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Mar 9, 2022 • 49 tweets • 85 min read
🧵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!
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In the hours and days ahead the WSWS will be posting statements against war from workers & young people across the US. #antiwar sentiment is censored from the corporate media. Post yr statement to show the world that the US population does not want war! #SpeakOutAgainstWW3
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Oct 24, 2021 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
Aim of the webinar is to provide the working class with an understanding of the disease and how it can be fought. -- @DavidNorthWSWS#EndCOVD#October24
The cost in human lives is the product of a very deliberate policy. — David North. All politics and all policy are in the end about social and economic interests. — David North
Oct 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Federation of American Scientists, speaks to how vaccine patents and corporate ownership of healthcare are a major impediment to dealing with the pandemic #EndCOVID#October24#Covid_19#COVID19
"There is so much injustice to this. The moral character of healthcare has been broken by politics." — Dr. Feigl-Ding
Oct 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
“In South Asia the public health care system is in a terrible state, from decades of neglect and decay, particularly in the countryside.” — Dr. Zayar #EndCOVID#October24#COVID19#Globalhealth#WorldPolioDay2021#India#Pakistan#Srilanka#Bangladesh#Nepal
"Even basic needs like water and sanitation are not met. The cities are covered in slums. Under these conditions the fight against the pandemic is a great challenge." -- Dr. Zayar.
Oct 24, 2021 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
@davidnorthWSWS: It is a lie “that the consequences of this pandemic could not have been foreseen, that no one knew it was coming, and that – once it began – no one knew what had to be done to stop it.”
@DavidNorthWSWS Where are we now, as we approach the end of the second year of the pandemic?
At the end of the first year of the pandemic – that is, as of December 31, 2020 – the official global death toll stood at just under 1,950,000 people.
Oct 24, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
In calling attention to the fact that the WSWS’s coverage of the pandemic dates back to January 2020, it is not for the purpose of boasting. -- @DavidNorthWSWS@DavidNorthWSWS Rather, it is to refute the lie – perhaps the most pernicious of the tidal wave of lies that have flowed from governments and the media –
Jun 22, 2021 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
The lessons of the war of annihilation against the Soviet Union are of contemporary relevance. The same contradictions of world capitalism threaten to plunge the world into the inferno of a third world war. #22июня#мыпомним
wsws.org/en/articles/20…
The main concern of this lecture is not the specific conflicts and events that triggered World War II, but rather the war’s more general causes.
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."
"What is fascism?... A certain clarification must be made, because an important theoretical and political issue is involved..."