Sandy English

Leon Trotsky 1918:

After no many failed satires in the last few years, everyone should read Vanity Fair.

AEU-Labor government trying to ram through sell-out of Victorian educators: Vote no! Form rank-and-file committees! wsws.org/en/articles/20… [Committee for Public Education] The Committee for Public Education, a rank-and-file educators’ network, calls on teachers and educators to repudiate the government-AEU conspiracy against their rights, including by voting “no” in the union’s rushed ballot. -In reality, it [a “revised” offer] is nearly identical to the previous deal, containing the same provisions for real wage cuts and doing nothing whatsoever to address unbearable workloads and other onerous conditions that amount to a crisis of the public schools and are driving teachers out of the profession. -The Committee for Public Education (CFPE), a rank-and-file educators’ network, calls on teachers and educators to repudiate the government-AEU conspiracy against their rights, including by voting “no” in the union’s rushed ballot. -The CFPE urges teachers not only to vote no, but to contact us today to discuss forming a rank-and-file committee at your school! New organisations of struggle are required to defeat this sellout and to take the struggle forward. That struggle must be based on what educators and schools need, not what big business governments and their mouthpieces in the union bureaucracy say is “affordable.” As a starting point, the CFPE has advanced the following: wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Trump’s police state crackdown and the onslaught against Iran: Two fronts of one war. Suppressing the resistance of the working class everywhere to squeeze us for the wealth only we create is the aim of capitalism and its imperialism. Join the SEP. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The statement makes no reference to the hundreds of Palestinian journalists, poets, scholars, filmmakers, visual artists and intellectuals who have been deliberately liquidated by the IDF as part of its genocidal policies @united_PEN @wawog_now wsws.org/en/articles/20…

July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Several days ago, I received a threatening letter informing me that I am "moving up on 'the List," and that I am "fucked." The letter calls me a "kapo," indicating its authorship by a Zionist fanatic, possibly affiliated with an outfit like JDL Brotherhood 613, or from Betar dead-enders who advocate violence against perceived enemies of Israel. I opened this letter as Israel-backed Trump admin allies like Laura Loomer portrayed me as a national security threat and demanded my persecution for reporting from Iran, and as the Trump admin harassed me by illegally seizing my phones. I am not the only person to have received these letters. Howard Heath, a state representative in New Hampshire who is campaigning for Congress on a pledge to cut off military aid to Israel, also reported receiving a letter from the same "Yoor Dedmeet." The return address applied to the letter is the field office of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of Congress. To me, this indicates that she and her staff could also be targets of whichever malicious individual or group sent the letter. I have filed a report with local police and informed the US Postal Service Inspector of this threatening letter.

We now struggle to get the barest minimum!

New on ifp.nyu.edu | Is Gen Z trapped by AI? | youtube.com/watch?v=yrgzsz…

To stop the ICE murder machine, build a movement in the working class!

The judge in the Mangione case is only allowing SIX journalists into the courtroom to pool coverage. Previously it was first come with press cards. Seems the judge is retaliating against all members of the press for the trio of Mangione fans who obtained credentials.

Turkish police attack #teachers in Ankara: “No money” for education, billions for war and corporations wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Senate Democrats cover for Trump’s violent assault on immigrants, democratic rights at Blanche hearing wsws.org/en/articles/20…

More than a week after the murder by unnamed ICE agents of construction worker Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 7, Houston residents, "are afraid. A lot of people aren't even driving anymore."

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796) – Leading painter of France’s Barbizon school “in the mid-19th century…A pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism”

German intelligence service removes Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei from extremist watchlist wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Shut down plants and workplaces amidst spreading toxic air! wsws.org/en/articles/20…

American imperialism wages war abroad to subjugate Iran. It wages the war at home against the class that must pay for it and whose opposition must be broken.

Ida B. Wells (1862) – Born a slave in Mississippi, Wells was outraged in 1892 by the mob lynching of three of her friends. She began a lifelong effort, in the face of death threats and violence, to document the wave of lynchings that erupted in the South in the 1880s and 1890s.

Jacobin cites recent DSA election victories to argue that the Democratic Party, for its own good, must embrace the DSA and accept the organization’s offer to lend them a “left” cover. #DSA #socialism #Democrats wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The Malvinas War and the British Workers Revolutionary Party wsws.org/en/articles/20…