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Sep 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Our first session — "What comes after capitalism?" — with @yanisvaroufakis, @ETemelkuran, @vijayprashad and @nickwestes, starts in 20 minutes.

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Isabel Perón’s Argentinian government was overthrown by a US-backed coup on this day in 1976, ushering in a bloody dictatorship under which 30,000 people were killed and disappeared. Image
For the US Ambassador in Argentina, who had already warned Washington of the plotter's plans for “military rule of extended duration and of unprecedented severity”, the coup was "probably the best executed and most civilized coup in Argentine history."

The West German ambassador in Buenos Aires was even more blunt, describing Argentina as a “cornerstone in the expanded transatlantic security framework, a market and source of raw materials, home of many German settlers and German assets.” These reactions foreshadowed US and European support for Argentina’s murderous junta.Image
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Vladimir Ulyanov, known by his pseudonym Lenin, died on this day 100 years ago. Lenin was one of history’s great pathfinders of socialism, a relentless thinker who insisted always on a “concrete analysis of the concrete situation” against the dogmatism and idealism of his peers. Image
Writing in 1920, Leon Trotsky called Lenin the “first worker” of the transformation of the old world.

“To be able to direct such a revolution, without precedent in the history of peoples,” he wrote, “it is most evidently necessary to have an indissoluble organic connection with the main strength of popular life, a connection which springs from the deepest roots.”Image
After Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917, Lenin made his way back to Russia from exile in Switzerland.

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This was the language of the cadet seeking respite from war. It was the language of the textile weaver seeking bread for her hungry children. It was the language of the peasant toiling on the land not his own. It would produce the famous rallying cry of the Revolution: Peace! Land! Bread!Image
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On this day in 1917, Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, issued a public statement declaring Britain’s “sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations” and offering its support for what it called a “national home for the Jewish people in Palestine”. Image
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BREAKING: Amazon announces nearly tripled profits & quarterly revenues of $143 billion.

Amazon can afford to pay a decent wage, clean up its act & pay a fair share of taxes.

Today at the Summit to Make Amazon Pay, we’re coming together to make it so.

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This is the fight of our time.”

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Today we recall the Conference of Afro-Asian Peoples (18-24 April 1955). Known as the Bandung Conference after the Indonesian city where it was held, the event deepened unity among Africa and Asia, and is said to have inspired the creation of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961.
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Built on lies and deception, the war killed as many as one million people; displaced over four million; inaugurated a global network of torture camps; and destabilised an entire region. Two decades later, the war criminals walk free.

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