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Jorge Martin
@marxistJorge
workers of all lands unite / proletarios del mundo uníos / proletaris de tots els països, uniu-vos / Herrialde guztietako proletarioak, elkar zaitezte
Nov 20, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Far right "libertarian" candidate Milei (56%) has won the presidential run off in Argentina, beating Peronist candidate Massa (44%), the country's outgoing Finance Minister who had renewed a deal with the IMF and promised a government of national unity. Some initial thoughts: 🧵 1/ in 2014 right wing Macri was elected after years of Kirchnerist government (a form of left Peronism) which had benefited from economic stability and high commodity prices. Macri attempted an assault on workers' rights and pensions leading to mass working class opposition
Mar 13, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Banking shares rapidly falling all over the world this morning, not just the US and not just regional banks, in the aftermath of the collapse of US regional banks. SVB Financial and Signature over the weekend. What caused their collapse and has it got wider implications? 🧵 Image 1/ One of the things which triggered the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is the sustained rise in interest rates. In the period of ultra-low interest rates (a policy adopted to deal with the 2008 recession), banks borrowed massively through purchase of secure government bonds.
Mar 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
#SignatureBank has been shut down by regulators citing systemic risk. Second US regional bank to close down in a a week,after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Depositors will have ALL money guaranteed, not just the $250,000 covered by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Biden: "Americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. Your deposits are safe." Nothing is more certain to make depositors nervous than the President publicly telling they should not be nervous.
Mar 10, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
“Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have pulled out of Match of the Day this weekend in “solidarity” with Gary Lineker after the presenter was told to “step back” from his position”. Source close to Gary Lineker says he has not agreed to step back from MOTD - claiming the BBC has taken him off air.

It’s understood Lineker is unwilling to apologise for his tweets and admit he should not have posted them.
Oct 30, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Far right Bolsonaro has been defeated. Lula has won the Brazilian presidential election despite the campaign of dirty tricks, attempts at voter suppression by the state. A few initial observations on the result and what it means: facebook.com/jorge.martin.1… Image Bolsonaro still has not conceded defeat. He's expected to make a statement at 1pm local time.
Oct 30, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Count started in Brazilian presidential election 2nd round. Bolsonaro is expected to be ahead at the beginning.
#Eleicoes2022 Image Opinión polls for the 2nd round of the Brazilian presidential election were giving Lula a 4 point advantage over Bolsonaro, but opinion polls underestimated Bolsonaro's vote in the first round. #Eleicoes2022
Oct 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
On 14 Oct, Day of the Defender of Ukraine, Zelensky awarded Hero of Ukraine title to Myroslav Symchych, a 99-year old veteran of the UPA who was tried and convicted for the murder of Poles during WWII 1/🧵president.gov.ua/documents/6992… ImageImage 14 October as the Day of the Defender of Ukraine was established by Poroshenko in 2014 - it marks the day the Ukranian Insurgent Army UPA was founded in 1942. UPA carried out massacres of Jews and Poles and collaborated with the Nazis. 2/ Image
Sep 20, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
WATCH THIS SPACE. Putin will make a televised announced in the next hour or so. During the day referendums on joining Russia have been announced by the Donetsk and Luhansk republics as well as in Kherson (Sept 23-27). There's talk of a referendum in Zaporizhzhia too. 🧵 1/ These referendums would be the prelude for annexation of these territories to the Russian Federation. This would mean that Ukrainian attacks on them would be considered as attacks on Russia proper, setting the stage for the use of conscript soldiers and reserves by Russia. 2/
Jun 19, 2022 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
#ColombiaVota2022
#PetroPresidente
With 99.83% of the polling booths recorded in the quick count Gustavo Petro becomes the president of Colombia, beating right wing demagogue Rodolfo Hernandez. 10 quick observations: 1/ We cannot underestimate the fact that for the first time Colombia will have a president who is regarded as a Left. Others have been killed before for daring to defy the oligarchy (Gaitán, Jaramillo, etc). This is also a defeat for US imperialism.
Jun 1, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
All this time they insisted it was not a neo-Nazi sign. Now they admit it is. But, wait a second. It is not dropped because IT IS a neo-Nazi sign, but rather because it is exploited by Russian propaganda! So, what is this article about? 🧵thetimes.co.uk/article/azov-b… 1/ the article in the Times references the public unveiling of a new unit of Azov, SSO Azov Kharkiv, announced by Konstantin Nemichev, leader of the Kraken unit of Azov in his Telegram channel: t.me/natsionalKhark…
May 29, 2022 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Con el 42% escrutado, Petro y Francia reciben un 40% en las presidenciales en #ColombiaDecide. El demagogo de derechas Rodolfo es segundo y el principal candidato de la oligarquía Fico queda tercero con 24%. Image Análisis pre electoral de @ColombiaMarxis de las presidenciales en Colombia #ColombiaDecide colombiamarxista.com/?p=2943
May 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
US imperialists in panic at the prospect of Petro's victory in today's Colombian election. US representative Salazar calls him "a thieve, a terrorist and a Marxist" and calls for Biden to intervene. #ColombiaDecide For background on today's presidential election in Colombia read this article by the @ColombiaMarxis comrades
#ColombiaDecide marxist.com/colombia-elect…
Apr 13, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Today is the 20th anniversary of uprising which defeated the coup in Venezuela. Also Rodney Alvarez will walk free after spending nearly 11 years in jail accused of a crime he did not commit and for which he was never sentenced. #1eroMayoSinTrabajadoresPresos 2/ Rodney Alvarez was a trade union activist at Ferrominera, the state owned iron works in Bolivar state. On June 9, 20011, during a union assembly at the plant gates there was a shoot out and worker Renny Rojas was killed. Eyewitnesses identified Hector Maican as the gunman.
Mar 10, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Let me tell you the story of the US attack on the Medicins Sans Frontiers Hospital in Afghanistan. On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes destroyed the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, killing 42 people. 2/ "On the night of the attack, there were 105 patients in the hospital and 140 of our [MSF] international and national staff were present, of whom 80 were on duty."
Feb 22, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
1/ In his speech recognising the Donetsk and Luhansk Peoples Republics, Putin made very clear what his thinking is: a wholly reactionary harping back to the Russian Empire. He blamed Lenin and the Bolsheviks for creating Ukraine. 2/He is not wrong about Lenin's careful national self determination policy (which led him to clash with Stalin) and the creation of the USSR with the union on equal footing of Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Russia.
Mar 13, 2021 • 28 tweets • 20 min read
No Met Police ban nor the official organisers calling it off can stop the anger and solidarity from expressing themselves on the streets. #ReclaimTheNight #ReclaimTheseStreets Cops are now trying to take away the mic from organisers of the #ReclaimTheseStreets vigil at Clapham Common
Mar 11, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🔴EN UNA HORA🔴
📢Homenaje Internacional a Esteban Volkov
con Leonardo Padura, Alan Woods, Serge Goulart, Roberto Robaina
Habla Alan Woods en el acto de homenaje en el 95 cumpleaños de Esteban Volkov
VIDEO en DIRECTO: Image
Mar 11, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🔴ALERTA ECUADOR🔴
[HILO]En un discurso hace dos semanas, el comandante del Ejército Washington Buñay pidió "para el 11 de abril, buscar consensos para derrotar la corrupción" en un mensaje claro contra el candidato izquierdista @ecuarauz en la segunda ronda de las presidenciales El doimingo 7 de marzo el articulista Simón Espinosa publicó una columna en el vocero de la oligarquía El Comercio exigiendo la intervención de los militares para declarar nula la primera vuelta de las presidenciales. elcomercio.com/opinion/column…
Jul 3, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
#TowerRobbery is when a Labour council (against the opinion of the local Labour Party) sacks the entire workforce in order to impose a new contract. Solidarity with @UnisonTH on strike today in Tower Hamlets against @TowerHamletsNow Image #TowerRobbery
Support Tower Hamlets UNISON on strike today, Monday and Tuesday against attempt by Council to impose a new contracts by sacking all those who don't sign it.
📢ONLINE RALLY TODAY: towerhamlets.unison.site/2020/06/30/sup… Image