat it on a world scale.
#OTD The capture of the Winter Palace, where the government sat, completes the takeover of Petrograd. The MRC announces the revolution’s success. The Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets opens with 650–670 voting delegates (about 900 present): •Around 300 Bolsheviks plus fellow travellers. •Up to 190 SRs, split into two factions, with the Left SRs stronger. •Around 70 Mensheviks. •30 Internationalists. At the First Congress in June, SRs and Mensheviks held 600 of 830 delegates. The change reflects younger, more working-class delegates replacing the middle-class intellectuals and officers who dominated in June. Over 500 back the seizure of power. The Congress elects a 14-seat Bolshevik presidium alongside seven SRs, three Mensheviks and one from Gorky’s group. The Right SRs and Mensheviks then walk out. Trotsky tells them: “You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on — into the dustbin of history!” A new CEC is elected. The groups that walked out may send delegates on a proportional basis.
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One-day public sector strike hits France amid mass student, “yellow vest” protests. A thread:
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